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The second week of DC’s new universe came out this week (well, third if you count Justice League #1, which I should really post about just to be complete at some point). How’d they do?

Batman And Robin #1 – Why, it’s almost like the reboot didn’t happen isn’t it? This feels very much ‘business as usual’ even if it did attempt a fresh start with a little recap of Bruce’s origin to the unfeeling Damian. Well constructed with a decent intro to a new villain who’s had enough of the Batman Incorporated concept (he may as well be called ‘The Reader’), this issue didn’t quite make it home for a few reasons; first, Damian here is an unbelievable brat and impossible hard to like; second, the art was a little confusing for part of the action sequence; third, I still don’t get why a children’s swimming pool was over nuclear rods; and finally, if I jumped on here as a brand new reader I don’t think I’d be picking up the next issue – there isn’t enough explanation of who Damian is. It’s clear he’s Batman’s son, but it’s also clear they don’t have much of a relationship. Too much backstory, not enough explanation. Fail.

Batwoman #1 – Let’s get this out of the way – it’s beautiful. JH Williams has really scored with the art here. The storytelling doesn’t really suffer due to his layouts; it’s an exceptionally strong entry and one that I’m sure Williams and Batwoman fans have been waiting for. As someone who hasn’t read the Batwoman Detective run, though, I felt a little lost with some of the backstory and was surprised to see former Flamebird leaping around as Batwoman’s sidekick. For completely new readers I suspect a lot of this went over their heads – but I’d hope they’d stick around for the art at the very least. Nice to see Cameron Chase and Director Bones, too. My main issue is that I doubt anything was altered from the version of this series that was to be released months ago (aside from the color of Gordon’s hair and the shopping in of the Mysterious Hooded Woman). A kind-of hit.

Deathstroke #1 – Sometimes low expectations work in your favor, because I really enjoyed this. It’s the same Deathstroke we know and love (only maybe a bit stronger, and with an agent) who’s rep seems to be waning slightly. An imaginative heist (well, imaginative if you haven’t seem Executive Decision),some mystery items and a bit of a twist ending that I admit I didn’t see coming. Strong stuff, and definitely enough here to clue new readers in. A hit.

Demon Knights #1 – Much better than Paul Cornell’s other book (Stormwatch), this is helped by actually assembling a team and starting at the beginning of a story. Good art, a surprisingly likable Vandal Savage, a nice twist or two between Jason Blood and Madame Xanadu, and a few members of the team I wasn’t expecting make this a fun issue that shows a lot of promise. If I had any complaint,it’s that having all the members of the team independently arrive in a small village at the same time is a hell of a coincidence, but no doubt there are higher powers at work. Good stuff. A hit.

Frankenstein Agent Of S.H.A.D.E. #1 – Another hit from writer Jeff Lemire. Everything you need to know is right here from the set-up of SHADE to the introduction of the new Creature Commandos and Frankenstein himself. I was surprised to see a non-Atom Ray Palmer in the cast, but his role here makes sense. Also, there were giant monsters. Can’t go wrong with giant monsters. A hit.

Green Lantern #1 – Much like the Batman, this is business as usual. As someone who’s a bit behind on trades with GL, I knew the basic set up (Sinestro is now a GL again, Hal’s back on Earth) but it was all neatly explained for those elusive new readers. The potential in the set-up here is pretty good – especially the conflicts between Sinestro and both his old and new Corps, although I expect the status quo will be back in six issues or so. It was also nice to see that Hal without a ring is even more clueless than before. Now, is it enough to make me leap back to monthlies? Probably not; I’m enjoying GL reading in chunks. But I’d still say it’s a hit.

Grifter #1 – Now this I liked. Pretty much a “What if Lost‘s Sawyer got kidnapped by aliens instead of crashing on the island, broke out, then decided to hunt then down?” – hell, they even threw a plane in there. Great art from Cafu, strong writing from Edmondson, and generally a great set-up. I think there’s an editorial slip-up on the last page, but this is a good start to the series, a good intro to the Daemonites and generally a good comic. A definite hit.

