@@comics_explainedto be fair not a lot of people know who they are (hawk and dove) except us dc die hard fans . You'll meet the original duo in the JLU series I don't know if your there in the series. Id love to hear your opinion on the series as someone who jumping in with no context
@@asall727 The first season yes, unlimited especially in the later seasons felt more like giving spinoff and side stories for the characters beyond the main 7
1. Grant Morrison's Animal Man taught me why I should never sleep on how powerful he can truly be. 2. Keep watching Justice League Unlimited and you'll quickly understand why everyone holds it in such high regard.
In the GL comics, when he was limited from leaving earths atmosphere, Hal was flying around the world to stop the missiles sinestro sent out, his ring went crazy over one spot of the earth and later they go back to discover a power battery.
Dissing on Animal Man is crazy! He is a transcendental character who becomes aware of his place as a character in a story, but does what people would actually do, and doesn't Deadpool it. He is fantastic and deserves more love than he gets.
Dood, I know the sorrow lantern has issues, but he's in pain, and like most other ring slingers, his ring amplifies his pain. And if you've had a broken heart, it always hurts without some type of closure. The "it's not you it's me" speech. He needs his boys to take him out for strippers and clubbing to either forget his pain or remind him there's more past it.
Yeah, I've got to agree. He didn't just get broken up with, he got left at the altar by Carol who pulled a "if you really love me you'll marry me right now." When he tried to question if maybe they were moving too fast, all while she knew she still had feeling for Hal. His reaction was no doubt over the top, but he got done reeeal dirty.
To be fair, Carol didn’t just leave him but quite literally dragged him along with her despite still clearly being in love with hall and left him at the alter. A moment that could’ve all been avoided if Carol was real with him from the get go instead of playing him like a fool. Now, with that being said, I’m not gonna condone his actions while under the rings influence
Yeah. I feel like dismissing him as just "incel lantern" is unfair if you know the full story. His reaction to Carol leaving him is definitely silly and over the top, but it's a comic book. Over the top extreme reactions are kinda what they do
@@TheBrotherGrim It really bothered me the way he just dismissed him as an incel, like, the dude doesn't even have beef with all women, he's just going through a permanent heartbreak thanks to the ring, no shit he's gonna be all weepy like that.
@@danello9091 "I need to let the world know why the only reality is the sadness it holds" - that's not just weepy. Yes, this kinda thing is common in comic books, but it definitely is more than just being sad on one's own. Nothing he says is about being left at the altar, its all about her "going back to him" and his desire to cause her and others to suffer. That's the ring, obs, but it also fits the incel MO pretty well. If he'd tried to destroy maybe himself, or just her, or another world, the "he's just sad" thing would stand better, but this is def "You love HIM? I must have revenge!" type stuff. Also it's a joke. This guy is laughing while he says it.
I don't agree, at all, with the "Nate is an incel" take. At no point he blames women for his sorrows. He is sad/mad at Carol for pretending to love him and leaving him at the altar. Also, the Sorrow ring appears to affect a person's mind, so he probably would be better without the ring, still sad, but not "I'm gonna make everyone sad" sad.
Also when you said "i must go on the internet and say how bad women are and i'll never love again" you're confusing men with women as they are the ones drowning tiktok and social media with "all men are scum, all men must die, blah blah blah".
@@Rex-ik6ng it’s sad too cause deadass I was really into the idea of sorrow 😭 like it could have worked! Like maybe vision constructs of what anxiety, sadness stuff with a dark undertone. That’s truly what I hope they eventually do
The sith don’t want peace rob, they want power and control over others. I don’t believe for a second that peace could be achieved because they’re only self interested.
Dove not only being left behind but not even knowing what happened proves her level of importance. 🤣🤣 And tell me you don't know Animal-Man without saying it. Lol YOU HAVE NO IDEA ON HOW OVER POWERED THAT DUDE IS!!!
The fact there's a lantern corp powered by depression is pretty funny. Also, I'm pretty sure Carol was on a weeklong bender, woke up confused, and was the perfect target for Depression Lantern lol
She literally got found by her ring and left him at the altar, the sad lantern ring is their wedding ring, that he cried over afterwards until it attuned with the emo spectrum of sad.
