Comments on: Blackest Night to Brightest Day: What a Long Strange Trip

By: Animated Anthem Day Crossover - Firestorm! | Firestorm Fan

Animated Anthem Day Crossover - Firestorm! | Firestorm Fan — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:34:41 +0000

[…] My thanks to Diabolu Frank for organizing today’s crossover event! If you’ve enjoyed this blog crossover, then you should check out some previous comic blog crossovers we’ve done. The first major blog crossover celebrated the gorgeous George Pérez/Alex Ross painting from the Crisis on Infinite Earths 1998 hardcover. The next major blog crossover was a celebration of the Super Powers Collection’s 25th Anniversary. Some subsequent major crossovers included: DC Challenge, Read This Too, Mayfairstivus, April Fool’s Day 2011, and Blackest Night to Brightest Day. […]

By: Shag

Shag — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:44:23 +0000

Thanks for the comments! While I was never the biggest fan of Gehenna, her murder was very disturbing to me. It was particularly gruesome, but by being so it was that much more effective. Powerful stuff!

Thanks again for your feedback!
Shag

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:45:13 +0000

I really didn't appreciate the murder of Gehenna. For me, Martin Stein is a figure from the distant past, where Gehenna represented a future for Jason and Firestorm. Instead, DC managed to refrigerate another woman and another Asian to boot. All in all though, despite my issues with the route, the destination for the Nuclear Man does indeed seem bright.

By: liquidcross

liquidcross — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:29:38 +0000

I still find it funny that Johns and Tomasi based Deathstorm’s dialogue off of “1990s characters.” The problem is, characters talked like that in the 1980s, not the 1990s. Didn’t they ever see Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure?

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:04:27 +0000

The murder of Gehenna was one of the nastiest moments I have ever read in a superhero comic. The depths of depravity which Blackest Night served up might have been excessive but I think they were necessary to the story — it was a horror story after all.

Brightest Day has been a long strange trip alright, but one which I have enjoyed. Of the “major” features of the book, Firestorm started out as the one I cared the least about. I mean, obviously the Hawks were tops. Aquaman is a classic and I think we are all waiting for the definitive take on Martian Manhunter. Even some of the lesser figures held more sway for me: Reverse-Flash, Hawk, Captain Boomerang. But as the story unfolded I found myself more and more interested in Firestorm and the relationship between these two young men. I am hopeful for a Firestorm series to fully examine this dynamic.

Reading Brightest Day got me thinking about superheroes as characters for the first time in a long time. Thinking about more than “this guy is cool, this guy is not.” Thinking about reading the adventures of a character or characters rather than running from one world shattering war to the next. At a point in my adult life when I am reading less DC and Marvel stuff than ever before, I hope that DC takes this series and spins it into some character driven titles so that we can continue to read about Hawkman and Hawkgirl, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, and yes, Firestorm.