Legion Lost #1 – Like I said before, I like the Legion and I like Fabian Nicieza, and I like Pete Woods – but this was a bit wobbly for me. I’m not sure if it was the surprisingly non-exciting reason the team gets stuck in the past (time bubble shenanigans as they transport a fleeing villain back to their own time), the fact that the team’s mainly made up of characters I have no affinity for, or the apparent death of two of the team (one of which I do have an affinity for) at the end of the book – but something about it just didn’t click. However, I’ll check the next issue out because if nothing else, I have faith in Nicieza. Not really a hit, but I’m with it.

Mister Terrific #1 – I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would but a few things didn’t sit right with me, from the apparently casual sex relationship with probably-not-Power Girl Karen Starr (jarring when we’ve just flashbacked to how much Michael Holt loved his wife and wanted to die after she did) to the weak introduction of another love interest (weak because I don’t exactly know who Aleeka is or how she relates to Michael). Race definitely plays a part in the book, from Michael’s ‘Thanks, Black Guy’ line to Karen’s ‘I’m a white girl’ and Aleeka’s ‘I’m a black woman’ retort, and I suspect that won’t sit well with some readers. For me it was a little jarring, if I’m honest, but nothing that turned me off the book. What did turn me off a bit was the generic mind control style threat and the fact that the art didn’t quite gel for me. Even so, I’d say this was a hit if only because as #1s go, it summarized who Michael Holt is pretty well and set up an interesting status quo for him.

Red Lanterns #1 – Let me get this out of the way: I hate Atrocitus’ redesign with a passion. I expect it’s been done so we have a slightly more human-looking character as our lead, but I just don’t like it. Now that’s out of the way, I have to say this was pretty good. It sets up conflict within the Red Lantern Corps, possibly redefines Atrocitus’ mission in the wake of the last GL storyline, and has a double splash page of Dex-Starr. So yes, I’d say hit – although I’m more likely to go to trades on this in line with GL.

Resurrection Man #1 – Loved seeing Mitch Shelley (and the Body Doubles) again, and having him apparently targeted by angels (they were angels, right?) sets this firmly in the darker corner of the DCU. I have absolutely nothing negative to say about the book at all – except that two plane action sequences in one week (and especially this week) might be one too many. Other than that it’s like you’ve never been away, Mitch. A hit.

Suicide Squad #1 – I enjoyed this a lot, although I guessed the twist early on. I still don’t like a lot of the character redesigns here, but they’re not as jarring as they are on the (terrible) cover. Starting with a pretty-much fully formed team worked well here but I still appreciated the one page recaps of a few of our cast’s pasts, although I’m left wondering if Secret Six still happened in the rebooted universe. The most jarring thing is the redesign of Amanda Waller; Gone is the tough, older, rotund Waller of yesteryear and in her place is an attractive, lacy-bra-wearing younger Waller. I’m not too keen on that, but overall, I’d say this is a hit – with a few reservations.

Superboy #1 – This was much, much better than I’d hoped it would be. It was a rewarding read, and having the (currently nameless) Caitlin Fairchild in the mix is an interesting addition, as is Lois Lane’s involvement as whistle-blower on the Superboy project. This new take on Superboy – and I guess he won’t be going by ‘Connor Kent’ anytime soon – is quite a departure, but one that I’m interested in. It looks like writer Lobdell has plans for some pretty tight continuity between this and Teen Titans, so my hopes for that book just rose. A definite hit.

So, overall another winner with only Batman and Robin failing for me, and that’s more a result of it not embracing the new as opposed to being a bad comic. As we see more of the new DC, new questions get raised. For example, if this is Superboy’s first appearance, what exactly happened after Superman died (as he hinted he still did in Swamp Thing last week?)? Obviously there was no Superboy – but what about Steel and the Eradicator? I assume the Cyborg Superman still showed up as he’s played a pretty big role in the non-rebooted Green Lantern in the past…

In any case, so far, so good. Keep at it, DC.

