Tag: Blackest Night

Brightest Day: The Return of Swamp Thing

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It’s been almost a year since Brightest Day began, and the hunt for the new protector of earth has taken many twists and turns along the way. Brightest Day #23 dropped a pair of bombshells this week. It revealed that Swamp Thing is back in the DCU in the form of a deadly Black Lantern. It also revealed that Alec Holland is the destined protector for the Life Entity inside the white lantern. This is huge news for fans of Swamp Thing. Unfortunately, with the character being out of the…

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2010 in Review Best Selling Comics

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Diamond Comic Distributors announced this January 6th the leaders in sales for 2010, calculated based on total unit sales to comic book specialty shops most of us go to every Wednesday to grab weekly books. The best-selling comic book of the year was Marvel’s Avengers #1, written by Brian Bendis with art from John Romita Jr. The publisher snagged the #2 spot as well, courtesy of X-Men #1. Marvel also took the top spot as the leading industry publisher, boasting a 43% Unit Market Share and a 38% Dollar Market…

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Comics In Review 2010

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It is time for our year in review of the comic industry and the Good the Bad and the Ugly in comics. Again the big companies Marvel and DC dominated the scene with the Big Event comics. The ending of Blackest Night and the beginning of Brightest Day in DC Comics and The Siege of Asgard ending with the Beginning of the Age of Heroes in Marvel. There has to be a reason for Big Event comics done by comic creators one to change direction and shake things up and…

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Big Event Comics: Chaos War vs Brightest Day

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When I first started reading comics there were very few crossover events and most comics finished the story within the pages in your hands. Big event comic themes were not the norm and most stories did not last very long. Comic editors had more say how stories were formed and story lines concluded. Then in the sixties Marvel Comics with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby with Steve Ditko and many others brought a explosion of unfettered talent and created stories that tied together for many issues and brought the reader…

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Blackest Night 8 Final

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Eight months has passed and Geoff Johns has brought the conclusion to the Blackest Night series. Written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis, Blackest Night involves a personified force of death resurrecting deceased superheroes and seeking to eliminate all life and emotion from the universe. Geoff Johns has identified the series’ central theme as emotion.Both Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver have stated that “Blackest Night” is the third part of a Green Lantern event trilogy that began with Rebirth and continued with “Sinestro Corps War“. But it…

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White Lantern from Blackest Night

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At the end of Blackest Night 7 we had quite a supprize Sinestro beat Hal Jordan to the White Enity and became a White lantern what ever that means. Geoff Johns is really keeping everyone guessing what direction he is going. So will there be more White lanterns and will they be able to fight the creator of the Black lanterns Nekron? We will have to wait till and Green Lantern 52 and Blackest Night 8 to find out. Plus DC has reveiled that the creature trapped in the Black Lantern power battery…

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Brightest Day – DC Comics

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Brightest Day is an upcoming year-long comic book limited series premiering in April 2010. This will be following the ending of the series Blackest Night. The series will run bi-weekly for 26 issues alternating with Justice League: Generation Lost written by Keith Giffen and Judd Winick. It will also be crossing over into the Green Lantern series, the Green Lantern Corps, Justice League of America, The Titans and a new The Flash series, which will have a “Brightest Day” banner. It was later announced that Gail Simone would return to…

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Comics Review 2009

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2009 was a interesting year in comics Captain America (Steve Rogers) appears in New Avengers Annual in the last panel alive, the Red Hulk’s identity has still not been revealed, Bruce Banner is still not able to turn into the Hulk and is teaching his son to kick ass. Peter Parker and Mary Jane are still un-married, still have 4 Avengers titles, the Dark Reign story line is still going on. Thor has lost his Kingdom and kicked out of Asgard. The Xmen are on an Island in the Pacific trying…

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Solomon Grundy (Born on a Monday)

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  Solomon Grundy 7 part series has to be one of this years sleeper story line in the comic world. In the one-shot Faces of Evil: Solomon Grundy (March 2009) by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins, Cyrus Gold returns to life in Slaughter Swamp, as he was prior to becoming Grundy. He returns to Gotham City, but is shot by police after attacking a charity worker. In the police morgue, he transforms into Solomon Grundy. Grundy is once more an unintelligent monster, repeating the opening line of the nursery rhyme.…

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Blackest Night

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Blackest Night is a company-wide, multiple title story arc published by DC Comics. Written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis, Blackest Night is the story about how a counterpart to the Green Lantern’s Central Power Battery is found and accidentally activated. Dead superheroes, killed in recent years are brought back to life via the use of black power rings issued by the Green Lantern villain, Black Hand at the behest of a dark power located with a region of deep space called Sector 666. This series of stories…

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