i'm a little bit worried about the potential focus on the other corps. honestly not all that interested in them. and i can't see how the Red Lanterns could function alongside the other Corps without a major change to how they operate. So I'm cautiously optimistic.
TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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I get the feeling all those South American artists from the Superman books are going to be on this book, since they all have pretty much the same style.
Yeah, that is pretty cool. Is the 26 issue bi-weekly gonna replace the standard GL/GLC books?
The details of the event are pretty cool, but we actually already knew about it. If you go all the way back to my original Blackest Night thread, I mentioned it in the OP.
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from what i'm reading Brightest Day will not only be a 26 issue bi-weekly but also be the banner the GL and GLC books fall under for the duration (similar to how Dark Reign books carried a Dark Reign banner without necessarily being Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, etc)
the first arc of GL under the Brightest Day banner is called The New Guardians
Damn it, this Brightest Day thing is going to make it very hard for me to drop GL and GLC. I'm committed to transitioning to trades for most of my comics though, so I guess I'll just have to wait until September to start reading it.
curious as to why there is a Brightest Day #0, though
#0s are typically reserved for prologues or previews to a story that will be coming out soon. it seems with Brightest Day there would be no need for such an issue and they'd launch right in with #1.
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And in such little time, Brightest Day goes from being "52" 2 to "Countdown" 2
hopefully the quality is of the former
I didn't have this thought until after Final Crisis, but I just want the new Flash book to fail spectacularly, even worse than The Fastest Man Alive did.
What's weird about branching out the banner is that it leads directly/overlaps into War of the Supermen, which would involve lots of killing and things that were not so bright (but the sun).
And in such little time, Brightest Day goes from being "52" 2 to "Countdown" 2
hopefully the quality is of the former
I didn't have this thought until after Final Crisis, but I just want the new Flash book to fail spectacularly, even worse than The Fastest Man Alive did.
What's weird about branching out the banner is that it leads directly/overlaps into War of the Supermen, which would involve lots of killing and things that were not so bright (but the sun).
my guess is that they're having cold feet about War of the Supermen branching out into the rest of the universe due to the sales on the Super books for the last year. so the rest of the universe will do Brightest Day while they wait anxiously to see if any interest/sales are generated for Superman with the war.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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I buy that reasoning.
And that's kind of sad, since if any DC hero is about bright/optimism and hope it's Superman.
Its a shame that the sales on the Superman books have declined so much, because the whole New Krypton thing is the first major plot development in the Superman mythos in a really long time. I also think its a nice change of pace to see Kal given a position of power over his people. It allows for more character development.
But it appears that the general populace is not interested in character development. They just want to see Superman punching giant monsters, which is a shame really. I'd personally be happy with another year or two of Commander El, but sales dictate a major and radical change, which will most likely result in a return to the status quo.
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Its a shame that the sales on the Superman books have declined so much, because the whole New Krypton thing is the first major plot development in the Superman mythos in a really long time. I also think its a nice change of pace to see Kal given a position of power over his people. It allows for more character development.
But it appears that the general populace is not interested in character development. They just want to see Superman punching giant monsters, which is a shame really. I'd personally be happy with another year or two of Commander El, but sales dictate a major and radical change, which will most likely result in a return to the status quo.
The problem is that I just looked through the latest New Krypton book, and it seems like nothing has been happening at all. The government is ineffectual morons who hate the laborers because caste systems, Ulura is being crazy, although somewhat less so, and someone is trying to set Superman up, and Zod is being a bastard. It's taken a year to tell an at most a 6 month story. This is disregarding the whole "Why should we care about Braniac and Luthor being free and working together?"
And Brightest Day needs to do a whole lot more to garner my interest.
How can you say it needs to do more when we don't even know how Blackest Night ends yet. They can't exactly spoil Blackest Night to hype Brightest Day. Since one leads right into the other, we won't really know anything until very shortly before Brightest Day is upon us.
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How can you say it needs to do more when we don't even know how Blackest Night ends yet. They can't exactly spoil Blackest Night to hype Brightest Day. Since one leads right into the other, we won't really know anything until very shortly before Brightest Day is upon us.
AS: OK, I’m more awake now. Lunch does that to me. Are there any other DCU books that will be under the BRIGHTEST DAY banner?
DD: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA will also feature the banner, starting with April’s #44, but the characters that will be joining the team are still very much under wraps. Sorry, I’m usually not this secretive in the afternoon. Hope you understand.
AS: No worries, Dan. But I do have one more question before we wrap things up. Cool?