He may have enormous willpower, a square jaw, and the ability to bed two of the DCU’s most independent women at the same time – but, boy, is Hal Jordan a douche. You need proof? Alright – the top 10 reasons that Hal is a douche.

1. He fakes injury to get attention from a pretty woman – that he’s supposed to love.

2. He chops the hands off friends when they won’t give him what he wants (sure, sure, yellow fear monster, blah, blah – no, he’s just a douche).

3. He doesn’t like women – even Zatanna – fighting for him, but he’s more than willing to hide behind her while he gets his ring to work. Wait a minute. Power rings can be fiddled with? What, do they have a dial or something?

4. Rather than ask somebody, Hal would rather violate someone’s mind…to find out where to get a stamp. Or he could just head to a post office.

5. Sinestro hates Hal for a reason. Because he’s a douche.

6. Late to the party, Wonder Woman? Then cut the cake. Because that’s woman’s work, and I’m hungry dammit. I don’t care if you’re Wonder Woman – WOMAN’S. WORK.

7. Protect the Guardians of the Universe? No way! Hal doesn’t just hide behind them, he uses them as a shield. No wonder they hate him.

8. Hal has no respect for other people’s property. The douche.

9. Hal steals his (not actually) dead colleague’s girl – and he starts to move in pretty damn quick. “I know Guy Gardner’s only been dead for a few hours, but of course I’ll hold you, pretty broken-English gyspsy lady”…

…because she makes him feel good. Just like Guy did. I mean, okay, so this scene is a few weeks later, but still – what a douchebag. This is why Guy Gardner hates Hal – and who can blame him?

10. Sometimes, you don’t need to explain why Hal’s a douche. He does it for you.

And a special bonus reason that Hal’s a douche: because even when he knows he should pity his old lover, Carol Ferris, he doesn’t. He handles her ‘the old fashioned way’.

Hal Jordan: douche.

(Front page header image by Jim Oakley)

(When I was looking for images for this post, I came across a similar tumblr post from a couple of weeks ago and used most of the images from there; credit where credit’s due!)

You thought that Stephanie ‘she worked better as Spoiler’ Brown was the biggest loser in the DCnU reshuffle? Pfft.

Warning: Rampant speculation based on unsubstantiated information

Ladies and gentlemen: presenting Kyle Rayner.

“Kyle?” I hear you say, “Don’t be ridiculous! He’s leading the multi-colored My Little Pony lanterns in that Green Lantern: The New Guardians book!”

Well, yes, that’s true – but think about it.

Kyle’s first on-panel girlfriend was Alex DeWitt, whose murder and subsequent stuffing into a refrigerator by Major Force shortly after Kyle became GL kicked off an entire movement.

An understandably quite upset Kyle moved to New York, joined the New Titans and hooked up with resident Darkstar-at-the-time, Donna Troy, who was all lovey dovey, mended his broken heart and looked like Wonder Woman which, let’s face it, is not a bad thing.

Now though, it seems possible – even likely – that Donna Troy won’t exist in the DCnU. After all, Wonder Woman’s new on the scene, and Donna has been at various times been explained as her sidekick or her mirrored clone-type sistery thing who was forced to live multiple lives over and over and over, being killed each time by Dark Angel and John Byrne. Is that the kind of continuity you want dragging around? Hell no.

So Donna’s gone. On the bright side, that means Kyle never got dumped by her off-panel when the Wonder Woman office and John Byrne decided they wanted her back. On the downside, it also means that she never helped him get over his guilt over Alex’s death (and the death of that ex-GL alien girl he spent the night with before she killed herself whose name I forget). And, oh yes, he never dated a caring, sexy woman who looks exactly like Wonder Woman.