I feel like that reading into Sorrow was...kinda weird? I was reading it and I didn't get any sense that he was being an incel of any kind. He didn't come out saying "Girls bad because you left me" he was clearly hurt, asking why he deserved to be hurt, he then runs from the closure Sapphire is trying to give him. Even the "I won't love again" thing seems more aimed at the fact that she is a _love lantern_ more than the fact she's a woman. That's not being an incel, that's just another Scorned Lover trope in a Superhero comic. I know an Incel, personally. He often comes off as normal until you start having deep conversations and then it all just kinda spills out and at that point you start asking yourself if the person you were talking to a few moments ago was replaced by some, vicious, angry psychopath. It's like two different people living in the same body, like some Jekyll and Hyde situation. I didn't get any of that vibe from Sorrow, I felt he was a dumb character for sure, but not an incel. Maybe that's where they plan to take him in the future? I can't say. But I just didn't see it in this scene.
I wish that after nightwing told waller she just admitted to the world she lied, he lit up a cigar and said, i love it when a plan comes together while the a-team theme played in background to flex
For Green Lantern, I like that we get to see Hal and Wally working together to deal with Waller’s forces, Alan convincing Jadestone to use his powers for good and save the world from Waller, and Carol using her powers to try and save Nate from sorrow (making sure that she’ll become a hero, even though she was a hero since Blackest Night in 2009). I like that Jeremy Adams tried his best at combining his Green Lantern subplots with Absolute Power. Also, Hal and Wally using the Bat-Wolf because they’re the Brave and the Bold. Overall, this is a good comic. For the Green Lantern: War Journal backup, I like that John told Irons what has happened to him since their last encounter and that he has to deal with him working with his family to save the world from various threats. Overall, this is a good backup. For Absolute Power, I find it satisfying that all it the heroes were able the defeat Waller, Task Force VII, Failsafe, the Bureau of Sovereignty, and Waller’s multiversal army. This includes Oliver revealing that he’s a double agent (like I called since the start of this event), Dreamer being alive by escaping into Jon’s mind, Starr deactivating Task Force VII, all of the heroes’ powers being returned (and swapped and scrambled), Barry sending Waller’s multiversal army back to their worlds (making sure that Prime Earth will be inaccessible to the multiverse), and Waller being defeated after exposing her plans to the entire world. I like that we get to see Waller be imprisoned after all she’s done since the Infinite Frontier Suicide Squad, War For Earth-3, the ending of Dark Crisis, Knight Terrors, Beast World, and Absolute Power. This includes Dreamer locking Waller from accessing all of the heroes’ secrets and telling her that there might be something planted inside her brain. I wonder if Dreamer will ever tell Jay Nakamura that she’s alive, that she was forced to join Waller’s team because she has her parents (in which she found them), and escaped into Jon’s mind so that she can heal herself up, causing Jay to still be mad at her for joining Waller’s team (because Waller killed his mom and destroyed Gamorra) and to dump Jon (in which his appearances in upcoming Superman books show him staying in Metropolis) because Jon sided with Dreamer and that she helped him remove the Brainiac Queen from his mind and that Jay cared about himself instead of others (in which he’ll become a villain after Absolute Power because he’s a terrible and unnecessary character). I also like that the Trinity had a talk with Oliver, in which Oliver apologized to them for what he did, causing him to say that the world needs the Justice League again after their disbandment in Dark Crisis and that the Titans did an okay job taking their place (even though Tom Taylor’s Titans run is a retread of popular Wolfman-Perez Titans storylines that barely done anything). Also, teasing the upcoming JLU comic. Let’s hope that Oliver will apologize to the Green Arrow Family for what he did and for them to (eventually) forgive him in his solo series. Mark Waid and Dan Mora has done excell success on this event, including having a change in status quo for DC All In and teasing JLU this November. I was wrong that Absolute Power would be a terrible comic because DC events since Dark Crisis have been lackluster or terrible (in my opinion) and that there have been multiple writers prior to Waid not knowing how to handle this event. Overall, this comic (and event) is great and better than Dark Crisis, Lazarus Plant, Knight Terrors, and Beast World.
Rob!! Broooo..... You said that the Justice League Unlimited animated series was just okay?? are you kidding?? At that time it was fantastic!! C'mon, son!! Lolol
@@WrathofFenrir99 I thought the whole point was that the emotional imbalance is like,, bad. Willpower isn't an emotion. But like yeah, too much greed, bad, too much rage, bad. I want everyone to have support, but if your reaction to being hurt is to hurt others, that's not cool. I like redemption more than punishment, but the bare minimum for that is to stop harming others. I would figure red lantern women are also in the same boat. No matter how justified your rage is, focusing on that forever is not the move. This is also the one and only sorrow lantern as far as I know. Maybe I would be criticizing the lady sorrow lanterns if there were any..? It’s not a gender thing.
