Brightest Day #24And there goes the White Lantern, off into nothingness. Brightest Day concludes this week, and does anyone care anymore? Geoff Johns and company has put us comic fans through the wringer, putting up one plot ploy after another: alternate universes, the Anti-Monitor, a resurrected Mars (in our dreams), and now Swamp Thing. Swamp Thing! I’m not a Swamp Thing expert by any means, so if you’re interested, head to your local comic book store and pore through those back issues. I’ll pass this time.When I finished reading this issue, I feel like I wasn’t the only one gypped. Aquaman, Hawk, Dove, Deadman, Hawkman, Martian Manhunter and friends went through some tumultuous events, only to be whisked aside in favor of Swamp Thing. I felt that their respective stories didn’t get their just due, and they were left hanging, left by themselves to pick up the pieces. Hawkman goes nuts, Deadman still can’t get a break, Firestorm is ready to detonate again, and so forth. I understand that these are potential lead-ins to new stories, but we do occaisonally need some closure, as do heroes. Their emotions are genuine and appropriate, given the circumstances. All of our heroes, and some villains, act within their character’s prescribed boundaries. All except Swamp Thing, who murders an entire boardroom of corporate executives.
(As an aside, the whole Swamp Thing charade was a plug for the environmental movement, which I’m not against, but it read like a commerical for the Sierra Club. )
I know this sounds like more of a rant, but there it is. Brightest Day is over, and it does ends with a moderate level of success. It could have been worse.
That being said, I’m ready to move on, how about you?
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Tiger in TexasPosted on April 28, 2011 at 7:13 pmI thought it completely jumped the shark in the last two issues. It felt like the series was a spiritual journey for Boston Brand who would ultimately realize it WAS his destiny to be the ringbearer for life, but then somebody else took over the last two issues and punked the readers.
I wonder if Johns was abducted by foreign agents or aliens and replaced before he could provide the ACTUAL ending.
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Tom ParryPosted on April 29, 2011 at 8:01 amNo, Johns is just a bad writer, and its getting harder and harder for him to hide behind the guise of a big action story… readers are wanting more, they’re wanting substance, and Mr. Geoffcon can’t deliver that. His fall is finally beginning, and I thank god for that.
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Paul MalloryPosted on April 29, 2011 at 9:07 amYou guys hit it on the head. Brightest Day could have been so much more than it was, and it could have been a much more meaningful story, instead of the hodgepodge of meaningless plot twists that it ended up being. All of this isn’t making me too pumped for Flashpoint.
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JonPosted on April 29, 2011 at 4:30 pmbetween Superman renouncing his citizenship and the murder of ‘corporate mongers’ DC is certainly ringing the political bell, and I, for one, do not like it. I dont care which side of the aisle anyone is on. I like patriotism and all that kind of thing in comics, but DC seems to have crossed a line from subtle to blatant.
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