DD: Sure, but not right now
AS: OK, we’ll come back at 3pm. See you then.
so JLA gets wrapped up in yet another eventy type thing, which is rather funny but not unexpected
what's weird is Dan suggesting the team roster is still a secret
don't we already know who is on Robinson's team? Or is Dan suggesting that JLA is getting changed yet again?
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well he says "joining" the team, so I'm guessing more people are on it
the cover shows the JSA on there
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
edited January 2010
There's also a Titans thing falling under the banner, but it's Titans so who cares (the new creative team there is the FC: INK team). Deathstroke is leading a Titans team, wowee!
And we already know who's on Robinson's JLA team, and they even showed up in the Captain Atom backup feature (Jesse Quick looks to be back on her speed kick now)
i'm a little bit worried about the potential focus on the other corps. honestly not all that interested in them.
I agree. Part of why I'm not overly enthralled with Blackest Night - and Johns' recent Green Lantern stuff in general - is that I really think the various emotional corps were a pretty stupid, lazily executed idea. It sort of reached a fever pitch when
Wonder Woman became a Star Sapphire in heinously overdone fashion.
It just seems like there's really no rhyme or reason - any logic at all, really - to how the corps work, and DC is really banking on people shitting themselves silly over the fact that OHHH YEAH MAN ALL THESE SWEET POWER RINGS AND SHIT ARE FLYING AROUND AND LIKE FUCKIN' SCARECROW IS IN THE SINESTRO CORPS AGAIN YEAAH MAN FUCKIN' SCARECROW.
Or something. Maybe I'm taking it all too seriously, though.
I'm going in for the Blackest Night and it's tie-ins, but I don't think my enthusiasm can stretch to anything beyond the additional bi-weekly Brightest Day series. Green Lantern is my main focus in collecting these days, and to try and spread that out would be too taxing.
Sorry, Dan.
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It just seems like there's really no rhyme or reason - any logic at all, really - to how the corps work, and DC is really banking on people shitting themselves silly over the fact that OHHH YEAH MAN ALL THESE SWEET POWER RINGS AND SHIT ARE FLYING AROUND AND LIKE FUCKIN' SCARECROW IS IN THE SINESTRO CORPS AGAIN YEAAH MAN FUCKIN' SCARECROW.
Or something. Maybe I'm taking it all too seriously, though.
There is a big disconnect at both publishers with making these current big events be some glorified fan wank. Siege just kinda faltered out of the gate with some plot holes, and while BN has been good so far you see how the tie-ins have slowly been dropping in quality and the last issue was kind of what you wrote.
This is why Tomasi is so important. He is Mike Carey for DC. He will fix everything.
I hear you can't put Tomasi and Carey in the same room because it will create nuclear fusion because their brilliant minds will spark the reaction.
I really haven't liked GLC that much either. Every story arc since Tomasi took over has had the same basic structure, which always ends with the core honor guard teams trucking off to fight some massive space beast threat on an all-but-abandoned planet. It sucks because there really is a lot of character building and building and building, but it feels like all of the building has essentially been saved for this Blackest Night storyline, and all of the other actual battles have felt rehashed to me.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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Hadji, they're brainwashing you at college into not liking GLC. What's next, Countdown was actually good?
I read it all in trades, maybe that's the problem? I liked recharge, but all of Pete Tomasi's story arcs have pretty much boiled down to the same type of final confrontation that was present in Recharge.
IGN Comics: Again, the term DCU: Rebirth has been used to describe Brightest Day. That said, how much of a Green Lantern story is Brightest Day? Will there be any spill over between Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps and the bi-weekly series?
Johns: There's a bit, but it is very much a DC Universe story. But Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps also carry the Brightest Day banner.
my interest is diminished if the Brightest Day bi-weekly isn't heavily Green Lantern related
Its going to feature non-GL characters, similar to Blackest Night. I assume the GLs will show up in some way, but Mera and Atom were mentioned and hints at hawkman in an IGN interview.
IGN Comics: Again, the term DCU: Rebirth has been used to describe Brightest Day. That said, how much of a Green Lantern story is Brightest Day? Will there be any spill over between Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps and the bi-weekly series?
Johns: There's a bit, but it is very much a DC Universe story. But Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps also carry the Brightest Day banner.
my interest is diminished if the Brightest Day bi-weekly isn't heavily Green Lantern related
I think I'll be sitting Brightest Day out. Since one of my biggest issues with Johns's writing is his tendency to inflate the importance of his pet characters, it seems like I'd be better off not reading a year-long series featuring Hawkman, Green Lantern, and the Flash.
I didn't realize Hawkman was a pet character of Johns.
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Don't forget Mighty Mera.
If Mera is going to be a big part of this, Aquaman will probably come back during the series to quell the rage within her, because gingers are angry, angry people.