Comic Apps are pretty great these days. Although I hear you on going to the store. Nothing else really like it. Same time, I live in a major city. One of the top couple in size & disposable income. And ALL the good comic shops have closed. There are still ‘hole-in-the-wall’ shops but there’s hardly an inventory.
As someone who was/is following the green lantern story, what they kind of told you was that essentially The Guardians installed this sort of backup central battery on Earth, in the event OA was destroyed or the Green Lanterns simply didnt exist anymore, and that was said as the reason as to why a lot of the strongest lanterns come from that sector. Hal kinda just stumbled upon it, used it to make a ring, and then has been operating with that before the events of absolute power.
Relying on heroes who have proven themselves over countless years to protect earth. Amanda: Nah Relying on evil villains, and robots that have tried to destroy earth plus many times to protect earth. Amanda: Hell yeah!
everyone is overlooking the fact that this is why barry Allen is missing from Justice League Unlimited. His connection to the speed force is gone giving Wally west the floor. Impressive writing!
Dove is an extremely underrated character. She's incredibly powerful. She killed the Anti-Monitor in Blackest Night. She turned herself into a white lantern bullet and it was fired by a gun construct, headshot to Monty.
20:24 they totally stole that concept from Bleach...Orihime had that power...where it appears to heal people...but in fact...she basically reverses the damage some incurred...and sort of put a reverse time pocket portal around them...to restore their injuries to a point where before they were injured....which is an absolute amazingly creative way to heal someone....i thought it was a really cool idea on how it all worked
It is an interesting due to how sorrow is such an important emotion not only that but the sorrow lantern can take you out of the fight through intense sorrow, create energy and clouds. I don’t get the disrespect especially some of the dialogue the writers are goin with him
while i agree that sorrow as a concept for al antern is genious, you cant deny the reason for his literallly SUPER DEPRESSION is cause a girl left him, makes it kinda funny.
@@AbigatorM true. Though while it is a little lazy with how he became the sorrow lantern, given it is carol and Hal we’re talking about I can see why it’d send him into a spiral to a deep depression.
@@AbigatorM Would you just chill if the person you thought was the love of your life just leaves you at the altar and goes back to her x? They did this man dirty af. There are lots of people that would unsubb from life after getting done so dirty.
@@Famousfire97 i think you 2 miss the point rob made und i ment. counter question. would you want EVERYONE to be sad cause you are sad? and blame everyone, even people not involved? thats why rob compared him to incels. and what made it funny. like i said in my first answe.r i think the concept of a sorrow lantern or depression lantern is great. but using hearbreak for a girl just made to good of a joke.
@@AbigatorM no one miss the point, we're dismissing it as ignorant. Also that's how all the lantern rings work, they're powered by the fucking emotional spectrum. Someone suffering from sorrow, being amplified by it by the ring and is seeking to pass it to everyone..... how is that different than how the other lanterns work?
Never really followed Hawk and Dove much, knew about them, but never got into them, however I really like the way they utilized them on the Titans show on HBO/Maxx, they were given great character development throughout the show
Yeah I thought they were crap characters till the show. I always hated their silly costumes. The show gave them a tone missing from the comics. Too bad it's cancelled. Season 2 with Slade was fire
@@dblaq7301 yea that was definitely written better than the first season, like many shows though, by the time they realize it got a following, they had already canceled it
I forget what recent Green Lantern comic (#), but during the time that Hal Jordan and most other Earth-based Lanterns were stranded on Earth, they were given the location of a back-up Green Lantern Power Battery there. Why would the Guardians constantly complained about Hal Jordan keep a back up Power Battery on Earth?Well, sometimes parents seemingly pick on the kids they like the most.
A guardian put a central battery in inner Earth. It was a recent Green Lantern comic. There is even a person guarding it, John Stewart I think was the Green Lantern or it could have been Hal Jordon, brought to the area where the central battery on Earth is at.
You went WAAY back with that one....ah the good ol days. I still love the comics, but reading them now is a bit different from reading with a kid's imagination. I still can't believe it was Hawk and not Capt. Atom
Is anyone else surprised that sorrow isn’t a core emotion on par with love and will, fear or rage? There’s no way it can be anything less frankly. Since It’s not like there’s a shortage of such people on earth or anywhere for that matter.
