Comics Code Atrocity

After a rebirth, after wars of light and darkness, after fighting Green Lanterns and even the Guardians themselves. Hal Jordon is done. Sinestro becomes a Green Lantern once more, and in some ways even a hero. The Guardians on the other hand become the villains of the story after they realize emotions need to be snuffed out across the entire universe. This final chapter in the Geoff Johns Green Lantern run is the definition of climax. And I'm not ashamed to say I even got a little emotional in the end.

(Geoff John's Green Lantern run, pt 4 of 4)

Written by: Geoff Johns, and Tony Bedard

Illustrated by: Doug Mahnke

Hawkeye was raised to be a human weapon. Clint Barton is pretty good at what he does, probably not the best though; definitely not better than his partner Kate Bishop (the other Hawkeye). Trying to live a simple life in a downtown apartment, trouble finds him and it's wrapped in a shiny cheap track suit. Hawkeye, Hawkeye, and Lucky the pizza dog need to fight to save their home from some bros. Hopefully they don't break toto many bones in the process.

Written by: Matt Fraction

Illustrated by: David Aja

Secret Invasion is a Cold War inspired thriller, the battle isn't versus a clear enemy, instead it's against paranoia. The Skrulls have lost a few times to the Avengers by now so they decide to play the long game and infilter ate the Earthlings from within. When the body of Elektra is found out to be a Skrull, and then Black Bolt turns out to be a sleeper agent, all hell breaks lose in the Marvel universe. Who can you trust when the people fighting next to you could have been the enemy this entire time?

Written by: Brian Michel Bendis

Illustrated by: Leinil Francis Yu

Daredevil has had a rough life, but never as rough as he is about to have. The Kingpin of crime finds out Daredevil's true identity and does everything in his power to ruin the good man's life. This beautifully illustrated and colored story goes to show what torturing a man's body and soul really looks like. But through it all Matt Murdock finds his faith to be a hero in the end.

Written by: Frank Miller

Illustrated by: David Mazzucchelli

Colorist: Max Scheele

The DC event that showed the real nightmares that haunt the universe. Blackest Night was years in the making, not just the climax of the Geoff John's Green Lantern run, but a culmination of every death and rebirth from every DC crisis level event. The Black Lantern rings scour the universe and raise the bodies of every fallen hero and villain causing nothing but more bodies to add to the dark army hell bent on snuffing out all light in the universe. Luckily Hal Jordan and the other lanterns of the colorful emotional spectrum know a thing or two about the toughness of Light. 

(Geoff John's Green Lantern run, pt 3 of 4)

Written by: Geoff Johns

Illustrated by: Ivan Reis and Doug Mahnke

After his Rebirth, Green Lantern opened up the spectrum of light. No longer were there just GREEN Lanterns that wield willpower. But Yellow (fear), Pink (love), Red (rage), Blue (hope), and Orange (greed). Unfortunately most of them don't exactly blend together.

This is a big episode where we cover the story arcs: Mystery of the Star Sapphires, The Sinestro Corps War, Rage of the Red Lanterns, and Agent Orange. As well as some material from Wanted: Hal Jordan, Secret Origin, and Alpha Lanterns. Basically all you need to understand the full range of the emotional spectrum. 

(Geoff John's Green Lantern, pt 2 of 4)

Written by: Geoff Johns

Illustrated mostly by: Ivan Reis and Phillip Tan

Hal Jordan has been through a lot as Green Lantern, none worse than the lose of Cost City thanks to the hands of Mongul. So he did what anyone would do, recreate the city, kill the guardians of the universe along with all his friends, rename himself Parallax and become a villain hellbent on changing the universe in his image.... And then die and become the Spectre. Of course. 

When all this is going on, how do you write a story that, not only makes Hal Jordan a good guy again, but doesn't just steam-roll over all the work the previous writers created. You bring in Geoff Johns and give us Green Lantern: Rebirth.

(Geoff John's Green Lantern, pt 1 of 4)

Written by: Geoff Johns

Illustrated by: Ethan Van Sciver

I'm joined again by my Blues Brother Todd to go over some of our favorite moments from James Gunn's 'The Suicide Squad. The newest movie in the DCEU (or whatever that is now)

There's tons of fun with lots of obscure cameos, Laughable moment, and lots and lots of mindless violence. We also dive into the future of the DC film franchises, both in theaters and HBO Max. The talk then goes into what DC is doing better than Marvel when it comes to catering to the adult market.

Batman Beyond travels 30 years in the past to prevent a cyborg takeover of the world. The problem is the creators of the artificial intelligence are the two smartest men on the planet, Mr. Terrific and Bruce Wayne. Following the events of World's End, a war between Earth 2 and our dimension leaves the planet as a disaster full of paranoia, human experimentation, cooperate coverups, and a missing Superman. Out in space the evil Brainiac is making moves against the forces of good and heading straight for earth.... A lot of shit is going on. and the only way to prevent it, is to make sure it never even happened!

Written by: Jeff Lemire, Brian Azzarello, Dan Jurgens, and Keith Griffen

Illustrated by: Ryan Sook, Patrick Zircher, Aaron Lopresti, and Jesus Merino

A teenage version of Kang the Conqueror goes back in time to form a new team of Avengers. Captain America's grandson, Antman's Daughter, Captain Mar-Ell's son, a new set of Maximoff twins, and the one and only Kate Bishop need to team up to take down Kang, Super Skrulls, and deal with their parent drama. If you love the marvel heroes, you'll love the next generation more!

Written by: Allan Heinberg

Illustrated by Jim Cheung