I know they're putting the Brightest Day banner on anything and everything that features one of the characters returned from the dead, and the Titans-Villains for Hire special features Osiris, but it's more than that, isn't it? Brightest Day tags the books that are leading to the eventual return of the Bronze Age current DC writers love so well. (Guys, I started reading comics in the Bronze Age. Have you LOOKED at those issues with your adult eyes lately?) I suppose there's a cost in blood for returning to those "brighter days".
Now regardless of the "white washing of the DC Universe" killing Ryan Choi has become a part of, I quite liked the All-New Atom. More than I ever liked the Silver Age Atom. His adventures were wild and wacky, and his version of Ivy City was one I wanted to come back to again and again. And now he's dead, and for what? Just to set Ray Palmer back up as the Atom. No other reason.
The evidence:
-My interpretation of the Brightest Day "event" stated above.
-Here's an entire "special" that has no other function except the murder of Ryan Choi at the hands of people who have no personal connection to him (the fact the contract was paid for by lame-ass villain Dwarfstar is doubly insulting).
-Each time Ray Palmer is mentioned, they make sure to put him on a pedestal compared to Ryan.
You know what this means...
The jury...
Comics Alliance
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Rich Lovatt
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The verdict..?
Now regardless of the "white washing of the DC Universe" killing Ryan Choi has become a part of, I quite liked the All-New Atom. More than I ever liked the Silver Age Atom. His adventures were wild and wacky, and his version of Ivy City was one I wanted to come back to again and again. And now he's dead, and for what? Just to set Ray Palmer back up as the Atom. No other reason.The evidence:
-My interpretation of the Brightest Day "event" stated above.
-Here's an entire "special" that has no other function except the murder of Ryan Choi at the hands of people who have no personal connection to him (the fact the contract was paid for by lame-ass villain Dwarfstar is doubly insulting).
-Each time Ray Palmer is mentioned, they make sure to put him on a pedestal compared to Ryan.
You know what this means...
The jury...Comics Alliance
CSBG Archive
Trusty Plink Stick
Angry Asian Man
Read/Rant
Second Printing
Reappropriate
CBR Review
Rich Lovatt
Last of the Famous International Fanboys
Bookhound
The verdict..?
Comments
Seems like a pointless waste of a great character, and I say that as someone who also likes Ray Palmer and is looking forward to his upcoming co-feature in Adventure Comics.
Major lame move - and I'm not a particular fan of Ryan Choi Atom either!
Those that shouldn't be done because they are essentially gratuitous and pointless.
Those that shouldn't be overturned because they meant something.
It also doesn't seem to affect books quite as much, usually because they are the work of one author and that single person usually wants to move on. Unless there are an army of people out there desperate to reset middle-Earth to back how it was before the last War of the Ring.
Never was a fan of Ryan Choi actually. And it's really hard to get outraged over the death of a character I always felt never needed to exist in the first place.
I hope we get to see Giganta's reaction to his death. Weren't they dating?
I'm not neccessarily against killing off characters but it has to be for a good reason. If every character created after 1979 is fair game as cannon fodder for any random one shot then we have to wonder if there's any point getting attached to these characters.