Waller could be back running the Suicide Squad with a little insurance policy in her head to make sure she follows orders and doesn't start acting independently
It started a movement/discourse called "women in refrigerators" where feminists started calling out writers/stories where women didn't exist as characters, but as plot devices. Also at the end of that Green Lantern run, Kyle Rainer gets revenge on Major Force by cutting off his head in a green projection bubble, and sends the head into space to float for all eternity. Major Force has regeneration powers & is functionally immortal so he's still alive/conscious through it all.
Oh, the Dreamer is so cruel and yet that punishment is so beautiful. Karma is a mofo. :) Well done, bravo! Oh, that’s gotta kill Amanda, to know she knows still but can never tell. Cruel, but perfectly beautiful.
When the event first started, I almost dropped it because I adore green arrow and him working for Amanda. Waller is like Superman asking Darkside for a job. 😂😂😂 I should’ve known better so fucking cool.
You asked awhile back for anime recommendations Rob and listening to you gush about how the Amazos heal themselves leads me to an easy pick: Re:Zero is about a kid sent to another world where he learns in the absolute harshest way possible how weak and ordinary he is again, and again, and again in a very similar manner. The story also deconstructs what it would be like to have that ability, and doesn't shy away from getting really effed up (which I'm sure you' appreciate too).
That's why I love the powers of shazam once they're stolen and the person that stole em either loses them or dies it goes back to the original owner. Also not all of black adams powers were lost so thats where extra help came from
Curious to see that there hasn't been a story arc where some villain murders amanda waller after all of her misdeeds and the heroes are like "well, guess he's a good guy now" - only for the villain to betray the heroes because what did they expect? Either way, waller is probably the most despicable character in the dc universe.
Why was Rob shitting on the sorrow lantern for being heart broken? As if guys weren’t allowed such feelings and bitterness or else they’re just some raging incel or something. Not cool.
Lol it’s in terrible taste honestly.. especially considering how Hilarious hypocritical it is cuz I distinctly remember a time when he got his heartbroke..an he was that hurt guy all in his feelings an down bad in the dumps over it. Way back when..But this just reinforces the fact that part of being in this world is understanding 90% of ppl don’t care, especially when ur a guy An half of the percentage that do are glad that you have the troubles/problems you do. No one is coming to save you all you have is yourself. Seriously tho they could have written that sorrow lantern much Much better but they just didn’t put too much into it.. which speaks for the declining quality of the stories being push out but that’s another conversation.
Nightwing fits the leader role like Batman so much…..it’s a old part in the comics when Batman told a young Grayson that he’ll lead the justice league after meeting them then early in his nightwing career he messed up so bad and asked Batman was he disappointed in him and now he is calling the shots !!!!
THE ANIMAL MAN SLANDER WILL NOT STAND! Jeff Lemire and Grant Morrison both gave him GREAT runs, , partially created by the guy that helped make Barbara Gordon Batgirl, Barry Allen the Flash, etc. He's a LEGEND! A LEGEND!!
I am both frustrated and proud of nightwing’s righteously good big mouth. Seriously, where does he get off telling other people the obvious without just saying a thank you for the stupidity and after the slander. Something about this just steams me good. Can’t wait to see what’s planned for him and the titans now.
Yo batman didn't hand wave this. There's two comics that you missed that basically explained 1) Amanda capturing the time dude and making him use the hourglass on the amazo bots 2) an Amazo bot getting damaged and using the hour glass to fix itself. That's when Batman figured it out. I can't remember which comics this was in.
Red Tornado actually fixes himself. I think it was in one of the Justice League reboots where Batman admits that all he pretty much does is beat out the dents and does some basic work on RT. but that RT fixes himself / self repairs everytime. and even Batman doesnt know how.
The way the amazo's can go back in time, reminds me of how kang in marvel comic's doubles himself by going back in time, so can he never be truly killed, as he always has a back up plan. It may even be that he does die at this moment, but he sends a message back in time, so that he doesn't make the same mistake, which is a bit of a plot device, but kang is awesome so i don't really mind too much!
You underestimate the power of the Hawk & the Dove! Where are my Dawn Granger fans?
Dawn is the goat
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@@comics_explained Lol. Give it time.
+1
@@comics_explainedto be fair not a lot of people know who they are (hawk and dove) except us dc die hard fans . You'll meet the original duo in the JLU series I don't know if your there in the series. Id love to hear your opinion on the series as someone who jumping in with no context
I dont like how Rob just "ok" Justice League unlimited. Rob, we got to have a sit down😂
When your done can i get a turn with him in the mud bits
Let's be real it' is kinda "ok." Without nostalgia
@@mystirboy No it's kinda great tf? 🤣 That's still one of the greatest hero/kid shows made.
