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That was Emerald Dawn I or II, I can't remember which, and it was a good story written by Gerard Jones, I think. In fact, Willie, Hal's cellmate was so fooled by the construct that he didn't notice it wasn't real until he accidentally stepped through it.

That was back before Geoff "Retcon" Johns pushed me away from the book, y'see.

HAhaha!

"Green Lantern! Sure! Why not?"

Hilarious!

Yeah, I wasn't feeling anything good from anything I saw from the trailers for this flick. I will probably see it out of boredom and geek devotion to pre-Geoff Johns Hal Jordan but I won't expect much of anything good.

Really, Green Lantern has always been, in my mind, one of those characters whom it would be extremely difficult to translate to a live-action universe successfully. It would take an amazing director with amazing vision, working with an amazing script, brought to life by amazing actors to make it good. Not that I'm casting judgement before I even see it, of course. Maybe I'll be surprised

"You remember Green Lantern? Sure you do."

American alien, comЯade.

He's best known, of course, as the "It's Spider-Man" guy on the train at the end of Spider-Man 2.


Love this cartoon so far and, incidentally, one of the things that made me look forward to it was an interview Phil Lamarr had with IGN, I think, before the show aired. Don't remember all that he said but he showed up to the interview loaded down with real, honest-to-gosh comics after having gotten his weekly pickup. Made me feel good that there were folks involved who knew their stuff and not just saying "Oh yeah, I used to love comics as a kid". Certainly helped with the Timmverse stuff.

It's bugged me for a while, but as I tend not to care for the...sensibilities(?) of anime or the emotionless ravages of time itself, I just kinda chalked it up to my natural curmudgeoninity.

What you said. I really wanted to like this show and it'd be nice if it gets better, but so many things from the fast-fast-skipthisplotpoint-skipthatplotpoint-let'steamup pacing to the aforementioned inability of the super-secret blogger Orwell to be, well, super-secret (and I wonder exactly when they're gonna drop the "bombshell" about Chess being her father, or something) to the weird story omissions (if Chess knows where the Circus of Crime is, how did they get away and stay gotten away?), the show just strains my believability too far.

To wit: I don't care how much they want this to be Batman-y, there is no way Max is "disappearing" from a chair in the middle of a group of bad guys like the way he did or no way The Cape can "reappear" to a skyscraper roof top without powers? Why didn't they just give him powers or make the cape magical or...something...?

I'll keep watching cuz I have nothing better to do on my commute and I do hope it gets better, the way most shows do when they get more footing.

Right. That might look cool or another hero, but not Superman.

Yep. If you've read the book (as I did for the first half of its run, or so---before they gave him powers beyond the "hearing evil" thing), it's freaky to flip it on at random and see him stand-flying in cheesy fashion through San Francisco and saying "That guy and the big red wig looks a little like Night Man" before flipping it right back off.

I'm gonna have to go with your wife. Did that come out wrong?

Entertainment Weekly reports that, yea, the film has been enchanted by All-Father Odin to deliver the most senses-shattering 3-D that a mortal can withstand.

I thought about that, too and I assume they say Midgard elsewhere in the film but how many among the general public would have known what he was saying if he'd said "this is Midgard, is't it?". I'm guessing they chose that word specifically for the trailer.

They'd probably think he was talking about a moderately-priced, moderately-effective deodorant.

Actually, that's probably more due to the fact that Playboy's clout and drawing power has fallen considerably since it's heyday, what with more popular and attention-getting photo shoot venues like Maxim, GQ and even the plain ol' internet. They haven't got the power to order anyone around, I'd wager, who isn't a complete unknown.

As far as her not "Playboying up" in her shoot, had it been someone who didn't have a general air of being an attention-seeking hanger-on, I wouldn't have bat an eye and not even thought about it. But every time I see Munn, it seems like she's just playing for the spotlight with her ego in the driver's seat. It's just seems like a bugsome pattern.

I will also say that if, when my brother gave me my first (and only) stack of Playboys when I was a teenager, I'd seen that the covergirl of the world's (then) leading nudie mag wasn't nudie, I'd've been upset. Given that that is what the mag is known for (and, oh yes, the articles), I see little problem with folks being annoyed...to a reasonable extent.

Verily.

Looking coolsome.

That's an amazing article to remember him by.

Funnily enough, this episode was actually written by series writer, Robert Kirkman.

J'onn says that Superman strikes Batman and then sends him flying. After that, we see him being strangled. Well, apparently strangled. Really, them Kubert boys' artwork has never been high on my list, in part, because it's so indecipherable much of the time.

The point being that J'onn wasn't under the illusion that Superman was having and he and the others clearly see that Superman did in fact "strike" Batman. If he did in fact do this thinking that Batman was Darkseid, Bruce's cowl should have been filled with nothing but Bat-goo.