Ahh that must've all occurred before I got into comics. I've never been a fan of Hawkman/girl. I don't like characters with wings. And Kendra's mask is the stupidest thing ever.
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The details of the event are pretty cool, but we actually already knew about it. If you go all the way back to my original Blackest Night thread, I mentioned it in the OP.
Not from what I see. In fact, if DC actually plans it right, it would be a GL book every week.
Of course, they might just have it set up so 3 GL books come out the last week of the month.
the first arc of GL under the Brightest Day banner is called The New Guardians
#0s are typically reserved for prologues or previews to a story that will be coming out soon. it seems with Brightest Day there would be no need for such an issue and they'd launch right in with #1.
That's my only guess.
And in such little time, Brightest Day goes from being "52" 2 to "Countdown" 2
hopefully the quality is of the former
War of the Supermen #0 is DC's FCBD offering this year
No, War of the Supermen is already their promo. Unless it's a split promo with War of the Supermen and Brightest Day 0 together.
I didn't have this thought until after Final Crisis, but I just want the new Flash book to fail spectacularly, even worse than The Fastest Man Alive did.
What's weird about branching out the banner is that it leads directly/overlaps into War of the Supermen, which would involve lots of killing and things that were not so bright (but the sun).
my guess is that they're having cold feet about War of the Supermen branching out into the rest of the universe due to the sales on the Super books for the last year. so the rest of the universe will do Brightest Day while they wait anxiously to see if any interest/sales are generated for Superman with the war.
And that's kind of sad, since if any DC hero is about bright/optimism and hope it's Superman.
I guess in Johns' mind though Barry is.
But it appears that the general populace is not interested in character development. They just want to see Superman punching giant monsters, which is a shame really. I'd personally be happy with another year or two of Commander El, but sales dictate a major and radical change, which will most likely result in a return to the status quo.
The problem is that I just looked through the latest New Krypton book, and it seems like nothing has been happening at all. The government is ineffectual morons who hate the laborers because caste systems, Ulura is being crazy, although somewhat less so, and someone is trying to set Superman up, and Zod is being a bastard. It's taken a year to tell an at most a 6 month story. This is disregarding the whole "Why should we care about Braniac and Luthor being free and working together?"
And Brightest Day needs to do a whole lot more to garner my interest.
Because Blackest Day hasn't exactly impressed me?
so JLA gets wrapped up in yet another eventy type thing, which is rather funny but not unexpected
what's weird is Dan suggesting the team roster is still a secret
don't we already know who is on Robinson's team? Or is Dan suggesting that JLA is getting changed yet again?
the cover shows the JSA on there
And we already know who's on Robinson's JLA team, and they even showed up in the Captain Atom backup feature (Jesse Quick looks to be back on her speed kick now)
Could they not have thought of something... better? More masculine and Spawn-angst-esque? Perhaps something with more cybernetic limbs?
I agree. Part of why I'm not overly enthralled with Blackest Night - and Johns' recent Green Lantern stuff in general - is that I really think the various emotional corps were a pretty stupid, lazily executed idea. It sort of reached a fever pitch when
It just seems like there's really no rhyme or reason - any logic at all, really - to how the corps work, and DC is really banking on people shitting themselves silly over the fact that OHHH YEAH MAN ALL THESE SWEET POWER RINGS AND SHIT ARE FLYING AROUND AND LIKE FUCKIN' SCARECROW IS IN THE SINESTRO CORPS AGAIN YEAAH MAN FUCKIN' SCARECROW.
Or something. Maybe I'm taking it all too seriously, though.
I'm going in for the Blackest Night and it's tie-ins, but I don't think my enthusiasm can stretch to anything beyond the additional bi-weekly Brightest Day series. Green Lantern is my main focus in collecting these days, and to try and spread that out would be too taxing.
Sorry, Dan.
There is a big disconnect at both publishers with making these current big events be some glorified fan wank. Siege just kinda faltered out of the gate with some plot holes, and while BN has been good so far you see how the tie-ins have slowly been dropping in quality and the last issue was kind of what you wrote.
This is why Tomasi is so important. He is Mike Carey for DC. He will fix everything.
I hear you can't put Tomasi and Carey in the same room because it will create nuclear fusion because their brilliant minds will spark the reaction.
my interest is diminished if the Brightest Day bi-weekly isn't heavily Green Lantern related
Mine is quite increased, on the other hand
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If Mera is going to be a big part of this, Aquaman will probably come back during the series to quell the rage within her, because gingers are angry, angry people.
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He basically salvaged the character with his JSA run and the first 30 issues of his recent ongoing. He did a good job with him.