Moving on.

After swanning around single for a while, Kyle got together with Jade, the daughter of Alan Scott, Earth’s first GL. Jade, of course, is the green-skinned former supermodel with powers derived from Alan’s encounter with the Starheart. Much sexyshowertime ensued.

But wait.

Superman is being sold as Earth’s first Superman, suggesting that in the DCnU, there was no Justice Society of America – and no Alan Scott Green Lantern. No Alan Scott GL, no Starheart influencing Jade or her brother Obsidian, and no reason for her and Kyle to meet – if she was even born.

No Jade, no sexyshowertimefor Kyle.

Again, there’s some brightside for Kyle here: Jade never cheats on him while he’s off finding himself, and then doesn’t die in space only to return as a space zombie before being reborn properly. But, once again, a wise man once said ‘better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all’.

Then again, I don’t think Tennyson knew about Black Lanterns.

Anyway, that’s two of his four on-panel relationships gone, just like that. Hopefully fellow Lantern Soranik Natu is probably still intact continuity-wise.

Of course, now that Kyle’s off hanging out with the Rainbow Corps and Love Lantern Fatality, who knows how long that’ll last?

So, I present to you Kyle Rayner, the true loser of the DCnU. Yes, he does get to keep refrigerator girl Alex and daughter-of-Sinestro Soranik in his romantic rolodex (worst potential father-in-law ever) – but he loses Donna Troy, Wonder Woman lookalike, and Jade, green sexyshowertimeloving supermodel.

Show me someone harder hit where it hurts by the not-a-reboot…

Everyone else posted it yesterday, so why not?

The image below was released by Toon Tumblers to promote their SDCC exclusive, and appears to feature the newly rebooted Justice League membership in it’s entirety.

For those keeping a checklist, in addition to the big seven of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and MartiaCyborg, it looks like Deadman, Atom, Element Woman (a new Flashpoint character who looks a lot like Metamorpho, so I assume she found the Orb of Ra before Rex Mason), Green Arrow, Hawkman, Mera, and, er…Power Girl?

Well, no, that’s not Power Girl. And according to Geoff Johns, she isn’t blonde – her hair is definitely light though, so maybe…white?

Zealot would certainly make sense – the Wildstorm characters are integrating fully with the DCU, and Lee has an affinity with her since he created her originally. So yes, let’s say Zealot until we hear further.

It’s a largely traditional line-up with a few curve balls thrown in – and all those curves belong to women.

Wait that came out wrong.

Anyway, there you are – and I have to say, now that I’ve got a good look at the full segmented redesigns of Superman, Green Lantern, Batman and Flash costumes, man they look dumb.

Just sayin’.

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On Wednesday I had a big post ready to go all about DC’s resetting the clock (kind of) which was much more timely than this one, and then wordpress ate it.

Thanks a bunch.

As it is, everyone in the comicsphere has already blogged about it so I don’t really see the point. The bottom line for me is that I’m looking forward to it, and I’m more interested in the DCU than I have been in a long time. Honestly, I’m much more interested in it than I am in Marvel at the moment, which seems to be stuck in a real rut (although obviously I’m still reading Spider-Man, Avengers Academy and against my better judgment, FF).

So, yes, looking forward to it, and I’m really getting into Flashpoint too.

I am wondering about Flashpoint, though: I originally thought that Flashpoint’s divergence from the main DCU was going to be as a result of Professor Zoom’s playing around with the past and changing one or two key things – but that seems unlikely to be the case now.

If you look at what we know so far, there are several things that have changed:

1) Barry Allen’s mother wasn’t murdered, and Barry never became the Flash.

2) Thomas Wayne attacked the robber, resulting in Bruce dying instead of him.

3) Abin Sur didn’t crash during his mission to transport Atrocitus (and, naturally, there’s some kind of Flashpoint prophecy that Atrocitus knows about) and continued as GL of sector 2814.

