The Brightest Day Mega Poster!

12 were risen and brought back to life... and their fates are now intertwined in the pages of BRIGHTEST DAY. As seen in DC The Source as well as Newsarama, check out this lovely poster/ conjoined spread of all the variant covers DC has created to commemorate all of those heroes and villains who came back from the dead!

Deadman. Martian Manhunter. Hawkgirl. Hawkman. Firestorm. Hawk. Aquaman. Maxwell Lord. Osiris. Reverse Flash. Jade. Captain Boomerang.

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Brightest Day Tease!

Since Brightest Day began, more mysteries have shown up rather than answers to this storyline that follows after the events of Blackest Night, and so far the ride has been an impressive one at that. Green Lanterns are now back to what they do best, resurrected heroes have a new lease on life, and the universe is safe from the blackness of death. Trouble, unfortunately, has a way of rearing its ugly head again and again, and for those heroes who got a second chance, they still have some "kinks" in their system that remain a mystery until now. Also, nothing is going to be peachy for the foreseeable future, as seeds of another great evil begin to bear fruit and show themselves to the DC Universe. What I'm saying now may sound like confusing if you don't follow Brightest Day, but that's hardly something to scratch heads on, as DC releases this nifty and crazy looking poster, spotlighting some of the unique personalities and "secrets" that may or may not show up during the course of the series!



"Sometimes The Light Reveals The Darkest Secrets..."

Ah yes. Shades of Countdown and Final Crisis come back for the new DC Main Event! What will happen? Too soon to tell, but stay tuned for updates!

DC Comics Makes Trails In The Coming Months Ahead!

The San Diego Comic Con is almost upon us in a few weeks time, and a lot of comic related news is already leaking in the windmill. From the events happening inside the pages of the books we love reading to film related news on movie adaptations on characters we know and love, there's a lot to expect and hype about SDCC 2010. Fortunately, some of the early birds in the comic industry decided to pop up some unique bits of news these past few days, and among them is none other than the publishers of the World's Finest and the Justice League - DC Comics!

Celebrating their 75th anniversary this month, DC is going strong with their events held in an epic scale. With Blackest Night concluding just a few months ago and Brightest Day shining a bright light down the road, there's a whole lot of content to expect well into the next year, especially with a certain Dark Knight returning from his journey throughout time. I'm sure we'll find out more about these stories in the coming months eventually, but first, here's a bit of teasers and announcements made in DC's blog The Source that I wanted to share to the comic crowd!

Comic Book Review: Blackest Night #8

Lately, it's been hard to dish out some comic book reviews. With new issues flooding in each and every week, I'm overwhelmed as it is trying to keep up and share my opinions about them, being as honest as I can possibly be. Also, during the past Holy Week, none of the books came in before the end of March, and included in that list was the final entry to DC's undead spacecapade, Blackest Night! It didn't take til Tuesday last week for me to finally pick up the last issue of the 8 chapter miniseries, and after reading it and seeing the final battle take place, all I can say is... Wow. Geoff Johns and crew literally took us for a ride on this one, and what a ride it's been. Check the rest of my review after the summary.

Blackest Night #8
Writer: Geoff Johns
Artist: Ivan Reis

The pieces have been set. The cards have been dealt out. All that's left is for the final battle to take place.

Finally succeeding in unearthing the white colored source of life known as "The Entity", Nekron prepares to smite it and engulf all existence with total darkness and death. Unfortunately, he didn't count on The New Guardians' intervention, and flying headfirst into the bright light and bonding with it is, ironically, Thaal Sinestro of Korugar, who becomes the first White Lantern to oppose the Black Lanterns. Calling it his destiny and holding the power of life at his hands, Sinestro confronts Nekron and the Black Lanterns and tries to end the conflict once and for all. Unfortunately, the harbinger of death is harder to kill than it seems, and it will take the combined powers of Hal Jordan and his allies to escape this Blackest Night, and emerge alive and living to see the Brightest Day.

Well, it was a great ride, but like everything else in life, all good things must come to an end... or is this just the beginning of more things to come?

