The "Dark Avatar" (Brightest Day BIG SPOILERS)

[dreamreaver]

Brightest Day #23. Three-and-a-half pages.

(mods: don't add character tags, please, it would spoil the reveal/s)





The White Lantern Entity initiates a funky transformation scene where the resurrected champions fuse with their most closely associated classical element (Firestorm = fire, Aquaman = water, Martian Manhunter = earth, Hawkman and Hawkgirl = air).

GUYS, NOT EVERY CLASSICAL ELEMENT REFERENCE IS A CAPTAIN PLANET JOKE, ALL RIGHT?





So Swamp Thing proper (through some kind of memory swap? [with who, I don't know...Nekron?]) has been corrupted into the "Dark Avatar" the Entity's so scared about, and Holland himself is the new champion.

Comments

[ravenous_raven]

Anyone else disappointed Mera wasn't the avatar for water? I know Aquaman was dead and brought back to life and all, but I would have thought Mera's control of the sea and her disappearance would mean that she was chosen...and ok, I also want more women in this fight besides Hawkgirl and Dove.

[icon_uk]

Naiad, the ACTUAL water elemental for Earth (and thus on a par with Firestorm and Swamp Thing) would have been a natural choice.

[ravenous_raven]

Ah, didn't know about her. The name itself is proof enough though, isn't it?

[icon_uk]

I should add The Elemental War from the only Tom Mandrake Firestorm series to my list of "Stuff I should post samples of for s_d", it was good stuff as Swamp Thing, Red Tornado, Firestorm and Naiad face off against each other.