I’ve rewatched it about 3 times in the last 2 years. It still holds up.
@@asall727 The first season yes, unlimited especially in the later seasons felt more like giving spinoff and side stories for the characters beyond the main 7
1. Grant Morrison's Animal Man taught me why I should never sleep on how powerful he can truly be.
2. Keep watching Justice League Unlimited and you'll quickly understand why everyone holds it in such high regard.
I agree with number 1
He tries too hard to be contrarian
The way he just disrespected Animal Man really threw me off too! Grant's run was so good.
@@twiztidlestatAnd what are you known for?
@@twiztidlestatRob is a contrarian? I dunno. He’s pretty basic and “everything is cool” kinda fan.
In the GL comics, when he was limited from leaving earths atmosphere, Hal was flying around the world to stop the missiles sinestro sent out, his ring went crazy over one spot of the earth and later they go back to discover a power battery.
Your a goat brotha
Everyone bypasses GL don't sleep on them
yea his buddy was in charge of it till he got there right? Tom was keeping it till Hal found it. Thats why he couldn't leave earth.
Dissing on Animal Man is crazy! He is a transcendental character who becomes aware of his place as a character in a story, but does what people would actually do, and doesn't Deadpool it. He is fantastic and deserves more love than he gets.
Facts! Strongly agree with this Don’t sleep on animal man! No Animal Slander will be tolerated! I mean it haha
You quoting the sorrow lantern trying to hold back laughing is the best 😂
Dood, I know the sorrow lantern has issues, but he's in pain, and like most other ring slingers, his ring amplifies his pain. And if you've had a broken heart, it always hurts without some type of closure. The "it's not you it's me" speech.
He needs his boys to take him out for strippers and clubbing to either forget his pain or remind him there's more past it.
Yeah, I've got to agree. He didn't just get broken up with, he got left at the altar by Carol who pulled a "if you really love me you'll marry me right now." When he tried to question if maybe they were moving too fast, all while she knew she still had feeling for Hal. His reaction was no doubt over the top, but he got done reeeal dirty.
To be fair, Carol didn’t just leave him but quite literally dragged him along with her despite still clearly being in love with hall and left him at the alter. A moment that could’ve all been avoided if Carol was real with him from the get go instead of playing him like a fool. Now, with that being said, I’m not gonna condone his actions while under the rings influence
Yeah. I feel like dismissing him as just "incel lantern" is unfair if you know the full story. His reaction to Carol leaving him is definitely silly and over the top, but it's a comic book. Over the top extreme reactions are kinda what they do
@@TheBrotherGrim Rob's a myopic idiot. Anyway, listen to the comic, skip over his BS
@@TheBrotherGrim It really bothered me the way he just dismissed him as an incel, like, the dude doesn't even have beef with all women, he's just going through a permanent heartbreak thanks to the ring, no shit he's gonna be all weepy like that.
@@danello9091 "I need to let the world know why the only reality is the sadness it holds" - that's not just weepy. Yes, this kinda thing is common in comic books, but it definitely is more than just being sad on one's own. Nothing he says is about being left at the altar, its all about her "going back to him" and his desire to cause her and others to suffer. That's the ring, obs, but it also fits the incel MO pretty well. If he'd tried to destroy maybe himself, or just her, or another world, the "he's just sad" thing would stand better, but this is def "You love HIM? I must have revenge!" type stuff.
Also it's a joke. This guy is laughing while he says it.
Amanda Waller just got the Kingpin mindwipe from the PURPLE MAN treatment!
Nightwing said it all when he told Waller "you been hanging out with bad guys too long."
Specifically Max Lord, because this whole thing was something close to what he did leading up to Infinite Crisis.
Dismissing Dove but then praising Major Force is actually crazy lol
"Women in refrigerators Greatest HITS!" 😈
I don't agree, at all, with the "Nate is an incel" take. At no point he blames women for his sorrows. He is sad/mad at Carol for pretending to love him and leaving him at the altar. Also, the Sorrow ring appears to affect a person's mind, so he probably would be better without the ring, still sad, but not "I'm gonna make everyone sad" sad.
Also when you said "i must go on the internet and say how bad women are and i'll never love again" you're confusing men with women as they are the ones drowning tiktok and social media with "all men are scum, all men must die, blah blah blah".
