Brightest Day Reading Order

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I've had a go at getting a reading order for the event sorted out. The order is based mostly on the apperances of characters and info from the main series.
I will add in new stuff every now and again when appropriate.

(Note, be wary of the references that charcters in the books make to specific time spans i.e Ganthet saying a meeting was 2 weeks ago - there are contradictions between the major books, if requested I can list them)

As always, any feedack/fixes are welcome.

A Spoiler-free list follows, then there is a list with notes as to the order.


Brightest Day Read Order (Spoiler-free)

Green Lantern Corps #47
Brightest Day #0
Justice League – Generation Lost #1-2
Green Lantern #53
Green Lantern Corps #48
Brightest Day #1
Green Lantern #54-55
Green Lantern – Emerald Warriors #1
Brightest Day #2-3
Green Lantern Corps #49-52
Justice League of America #44-45
Titans – Villains for Hire Special #1
Justice League of America #46
Justice Society of America #41
Brightest Day #4-5
Brightest Day – The Atom Special #1
Flash #1-4
Justice League of America #47
Justice Society of America #42
Titans #24-25
Green Arrow #1-3
Brightest Day #6-8
Birds of Prey #1-5
Justice League – Generation Lost #3-6
Flash #5
Justice League of America #48
Justice League – Generation Lost #7
Justice Society of America #43
Flash #6
Justice League – Generation Lost #8-9
Brightest Day #9
Green Arrow #4
Brightest Day #10
Untold Tales of Blackest Night #1
Brightest Day #11-12
Green Arrow #5-7
Justice League – Generation Lost #10-14
Titans #26-28
Justice League – Generation Lost #15-16
Green Lantern – Emerald Warriors #2-3
Green Lantern #56-58
Justice League – Generation Lost #17-20
Brightest Day #13-14
Justice League – Generation Lost #21-24
Green Lantern #59
Green Lantern – Emerald Warriors #4
Green Lantern Corps #53-54
Brightest Day #15-17
The Flash #7
Brightest Day #18
Green Lantern #60-62
Green Lantern – Emerald Warriors #5
Green Lantern Corps #55
Green Lantern – Emerald Warriors #6
Green Lantern Corps #56
Brightest Day #19-21
Green Arrow #8-10
Green Lantern Corps #57
Brightest Day #22
Green Arrow #11
Brightest Day #23-24
Green Arrow #12
Brightest Day Aftermath - The Search #1-3




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Brightest Day Read Order

Green Lantern Corps #47
-Blackest Night Epilogue.
-Has Brightest Day banner.

Brightest Day #0
-Maxwell Lord does global mindwipe.
-Hal & Guy meet up with J’onn on Mars.
-The forest in Star City grows.
-Amon gets home.
-Sinestro finds the White Lantern.

Justice League – Generation Lost #1
-Overlaps with BD #0.
-Maxwell Lord does global mindwipe.

Justice League – Generation Lost #2
-follows on from JLGL #1.
-Booster’s friends respond to his signal after 2 hrs.
-Ice meets Guy.
-Batman is spoken to in the Batcave.

Green Lantern #53
-A truce has been in effect since BN (less than a day ago).
-Sinestro finds Hal and informs him of the White Lantern.
-Flash is seen helping in the Black Hand Mortuary Graveyard.
-Guy meets up with Atrocitus and Ganthet (who is not a Green Lantern yet).

Green Lantern Corps #48
-Overlaps with GL #53.
-Guy meets up with Atrocitus and Ganthet.
-Ganthet becomes a Green Lantern.

Brightest Day #1
-Guy, Hal & Carol arrive at the White Lantern.

Green Lantern #54
-Overlaps with BD #1.
-Hal tries lifting the White Lantern.
-Sodam is freed from the Daxam Sun.

Green Lantern #55
-Atrocitus fights Lobo in NY.

Green Lantern – Emerald Warriors #1
-Sodam is recovered by Daxamite children.
-Atrocitus is on Ysmault.
-Guy mocks Lyssa Drak who is stuck in Black Lantern Book

Brightest Day #2-3
-Deadman encounters the Anti-monitor.

Green Lantern Corps #49-52
-Qwardians encounter the White Net construct left from BD #3 in GLC #49.

