The New 52 had given DC the chance to not just provide updated origins but restructure the DCU from the ground up. Decisions like this would lead to the next problem of the New 52 having to do with redundancy. Yet Brightest Day had only just brought Vertigo staples Constantine and Swamp Thing to the front of DC proper without altering continuity. This was further aggravated in Flashpoint #5 (by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert) where it was revealed the universe would be a result of merging DC’s Vertigo and Wildstorm imprints into the prime Earth. It may have perhaps even been celebrated as a new status quo blossoming out of the last large story arc. If what Brightest Day built towards been allowed to reach a narrative conclusion for DC at large, The New 52 may have been far more welcomed. With this, a new status quo was clearly framed with the intention of permanent consequences, only to be thrown out that same year. Tomasi, and Ivan Reis), would then go on to establish center-stage missions for previously underutilized characters. Its follow-up, Brightest Day (by Geoff Johns, Peter J. Blackest Night #8 (by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis) saw Hal Jordan express a belief that deaths would be permanent from there on out, as well as reference the possibility of a bigger picture at play. The Blackest Night and Brightest Day events had only just reestablished DC’s layout. The first misstep in the New 52 had to do with timing.
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