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Brightest Day #13 Review

Hawkman fights to rescue his love on Hawkworld.

Brightest Day has perhaps the most bizarre sense of pacing of any book on the market right now. The book frequently focuses on certain subplots over others, leaving some characters and conflicts by the wayside of entire issues at a stretch. With issue #13, though, Geoff Johns and Pete Tomasi focus almost exclusively on Hawkman and Hawkgirl. A mere two pages are devoted to any other aspect of Brightest Day. Perhaps the two heroes deserve as much considering how long they've been ignored. On the other hand, their struggle has been the weakest and least compelling of the bunch so far.

Johns and Tomasi do make some inroads this month, revealing exactly what Hath-Set and Khea want and how it plays into the larger picture. The journey to that point is bumpy, however, particularly during a drawn out exposition sequence towards the middle of the issue. Overall, though, this issue wasn't as underwhelming as I would have expected given the subject matter. One benefit to the near-exclusive focus is that the team of artists are able to break from their usual assignments and tackle the war on Hawkworld. It's refreshing to see Joe Prado and Ivan Reis tackle Hawkman now. And fortunately, the various styles mesh fairly well together over the course of 22 pages. Brightest Day is now at the halfway mark. While this issue wasn't the finest method of ringing in the occasion, improvements made to the Hawkworld conflict suggest the series as a whole could be headed for an upswing.
