Monday, January 11th, 2010
By Alex Segura
AS: In meetings I’ve heard BRIGHTEST DAY referred to, offhand, as DCU: REBIRTH. Being the sleuth I am, this leads me to believe it’s more than just a concentrated series, right?
DD: Definitely. BRIGHTEST DAY isn’t just a single book. Like BLACKEST NIGHT, it’s an event that happens across the entire DC Universe, affecting a number of titles.
Following BRIGHTEST DAY #0, we’ll be bannering a number of new and ongoing series with BRIGHTEST DAY, which will let readers know these books are key to the entire BD story.
AS: Keeping my detective hat on, since Geoff is writing BRIGHTEST DAY and we announced he’d be writing a new FLASH ongoing coming right around the same time…
DD: Correct. We’ll be launching the new FLASH ongoing series, by Geoff and Francis Manapul in April with a BRIGHTEST DAY banner, and there will be several more titles utilizing it come May and June.
With this book, Geoff and Francis are really bringing Barry Allen back into the spotlight and cementing him as the premiere Flash in the DCU in his own monthly. It’s no secret that I’ve been waiting a long time to se this. I’ve always been a huge Barry fan, and I can say that Geoff and Francis are reinvigorating him as a character in much the same way Geoff did with Hal Jordan. Should be fun.
AS: You mentioned other titles?
DD: Yup.
AS: Alright Source readers, swing back in an hour for more BRIGHTEST DAY news. It’s a busy Monday!
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Tags: adventure comics, brightest day, Dan DiDio, dcu in 2010, Flash, francis manapul, Geoff Johns, green lantern
45 Responses to “DCU IN 2010: MORE ON BRIGHTEST DAY: THE FLASH”
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OOOOHHHH MAAAAN ok negative nelley hat first:This sounds a lot like the competion did for dark reign have Brightest Day banners across the board. Postives if they limit them to a select titles it wil work and be fun damn I am gonna be broke in 2010 lol BTW FIRST POST
This is very cool news. Not new minis, but issues of running titles. Draw attention to current books, as opposed to “forcing” readers to by new ones. Very nice idea. Excited.
Why do I have a suspicion that books that got tie-ins (Ties-in?) to BN will be the more likely to continue said connection? I’d love to see REBELS cop some rays from the Brightest Day. And considering Legion already has connections to the Corps, mayhap they’ll be involved as well, if they don’t get drawn into War of the Supermen.
Multiple large-scale events in different families of books, allowing different readers to follow different stories. Bob Greenberger, a walking DC encyclopedia, returning to the fold to helm the Who’s Who and Legacies project. We may see 2010 thun into a VERY solid year for DC, both in the macro and micro sense.
WE WANT WALLY!
WE WANT WALLY
WE WANT WALLY
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Awesomeeeeeee.
Hopefully the Bat-books and Bruce are more involved with Brightest Day.
N I C E ! !
Hopefully there is something Super-related.
Cross-overs, I love them.
thats why i love DC, its one big family.
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Yeah, wish we could’ve had more than one Flash book. Not necessarily the Wally co-feature or the Kid Flash book (though I was really looking forward to those), but another outlet would be great. The Flash family is too big for one book.
Dan, you’re making a lot of Wally fans REALLY disappointed.
As I started reading comics in 1992 i’ve no interest in reading about Barry Allen as the “Flash”.
it’s time to look to the future.. Not the past.
See, I felt that way about Hal Jordan as Green Lantern. Even though I started reading comics in the late 80’s, I found Kyle to be a more interesting character than Hal.
And then came Green Lantern: Rebirth.
Geoff Johns gave me a reason to care about Hal Jordan, and now I’m a fan. And while I wasn’t crazy about the idea of bringing Barry Allen back (and Flash: Rebirth STILL hasn’t convinced me), I’ll give it a try, because, hey…Geoff has proven me wrong before.
But a bi-weekly Brightest Day series? EXCELLENT.
Barry is, and always has been, my favorite character, so I’m excited about his return. But I’m still bothered by tying so many titles together with some event. Not that BN isn’t a good story, but why can’t good stories come first (Wednesday Comics, Brave & the Bold), instead of being in service to an event. And this line, “we’ll be bannering a number of . . . series with BRIGHTEST DAY, which will let readers know these books are key to the entire BD story,” is what bothers me most.
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Well, that’s a good point. I’m hoping that the story in each book will be somewhat self-contained, while loosely fitting into the larger Brightest Day story. Kind of like the “One Year Later” model they used concurrently with “52.”
Of course, some of the “One Year Later” stories = FAIL, at least, in my opinion. So maybe that’s not a good idea.
@captoptuse I don’t think this is an event, I think it’s more just like an overarching theme.
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AQUAMAN brightest day, please!
Cover is sweet as hell, looking forward to this, but I agree the line about, “Cementing Barry as the premiere Flash of the DCU,” seems very off-putting.
What a way to brush off Wally fans!
:/ Dark Reign only bright?
Sequel events are always bad news.
Cool! Thanks!
