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The third part of that. Yes.

Foreign countries have Superman and the JLA

The day I start having faith in DC again that they won't kill off any new character is the day I start getting interested again in DC's new characters.

I understand that Vixen was originally gonna start a JL for Africa after Cry for Justice. Wonder why THAT never took off.

It's not just the new guys. Someone said on CBR that DC has killed between 100 and 150 characters in the last six years. I don't know how many they resurrected in that time, though. Still, they need to rebuild some trust.

Are you serious?!

Look at how many died in Blackest Night alone.

I'm making a list now and subtracting the ones who've come back.

I've counted 94 with 19 in them back, but it could go into the 100,000s if you're country Bialya and New Krypton.

*sigh* so there is another announcement...Aqualad is making a comeback.....but not Garth.....a NEW Aqualad....sigh....because they want to have him appear in comics first before the cartoon show (the Young Justice)...drats!!! and what s more...all white heroes who died or replaced and the replacements get shafted...look at The Atom Ryan Choi (got killed) and Firestorm (Jason and Gehenna - who got salted out) Ronnie now stealing a thunder. groan.

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ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX

Nah, I think they are only referring to main heroes and villians...which of course I know you know.

It's not between 100 and 150. Even with those resurrected it's in the 200s.

Agent Liberty
Alexander Luthor Jr. of Earth-3
Alexander Nero
Alex Montez
Alura
Amon Sur
Anima
Animal Man (Brought Back)
Aquaman (Resurrected)
Ash
Ballistic
Baron Blitzkrieg
Baby Wildebeest
Black Bison
Black Condor II
Black Mask
Blockbuster II
Bob the Monitor
Bolt
Bombshell (Resurrected)
Boy Blue of Seven Soldiers
Brain
Breach
Brother Blood
Brutale
Bug
Bushido
Bzzd
Captain Boomerang I (Resurrected)
Captain Boomerang II
Cassandra Cain (Lazarus Pit)
Cerdian
Charaxes
Chris Kent of Earth-15 (Or 16)
Christina a.k.a. Lady Flash
Clayface VII
Clayface III or V (From Cry for Justice, never really differentiated)
Copperhead
Crispus Allen (Returned as Spectre)
Crispus Allen’s Son (Resurrected)
Damage
Dark Ranger
David Reid (Reborn as Magog)
Deborah Camille Darnell Star Sapphire
Disruptor
Doctor Light
Doctor Polaris
Dolphin
Donna Troy (Resurrected)
Double-Header
Dream Girl of Earth-Prime (Resurrected)
Duela Dent
Dyno-Mite Dan
Effigy
Element Lad of Earth-Prime
Elongated Man
El Sombrero
Endless Winter
Everyman (Resurrected)
Face
Fel Andar
Fever
Fiddler
Freedom Beast
Fury III a.k.a. Amazing Woman
Galius Zed
Gehenna
Geist
General Glory II
Gimmix
Gizmo II
Gloriana Tenebrae
Gloss
Gretti
Griffin
Hank Hall (Resurrected)
Harbinger
Harold
Hawkgirl (Resurrected)
Hawkman (Resurrected)
Hawkwoman
Hector Hall
Hellhound
Herr Superman of Earth-8
Holly Granger
Human Bomb I
Hyena
Inertia
Invisible Hood
Iron Cross
Isis (Resurrected and turned to stone)
Jack
Jack of Fire
Jack T. Chance
Jacob Colby a.k.a. Skyman II
Jade (Resurrected)
Jean Loring
Jean Paul Valley
Jezebel Jet
Jim Corrigan (One who killed Crispus Allen)
Johnny Quick
Joker of New Earth-2
Jokester
Junior
Ke’Haan
Kendra Saunders
KGBeast
Kid Devil
Kid Flash II (Resurrected)
Knockout
Kreon
KT21
Kyle Rayner’s Mother
Lady Shiva (Lazarus Pit)
Lady Spellbinder
Laira
Laurie Lemmon of Earth-Prime
Legionary
Lian Harper
Lightning
Lilith Clay
Lois Lane of Earth-2
Lyta Hall
Madmen
Magpie
Major Disaster
Martian Manhunter (Resurrected)
Marvin Harris
Maxwell Lord (Resurrected)
Mister Miracle I
Mister Miracle II (Escaped Death)
Minute-Man
Mirage
Molecule
Mongal
Mongrel
Monsieur Mallah
Mr. America II
Nabu
Negative Woman
Nemesis II
Neptune Perkins
Nightblade
Nudge
Nuklon II
Orca
Original Guardian
Osiris (Resurrected)
Pa Kent
Pantha
Parademon
Peacemaker
Penny Dreadful
Persuader’s Father
Phantom Lady II
Power Boy
Pristine
Prometheus II
Prometheus III
Psycho Pirate
Punch
Question
Ragdoll
Ratcatcher
Razorsharp
Reactron
Remnant Nod
Riddler of New Earth-3
Rond Vidar
Ronnie Raymond (Reborn)
Ryan Choi
Saarek
Sally Sonic
Sam Lane
Sandblast
Sandstorm
Sargon the Sorcerer
Savitar
Scar
Shazam (Resurrected)
Spook
Stealth
Stargirl’s Dad
Stephanie Brown (Never Really Dead)
Sue Dibny
Superboy II (Resurrected)
Super Chief
Superman of Earth-2
Superwoman Lucy Lane (Revived)
Tarantula II
Tasmanian Devil
Tattooed Man
Technocrat
Tempest
Terra II
Thara Ak-Var
Thunder
Top
Trajectory
Trickster I
Twister
Ultraman of Antimatter Earth
Ventriloquist I
Vigilante I (Resurrected)
Vulko
Wade DeFarge
Walter Pratt, Kate Spencer’s Father
Walt Trigger
Waverider
Wayne Trigger
Weather Wizard’s Son
Whip
Windfall
Wingman
Wintergreen
Xax
Zillo Valla
Zor-El

