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Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.
So last time we finally got to hang with the actual cast of this portion of the franchise and set up yet another problem. One of the previous not-a-plague-or-theme-related problems is coming up as we return to Korsal and Kevin. They were up a mountain last we saw.
I don’t remember having a problem with the subplot count as a kid, and we have quite a few:
- the plague that’s the central conflict
- the potential impact on the IDIC perspective that serves as the theme of the character conflict
- the radical activist types that are tied to it
All that I’m okay with, but we also have:
- Kevin getting into Starfleet as the first half-Klingon
- the generator damage possibly causing power issues
- Kevin and Korsal stuck on the mountain
- an Orion considering turning the plague into a bioweapon for money
- one of the aforementioned activists with a history of the Vulcan version of stalking going after a new target
Admittedly, some of my annoyance now is due to what I’ve gone through recently with Watchmen and the Op-Center novels: too many subplots and character moments that don’t really tie into the main story. It’s the same reasons I never got into soap operas. The one time I saw an interesting story as a kid, because my mom was really into her soaps, they kept moving away from the villain trying to flash freeze the city in a spy story for things I didn’t care about. Again, I enjoyed this book enough to eventually grab the novel it spun off of, but now I kind of want to spend more time with the regular characters than all these expanded characters that have been the focus so far. We still aren’t quite at the halfway mark so maybe we’ll get the regulars more of a presence, but it’s not happening this chapter. We have a different mountain to climb, and this one’s literal.
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No comic this week because every day was filled with distractions. My buffer’s taken a hit, I had insomnia a couple of nights ago and it usually takes me a couple of days to get back in rights, and all of that means that I didn’t get to make a comic. I also wanted to start a series of polls finding out why people come here and see what I should focus on, but I’m not trusting my writing skills today. I have one more distraction this week, maybe two, and hopefully I’ll have time to just make stuff again.
Over at the Clutter Reports I had to use my old DC Comics Presents #50 review from Scanning My Collection, one of the ones I reference a lot. So now those readers are aware of that comic. That also means I have no buffers over there so I really better get something together, at least in time for tomorrow’s Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic installment.
In the meantime, if you want to tell me why you come here in the comments, that’s useful data for me. Otherwise, next week should start a bunch of questions about how to improve BW operations. Otherwise, have a great week, everyone. Hopefully this is the last comic I miss this year.
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Weird Comics #1
Fox Publications (April, 1940)
I was going to write this off as a horror comic based on the title, and maybe the cover. Then I decided to scroll through and I think you’ll see from the first story what made me curious. Fox Publications has had a pretty good Golden Age track record with me, though not perfect, so I like this comic’s chances. The only way to find out is to read the comics. In the two links, one is a more recent scan while the other comes from an old fiche transfer, so you choose your preference.
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Dissecting The Green Lantern Oath
Those of you who want to yell at me for just using reviews and official promotional material to decide not to watch HBO Max’s Greenless Lanterns…did they not change and ruin the oath? The promotional material says they did and to them it’s a good thing.
Given everything I’ve heard about this show, I’m not surprised that they don’t understand the Green Lantern oath. For one thing, they think its silly. Given what better writers have done with the oath, it makes them look even more, perhaps even willingly, ignorant.
One would think John Stewart, a former soldier, would understand what an oath means.
It’s not just some rallying cry, and while the Green Lantern oath (and probably some of the other Technicolor Lantern oaths) may double as charting the time it takes to charge the ring, it also reminds the bearer why they took that oath and why they are Green Lanterns. The Greenless Lantern John Stewart of Lanterns, a man who fought for a power he may not completely earn because racial nonsense and a crazy mom, decided to create his own oath.
Bullcrap! Stewart’s oath in this series misses what the oath stands for, replacing it with himself. I don’t care what the showrunners say, making the oath more “ghetto” and bringing up a blind Lantern who had to replace a line for her situation isn’t the same thing. The spirit of the proper Green Lantern oath was taken away. To demonstrate, let’s go over the TRUE Green Lantern oath and put it against Damon Lindelof’s oath to see just how wrong the new oath is.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 6, 2026 in DC Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight and tagged comic to streaming adaptation, commentary, DC Comics, DC Gunnverse, DC Studios, Green Lantern, Hollywood versus comics, John Stewart, Lanterns (HBO Max), the Lantern oath.
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