The Source has released the cover to the first issue of May’s upcoming Legion of Super-Heroes #1 from Paul Levitz and rising artist Yildiray Cinar – I’m not sure if this is an alternate cover and the one they released pencils for is the main cover or vice versa. Time will tell.

If you read Final Crisis Legion of Three Worlds, then you know about the fate of the last of the GL Corps in the future… Legion of Super-Heroes resident Green Lantern Rond Vidar (son of Universo) was killed by Superboy-Prime and his ring returned to the only remaining Guardian… Daxamite Sodam Yat!

So whose hand is that with a Green Lantern ring AND a Legion flight ring? Is Sodam Yat joining up? Do we get a new future Lantern now that Yat has sent rings out to recruit a new GL Corps? Or will it be a familiar face with a new power. I can’t wait until May to find out!!! Everything I hear about this says this WILL be the Legion from Legion of 3 Worlds and THAT Legion (which was reintroduced in the recent Action Comics Lightning Saga) is the very same from original continuity (before all Crisis/Zero Hour etc reboots – which were established as the Legions of the Multiverse).

Be sure to check out Yildiray Cinar’s sketches of the 3 founding Legionaries if you missed them previously. I like his interpretations of the Gary Frank designed Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy and look forward to seeing the whole gang in action.

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As part of their planned reboot of all Avengers titles to celebrate the dawn of THE HEROIC AGE, Marvel has released a number of “Secret Avengers” teaser images showing silhouettes of the members of the 2nd Avengers title slated to fill the void with the end of the New, Mighty, Dark and Initiative books. Secret Avengers hits shelves in May and will feature the creative team of Eisner Award-winning writer Ed Brubaker and current “Dark Avengers” artist Mike Deodato.

With Iron Man, Thor, Bucky Barnes, Hawkeye and Spider Woman already claimed for Bendis and Romita Jr’s Avengers team, the speculation about candidates for the Secret Avengers is still wide open with possibilities like Scarlet Witch (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE), Ms Marvel, Spider Man, The Beast, Wonder Man, Nova, Justice or even a revamped-in-time-for-the-movie War Machine all potentially available for membership. But those are just some obvious choices… what if a Dark Avenger goes light? Perhaps we’ll see some new blood?

Since they are canceling 4 titles… I expect 4 new ones. So what will the OTHER two be? I’m thinking we’ll see another Initiative type series about training fledgling heroes and then maybe something either cosmic or more antihero for the final title. Thoughts?

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With the final issues of New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Dark Avengers and Avengers: The Initiative looming in the not to distant future. Marvel has begun to let us know what they have in store for the Marvel Universe after The Siege. Brian Michael Bendis will be writing a new title called simply Avengers (wanna bet it will use the old numbering?) with art by John Romita Jr. (AAAARRRRGHHHH!!!!! I HATE HIS WORK! He’s not as bad as some of the hacks out there but definitely on my list of extremely overrated artists). I may opt not to read this title if they don’t bring a REAL artist in on it by issue 6 and I will tell them so.

Really bums me out that this is a flagship title and they put a merely adequate artist like Romita on it. Unimpressive. Yuk. They just need to yank Carlos Pacheco out of the Ultimate universe and give him this book. RIGHT NOW!

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Well I knew they wouldn’t leave the whole Aquafamily dead with Mera left alone to carry the trident. So although as a longtime DCU fan, I’m pleased to see him in color again, it’s no huge revelation to see a living breathing Aquaman looking at his dead reflection on the cover of Brightest Day #2. But what about Tempest and his family? I haven’t found the cover to #1 anywhere as of yet. Just the previously released covers to #0 and other teasers. DCU’s Blog The Source has promised more Brightest Day news tomorrow so I’ll keep ya posted an any further developments about this series from writers Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi.

Brightest Day co-author Geoff Johns had this to say about the upcoming bi-weekly 26 issue series event…

Brightest Day’ is about second chances. I think it’s been obvious from day one that there are major plans for the heroes and villains from Aquaman to take center stage in the DC Universe, among many others. ‘Brightest Day’ is not a banner or a vague catch-all direction for the DC Universe, it is a story. Nor is ‘Brightest Day’ a sign that the DC Universe is going to be all about ‘light and brighty’ superheroes. Some second chances work out…some don’t.

- Geoff Johns

So what DOES it mean? How will our heroes drive back the overwhelming tides of Nekron’s forces and who will live again to see the Brightest Day? Atom is already looking for a plan to resurrect Hawkman and Hawkgirl. Will he succeed? at what cost? And who decides who lives or dies?!?!? If everyone comes back the Titans and the JLA will need bigger HQs. It remains to be seen exactly how many series will end up bearing the Brightest Day banner before the year is out… but I’d expect some major ramifications.

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