Art: Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, Scott Clark, Joe Prado
In every issue of Brightest Day there's always a lead character. This time it's J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter. Throughout the book, the lead character's story is spread out with the other characters' story in between. As a result, the pacing is of the general story of the book is moving pretty slow since Johns and Tomasi are dealing with twelve characters in the title.
However, we still get some developments about the characters bit by bit during each segment, like how it was revealed that Mera is actually an assassin and that Siren is Mera's younger sister. Well if you read the previous issue, it was pretty obvious.
Since there's a lot of characters in this title, it would be difficult for all of them to get some proper characterization. The different characters only get about 3-4 pages in this book, - and sometimes they don't make an appearance at all like the Hawk-people - except for the lead character. In this case, it's J'onn. But there's also a character that seems to be present in the book all the time - Deadman. Well it's understandable since he's wearing the white ring and appears to be the "messenger" of the white entity.
It's finally good to see the story of Hawk, Dove, and Deadman go somewhere, because I think theirs is where the least happens. Hawk made Deadman resurrect Don Hall and Holly Granger but to no avail. It seems they can't just revive people they want like just what happened in the issue. We still don't get why the featured characters were resurrected, 'cos we only get a cheeseburger explanation. Maybe for Deadman, that's the reason. But I believe they hold the key to the explanation why the selected people were resurrected.
Moving on, Jason and Ronnie fuses again to be Firestorm. I don't know if they will be able to separate willingly but I guess we'll see in the next issue.
Now there are several artists in this title, and it works. As I've said earlier, the book is divided into segments with each of the four artists assigned to them. I can only tell Reis' and Gleason's art, and their art is still beautiful as ever.
Still, only a few answers are given here so far. But it's interesting to finally see the different stories of the characters move forward. And there's a shocker at the end: one of the members of the Teen Titans dies.
Rating: 3.5/5
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