Justice League of America #44-45
-Batman & the JLA respond to Jade arriving in Germany.
-In JLA #45, Batman mentions that the Starheart has made Jason Woodrue run amok in Ivy Town.

Titans – Villains for Hire Special #1
-Woodrue runs amok in Ivy Town.

Justice League of America #46
Justice Society of America #41
-Miss Martian helps out in JSA #41, eventually gets knocked out.
-Mister Miracle arrives to help (JSA #41).

Brightest Day #4-5
-Hawk and Dove join Boston Brand.

Brightest Day – The Atom Special #1
-Atom was said to be cleaning the lab in BD #3.
-Far enough from that issue I guess.
-Not really tied into the main event but gives an account of the Atom leaving events.

(Note: BD #7 provides a rare checkpoint for the majority of the BD titles. The following issues that necessarily precede and proceed that issue are organised based on the order of the resurrected receiving their mission on the full page spread. Precarious, I know, but that full page spread is one of only a few bits of info available that helps placement)

Flash #1-4
-Fairly continuous issues

Justice League of America #47
Justice Society of America #42
-Mister Miracle has helped them get in to the starheart construct city
-A panel in JLA #47 shows Booster and team fighting amongst themselves due to the influence of the Starheart.
-Kyle arrives to help in JLA #47.

Titans #24-25
-Titans #25 has Amon finding a mark on his Isis’ statue – Amon blames Cinder.
-Titans #26 has a flashback showing that Amon confronts Cinder around the same time he gets his mission from the white entity.

Green Arrow #1-3
-The Star City forest has been there a while now.
-Hal teams up with Oliver in GA #1-2

Brightest Day #6-8
-BD #6 has J’onn finding Miss Martian who according to Superboy, has been on the Titans reserve roster for a while.
-BD #7 has the White Entity give the resurrected their missions in the following order (seen on a full page spread, read left to right):
1) Captain Boomerang (Flash), 2) Jade (JLA), 3) Amon (Titans), 4) Maxwell Lord (JLGL).

[Note: here is where things get really weird/tricky. In BD#8 Deadman, Hawk and Dove react to getting the white lantern mission. Deadman teleports with Dove to find Hal, yet in no other book I have read, do they find him or arrive anywhere (?). Regarding the Birds of Prey - In BOP #4 Hawk talks about his mission, so BOP #1-5 is post BD #7. BOP #10 (not listed as a Brightest Day Title) has Oracle responding to Booster fighting Red Rockets and Jamie fighting OMACS (which doesn’t take place simultaneously in JLGL - continuity error DC ?) which takes place in JLGL #3. Yet Max gets his white lantern mission in JL GL #7. So BOP #1-5 and JL GL #3-6 take place in a hyper-compressed time period between Hawk receiving his White lantern mission and Max receiving his.]

Birds of Prey #1-5
-BOP #4 has Hawk talking about his mission
-BOP #10 (not listed as a Brightest Day Title) has Oracle responding to Booster fighting Red Rockets and Jamie fighting OMACS.

Justice League – Generation Lost #3-6
-In issue #3 Jamie encounters the OMACS, later meeting up with the team when they are attacked by Rocket Reds.

Flash #5
-Captain Boomerang receives his mission.

Justice League of America #48
-Jade receives her mission
-Her mission is accomplished, life returned.

Justice League – Generation Lost #7
- Maxwell Lord receives his mission in JLGL #7

Justice Society of America #43
-Dark Things epilogue

Flash #6

Justice League – Generation Lost #8-9

Brightest Day #9
-J’onn goes to the Star City forest and meets Green Arrow

Green Arrow #4
-Overlaps with BD #9
-Shows aftermath of that meeting

Brightest Day #10

Untold Tales of Blackest Night #1
-Lyssa Drak is freed (by the hooded figure) on OA (an underground part of it)

Brightest Day #11-12
-BDay #11 has Deathstorm raise Black Lanterns
-BDay #12 has the Black Lanterns leave

Green Arrow #5
-Black Lanterns chase Ollie
-Ollie prepares to attack Queen Industries tower.

Green Arrow #6-7
- GA #6 Continues straight on from GA#5 – Ollie attacks the tower.