4) Superman’s rocket crashed into Metropolis, destroying (or at least heavily damaging) the city – twenty years ago.

5) Jay Garrick wasn’t the Flash when the Justice Society operated and they ‘fell’ as a result.

It’s this fourth one that interests me the most; this is a good what, five or ten years later than the previous timeline for Superman crashing into the Earth (and presumably therefore explains why Earth’s rotation was different enough that it hit Metropolis instead of Kansas). Assuming this sticks, it also explains why he’s younger in the newer DCU come September.

Assuming that Krypton was destroyed at the same time as in the regular DCU, the only explanation is that the rocket took longer to get to Earth – but this, along with points (2) and (3) above would appear to be things outside of Professor Zoom’s sphere of influence.

So I’ve been thinking about paradoxes, and the Speed Force. And the fact that so far, Barry Allen is the only person who remembers the world as it was. And that Jay Garrick didn’t become the Flash. And that Thomas Wayne maybe moved faster against the thief. And that Superman’s rocket maybe moved slower. And that Abin Sur maybe…well, maybe he did something that had some kind of speed connection.

And that Barry Allen, in Flashpoint #2 tried – rather unsuccessfully from the look of it, but I suspect positive results will show up early next issue – to forcibly attract the Speed Force to him.

And I wonder: can Barry’s tampering with the Speed Force inadvertently have caused all these changes in history? Is Barry himself responsible for the state of the world of Flashpoint? Or, given the appearance of Zoom’s costume in Barry’s ring (nyuk nyuk), is Barry even Barry?

Not to reference a seminal Mark Waid story or anything…

Things to mull over, anyway.

Also worth mulling over, this page from Justice League of America #0 a few years ago (as noted over at Bob Mitchell in the 21st Century).

I don’t think this Jim Lee – pencilled-page was ever followed up on. I find it hard to believe that seeds for this could have been planted in Brad Meltzer’s run almost 5 years ago, but apparently Dan Didio had planned something similar to the current revamp after Final Crisis, and it is apparently definitely not a straight reboot so maybe there was something planned that this page referred to.

In any case, fun, fun, fun.

Now, what are the odds on my favorite fictional couple still being married come September?

Probably slim – but at least they won’t have made a deal with the devil…

I know. I’m as surprised as you are.

They’re really playing down Blake Lively’s role in this whilst playing up the sci-fi aspects, and that extra $9M for SFX looks to be money well spent.

A couple of glimpses here that we haven’t seen before; first up – hey, that’s not the Green Lantern Corps logo…

Secondly, we get what I think is the first look at the Guardians, complete with semi-transparent skull –

- and they look a little familiar to me.

But that may just be me. All in all, I think the trailer’s pretty good – certainly a huge step up from the first effort – and I’m now at ‘cautiously optimistic’ regarding this. I’m still not sold on Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, but pretty much everything else looks good.

…well, more hope than the first trailer did, anyway. Granted there is a crapload of CGI in here, but this footage seems to be wisely ignoring the more jokey aspects of what we saw last time, not to mention Blake Lively.

I still feel uncomfortably like I’m watching cutscenes from an XBox game, but what the hell, what did I think it was going to look like?

A new trailer for Thor has hit, expanding on what we’ve seen before. This time out, we start off more Earth-bound…

For me, this is still the movie to beat this summer. Yes, X-Men First Class looks better than expected, but I still have my doubts about Captain America – and Green Lantern looks like it could be a huge disappointment.

This, though – this I rank highly for three reasons; firstly, Kenneth Branagh can do no wrong in my eyes – none at all; second, Natalie Portman remains one of my favorite actresses dating back to Leon (that’s The Professional to you Yanks) and the hugely underrated Beautiful Girls; and thirdly, I was damn impressed with Chris Hemsworth’s five minutes of screen time at the start of Star Trek – the guy has charisma by the bucketload and I think he really sells me on the part in this trailer.

