Brightest Day #0 Preview

[theanswer]

 Posted at the Source, here.



A rather depressing start...

Anyway, Boston approaches his tombstone with a sledgehammer and destroys it. After reflecting upon how he has no idea how to start his new life and how he has no one to turn to because during his first life he was a bastard... he notices the poor dead baby bird.



And suddenly his new role may have become a bit more clearer.

Comments

[darkblade]

Liveman? They are actually running with Liveman?

[domino_blue]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggM1dFHag6I

[thokstar]

Go go underlying Judeo-Christian mythology.

[xammax]

Thats been clear for a long time in the DCU.

[jaybee3]

I'd wager we're going to see a bunch of other heroes/villains resurrected during Brightest Day - that's probably why Johns killed off Tempest and Damage in BN - so he has characters to bring back in BD. And at the end of BD, "Liveman" will probably return to being Deadman again.

[theanswer]

I don't know about Boston returning to Deadman. Seems to me they would prefer Ralph and Sue take over that niche while they explore new territory with Boston.

[kagome654]

I still love the name 'Boston Brand.' It's one of my favourites.

Also, yay for no longer dead baby bird!

[weezus]

i know, after all the deaths in comics, that one actually made me sad for a second!

[hybrid2]

LIAN!!

[darkblade]

Your optimism amuses me.

[iluvpurplegoats]

Ok, I gave a little cheer when he revived the bird :)

[amaniwolf]

Word!

[silverzeo]

So they still have those rings?

[theanswer]

Only Boston has one.

[q99]

Wait, I thought death was permanent now? That lasted for all of 5 seconds :)

[jlbarnett]

maybe that was just them bullshiting us.

I bet the White Lantern has like a 100% charge and when it runs down they won't be able to restore any more people.

[thebigapricot]

So dead is dead unless Boston Brand touches you? I hope he goes and digs up Ralph and Sue and Lian. And tells Booster to go get Ted's body.

[q99]

"Michael, I need to borrow Ted's body. Do you have it?"

"What? No! What have you heard?!"

[catey]

Wow, it's "pushing daisies" all over again. I'm pretty sure that such a gift must come with a price. I mean it's not like he's going to go on a "living" spree without facing any consequence, is he? Imagine how many heroes/dead family members *cough* Lian *cough* could be revived... And how many villains will want to get their hands on that ring...

[sherkahn]

Almost better than that "Get Out of Hell Free" card from Secret Six.

[irrelevant]

*eyebrows go up* So this is the power of the white lantern? Interesting.

[mullon]

It can't last. Lantern power never lasts.

[theanswer]

If it were anyone else, maybe.

But Deadman isn't Superman, he could remain the White Lantern for a long time.

[pyrotwilight]

I'm still wondering if those who were resurrected (save for Deadman) came back with souls.

Particularly since according to Nekron he was the one who sent the souls back to the land of the living.

[zordboy]

Yeah, as the designated supervillain, I'm not sure we should be taking Nekron's stuff *too* seriously. He seemed to talk an awful lot, is all.

[ladyinred52]

Brand's new powers could be interesting. And I can definitely see a power struggle physical or emotional. After all, how will they decide when it is actually time for people to pass? Everyone must die, even if we don't want them to. How will they be able to decide when is 'too soon' and if it really was their time? Or can everyone be brought back? What are the ramifications of people who had been brought back? Will it change destiny? For example, if Thomas and Martha Wayne had been been resurrected, there would be no Batman, and Gotham and Earth would be fucked. I'm waiting to see the catch for this...

[auggie18]

That baby bird is screwed, unless Boston starts raising it. If he puts it back up in the nest,Mama bird is going to boot it out again.

[icon_uk]

Provided Mama was ever aware it was dead.... she's not there in the first scene...

[phosfate]

"I can be like Johnny Appleseed!" Boston cried. "Only with baby birds!"

Next summer: the DCU is attacked by thousands of unkillable zombie songbirds...AVIAN CRISIS! BE THERE!

[arbre_rieur]

I wonder if what they're going to do is limit the ring so that it needs two weeks to recharge after one use or something? Then, by putting the series in real time, they can have him revive one person every issue until the last issue, in which the ring gets lost or destroyed.

[theanswer]

Maybe Boston can't control who he resurrects.

[busterella]

I hope this means more folks are coming back. GET DIGGING, BOSTON.

[sinisterlink]

It's funny with getting used to all the heart ripping and so on that was going on in Blackest Night that the panel of the baby bird dying still made me flinch. But then I was distracted by what a hottie Boston is without his mask on and forgot about the bird. I'm fickle.

Anyways, interesting power that Live/Deadman has gotten, there. Better go get some shovels, Boston. We got some more people that need to be ressurrected.

[sweettart1823]

I love Boston, he's always been one of my favorites. I was afraid when they brought him back that was the end of that so this makes me happy.

Hopefully he can go and resurrect everyone else now.

[benicio127]

C'mon Lian!

[nevermore999]

I'm glad I don't have to make an angry blog post about that baby bird! :p

[jlbarnett]

the conflict in this will probably be a villain trying to kidnap him to resurrect a bunch of villains.

[leikomgwtfbbq]

I'd really really really love it if Boston were a White Lantern from now on, if he can't just go back to being regular old Deadman.

[jelly_ace]

So all the White Lanters have this power?

[theanswer]

There is only one, so yeah.

[bruinsfan]

Man, that power is going to make going out to eat awkward...

[zordboy]

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

Well, there's a reason to become a vegetarian. Hah!