If DC was smart they would put out twenty Superman comics and twenty Batman comics out every month and nothing else. I suppose it says something that their Green Lantern franchise as finally started becoming “big,” but even after the movie hits, will it ever be as big as The X-Men or Spider-Man or The Hulk? Probably not. I did read the first few issues during last year's “Blackest Night” epic. I liked it so much that I stopped. The premise was good (zombies meet superheroes...in space!), but it was too silly and too much to handle for someone that has no idea what's going on. Post- “Blackest Night” is their newest bi-monthly epic, Brightest Day. It focuses on twelve heroes that were brought back from the dead by a mysterious white light. Aquaman is probably the only one you've heard of. The Flash is well known but he has his own new book so won't be a main star of this. At 48 pages of art, this is a behemoth. The cover is by David Finch, who DC recently stole from Marvel. Finch is sadly only drawing the covers, but the interior here is nicely drawn by Fernando Pasarin. The writing is done by Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi. It's a set-up issue and an introductory one. The problem is that none of these newly resurrected heroes have interesting stories. The plots that will fuel this series haven't entirely been presented, but so far it's fairly dull stuff. Sometimes it really seems like I'm somehow missing something. Green Lantern is the stupidest superhero ever created. Add that to the extremely over-the-top galaxy that he flies around in and everything just makes my eyes glaze over. This series, though, will hopefully not focus on all of that and keep the intergalactic alien drudgery to a minimum. It has potential. Now hit it out of the park. **
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