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DC has a plan for 2010 and it’s called Brightest Day. The name is a reference to the Green Lantern Oath (“In Brightest Day, in Blackest Night”). As the Blackest Night event reaches its end DC are planning the next phase. The spine of the event will be a new 26-part bi-weekly series called Brightest Day written by Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi.
On Twitter, Johns cryptically summed up Brightest Day as
If anything sums up BRIGHTEST DAY it’s this…”In order for the light to shine so brightly the darkness must be present.” Francis Bacon
Later in an extensive IGN interview Geoff Johns expanded upon the idea of Brightest Day,
That’s what I’m hoping Brightest Day accomplishes in the DCU – taking characters and concepts that have been around for a long time and reintroducing them in big ways and with new elements. That’s a lot of why, in Blackest Night, you’ll see a lot of characters confronting the past, because it’s time for us and them to put the past to bed so characters like Ray Palmer can move on to the next adventure and next step.
DC Universe Rebirth anybody?
The Brightest Day banner will be attached to other books that tie into the year-long event (52 weeks = 26 x 2 weeks). This includes Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, and the new Flash series, the Titans, and Justice League of America. However, we don’t yet know what the real event will be about, just that it exists.
The JLA will pick up the Brightest Day banner with the April issue (JLA #44). The released cover for JLA #44 (above) shows a mysterious blanked out woman surrounded by members of the Justice League and Justice Society All-Stars. All that DC Executive Editor Dan Didio would say on the Source Blog was,
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA will also feature the [Brightest Day] banner, starting with April’s #44, but the characters that will be joining the team are still very much under wraps. Sorry, I’m usually not this secretive in the afternoon. Hope you understand.
Which is interesting considering we thought we’d already had the big announcement about the new League’s roster.
I was amused by the cartoon on Bleeding Cool claiming that the new star of Brightest Day will be the villainous Dr Light. I’m kinda wondering if the woman in the middle of the JLA #44 issue isn’t Kimiyo, the heroic Doctor Light.
Will this be their 4th lineup in 12 months? I’ve lost count….
I’m not sure. I read that comment to be the addition of a particular character – given the whited out cover – rather than the wholesale turn over of the team.
oh, that would make sense — but he did say “characters”….
ok i’m confused ??? What ??/ I started the blackest night in the middle but it was great . But i’m following the entire Brightest day from the start!!
Brightest Day confusing. I suppose it could be. Blackest Night had a fairly clean concept – zombie superheroes – which you didn’t really need to know the details of. A lot of the Brightest Day stuff, particularly involving the Justice League, relies on you knowing bit and pieces from decades old continuity.