Justice League – Generation Lost #10-14
-JLGL #10 has Dick (as Batman) in the Batcave – seems post-Return of Bruce
Wayne.
-Magog gets killed
-Captain Atom travels to the future and back

Titans #26-28
-A week after BD #7 but has a flashback of sorts to Amon receiving his mission
-Titans #29 has Dick (as Batman referring to the events of Batman & Robin #12 – the storyline from that point is continuous resulting in the return of Bruce Wayne).

Justice League – Generation Lost #15-16
-‘Hours after JLGL #14
-Beetle is captured

Green Lantern – Emerald Warriors #2-3
-Has the hooded figure on Kralok (in the unknown sector)

Green Lantern #56
-Has the hooded figure in Las Vegas

Green Lantern #57
-Has the hooded figure in Las Vegas (hiding from Carol behind a Slot Machine)

Green Lantern #58
-Carol stays on Zamaron with Predator Entity
-Flash meets up with Hal.

Justice League – Generation Lost #17-20
-Beetle escapes, is shot

Brightest Day #13-14
-BD #13 has Queen Shrike open a portal to Zamaron, Carol is seen there with the Predator Entity.
-BD #14 has Batman become a White Lantern; he learns about Max Lord and contacts someone at the end of the issue.

Justice League – Generation Lost #21-24
-Beetle is alive
-Batman arrives to aid the team in taking down Max Lord

Green Lantern #59
-Flash mentions that Atrocitus’ attack on the prison bus (GL#58) happened in the morning
- Hooded figure attacks with Parallax

Green Lantern – Emerald Warriors #4
-Guy and team find Sodam
-The Rookies attack

Green Lantern Corps #53
-Qwardian Weaponer abducts Soranik
-Kyle informs Sinestro of the abduction, a fight breaks out.

Green Lantern Corps #54
-Fight ends
-Kyle organises Lantern team on OA to rescue Soranik
-Team arrives on Qward

Brightest Day #15-17
-BD #15-17 has Firestorm ‘explode’ and he appears in the antimatter world, he heads towards Qward

The Flash #7
-Captain Boomerang frees Zoom, the Rogues discover him doing so.

Brightest Day #18
-Captain Cold attacks Digger
-The battle Carol is involved with ends. Green Lantern #63 has Hal meet Carol after he has fought with Krona, she tells him that the Star Sapphires were already weakened from the Battle with Hawkworld.

Green Lantern #60
-Parallax attack continues
-Sinestro is shown with Atrocitus, is informed by Romat-Ru (Sinestro Corps member) of Soranik’s abduction and the gathering of a rescue party
-Sinestro replies that ‘he knows’, departs area.
-Romat-Ru asks how they should proceed
-Sinestro departs area

Green Lantern #61-62
-Atrocitus encounters the Spectre in #61
-Atrocitus first encounters Krona in #61
-GL #62 has Batman (Bruce) with others talking to Hal

Green Lantern – Emerald Warriors #5
-Rookie fight ends
-Guy receives ‘blood message’ from Atrocitus (warning of Krona’s presence on Earth).

Green Lantern Corps #55
-Ganthet receives ‘blood message’ from Atrocitus (warning of Krona’s presence on Earth).
-Romat-Ru and the rest of the Sinestro Corps (without Sinestro) attack.

Green Lantern – Emerald Warriors #6

Green Lantern Corps #56

Brightest Day #19-21
-BD #21 has Mr Terrific and Dr Midnite helping on the beach
-Natural disasters begin

Green Arrow #8-10
-Mr Terrific and Dr Midnite help Green Arrow in the forest
-GA #8 has clear skies shown in the beginning. However, because GA#8-11 are continuous and feature Mr Terrific and Dr Midnite, they must take place after BD #21 (check out my synopsis for GA #11 for further reason for this placement).

Green Lantern Corps #57
-Has Firestorm arriving on Qward to help the crew

Brightest Day #22
-Firestorm encounters the Anti-Monitor on Qward.

Green Arrow #11
- Has Green Arrow and crew fight the forest, the White Light shield goes up over the forest.

Brightest Day #23-24
-BD #23 has Green Arrow get pissed off at the White Entity for closing Star Forest

Green Arrow #12
-Set after the events of BD#24

Brightest Day Aftermath - The Search #1-3

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Birds of Prey?

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Good List!

