You know I was coming to this since writer JT Krul is relaunching the Green Arrow title after Blackest Night wraps up and the Rise of Arsenal mini series concludes. In the special “Rise and Fall,” Ollie is still hunting down those who worked with Prometheus, keeping secret his murder of the man as the rest of the JLA tries to track him down. The Shade shows Barry Allen and Hal Jordan the villain’s body as Ollie confronts the Electrocutioner, who set off the device that devestated Star City. He’s close to killing the man when Black Canary stops him and in their argument, Canary realizes what Oliver did. The Flash and Green Lantern confirm it by arriving with Prometheus’ body, accusing Ollie of crossing the line. Grabbing the cosmic key from the corpse, Oliver says he’s sorry but he’s not finished yet. He teleports away as the other realize they have to bring him down.
  We got on the line with writer J.T. Krul for some hints, but there wasn’t a lot to say, which just made us all the more curious. Take it away, J.T.:
“This is it!  We’ve been saying for awhile now that 2010 was going to be big for Green Arrow, and you can’t get much bigger than this.  As we put together the story for the Fall of Green Arrow and developed where he was going to end up and what Ollie’s life was going to be like, we knew it was truly a new beginning.  A BRIGHTEST DAY beginning at that!
In the wake of the turmoil in Star City, the people need someone in their corner more now than ever.  Most of those in power, be it business or government, are looking for ways to exploit the situation to their advantage. The city is rife with crime and corruption of epic proportions and it’s only getting worse.  But all is not lost.  Oliver Queen’s got his quiver. Now, it’s time for Green Arrow to move into the role he was always meant to be – outlaw for the people.
For this relaunch, Eddie and Adam and the guys at DC have put together the best team possible to make Ollie shine like never before. Diogenes Neves and Vicente Cifuentes killed on the Black Lantern Green Arrow special and we knew they were the guys to relaunch the Emerald Archer.  And don’t even get me started on the cover work by Mauro Casciolli.  I’m so happy to finally share it with the rest of the world – because it’s been my screen saver ever since I saw it.  Now THAT’S Green Arrow!!!”

  Confirmed this weekend at hte Emerald City Comic Con by Geoff Johns himself. Firestorm will be a main character during the Brightest Day series. Since Brightest Day is about second chances and those who will live up to them and those who will fall. I am very happy and hoping to hear that this is Ronnie Raymon returning. As much as Jason Rausche has grown on me in the last 5 years. I would rather have the two being the duo that makes up Firestorm. Having the experience one teaching the new one how to be a hero. Having conflicting emotions since the Black Lantern Ronnie killed Jason’s girlfriend during Blackest Night. There is plenty of conflict here. Killing Ronnie off to make room for Jason wasn’t one of the best moves by DC. Especially considering how much of a fan base that Firestorm had. Everyone gave Jason a chance and even grew to like him. However, he wasn’t Ronnie. Nows the chance, let’s hope Ronnie lives up to his second chance in spades.

 Right from the Comic Con from Andrew himself:

* Larfleeze Christmas special mentioned, then later reconfirmed. It may just be a mini story WITHIN the yearly DCU Holiday special, but who knows. In the story he hears about Santa Claus and decides to hunt for him.

* Larfleeze will soon get a house and a boat.

* All the New Guardians remain on Earth “much to Hal’s displeasure.” So we can assume the issues to come in GL will mostly revolve around them.

* Soon we’ll see more of 2814 in GL. Xudar, in particular. But isn’t Xudar supposed to be in 2813? Let’s hope that’s just a flub.

* Atrocitus will be romantically interested in Mera. But she’s not interested. Carol will continue to be buddy-buddy with Diana/WW post-BN.

* Mark Waid actually came forward and asked a question to Geoff. About if we’ll see any more adventures with Hal in the 58th century/Pol Manning like we did way back. I think Geoff said he’d think about it.

* Eddie Berganza wanted to make Kyle a Blue Lantern but everyone else was against the idea.

* We’ll see the other Laws soon.

* Geoff said there won’t be a GL seen on Smallville.

* The JSA will be back on Smallville this season.

* Larfleeze will soon steal the Eifel Tower but Hal will make him give it back.

* There won’t be a GLC Second Feature, or any GL Second Features. There was initially going to be one that was like a “Tales of the GLC” sort of mini-anthology, but the idea was vetoed by Geoff. “Emerald Warriors” did not evolve from it, either, that’s just it’s own thing.

