matkrenz's Brightest Day #16 - Short Fuse review

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    Hopefully Aquaman will be able to read their book.

    Issue 16 of Brightest Day. 
     
    The Story :Aquaman is telling Jackson about his past and go to get his weapons and costume since he needs to close the breach in the Bermuda Triangle so that Mera's people wont leave and attack the surface world.Also the JLA is helping Firestorm deal with his problem. 
     
    The Good :Well it seems that the Aquaman story his almost getting to it's final chapter and seeing Jackson in his costume was really cool.Also the scene with Deathstorm,Dr.Stein and Jason's dad was extremely powerful and shows that Jason's dad his willing to sacrifice himself to help his son since he didn't do much to help him get were he is in life.The ending was pretty fricking cool and the art is MUCH,MUCH better than last issue. 
     
    The Bad :The cover promises a battle between Jackson versus Aquaman but it was only a splah page,also I seem to have a problem with teenage ansgt that isn't Runaways.What I mean is that I found Jackson's fear of getting into battle understandible but annoying at the same time,yet I never had that problem with thr Runaways and I have no idea why. 
     
    The Verdict :This issue did have some progression for each story but it still felt pretty slow and hopefully it will speed up since there are only 10 issues left in the maxi-series.This is a buy.

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