resistance is futile. no, not really.

drive-by readings

Green Lantern Corps #50 (DC) "Revolt of the Alpha Lanterns Part 3" Tony Bedard Ardian Syaf Vicente Cifuentes Randy Mayor Carrie Strachan Steve Wands Patrick Gleason/John Dell/Mayor (variant cover)

what we learned: the Cyborg Superman (the anti-thesis of regular comic characters because he wants to die and he can't) is still up to his shenanigans (well, give him credit, he does want to kill himself) and goes through a convoluted plan to turning Lanterns into Alpha Lanterns just to attract the attention of ex-Guardian-now-Lantern Ganthet. hmmmmm, so who's the mysterious dude who told Henshaw these things?
oh shit moment: Ardian Syaf goofs on Ganthet's hand - i mean correct me if i'm wrong (see below).
what's next: paging Dr. Kevorkian!! we have been paging you since 1992, dammit!!


yes, you're right. no, your left.

coming on strong

drive-by readings

Tom Strong & The Robots of Doom #1 (America's Best Comics) "Part One: Black Sun Rising" Peter Hogan Chris Sprouse Karl Story Todd Klein Carrie Strachan JH Williams III (variant cover)

without much of a backgrounder or having had the pleasure of reading the Alan Moore-penned back issues, i just jumped into this with an uncluttered mind, and i doubt if my experience would have been any less fulfilling than if i did have the prior knowledge. all i had going for me was "scientist/explorer" (i had this thought in my head that my one of my childhood heroes, Tom Swift, grew up and became Tom Strong). anyway, this new book has Tom's timeline being hijacked by his Aryan supremacist son Albrecht (heh), with the latter getting to wipe out the other races (oooooooohhh!! Limbaugh and Beck and the other right-wing zealots are gonna love you, Albrecht). with the whole world under his control, all time machines destroyed, and Albrecht's mom Ingrid waiting in the wings to have Tom for herself forever, what's a man gonna do? (hey, is this related to the events over in JSA?) and with that note, i resolve to go to the back issue bin, and dig up all the Tom Strong/Chris Sprouse goodness.

drive-by readings: The Authority #13

The Authority #13 (DC/Wildstorm) Dan Abnett Andy Lanning Simon Coleby Cliff Rathburn Drew Johnson Ray Snyder Carrie Strachan Wes Abbott

just when i crack open an Authority book for the first time in a long time, who do we have bedeviling my sentimental team of badasses? why, its whatsisname Kaizen the old fart. not sure how he's alive and well - i'm just getting up to speed with this brave new world they're in. let's see - Apollo and the Doc are missing, Jack's a cripple, and Midnighter just went off to find his Sun God. now they're in for a fight as Gamorra sends his superclones and his proxy daughter Cybernary to reclaim the remnants of this world. gee thanks, old fart. Midnighter, when you do come back, make it permanent this time, will ya?

what John Connor may not realize ...

... is that maybe robots will evolve into having human emotions too. kinda like the Cylons without the pretense of using human facades.