Evolution being this jerkish is why I’m a creationist.
Superworld Comics #1
Komos Publications, Inc (April, 1940)
It’s a brand new comic, and one I’ve never heard of. I guess the anti-comics crusade had gained ground by this point, because the inside cover goes on and on about how it’s educational and the science is totally possible you guys…and then you look back on the outside front cover and see…those things. I know it’s the 1940s and science is still limited, but if that’s believable science then science is screwed! Trying to get teachers to use this as a teaching tool? I can see where the focus is going to be this issue.
It looks like we’re going full sci-fi, no superheroes or ordinary crooks. This is a first issue, so it has three or so issues to convince me to stay on the reading list. Or does it? Let’s see how well it succeeds out the box.
If your first exposure to Hal Jordan is the current HBO Max (Greenless) Lanterns series, then you haven’t actually seen Hal Jordan. For a show about guys who turn solid light against criminals and villains, this show seems to be all about turning AWAY from the light and embracing darkness. From all the scene by scene reviews it looks like Hal, while still a jerk at times (please don’t confuse “cocky” and “arrogance” or “superiority” like this show does), may be the most heroic character there. He doesn’t believe in killing as the first option…though apparently he’ll let John burn in a car so what the hell? He actually tries to solve the mystery of the dead aliens despite everybody in the town fighting him against it and his trainee just wants to take his power due to his father’s weakness and his mother’s race-driven power trip. The Guardians want to kill him because these aren’t the Guardians Of Oa DC fans know and love…arrogant as the Guardians can be sometimes. And we know Hal will die by the end of the story because we see it in a flash forward at the end of the first episode.
My exposure to Hal was different.
I’m not happy with the presentation due to the added music drowning out the dialog, but there’s only so much I can show you off of YouTube from Superfriends. If I could, I’d just post Green Lantern: First Flight and let it show you what Hal should be like, made by people who weren’t taught to hate heroes and heroism, and had the imagination to make the Green Lantern Corp look awesome. Sadly, YouTube isn’t giving me that option, either. So instead I’m going to post some videos of Hal actually being Hal, the Hal Jordan I grew up watching, because this wasn’t the only version of Hal I got to see thanks to syndicated reruns.
The first time Hal and any Green Lantern left the comics was Filmation’s The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure included Green Lantern adventures on his own and as part of the Justice League Of America. For some reason, Hal was given a Venusian sidekick instead of the Alaskan one he had in the comics at the time, and Kairo is bluer than the Guardians. (At least they’re the right size.) The Justice League also included the Flash Barry Allen, the Atom Ray Palmer, and Hawkman, who sometimes got the single episodes in Hal’s place, with Superman continuing from The New Adventures Of Superman. Aquaman, who wasn’t added to the League for some reason, was given that watery ball trick that he didn’t have in the comics. Mera was the hydrokinetic until gay black Aqualad. Meanwhile, the original Aqualad joined Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Speedy, and not Robin because they didn’t have the Batman license yet as the Teen Titans. We’re limiting ourselves to Hal and his friends, though.
Tonight we’ll look at the three “Green Lantern” segments and a sample installment of “Justice League Of America”, in which he first joined other heroes to fight Saturday morning threats. Instead of his Alaskan sidekick, Hal was joined by a Venusian named Kairo, who for some reason was bluer than the Guardians. At least they were the right size. They also seem to think the oath transforms him into Green Lantern rather than being said while charging the battery, and you only get half the oath. Still, it’s a fun group of stories. Enjoy.
Link’s various reincarnations throughout the various Legend Of Zelda timelines have had their own fashion sense, based on where the world was and the history that went with that confusing splintered timeline. For the remake of Ocarina Of Time, that version of Link has made a few of his own choices, or rather the game creators have. In an article from Geeks & Gamers and the video by artist DreamingTabitha, both the video host and article writer break down how the new outfit may have too much detail in their design. Frankly, I don’t completely disagree with them. Sometimes you can have too much detail.
If only that’s what was coming. Wait, I should do the bit.
He is the terror that flaps in the night!
He is the reboot that spits on the original!
He is…Disney’s latest bad remake idea!
In case you haven’t heard, Disney+ wants to bring back the masked mallard (not to be confused with that time Scrooge McDuck did a stint as the Masked Mallard in the original Ducktales) for more adventures in the city of St. Canard. The Ducktales reboot showed that you can do something different and make a good reboot that honors the source material. There’s a trick to it, though, and from what I’m seeing here the magician has left the stage.
Before you yell at me, all we have is a plot, not a series. I’m not reviewing the series. Yes, it might be good…until you find out who’s behind this new incarnation: Seth Rogen. Additionally, I’m looking at everything else, like the teaser image…
…and not getting my hopes up, which is the opposite of what they’re supposed to be doing. DW needs to lose some weight. Yeah, yeah, “Dark Knight Returns homage” or whatever, but I hated that design, too. Maybe the style will be tweaked, but what they have here really doesn’t work. And neither does everything else I’m seeing about this show.
The important info in the above video from Cord Cutters News is in the front. I’m not covering Roku or most of the other stuff, though I do plan to talk about the Darkwing Duck reboot tomorrow or next week, depending on events.
First let’s be clear about what this is, or at least how I’m seeing it. Correct me if I’m wrong. Paramount isn’t so much merging with Warner Brothers to become Warner Paramount or something. Skydance bought Paramount and now the final hurdles are out of the way. This is the only political comment I’m planning to make this article: When Rob Bonta dropped his lawsuit the other states went with him. Speaking as someone from Connecticut, the only reason our Attorney General got involved is that it’s an election year and his ads talk about how hard he fights. We had no business in there, and frankly none of the other states did, either. Not even California, who at least houses Hollywood. It wasn’t about CNN, outside of demanding an oversight board nobody asked Disney to put together when they bought ABC. Basically they wanted the guy whose father kind of knows the President they hate.
Hollywood lost their minds around the same time I lost part of my colon. Coincidence? Yeah, probably. Let’s get back to why I’m posting this: posting Spaceballs clips. I mean…what happens now?
Like when Discovery Networks bought Time Warner from AT&T to form Warner Brothers Discovery (guess we have a new logo to look forward to), I have some concerns going in that of course nobody in mainstream entertainment discussion is going to go over because all they care about are the shows and movies. I actually brought some of this up when the purchase was announced, and probably when Netflix tried to get it. It starts with a question I have never heard answered and I’m very curious about:
Like I often say: control the origin, control the world.
I looked up why David Bowie dropped the androgenous persona that Gerwig is basing Aslan on, Ziggy Stardust. Using Quora as its source, Google stated “David Bowie stopped playing Ziggy Stardust because the heavy psychological toll of the alter ego started blending with his real personality and threatening his mental health”. Apparently he was also worried that if people got tired of the bisexual space messiah his career would die, so he dropped it and started doing music as himself. So there are reasons he dropped the persona, and apparently Miss Rock N’ Roll missed that information.
Something else I say a lot: not every creative is right for every project just because they got one right. John Hughes’ Nightmare On Elm Street would have been hilarious for me, not so much the fans who would probably say the same thing about Wes Craven’s Sixteen Candles.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on September 25, 2026 in Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged antiheroes, commentary, heroes and villains, writing tips.
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