When writing grand scale event comics in the past, Geoff Johns has typically waited until the second issue to unveil his crux plot point, the single concept or theme around which the remainder of the story revolves.
The past two weeks have been a period of rarely matched excitement for comics newshounds, as word of the creative teams and titles included in DC Comics' September relaunch have come rolling down like a waterfall from the lofty cliffs of Mount DiDio.
For starters, I’d like to thank Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #158 for washing out much of the foul taste left behind by last issue’s crossover poisoned cliffhanger.
Since the beginning, each Brightest Day title page has promised the eventual revelation of the series’ unifying mystery: an explanation as to why each of the featured characters has been brought back from the dead.