Ever since I started collecting this series beginning with June last year, there wasn't any moment that I can recall where I felt Blackest Night failed to deliver on its promises. It was a carefully planned and well executed story throughout its entire run, and now that the ship has gone and sailed, it delivers on many fans' expectations that we will see several changes done to the titles in DC comics in the months to come (not that this is the first time that this formula actually happened). Everybody knew comic book death was taboo and that heroes eventually return to the forefront after a couple of issues of absence, but Green Lantern writer and scribe Geoff Johns decided to challenge this concept and bring about an interstellar adventure that not only involved the green rings and their mythological prophecies, but the entire DC universe as well. I'll admit, the idea of space zombies and resurrected heroes does sound hokey, but I bite into these things since I am a fan of the undead genre, and the chance to see heroes conflicted by their emotions by seeing ghoulish constructs of their loved ones is truly fascinating.

Onto this particular final issue itself, I'll be the first to point out that it's not the big bang ending you should overhype. Lots of action and heroic stuff are spread throughout the 40 pages covering this book, but if you're looking for an epic final battle, you might be sorely disappointed at what's presented here. Sinestro tenure as a White Lantern was a surprise to many when it was revealed last month, but I kind of expected it to happen, given the subtle hints and clues Johns has left in his entire GL run, especially in the storyline "Secret Origin". The leader of the Sinestro Corps is widely viewed as a egotistical villain with an overgrown ego, but I'd like to think of him more as an Anti-Hero, with good intentions for preaching order, only executing it in brutal fashion. His personality clashes well with his rival and former protege, Hal Jordan, who has his own overblown ego to temper. Fortunately, everyone's battle was with Nekron, and we see the conclusion to that fight, as well as the fates of the White Light, The Black Lanterns, Black Hand, an a couple of faces people were or were not expecting to come back. The darkness has passed... but there's new stuff waiting in the horizon. Like I said, there will be a payoff for those who have followed and expecting resurrections by the end of this trip, as several familiar faces (good, bad, and MEGA BAD) are back among the land of the living. How and why will be explained in the follow up event this month, "Brightest Day", and I'm sure there will lots to look forward to from DC now that new seeds have been planted for new stories to tell.

Ivan Reis has bee artist for the entire duration of this project, and I must say, his style has evolved into true magnificence. There was a point in the beginning where I wished that Rebirth illustrator Ethan Van Sciver was the artist at the helm, but now that we've reached the end of it all, I'm glad that Reis was the one who took the job. His style is excellent when it comes to drawing just about every mega action scene that involves drones of lanterns, and when it comes to Blackest Night, there were tons of opportunities for him to do that. Now that we've wrapped up the space zombie series, I look forward to the guy's next projects. Hopefully, we'll be blown away just as much as we have here.

As the end to a long and epic journey that began with GL: Rebirth and The Sinestro Corps War, Blackest Night #8 wraps up another great comic event and the final act of an epic trilogy, showing that Geoff Johns and crew can craft legendary stories that are historic and noteworthy for comic books. Anyone who has personally invested themselves in the Green Lantern mythos and anything DC owe it to themselves to pick this series up, if not now then the eventual trade paperback, which should be available in the middle of this year. After crafting a big prophecy conspiracy in the GL titles and unleashing it to the entire DC Universe, the big payoff has come and everything looks epic and lovely. Now, we wait for the Brightest Day, so relish sweet resurrections and look forward to new beginnings.

Rating - 10/10

Here Comes The Brightest Day!

Blackest Night is just a wonderfully weaved and orchestrated tale by Geoff Johns and crew. Not only did it send the Green Lantern books and their accompanying titles into a spiral of undead mayhem, but it also drastically altered many other characters in books throughout the DCU, treading a path that answers questions pertaining to both life and death in the entire multiverse and beyond. With 6 issues out and two more to go along with the accompanying tie-ins, there's still plenty of emotion and death to look forward to before the whole series wraps up this March. Johns has already solidified himself as a big draw to the comic book public, and how he'll change the landscape of the DC Universe by the end of the mini remains to be seen. However, DC Comics isn't one to keep major news from being announced, and via their blog network called The Source, they've announced the follow up to what is already considered a classic to remember:



Heh, I could've told you guys that I saw this coming, but look and behold - the Brightest Day shall cometh!

Set to be a bi-weekly, 26 issue run, Brightest Day will obviously be the direct follow up to BN, beginning with issue #0 in April. Spearheaded by top GL book writers Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi, this series already sounds promising, and should give faithful readers another reason to stick around and see what will happen after Nekron and his legions have been dealt with. This is indeed some major news to take in... and a whole new series to think about as 2010 rolls on!