The Green Lantern: Season Two #6 - "Assault on Sector General"

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Well, it's kind of like with Superman -- he's expansive and he's a good character. Batman is a more devious and more Machiavellian type of character who can really bring you down if he wants. But with Green Lantern and Hal Jordan, it's really fun to put yourself in that headspace, this is a guy who doesn't break. You know, so many heroes have been made fallible as an attempt to make them relatable and, I think with Jordan, the less fallible you make him, the more fun -- and honestly, the more relatable -- I think we know guys like him, guys who get their heads down and just do the job, that would get their arms blown off and just be like "It's just a scratch!" -- Grant Morrison

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The Flash #761

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Mod Post - Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like. Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

Looking through the political aspects of pretty much anywhere in the news channels this morning made me want to start howling into the void, so I think I'm going to skip it this week. If you want to address any issues, go for it, but I'm taking a time out.

The UK is looking at a worrying rise in Covid-19 amongst the young. Stay safe people!

I've been enjoying the good natured "spat" between John Oliver and the town of Danbury, especially by way of Danbury's local hockey vlog (You can spot the ones about the Oliver feud-ette, they're the ones with multiple hundred thousand views, as opposed to the usual three hundred or so.)

For some strange reason (probably involving watching a couple of youtube reviews by the The Disney Brain and remembering they're all on Netflix) I've been watching some old Power Ranger season episodes and gosh, they're a bit of a mixed bag aren't they! :)

This week I've been reading Gengoroh Tagame's "My Brother's Husband", a slice-of-life manga about Yaichi, an average guy who works from home whilst raising his daughter, Kana. His long estranged twin brother Ryoji has recently died, and Yaichi was not expecting Ryoji's widower Mike (a massive good natured Canadian bear of a man) to show up on his doorstep to find out more about Ryoji's past. The gentle challenges to his assumptions about what being gay means that Yaichi has to face are not exactly subtle for the most part (especially Kana being used as the voice of innocent reason) but very enjoyable.

Also got a song stuck in my head (Well, at any given moment I have up to fourteen songs stuck in my head) a new song from the "given" anime movie. "Hetakuso", is a song about the joys of finding someone as emotionally messed up as yourself to relate to, which whilst not necessarily a goal ideal, certainly seems like a good starting point.

This weeks random question - Favourite biscuit... (or "cookie" if you're American I guess)

Context For The Weak From Superman #25

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Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity #5

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Nightwing #74

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Slasher #4

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The Best Page from Last Week's 2000ad - Prog 2197

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So, with both a Future Shock AND a 3riller, this issue was a bit of a filler, but we do get some more 'robot rights' themes from Liam Johnson and Steve Yeowell:
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2020... The Culmination of Arno Stark's DESTINY!!!

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Dan Slott's Iron Man run has built up to 2020, and having Tony's half-brother Arno stand up to his destiny to defend humanity from the Extinction Entity, only like the fourth Marvel villain in the last decade to try and merge organic and technological life. Now, with co-writer Christos Gage at his side, Slott bows out in the grand finale!

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