Brightest Day #2
Brightest Day #2 continues the awesome anthology of the DC Universe. Already 3 issues in (including #0) it’s much more tighter than the COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS anthology. Also, since Geoff Johns is plotting it, you know whatever happens will have ramifications throughout the DCU.
Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi are doing a “slow build” but have great mystery scenes for the multiple storylines they are juggling. Brightest Day #2 focuses on Professor Stein and the Atom trying to help the new Firestorm (the recently resurrected frat boy Ronnie Raymond and his unwilling partner Jason Rusch). Jason (the “black Firestorm”) hates Ronnie because Ronnie as Black Lantern Firestorm killed Jason’s Asian chick. Please note: many fans are outraged that Ronnie Raymond- a Bronze Age character- is portrayed as an irresponsible party dude.
Brightest Day #2 also features the mystery of the reborn Martian Manhunter’s past. This was my favorite part. Don’t want to spoil too much, but the focus is on Dr. Erdel’s daughter. Erdel is the man who brought Jon Jonz to earth all of those years ago, and died during the Martian’s arrival.
Hawkman and Hawkgirl have been resurrected as well, and as we’ve seen in earlier issues, Hawkgirl finally remembered all of their past lives together. They are now Ultimate Hawkman and Ultimate Hawkgirl- fully aware of all their past lives and deeply in love with each other, not to mention being super-powered. The mystery is about why Hath-Set (first appearance 1940 in Flash Comics #1!!) is collecting their ancient skeletons.
The reborn Aquaman only gets a panel this month. He and his Queen Mera jump into the water, but Aquaman’s aura seemed to have killed fish. Seems like all is not as Bright as expected- as if the reborn characters still are tapping into their Black Lantern zombie selves.
Deadman- now alive and the only one with a White Lantern ring- can’t be heard as he tries to warn Aquaman about the dead fish. His ring then teleports him away and asks him to fight. Fight? Fight who?
Well there’s only one person to fight in the anti-matter universe of Qward:
THE ANTI-MONITOR
Read Brightest Day #2 by by Geoff Johns, Peter Tomasi, Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, and Ardian Syaf
That espresso sounds amazing. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.
When I was laid off last, I had a little routine every morning before I jumped into job searching: I reread my entire collection of Flash comics (which was a lot), a few issues a day. Just a small fun thing to make use of all that free time.
is he strong as sups? and why call him manhunter? he used to hunt man down?
Nice episode! The native language is ancient Greek
I could understand what they were saying without subs 
They did ok ,mistakes are forgiven in this case 
That was so fun for me.
he's not dead. he shows up in a few justice league episodes. mostly just very quick cameos. he's just not on earth.
yeah I don’t think I am going to build him either. I only want the SC Batman and MM.
That may be true, but it part of a more general trend of pairing what I would assume are more expensive writers with less expensive artists and vice versa. JH Williamns III is co-scripting BATWOMAN. David Finch is scripting his own series. Gail Simone can’t seem to keep an artistic partner on BIRDS OF PREY, which was a problem on her WONDER WOMAN run as well. DC did not exactly get a superstar to replace Mark Bagley on JLA with James Robinson.
cool man, could you review it?
Probably so they could sell more merchandice.
Joe,Hello from North Carolina (105 degrees here)! My first time blogging you, but I have been an avid SG-1 and SGA fan. I followed SG-1 from Showtime to Sci-fi! I'm sure you hear this all the time…Anyway, I wanted to reccomend Fetzer Gerwurtzminer (sweet, but good) – great with Talapia. Also did you realize “Tabula Rasa” was a title of a Justice League episode with The Martian Manhunter?…hmmm…;-)Keep up the great work as I watch DVR'd episodes of Echoes and Sunday… Only a month away. Here's to Season 5!
So I'm guessing “join us” means “get killed by Larfleeze so he can assimilate you into his imaginary army”.