So yes, the gauntlet – well, hammer – is thrown down. For my money, this is the one to beat.

I’m not really into these sites, but Beyondtherack.com – one of those private sale sites – has got some superhero themed merchandise on there at the moment. For example, there’s a bunch of superhero cufflinks (all DC) and – in the case of Wonder Woman, some cuffs – which are all less than $10:

The site also has a bunch of pendants (I think that means necklaces), terry cuffs (for those aerobics sessions?), belts, bracelets and rings, too. While I’m not one for most of those things, I confess that I am tempted by this Flash ring just because…

You need to create an account to see the merch, but that just means dropping your email in – click on over here.

DC have been teasing the upcoming Flash-centric event all day, and it appears to be based around the Reverse Flash changing some key moments in DC’s history so things don’t happen the way that they did.

But that might not be all bad…

i know everyone else is posting it, but why not?

I’m iffy on this. I’m not keen on the costume’s ‘breathing’ look, Abin Sur looks terrible, and some of the tone seems a bit off – but overall it doesn’t look bad, exactly.

And at least Sinestro looks the part…

Four Green Lantern posters have been released featuring Hal Jordan, Carol Ferris, Sinestro and Hector Hammond. Like the Star Trek ones that were released a few years ago (unlike those posters, these feature the actors’ names) the posters are interconnecting…somewhat:

I think it would have been better if all four had formed the GL symbol rather than two, and it would have been nice if they’d all lined up (the Hector Hammond one is slightly misaligned) – and honestly, there’s something about these that just look kind of cheap.

That said, I like the look of Sinestro and Hammond, and I especially like the yellow tint to the GL symbol around Hammond – seems like there’s some fear creeping in there…

Click the pic above to supersize it, and the pictures below to check them out individually through the gallery.

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It seems to be the week for dodgy-looking movie outfits between yesterday’s plastic Thor reveal and today’s Green Lantern reveal…

Hopefully it’ll look better in motion, but that’s just plain nasty.

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Blackest Night was so much better than it could have been once it was made into a line-wide crossover instead of a Green Lantern contained story.

April Fool!

Just kidding! By becoming a line-wide crossover, Blackest Night lost its focus and became less about character development and more about a(nother) threat to all reality and how to get some characters back that were dead but somebody decided should be used again.

Also, this may be nicely illustrated but it doesn’t half feel like an excuse to sell more action figures:

What irks me more than the fact that this ‘event’ fell short of its precursor Sinestro War in almost every way is the fact that the return to life of characters seems completely arbitrary. The fact that nobody explains why these specific characters are back (although it’s hinted that it will be touched on later) while others aren’t – especially ones like Ralph and Sue Dibny – adds to the feeling that most of the resurrections were simply editorially mandated or characters that Geoff Johns had plans for. It’s annoying.

Anyway, jut who came back, and which one of them just might be a White Lantern when all’s said and done? The issue is new enough that I’m putting it behind the cut…

I posted this on my Tumblr earlier, but since I have marginally more people coming here than I have following me there….

I do love me a good homage.

This weekend it was announced that Blake Lively would be portraying Carol Ferris in the upcoming Green Lantern movie.

I twittered as follows:

Blake Lively cast as Carol Ferris? That’s good because she’s exactly who I see in the role. Exactly. It’s like she walked off the page. 5:13 PM Jan 9th from web

And then, just in case anyone thought I meant it…

Where are sarcasm tags when you need them? 5:13 PM Jan 9th from web

And finally, as an afterthought…

On the plus side, kind of hoping Carol gets into the Star Sapphire outfit in the sequel now. 5:14 PM Jan 9th from web

Lively doesn’t exactly fit what I was expecting for Carol. After all, Carol and Hal are contemporaries (or they are in the comic, and were in the script I read) – and with Reynolds being 33, I was expecting an actress at least around the age of 30 – perhaps Jordana Brewster. From what little I’d seen of her in Gossip Girl, Lively seemed a relatively competent actress who stood out from the rest of the abundant number of attractive twenty-something actresses who grace CW shows only because she had a copious amount of perfectly-coiffed blond hair.