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any idea where Birds Of Prey, GL 56/57, BD 10 and GLEW 2 go?

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Birds of Prey hasn't 'started' yet. By this I mean that Hawk and Dove have been with Boston Brand since BD #4 (up to at least BD #9). I think that they will eventually leave him, at that point the Birds of Prey issues come into play. Supporting this:
-Hawk gets his mission in BD#7
-In BOP #4 Hawk talks about his mission
-BOP issues #1 - #4 have no real 'gap of time' between each

GL 56/57 I think happens somewhere after the Green Arrow issues that feature Hal, as he was looking for phenomena in those issues and from that searching finds Larfleeze in GL 56.

I don't have enough info to place BD 10 and GLEW #2 just yet, sorry.

As soon as I get enough info I will place GL 56/57, BD 10 and GLEW #2

Thanks for the feedback

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List Updated - *very* tentative placing

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I have no idea.

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I don't have enough info to place BD 10 and GLEW #2 just yet, sorry.

As soon as I get enough info I will place GL 56/57, BD 10 and GLEW #2

There is some continuity problems with Atrocitus/Guy/Sodam somewhere in between the subway issue of GL and Emerald Warriors #1 (I think).

It mainly happens because of Sodam.

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'I have no idea' - do you mean the reading order doesn't make sense?

Im not sure what continuity problems there are. Could you please elaborate?

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Your map is fine.

DC kind of messed up continuity-wise but it's mainly because each book stands on it's own but is in a shared universe. Which I rather them have than not have.

I honestly don't mean to sound like the stereotypical-no-social-life-comic-nerd.

I'm a bit more critical of the mappings since I'm trying to bind all the books together in one volume but here is where the placement of Atrocitus is messed up.

GL 53: Atrocitus, Ganthet and Guy meet
GL 54: Atrocitus in subway, Ion is taken from Sodam, he falls to Daxam
EW 1: Sodam falls to Daxam, Ganthet meets with Guy on Oa, Atrocitus still on Ysmault

So Atrocitus kind of instantly teleports to and from Ysmault

Again, it's good that there are shared elements in all the books but I'm bummed I couldn't find a work-a-round. Too many story pages in Emerald Warriors are shared so I couldn't find a way to splice the issues. (And you can't put EW before GL 54 because Ion is taken in GL and we see him fall in EW.)

Nothing major but I'm allowed one at least one Obsessive Compulsive Disorder right?

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Hey no problem man, I'm OCD about these things to (as you can tell)
I should have put a little more detail in my notes:

In GL #53, Atrocitus, Guy and Ganthet meet on Ysmault. In the meeting, Atrocitus tells Ganthet ‘I don’t want to go back to Earth’ but he then must agree and go to Earth.

GL #54 has Atrocitus on Earth. GL #54 also shows the hooded figure approach the Daxam Sun (with Sodam still in it) and remove the Ion entity from him (this takes place after Atrocitus is shown in New York). This causes Sodam to fall from the Sun. Depicted at the end of GL #54 is Atrocitus fighting Hal when Lobo interrupts.

GL #55 continues straight from GL#54 (Lobo fights Hal and Co.). Atrocitus remarks that the Ion entity has been claimed by evil. Atrocitus is later shown by himself.


I sugest that Atrocitus then travels back to Ysmault.


GLEW #1 has Atrocitus on Ysmault. Sodam is shown falling from the sun – as you said, this must take place after GL #54 or else Sodam would be falling from the sun prior to be removed from it by the hooded figure. Thus the ‘falling’ aspect of the piece I think is really just the set up for the panel showing the kids rescuing an unconscious Sodam, i.e to dramatically show the reader how he got there (I suppose the uninitiated could think he had been drinking or something if he was shown just lying there). As an aside, Ganthet hilariously mentions that it has been several weeks since they met up with Atrocitus (Shown in GL #53).

I would stick with that order then i think

Hope that makes some sense.

Thanks for your input

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LOL sounds good.

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Any Updates? I want to update my Brightest Day reading list, and i feel insufficient in trying to do it myself.

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Not yet, It is difficult at the moment to see where everything fits. Working on it tho - will update soon

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*List Updated* - Major changes as result of reading a few new books and working out a travel/appearance-sequence for the hooded figure that makes some sense