This issue marks a turning point in the series in that it actually tries to string the various stories together. But those connections are still flimsy at best.
Brightest Day #7 by Johns and Tomasi
Deadman finally gets his burger, and as he chats over it with Dove, she reveals that the voice coming from the white ring is the same one she heard during the Blackest Night. Somehow, she's connected to the force that's been sending Deadman around the universe. Hawk, Dove, and Deadman are transported to the location of the white lantern, where Deadman is actually able to lift it (a feat no one else has been able to achieve).
As the white ring gets charges, each of the twelve people resurrected by the white light are given various cryptic messages, adding up to one message. The white entity is dying, and it's their to protect the earth until a new champion of the white light emerges. Deadman's job is to find the new champion.
The Last Word on Brightest Day #6 by Reis, Gleason, Syaf, Clark and Prado
Finally things seem to be coming together. Or at least that's what this issue is trying to portray. In reality, it seems like each of the resurrected characters are given tasks which are much more personal than world-saving, and none of them seem to relate to one another. This seems to be the key to this event: it's not character driven, it's not story driven, it's sales driven. Each of these characters are going about their own business, but by slapping the Brightest Day banner on the comics in which they appear, and by utilizing the message of "keep earth safe," somehow they're all connected.
At least it's finally apparent what the main idea is supposed to be. For seven issues (counting #0) it's been a mystery just what all of these various unrelated plots mean to one another. While it's interesting to see each of the characters going about their own business, the reason for taking several and putting them in a book titled Brightest Day doesn't really make sense unless it's simply because none of them could hold out on their own.
Still, there seems to be some mystery to the ongoing story of those resurrected by the white light. Here's hoping it's actually going to be more complicated than telling Captain Boomerang to "throw the boomerang" and telling Hawk to "Catch the boomerang."
At this point, the only reason to keep reading would be an interest in one of the ongoing stories in Brightest Day rather than an interest in how the stories might weave together. That seems to have been DC's plan from the start anyway.
Robert Becka - In 2008, Robert Becka graduated from Saint Cloud State University with Bachelor's degrees in Film Studies and Journalism. His senior paper ...
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