So I made a little joke and didn’t think anything more about it.

Then I read Twitter-pal Sarah Kuhn‘s reaction not to the news of her casting but to the reaction of the news of here casting over on the excellent Alert Nerd. In her article, she notes:

Comments…are usually followed up with some variation on, “Well, even though she sucks, I hope we get to see her in the Star Sapphire costume, know what I’m saying?! Hur hur hurrrrr.” (Because, see…it’s apparently not cool to admit you like Blake Lively, but it is totally cool to objectify her and imply that she’s a big giant pair of BEWBS and not much else.)

Huh.

That was me. Well, I didn’t say “Hur hur hurrrrr,” but otherwise…

Sarah went on to say:

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with discussing why one thinks, based on what they’ve seen of Lively’s acting or whatever, that she might not be right for the part. Maybe she’s not. Maybe she totally is. Maybe we should, you know, wait for the movie and see and stop foaming at the fucking mouth. But to reduce her to a nice rack and a big pile of blonde hair and say that obviously that’s the only thing that won her the part is dumb and offensive.

I know Sarah’s not singling me out (or I hope she’s not anyway), but that’s not what I was saying. I wasn’t saying that I thought Lively got the part solely based on her looks – but I’m pretty sure that in a huge tentpole movie like Green Lantern, parts are given on talent, chemistry, marketability and, yes, the attractiveness of the actor. It’s just part of the movie machine, and it applies equally to both men and women. You don’t think Ryan Reynolds gets roles at least partly because there’s a sizable percentage of the movie-going population who think he looks good with his top off?

I’m not by any mean saying that it’s the only consideration in casting, but it certainly is a consideration.

To get back to the central issue – the casting of Lively as Ferris – it’s not because she’s blonde and Carol’s brunette that I feel this to be wrong-headed; it’s because no matter how hard I try, I can’t see Lively running an aerospace company.

I just can’t.

And it’s not as though I haven’t encountered plenty of attractive, talented, intelligent women in my life who are capable of running a complex business (or do run one) – it’s because nothing I’ve seen Lively do suggests to me that she has the acting chops to pull off a character with that kind of ambition and responsibility.

Is there a part of me that thinks maybe Lively’s Ferris couldn’t run an aerospace company because she’s a young, blonde attractive woman?

No – although there is a part of me that thinks she couldn’t because she’s too young to have the experience to do so. It’s not sexism, it’s realism – which, granted, is an odd thing to consider in a movie about a man without fear obtaining a magic ring.

In any case, I’m not against the casting although I think it may prove a mistake.

And I’m not afraid to say that if Lively makes it into a sequel, I wouldn’t mind her assuming the Star Sapphire ring and costume. And if that makes me sexist, well…

I’m palm slapping my forehead that I didn’t see the title of the newly-announced biweekly book from DC Comics coming.

I mean really, it was obvious wasn’t it?

And I guess that symbol there is of the White Lantern everyone’s been assuming can save the day in the end?

In the last ish of Green Lantern, the power source for the Zamorans’ Violet Lantern was revealed to be the corpses of Khufu and Chay-Ara of Earth…better known as the original Hawkman and Hawkwoman.

DC has managed to screw up Hawkman quite a bit since Geoff Johns last wiped the slate clean for the character and reintroduced confusion through some Jim Starlin-penned space-malarkey.

Even so, I can’t help but feel that, between this little titbit and the recent death of the current Hawks in the main Blackest Night series, there may be plans afoot for Hawkman and Hawkwoman/girl – and once again it seems like Johns is the one pushing ahead with those plans.

Hawkman: Rebirth, anyone?