* Emerald Warriors’ premise is still murky. It does sound like another big ensemble cast deal, though. Tomasi was adamant that Guy is not the focus and that it’s not a Guy solo in any sense.

* Lobo vs. Atrocitus confirmed for Brightest Day.

* About “will we ever take a break from the big events and get back to the ‘done-in-one’ or shorter two-issue arcs,” Geoff said: “No. I like big events.”

* Geoff confirmed he’ll be on GL for at least 5 more years.

* This week’s GLC has Alex DeWitt as a Black Lantern… and literally inside a refrigerator.

  Starting in May, there’ll be a new ongoing GREEN LANTERN series joining the shelves: GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD WARRIORS, starring everyone’s favorite ring-wielding hot head, Guy Gardner — with regular appearances from Kilowog. And who better to handle Guy’s adventures than Peter Tomasi, who’s knocked it out of the park on a monthly basis with his sharp dialogue and plotting on GREEN LANTERN CORPS? Hard to argue with that, I think.

  It is hard to argue but I have to wonder if this series can really carry? With SO much Green Lantern (not a bad thing). Can a title focusing sololy on Guy Gardner and Kilowog last past a year? One thing about GLC with so many various Green Lanterns and new and old characters alike. The book became a must have series. With Emerald Warriors it does make you wonder if there is enough die hard fan base for our two favorite poozers to keep a title a float more than a year. Sad to say, unless I do get one major new salary by May. I will have to put this on my trade paper back side. Since Brightest Day and the Thanos Imperaitve will be taking up my new pull list with Avengers.

  As revealed on the DCU Source Blog, the War of the Supermen, that kicks off with Free Comic Book Day in May. Will only be a one month event. Each issue totaling 25 minutes for the 4 part even series. Personally, I love the fact that they are doing it. Let’s face it, World of New Krypton was a 2 year story arc, from build up to Brainiac’s Return attack and Superman battling it out with his family and people. However, as it has been shown the last couple of years with both DC and Marvel. Long drawn out events especially after just wrapping up ones like Blackest Night and Seige. People just aren’t ready to shove out more from their wallets for the next “Big Event”. Having this being contain in a month and then dealing with the aftermath over the summer in the Superman books is a very smart move on DC’s part. I hope we can look forward to more of this treatment with Batman’s return this fall.

  Just the other day, DCU’s Blog showed the preview for next week’s issue of Secret Six, which features the return of the Manhunter robot from the first post Green Lantern: Rebirth arc. I have to say this is a very interesting twist to things. I’m glad that they decided to give the Manhunters and Cyborg-Superman a rest after the Sinestro Corps War. We all know that Hank Henshaw and the Manhunters are returning post Blackest Night. Especially if Sinestro is running his corps again. The whole individule Manhunter idea has been done before. However, leave it to Gail Simone to give us a more fresh and interesting approach to the idea. The Manhunters have been shown to act as individules before, they aren’t the Borg.
  If this Manhunter ends up a new member of the Six, it would be very interesting to see where it goes, similar to how Parademon was used during the original Villains United mini during Infinite Crisis. I just hope Gail ties things in with Brightest Day very well with the story even if it’s the Blackest Night tie in.

On DCU Blog The Source today, the Greg Horn variant cover to Green Lantern Corps #46 was revealed by Editor Adam Schlagman. The cover features a major new Black Lantern, the villain that started the cycle of mega-Crises in the DC Multiverse, and arguably the ultimate evil of the DCU.
As Schlagman said, “Peter J. Tomasi & Patrick Gleason” found a way to “make things worse for our Emerald Warriors” by having the Anti-Monitor, the villain at the center of Crisis on Infinite Earths return with a black ring. Find out what new tricks this villain has up his sleeve with his new power ring in GLC #46

 
   This is a great twist coming up, while many speculated (myself included) that the Anti-monitor would be freed from the Black Lantern Central Power Battery and go after Nekron or be freed again after the Blackest Night was over. Seeing him as a Black Lantern is a major twist but at the same time. You have to wonder if the the former Guardian of the Sinestro Corps mind will break through Nekron’s influence and reject the Black Lantern Corps. I’m pretty excited and damn… do I want this cover framed.