A bright and shiny DCU? Not so much.

DC’s had a lot of bright and shiny announcements coming out the past few days. They kicked off with the Brightest Day bi-weekly series, but have followed that up with what amounts to the return of the JLI in the also bi-weekly Generation Lost, and now they’ve announced the return of Birds of Prey under Gail Simone and Ed Benes, the team who gave the original run of the book a kick in the ass a few years back.

They’ve also said that the new Flash book (sadly without the originally promised Johns/Kolins Wally West back-up) and the Justice League of America will carry ‘Brightest Day’ banners, presumably so everybody realizes that the books are relevant and central to the DCU and have to be bought, dammit!

It’s not all shiny though – DC has also confirmed that Deathstroke will be running a team of villains taking over the Titans book (although didn’t Final Crisis establish the new Tattooed Man as a reluctant hero? I’m confused!). As the tag line for the special that kicks off this run is ‘Villains for Hire’, I do wonder how this impinges on the Secret Six book – and whether Gail Simone is returning to Birds of Prey partly because she’ll have a hole in her schedule pretty soon…

Not only that but don’t forget that amongst all the bright and shiny, and even with Black Canary seemingly relocating to Gotham, you get her erstwhile husband apparently descending into villainy – and poor old Roy Harper running around with one arm (well, at least till he remembers that Cyborg can hook him up).

Man, you’d think Roy would get that bandaged up before he goes running around, wouldn’t you?

So it’s not all bright and shiny in the DCU next year – but it does seem like there’s going to be enough to go around…

Tags: Birds of Prey, Black Canary, DC, Green Arrow, JLA

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