I knew that I would one day pick Brightest Day as my favorite of the week, and this one came damn close. After 6 issues of milling about, the resurrected B-listers get a sense of direction. Most readers bitched around issue #3 for an issue like this, and I pity them. The weekly series that DC put together in the past worked so well due to its slow-burn style. They have a lot of pages available, and the talent behind these books can take full advantage of this. So let hem do their thing.  After-all, look at some great long-form series we have all enjoyed in the past. Books like Preacher, Sandman, Y:The Last Man have all enjoyed the long story form without the 2-week publishing schedule propping us their sales numbers. Here we get a good story, and we don’t have to wait for it as long. Enough bitching.

So Deadman finally grabs the White Lantern after having a cheeseburger, and the White Entity reveals the story to us. Someone on Earth will take the entity’s place (any bets?), and small prophecies and missions are dolled out. We get teased out the ass for future story lines, and now the story will truly begin to quicken its pace. What I really like about prophecy stories is the feeling you get that there are a bounty of surprises yet to be dealt to us. The author is so sure of the story that they have no problem tipping their hand because of what they truly have planned for you. This type of story device is a fantastic way to keep all of us comic book readers enrapt, and it really is best digested in weekly format. Sure, you can trade wait, but you would miss out on the tension that is created every 14 days. What we now know is that Digger will throw a boomerang at Dove that Hawk has to intercept, but why? And what will come of it? Much less, will it happen? These types of questions can drive a comic fan crazy, and I can’t wait for issue 8.