But even in horror stories, I think there's the good kind of creepy, where you are thrilled by the imagination it took to come up with that scenario, and the bad kind of creepy, where you feel like they're going for a quick, cheap shock.
I dislike the Black Lanterns the same way I dislike event-driven character death or a writer making a regular hero act extremely out-of-character so they'll fit in one story. They're disregarding the wider universe so they can have a dun Dun DUN moment on one page.
Plus. Dead zombie baby? It didn't work for Stephen King, and it doesn't work here.