1:50 dove and dove fans out here catchin strays for no reason 😭
🤣🤣🤣🤣 *pew* *pew*
He did not have to go so hard for a hero 70% of superhero fans probably haven't even heard of.
Dissing Animal Man and saying JLU is just ok in the same video. You're breaking our hearts Rob 💔
Typical hater rob
To be fair 😂 Sorrow could’ve been written better. And let’s be real Hal Jordan & Carol has been a terrible couple for decades 🤷🏾♂️
Fr! When these two get together, there's always something bound to happen😂.
@@Rex-ik6ng it’s sad too cause deadass I was really into the idea of sorrow 😭 like it could have worked! Like maybe vision constructs of what anxiety, sadness stuff with a dark undertone. That’s truly what I hope they eventually do
@@biscuitsferdaze5407that is a different corp, that is UV’s power
It was created to be a mockery of the male version of feminists by the ideologically captured DC.
@@MNeilGri The Sorrow Corp? Seems more like the losers whining about the recent Star Wars series.
11:25 I'm pretty sure it's was established early on in the GL comics that Hal's ring was not one from Oa but one from the central batery in earth.
It did mention that in the current GL run for Hal
Hals ring is Lord Malvolio's Wichita after his was destroyed 😏
DC have the most iconic characters in fiction and I love it.
The sith don’t want peace rob, they want power and control over others. I don’t believe for a second that peace could be achieved because they’re only self interested.
Dove not only being left behind but not even knowing what happened proves her level of importance. 🤣🤣
And tell me you don't know Animal-Man without saying it. Lol YOU HAVE NO IDEA ON HOW OVER POWERED THAT DUDE IS!!!
The fact there's a lantern corp powered by depression is pretty funny.
Also, I'm pretty sure Carol was on a weeklong bender, woke up confused, and was the perfect target for Depression Lantern lol
Sad Lantern lol
She literally got found by her ring and left him at the altar, the sad lantern ring is their wedding ring, that he cried over afterwards until it attuned with the emo spectrum of sad.
@@Reddotzebra that could a good villain origin. He doesn't care about anything anymore
Melancholy lantern
I prefer sorrow lantern, it feels like the most nuanced.
Rob out here choosing violence 😂😂
I feel like that reading into Sorrow was...kinda weird? I was reading it and I didn't get any sense that he was being an incel of any kind. He didn't come out saying "Girls bad because you left me" he was clearly hurt, asking why he deserved to be hurt, he then runs from the closure Sapphire is trying to give him. Even the "I won't love again" thing seems more aimed at the fact that she is a _love lantern_ more than the fact she's a woman. That's not being an incel, that's just another Scorned Lover trope in a Superhero comic.
I know an Incel, personally. He often comes off as normal until you start having deep conversations and then it all just kinda spills out and at that point you start asking yourself if the person you were talking to a few moments ago was replaced by some, vicious, angry psychopath. It's like two different people living in the same body, like some Jekyll and Hyde situation. I didn't get any of that vibe from Sorrow, I felt he was a dumb character for sure, but not an incel. Maybe that's where they plan to take him in the future? I can't say. But I just didn't see it in this scene.
Your making too much sense. Stop it..logic has no place here..
If you don't mind me asking, like what kind of things does he say that makes him sound psychopathic?
@@Dickson_ Saying he wants to join in war so he can kill people is certainly at the top of the craziest things I've heard him say.
The disrespect on Animal Man will not be tolerated!
JLU is not just "OK" mate, in your own words ITS AMAAAAAZING
Did he just call the greatest DCTV version of the justice league, "all right".
Well im getting red lantern ring
25:11 They are setting up a "Dreamer" + "Sandman (Endless)" crossover? He's one of the few beings who could turn a dream into reality.
I wish that after nightwing told waller she just admitted to the world she lied, he lit up a cigar and said, i love it when a plan comes together while the a-team theme played in background to flex
And Amanda ending it by saying, "I would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling....heroes!"😂
“One of Batman’s islands” sheesh this dude is super power rich lmfao deadass 😂
For Green Lantern, I like that we get to see Hal and Wally working together to deal with Waller’s forces, Alan convincing Jadestone to use his powers for good and save the world from Waller, and Carol using her powers to try and save Nate from sorrow (making sure that she’ll become a hero, even though she was a hero since Blackest Night in 2009). I like that Jeremy Adams tried his best at combining his Green Lantern subplots with Absolute Power. Also, Hal and Wally using the Bat-Wolf because they’re the Brave and the Bold. Overall, this is a good comic.
