Monday, January 30, 2012
What are Brightest Day Rules?
Okay X-Maniacs, it's story time! Once upon a time, DC published a series called Brightest Day. That series was so incredibly awful that I was basically scoring each issue around a 0. Yep, it was THAT bad! Being a glutton for punishment, I soldiered on and kept reading each horrible issue. Needing a way to amuse myself(and hold on to my sanity...), I started scoring the series using what became known as Brightest Day Rules... What are Brightest Day Rules you ask? Whenever something I hate happens in a comic book, I give that scene negative numbers... For example, the White Lantern ring telling Deadman to eat a cheeseburger would most definitely garner that scene a score of around a -10 because it was so asinine. Good things(and there were SO few...) would get a positive score... So a scene where Saint Barry Allen had been decapitated(although that sadly only took place in the Martian Manhunter's head...) would get a score of around a +50 or so. At the end of the post I add up all of the various numbers and presto, we have ourselves a score... Usually in the negative numbers. I believe one issue of Brightest Day actually scored around a -450, so yeah, the scores could get QUITE negative! So why am I telling you guys about Brightest Day Rules? Because they're about to make a comeback. There are a few comics that I read monthly that are just unbearable to me, but for whatever reason I'm still picking them up. Since I KNOW I'm going to hate them, why not use an arbitrary(and totally biased) scoring system to rate these comics?! I mean hell, if I'm gonna read 'em, I might as well rant about 'em. So there you have it. Now if you see a post with the words “Brightest Day Rules” somewhere within it, you'll know what to expect...
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Hey, i don't mean to insult you or you choices of comics or anything but just last week I recall you saying you were dropping some actually not that bad series cause you couldn't afford them, so why you buyin ones that are so bad you give em -450 instead?
ReplyDeleteIt's usually as simple as two reasons. The first would be if it's a series that I've always collected that I'd never want to drop, even though it's gotten really bad. There are some series that I'll stick with due to the series itself or the characters featured that I just can't drop it, regardless of how bad it is. The second reason would be because I'm picking the series up for somebody else(like my sister for example). If I'm buying the comic anyway(even if I personally wouldn't if given the choice), I figure I'll give it a review for laughs.
ReplyDeleteare these ratings going to be applied to the current Cap series? lol
ReplyDeleteHA! No, I'm going to give Ed Brubaker a much longer rope. I still have hope that he can pull this story together. Now, if the story hasn't improved in a good two years or so, then maybe I'll reconsider.
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