Yeah, Green Lantern is the last franchise that needs to kill one ring-wielder to highlight another. It's a job assignment, not a hereditary mantle. You can literally send Hal off on a mission in space and have the Guardians assign John (or Guy, or Kyle, or Katma) to deal with sector 2814.

I love Supergirl and always have, and am glad that the character is finally having justice done to her. But independent of the present series, she's a supporting character who repeatedly failed to sustain a comic series and was summarily killed off for the better part of two decades. (And I suspect wouldn't have…

It's also possible that the Earth-1 Superman and Batman haven't yet started their careers— which will begin about a week after Arrow, Flash, and any other present-day spinoffs' last episode takes place. It even makes some sense, if they start around when Barry was supposed to become the Flash before Thawne started…

You know Hawkman better than I do, but my recollection is that "Nth metal" doesn't show up till the Hawkworld era, when they're trying to reconcile Katar and Carter being in the same world. In the Silver and Bronze age, the lift was provided by their Thanagarian antigravity belts, implicitly technology rather than an…

The very first Golden Age Hawkman story in Flash Comics #1 explains that Hawkman's "extraordinary powers are derived from Carter Hall's discovery of the secret of the ages - the ninth metal - which defies the pull of the Earth's gravity". http://www.readcomics.tv/fl… (Later in the story, we learn it's also useful in…

Mon-El's lead weakness is introduced this week, and we have some rough calibrations for it: enough to make him vulnerable to bullets, but so far not enough that he's weakened by simply being in the presence of lead.

To be fair, the DCU has more vigilantes with gadgets and demons than… some very large number. But of course it's Batman, who will now slip into Superman's season 1 role as the guy they can allude to but never use.

I think the reference to Thanagarian Nth metal makes Thanagar the first planet other than Earth (well, and presumably the rest of the Sol system) confirmed to exist in two parallel worlds.

I'm not sold on Guardian, but I did love having a scene in a CW show in which, in a perfect reversal, the supporting cast is keeping a secret identity from the main hero. The show may have all but given up on Kara's dual identity (which makes me sad), but someone on staff clearly still likes playing with the tropes.

Looks like the Kindle/Comixology editions will be $9.99, which is low enough that I might dip my toe into a few.

Legends' recovery this season gives me hope that Flash can right the ship eventually. (Though making a freaking Earth-2/Jay Garrick story a slog last season is like missing a slow pitch right over the plate.)

I'm sort of reminded of Storm from the X-Men, whose backstory Claremont kept throwing things into so that she was the child of middle class Americans, who wound up growing up as a street kid and thief on the streets of Cairo, before going off to be the goddess of a tribe of subsaharan Africans.

I didn't notice any issues. (Comcast cable recorded on TiVo, FWIW.)

That juxtaposition has me imagining Stein's reaction to Sara putting the moves on his daughter.

"You knew what kind of person I was" seems to be a fully general defense for any sort of abuser in a relationship. "If you didn't leave after the first time I stabbed you, well, isn't that really on you?"

Repubs Politicians are more about winning than principles in the final analysis. Which makes sense through sheer selection: people who choose to risk loss for a matter of principle will tend to get replaced, people who choose winning over principles will tend to stay in office longer.

It's the old and insoluble adaptation problem. Directors are under no artistic obligation to the source material. On the other hand, someone who likes the source material can reasonably hope someone might make a faithful adaptation, and be disappointed at the missed opportunity.

Part of the problem with most SF in visual media is that it's really hard to tell the difference between scientific implausibility that's intended so by the director and scientific implausibility that's just the usual inattention to science.

Though given the increasing proliferation of cameras everywhere with minimal pushback, that's pretty much a certainty (give or take the identity of the watcher) regardless of the outcome of any particular election.

a satire instead of bad