For the Green Lantern: War Journal backup, I like that John told Irons what has happened to him since their last encounter and that he has to deal with him working with his family to save the world from various threats. Overall, this is a good backup.
For Absolute Power, I find it satisfying that all it the heroes were able the defeat Waller, Task Force VII, Failsafe, the Bureau of Sovereignty, and Waller’s multiversal army. This includes Oliver revealing that he’s a double agent (like I called since the start of this event), Dreamer being alive by escaping into Jon’s mind, Starr deactivating Task Force VII, all of the heroes’ powers being returned (and swapped and scrambled), Barry sending Waller’s multiversal army back to their worlds (making sure that Prime Earth will be inaccessible to the multiverse), and Waller being defeated after exposing her plans to the entire world. I like that we get to see Waller be imprisoned after all she’s done since the Infinite Frontier Suicide Squad, War For Earth-3, the ending of Dark Crisis, Knight Terrors, Beast World, and Absolute Power. This includes Dreamer locking Waller from accessing all of the heroes’ secrets and telling her that there might be something planted inside her brain. I wonder if Dreamer will ever tell Jay Nakamura that she’s alive, that she was forced to join Waller’s team because she has her parents (in which she found them), and escaped into Jon’s mind so that she can heal herself up, causing Jay to still be mad at her for joining Waller’s team (because Waller killed his mom and destroyed Gamorra) and to dump Jon (in which his appearances in upcoming Superman books show him staying in Metropolis) because Jon sided with Dreamer and that she helped him remove the Brainiac Queen from his mind and that Jay cared about himself instead of others (in which he’ll become a villain after Absolute Power because he’s a terrible and unnecessary character). I also like that the Trinity had a talk with Oliver, in which Oliver apologized to them for what he did, causing him to say that the world needs the Justice League again after their disbandment in Dark Crisis and that the Titans did an okay job taking their place (even though Tom Taylor’s Titans run is a retread of popular Wolfman-Perez Titans storylines that barely done anything). Also, teasing the upcoming JLU comic. Let’s hope that Oliver will apologize to the Green Arrow Family for what he did and for them to (eventually) forgive him in his solo series. Mark Waid and Dan Mora has done excell success on this event, including having a change in status quo for DC All In and teasing JLU this November. I was wrong that Absolute Power would be a terrible comic because DC events since Dark Crisis have been lackluster or terrible (in my opinion) and that there have been multiple writers prior to Waid not knowing how to handle this event. Overall, this comic (and event) is great and better than Dark Crisis, Lazarus Plant, Knight Terrors, and Beast World.
Yoooo, bite me. Animal Man Rules. Read that creepy run where he taps into the red.
New to them...Batman became the Used Car Salesman of Superpowers
Wasn’t dove the one who resisted multiple black lantern rings cause “they’re at peace” 😭 either way it hurt me to hear the trash talk lmao
Best motorcycle SECOND to Kaneda’s motorcycle in Akira haha
Swear that was my immediate thought aswell
Rob!! Broooo..... You said that the Justice League Unlimited animated series was just okay?? are you kidding?? At that time it was fantastic!! C'mon, son!! Lolol
Exactly he’s Bugging!
He didn't say all girls are bad.. He pointed at one girl.. U made it a bigger thing😂😂
I mean it’s kinda lamer. He had one bad experience with one person and now he thinks everything in the world is bad.
@@Numbabu You could say the exact same thing about every lantern ring. Suddenly when its a dude the empathy goes out the window.
@@WrathofFenrir99 I thought the whole point was that the emotional imbalance is like,, bad. Willpower isn't an emotion. But like yeah, too much greed, bad, too much rage, bad.
I want everyone to have support, but if your reaction to being hurt is to hurt others, that's not cool. I like redemption more than punishment, but the bare minimum for that is to stop harming others.
I would figure red lantern women are also in the same boat. No matter how justified your rage is, focusing on that forever is not the move. This is also the one and only sorrow lantern as far as I know.
Maybe I would be criticizing the lady sorrow lanterns if there were any..? It’s not a gender thing.
I love how he breaks down these comics
I can’t get comics like I used to cause I am handicapped….miss being able to go to comic store
You can't leave the house?
Comic Apps are pretty great these days. Although I hear you on going to the store. Nothing else really like it. Same time, I live in a major city. One of the top couple in size & disposable income. And ALL the good comic shops have closed. There are still ‘hole-in-the-wall’ shops but there’s hardly an inventory.
