comparing buffy & spn seasons six

Man, am I kicking myself for not having noticed all of this as it was happening.

And I like that it's not a hatchet job on SPN for following the same track. It's that the two shows reached the same turning point and so they had similar issues to address. (Well, ok, SPN needn't have been *that* close.)

brightest day, whut?

Ok, so after a year, DC is bringing the whole Brightest Day thing to a close, and I'm left wondering: what was the point of any of that, exactly?

Was the White Lantern--and, therefore, a connection to the Green Lanterns--necessary for any of what happened? Not in the slightest, really. The White Lantern was nothing but a MacGuffin.

Ok, yes, characters relegated to the Vertigo world are now back in the DCU. But are we seriously expected to believe DC Comics actually gives an enormous shit about that? I love the characters that have crossed back over, but one of them hasn't had a book in print for years, and while the other has never gone out-of-print, that book barely sells 10,000 copies a month. So, this is not exactly an earth-shattering event, even by the much-reduced standards of comics today.

The series Brightest Day itself now seems like 24 issues of one non-event after another, none of which hung together at all except for that White Lantern connection which could have been left out entirely without making the slightest difference.

Birds of Prey is back, and I'm very pleased about that, but other than the addition of Dove and Hawk, any truly meaningful connection to BD has escaped me. Green Arrow has meandered about incoherently for a year, concluding this week with.... basically another underwhelming non-event. Did any of that mean a damn thing to Ollie's story? Not that I can see. Jade's story has been covered in JLA, but Robinson seems to be doing a lot of meandering of his own, and I'm not seeing how any of it relates to the events in BD. *

The only remotely interesting thing to come out of BD has been Generation Lost, which was genuinely entertaining (and one last thank you to sdelmonte for convincing me to stick with it). But, again, that series could have been set up without any reference whatever to BD.

So, seriously.... was there actually a point to any of that?




(* Though I do admit the current line-up of the JLA pleases me immensely, and it's been a pretty decent read. It's just the relevance to BD that escapes me.)

another GL trailer!

And this one is nifty. All the GL backstory, including the best look yet at a Guardian.... who looks damn cool, actually.

Still some goofiness here and there, but like the last one, these are SO much improved on that very first one.

Bring it!