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1. PraxJarvin says:

   January 3, 2011 at 2:17 pm

   Awesome Aquaman right there

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2. ScorpionMasada says:

   January 3, 2011 at 4:37 pm

   Just read the first hardcover and I dug on it a lot. Can’t wait for the next one.

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3. Minion says:

   January 3, 2011 at 7:21 pm

   Still a consistently good story, but it has gotten a little bit tangled. I feel like there’s a storyline that I’ve completely forgotten about.

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4. Jdudley says:

   January 3, 2011 at 11:50 pm

   It’s kinda sad but part of me really wants the Green Lantern movie to fail simply so the DC universe will stop being soo ever run with Green Lantern related mythos. If that movie does well every DC character will become a lantern of some sort instead of just 75% of them.

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5. wallythegreenmonster says:

   January 4, 2011 at 11:54 am

   @Jdudley  — i agree that there is too much Lantern stuff. There is a pretty big push inside the halls of DC to make GL as big as Superman and Batman. I think the Flash is next on that list…

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6. Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:

   January 4, 2011 at 1:39 pm

   @Jdudley  If the movie fails you won’t see any DC property other than Batman and Superman get a major motion picture adaptation any time soon.

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7. JimBilly4 says:

   January 4, 2011 at 6:29 pm

   Yes, I vote that most motion picture adaptations of comics are a) good and b) successful. If nothing else, if the movie industry can keep making money off of superhero comics it will keep pumping money into this struggling art form. I don’t kid myself that they will accept losing money making comic books, but they might be more tolerant of the bottom line if they think of them as R&D or at least are too embarrassed to stop publishing a title before releasing a movie about it.

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8. Jdudley says:

   January 5, 2011 at 12:57 am

   don’t get me wrong, i still definitely want the movie to be successful. Just haven’t been a fan of the green lanterization of the DCU (and it will be kinda hilarious if the entire DCU is taken over by the flash marketing for that movie in a couple years– suddenly the entire DCU loses their rings and just becomes really fast!)

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9. WheelHands says:

   January 5, 2011 at 11:03 am

   @Jdudley: I’m not pickin on you, but I don’t understand this complaint. The DCU has hardly been “lanternized”.

   Blackest Night was a DCU event that centered around GL because Nekron was a Lantern villain. Within that event, six DC characters got a ring for less than 24 hours. Aside from those six and their few side effects (Luthor in Action), only the various corps members have worn rings and they’re relatively new characters. To hear you tell it, half the DCU is ring slinging.

   Brightest Day is even more DCU-centric. Yes, it has to do with repercussions of Blackest Night and the white light, but it really just focuses on the twelve resurrected heroes. We haven’t seen GL since issue #0.

   True, there are now three GL titles (soon to be four), where there was once only one. But that can be said for almost any big title in the last three decades. I’m sure some of it has to do with promotion for the movie, but I think a lot of it also has to do with the interest that Johns has been able to build over his very successful five or six years on GL. Since his rise to power at DC, people may have forgotten that he’s still a damn good writer, and the popularity of GL can be credited to he and Tomasi alone. Pretty impressive.

   I understand it can seem at times like a popular character is everywhere you look. But when you’re hot you’re hot, and GL is a very hot property at DC right now. To claim that “75% of the DCU” has been overshadowed by Green Lantern mythos is simply not true. If ya don’t like the corps, there are plenty of books on the DC side where you can find nary a construct.

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10. AquaPimp82 says:

    January 5, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    Ugh. I could care less about the Hawkman/girl story. More Aquaman please.

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11. RoiVampire says:

    January 5, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    @AquaPimp82  agreed, but at least we got some good deadman stuff

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12. srh1son says:

    January 5, 2011 at 7:34 pm

    Deadman hugging it out with his grandpa was a nice moment.

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13. Skyfire124 says:

    January 6, 2011 at 6:21 am

    Im with you @djd, I’m enjoying all the stories.  I don’t have the hate-fest that so many seem to for Hawkman.  He’s not my favorite character but I certainly enjoy the stories I see with him.    Love the various moments we’ve seen with Firestorm, Deadman, Hawk & Dove, etc.   And my fave part of this ish was Deadman’s time with his grandfather.

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14. Cedric says:

    January 6, 2011 at 11:54 am

    Deadman and his grandfather was a touching moment

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15. PraxJarvin says:

    January 6, 2011 at 12:32 pm

    This seemed like the best issue in a long time to me.

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16. Franktiger says:

    January 6, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    The Firestorm art continues to blow me away, and the Hawkman segment was pretty awesome I thought.  Still think ‘Predator’ is a funny name for the ‘Love’ entity, but the Hawkwoman possessed character looks pretty cool.

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17. Impossibilly says:

    January 7, 2011 at 11:44 am

    I agree with @Frank & @Prax. This issue brought me back into Brightest Day. I can see myself picking this up through the end.

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18. mikeandzod21 says:

    January 7, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    The Boston Brand stuff made this my POTW. great great stuff

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19. Minion says:

    January 7, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    Great issue. I even liked the Hawks now that they are actually fighting with a bit of banter and not just screaming.

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20. comicBOOKchris says:

    January 8, 2011 at 1:12 am

    @Franktiger  The name is supposed to be ironic.

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21. Franktiger says:

    January 8, 2011 at 1:36 am

    @comicBOOKchris  Sure, but why?  The emotion entities are supposed to be the amalgamations of the very essence of their respective emotions, right?  To me, ‘Love’ isn’t, in essence, an ironic emotion.

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22. PraxJarvin says:

    January 8, 2011 at 11:02 am

    @Franktiger The concept behind the corps is that the the further away from Green they are the more consuming they are. So this isn’t hunky-dory, rom-com love, this is primal love – love as a… battlefield, if you will. So the entity embodies seeking out and conquering another’s heart with love. On a more literal level, the only reason that entity is called the Predator is because Carol Ferris used to be chased around when she was Star Sapphire by a guy called the Predator who wore that uniform. Years later it was revealed that the Predator was a creation of her own consciousness powered by the Star Sapphire, so JOhns has just wrapped that concept up with having it be the Parralax of another corps. Not a bad way to rationalize a funky concept and make it mirror what’s already going on

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23. Nordh says:

    January 8, 2011 at 11:42 am

    Glad I saved this one for my Saturday morning breakfast 🙂 It was simply packed with great fun and emotional content. The Hawks have really grown on me and I’m actually interested now in seeing where they are taken moving forward.

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24. Franktiger says:

    January 8, 2011 at 10:11 pm

    @PraxJarvin  can’t get that song outta my head now, thx.

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25. ResurrectionFlan says:

    January 9, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    @WheelHands  24 hours … or 8 months.

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26. kennyg says:

    January 10, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    I really wish they could “fix” the Hawks, as discussed on a recent podcast. I’ve been a Hawkman fan for quite a while, but they are the characters I have cared least about in BD.

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