The first 8 issues of Brightest Day are now available in a collection, so the time is right for me to weigh in on this series that I’ve been keeping up with in single issues.
Help!
I absolutely love what Geoff Johns is doing with Green Lantern and the Flash, but these intricate crossover tales are almost too much to handle. What did comic book fans do before the DC Wiki? Every single obscure character in the DCU gets a moment onstage – in an altered form – and then disappears just when you think the story is going their way.
Each issue of Brightest Day ends with maximum excitement and shock, only for the next one to pick up in some completely different place. I feel like there are 500 loose stories zooming all over the place. I trust that everything will come full circle, but, for now, I feel like I am reading a comic book written by Robert Altman.
Incidentally, the concurrent Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps and Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors books, which I’m also keeping up with, are fantastic. I think it is a matter of scope.
I must say, though, that the art is amazing. It’s practically glow in the dark. If you were on mushrooms and had these comics in front of you, you might go to some far off place and never come back.