Am I missing anyone?

Damn. That's just crazy.

And I'm finding MORE.

The classic "I love you but I'm gonna kill you" cover. Gag.

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dc-september-2010-solicitations-100614.html

So... apparently Boomerang can now "make" boomerangs out of thin air.

http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2010/0...pul-keep-the-heat-on-the-flash/#comments

Not to sound rude, but I think I'll stick with the morally ambiguous Captain Boomerang.

Since when was Boomerang morally ambiguous? Maybe we readers felt some sympathy for him during his time with the Suicide Squad (threatened by Waller, Deadshot and Bronze Tiger all the time), but there was never anything resembling a redeeming quality about the guy.

I mean the OTHER Boomerang. The dead one.

Read #4...and I'm out. The stories that are being told here are moving at a snails pace. None of them really went anywhere of any real merit.

I'll wait and check the trades out of the local library and keep up online. I cannot bring myself to keep spending 3 bucks every other week for nothing.

I'm still really enjoying Brightest Day and I honestly don't get why people say there's nothing happening in it. To me it seems like there's loads going on.

It's definitely similar to 52 but I loved (most of) that series too so it's all good to me.

I liked 52, and I see the correlation, but I also read those in trade format, so I got more story at a time than I am here by simple page count. Maybe I should just let the issues pile up, because I am enjoying several of the plotlines, and read them in a bunch. $ - 5 issues at a time.

You know, now that I think about it, I don't even know why I started buying Brightest Day in the first place.

Though I enjoyed 52 off the stands, some books definitely read better in Trades - I love The Walking Dead for example but I know that with how quickly it takes me to read that in Trades, if I was reading it in single issues I would be left feeling extremely frustrated and short-changed at how 'content-light' some of those issues are.

Brightest Day might be another one that reads better that way but the art, the characters and the little morsels of exciting story they're getting every second week is enough to keep me satisfied (more than satisfied - entertained) with the single-issue format here.

I think I might stick it out for the first half of this series, but I might as well wait for the trade on the second part. I feel like I barely glance over the story and then I'm done, simply because it's moving at a snails pace.

This is like Uncanny X-Men: Divided We Stand all over again.

Personally, one of the reasons why I dropped this besides my protest in the pirsuit of bringing back Lian Harper is the use of "big names". Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Aquaman, the "original" Firestorm, and the waste of potential in the cases of Kendra Saunders, Jason Rusch, the Aquaman who was introduced after One Year Later. It's reasons like that, by spending their resurrection machine's energy on the A names, that characters like Lian, Linda Danvers (even if she's not dead), and so many other are consigned to Limbo until they need to flush out a new gimmic five years after people have stopped caring. And the cycle will start all over.