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WOW! ALEX THANKS - I’m Speechless with all this info!
This is an awesome cover. Loving Manapul’s Barry Allen.
Wally fans, please don’t be such pessemists. Barry is the first and the original Flash. Don’t get me wrong, I love Wally and care about his character. But, Barry is such a great character too and with Geoff Johns writing him and Manapul drawing him - we are in for such a treat!
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Holy Moley! You can’t have a Brightest Day without Captain Marvel! Bring on The Marvel Family!
@Meisterlegion Do you know who Jay Garrick is?
That cover looks great. I’m really glad the Flash is back to being a solo book.
Much like Green Lantern, I’m sure we’ll see the other versions of the Flash around, all over the DCU. But we’ll also have one central book to focus on the main Flash. As it should be.
@walleast - Ouch! you got me dude; my bad! Jay is the first and Barry is the second, I stand corrected. But, I think you know what I meant
I am old enough to have read and enjoyed Barry Allen as the Flash as a kid, so I was open to Barry replacing Wally.
However, the current re-boot of the Flash franchise just is not working. Geoff Johns appears to be trying exactly the same devices on Flash that worked so well on the Green Lantern. The problem is that they are completely different properties. No matter who is wearing the red suit, the best Flash stories have always been about quick thinking and big ideas. Cleverness and connectedness are best dramatized on a small scale. An epic scale and truly nasty villains is actually kind of a detriment, but those are the Johns trademarks. So, we are left with Geoff Johns trying to bang the Flash franchise into what he does well instead of trying to adapt his style into what suits the Flash franchise.
So, now The Flash monthkly isa tie in to something from the start… Way to boost sales and all, but really, I still have no interest in it.
As a 20-year-old reader, I am with everyone who feels a little put-off by the idea of cementing Barry as THE Flash. For many years, my only real exposure to him was in out-of-continuity tales and the original Crisis. I hope that Wally finds a solid niche in all of this, and I hope that Barry’s arc moves quickly (no pun intended) away from the “Old guy in a new and different world,” a drum that has been beaten far too often in the comic world. I imagine that we’d all feel better about this if Rebirth had shipped in some semblance of a normal schedule, but the issues that have shipped have felt a bit like forcing a square peg into a round hole. I’m optimistic about the main title and the Kid Flash book, which I hope captures some of the fun that kept Impulse around for so long, but I can’t help be really put off by having Wally relegated to back-up status after so long in the spotlight. If the League was in any kind of better shape that Robinson’s incapable hands, I’d wish for his inclusion on the team, but now I wouldn’t wish that on my least favorite characters.
@thecoyotegospel: Sorry, no Kid Flash book. Not in 2010, anyway.
Sterling Gates’ book is off the plans? I just read that the back-up with Wally is gone, but not forgotten:
“I explained this a little bit on my boards, but with all the re-thinking of the co-features, they want to keep “The Flash” at $2.99 because the price point is getting a little crazy. That doesn’t mean that you won’t see the story that Scott and I have been working on.”
But I had no idea that Gates’ Kid Flash books was no longer planned. Thanks for the heads up. I just realized that I missed that announcement because DiDio said it in an audio interview, which I never watch. *sigh*
As someone who grew up reading Barry as the Flash and understood what his death meant to the DC universe in the original Crisis I really have not enjoyed Barry coming back. I enjoy John’s work, but Barry’s return has seemed forced. When Barry died it left a void that Wally filled. The beginning run of Flash for him was a coming into his own. Elongated Man’s constant harrassment of him not being the “real” Flash. Wally West is the Flash, but it unfortantly doesn’t suprise me. The same will be true of Grayson when Bruce comes back at some point. It seems to me that onc the “sidekicks” come into their own as many of the original Titans have they are quickly pushed into the background or maimed like Red Arrow. I understand that heroes die and get hurt, but if I wanted to see which Titan character dies or which JLA member is maimed this week I would read old back issues of Image or a current Marvel title.
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If DC wants to return Barry for their 50+yr old readers who can remember back to when his book was interesting thats great but as someone who didn’t begin reading his series until the early 1980’s, it was a very dull unimportant series for DC. It wasn’t until Wally took over the mantle that the Flash character really came back into its own and interest in him began to grow.
It’s very different in that respect from Green Lantern where Hal was far more popular when he was replaced by Kyle than Barry was with Wally… and yet Kyle is being treated with far more respect than Wally who is being kicked to the curb.
I guess thats understandable though, if Wally had his own title (or shared one like Kyle in GLC) it would very likely outsell the relaunched Barry title which might prove embarrasing for DC’s golden boy.
@nw316 - I was reading the Flash in the early 1980’s and I did enjoy those Barry Allen stories and I’m not 40 or 50+. However, that being said I do agree with the rest of what you said. I however wasn’t into the GL series until after Emerald Dawn.
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nw316 is right. barry is a character most newer readers know very little about. the idea of wally getting replaced, benched, and forgotten(which is how it sounds to me) just so barry can be the bad*** they’re making him out to be ill be very dissappointed