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    Brightest Day » Brightest Day #15 - Whatever Happened to the Manhunter from Mars? released by DC Comics on February 2011.

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    Review: Brightest Day #15

    A Justice League reunion coincides with a celebration of the 25-year-long peace that Martian Manhunter has brought to a resurrected and revitalized Mars - - but nothing is as it seems.
     

    The Good

    The tile of this issue deliberately evokes Moore's seminal Superman story, and it certainly lives up to the association. With additional traces of his classic "For the Man Who Has Everything," this was the first comic I've read to juxtapose superheroes with nightmarish surrealism as well as Morrison's work on Animal Man. I was almost hypnotized by the dreamy, almost elegiac, cadence of the dialog throughout, which gave an undercurrent of the strange and out-of-place to some genuinely piercing insights on the human (and superhuman) condition.

    The Bad

    Finch is a legendary artist, but his mojo didn't seem to be on for the cover. Maybe it's the rendering method he chose, but there's such a discrepancy in the styles of all the heroes' costumes (some modern, some classic, some strangely updated) that they almost don't seem like they exist in the same reality. 

    The Verdict - 4.5/5

    I continue to be thoroughly impressed by how high a standard of quality has been maintained on this bi-weekly title. DC occasionally includes some of their better shorts in year-end collections and I think this told-in-one definitely deserves a place in one of those. J'onn J'onzz isn't exactly a character with a long "Greatest Stories" list, but this is one of the best comics he's starred in.
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      Mars: The Blood Red Planet 0

      Brightest Day #15 - Whatever Happened to the Manhunter from Mars? by the_mighty_monarch on December 02, 2010

      The Good: The way things jump 25 years into the future adds to the unease of the story. There's a lot of missing pieces that makes sense to be missing since it's 25 years later, AND all a dream. J'onn's dialogue is all amazing. It clearly evokes the sense that he's been living in his reborn homeworld for 25 years, and the fact that he's become a Green Lantern, his new costume is amazing. The fates of all the Justice League members is hauntingly brilliant. It subtly evokes the sense that J'onn's ...

      6 out of 6 found this review helpful.

      Dreams Deferred 0

      Brightest Day #15 - Whatever Happened to the Manhunter from Mars? by jonesdeini on December 04, 2010

      This issue jumps 25 years into the future with the JLA gathering on mars to celebrate the 25 years of peace that Green Lantern, J'onn J'onzz has brought to Mars, and the universe. However, triumph turns to tragedy as one after another someone starts gunning for the League's big 7... The Good Johns and Tomasi really put their feet into this one!!! (southern colloquialism, look it up) The dialog in this issue is some of the best I've seen in a hero comic in forever. Every single exchange of dialog...

      1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
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