Animal man is awesome! If you haven't read his original run you're missing out.
The slander!!! Animal man is the literal conduit to The Red/Animal Life!
“Yeah its okay” 😂 man stop
As someone who was/is following the green lantern story, what they kind of told you was that essentially The Guardians installed this sort of backup central battery on Earth, in the event OA was destroyed or the Green Lanterns simply didnt exist anymore, and that was said as the reason as to why a lot of the strongest lanterns come from that sector. Hal kinda just stumbled upon it, used it to make a ring, and then has been operating with that before the events of absolute power.
yea wasn't Tom watching it till Hal found it. Thats why he couldn't leave earth?
@@Jezee213 exactly
Put some respect on Richard Grayson Name!
Fact's
"This guy is a dipsh!t" is the best line ive heard from u.
I use it all the time. Its great.
Relying on heroes who have proven themselves over countless years to protect earth.
Amanda: Nah
Relying on evil villains, and robots that have tried to destroy earth plus many times to protect earth.
Amanda: Hell yeah!
Wait, wait, wait, you're telling me Major Force can manipulate all kinds of energy and yet HE CHOSE TO FRIDGE THE GIRLFRIEND?!
Psycho....
Ty! I was thinking the same thing. He chose to dismember her and fridge the parts! Thats sad.
Bro said JLU is okay, not knowing it some of the greatest DC TV known to man
everyone is overlooking the fact that this is why barry Allen is missing from Justice League Unlimited. His connection to the speed force is gone giving Wally west the floor. Impressive writing!
good point!
Dove is an extremely underrated character. She's incredibly powerful. She killed the Anti-Monitor in Blackest Night. She turned herself into a white lantern bullet and it was fired by a gun construct, headshot to Monty.
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they totally stole that concept from Bleach...Orihime had that power...where it appears to heal people...but in fact...she basically reverses the damage some incurred...and sort of put a reverse time pocket portal around them...to restore their injuries to a point where before they were injured....which is an absolute amazingly creative way to heal someone....i thought it was a really cool idea on how it all worked
Good catch, also similar to Eri's "rewind" quirk from MHA. ✌️
It is an interesting due to how sorrow is such an important emotion not only that but the sorrow lantern can take you out of the fight through intense sorrow, create energy and clouds. I don’t get the disrespect especially some of the dialogue the writers are goin with him
while i agree that sorrow as a concept for al antern is genious, you cant deny the reason for his literallly SUPER DEPRESSION is cause a girl left him, makes it kinda funny.
@@AbigatorM true. Though while it is a little lazy with how he became the sorrow lantern, given it is carol and Hal we’re talking about I can see why it’d send him into a spiral to a deep depression.
@@AbigatorM Would you just chill if the person you thought was the love of your life just leaves you at the altar and goes back to her x? They did this man dirty af. There are lots of people that would unsubb from life after getting done so dirty.
@@Famousfire97 i think you 2 miss the point rob made und i ment.
counter question. would you want EVERYONE to be sad cause you are sad? and blame everyone, even people not involved? thats why rob compared him to incels. and what made it funny.
like i said in my first answe.r i think the concept of a sorrow lantern or depression lantern is great. but using hearbreak for a girl just made to good of a joke.
@@AbigatorM no one miss the point, we're dismissing it as ignorant. Also that's how all the lantern rings work, they're powered by the fucking emotional spectrum. Someone suffering from sorrow, being amplified by it by the ring and is seeking to pass it to everyone..... how is that different than how the other lanterns work?
Never really followed Hawk and Dove much, knew about them, but never got into them, however I really like the way they utilized them on the Titans show on HBO/Maxx, they were given great character development throughout the show
Yeah I thought they were crap characters till the show. I always hated their silly costumes. The show gave them a tone missing from the comics. Too bad it's cancelled. Season 2 with Slade was fire
@@dblaq7301 yea that was definitely written better than the first season, like many shows though, by the time they realize it got a following, they had already canceled it
This was a good one, youre the king of comic recaps:D
Another bange thanks brother!
We finally got an EMO LANTERN CORPS! 😂😭🤣
Keep on carrying that torch brother Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re awesome rest in peace Benny.
I forget what recent Green Lantern comic (#), but during the time that Hal Jordan and most other Earth-based Lanterns were stranded on Earth, they were given the location of a back-up Green Lantern Power Battery there. Why would the Guardians constantly complained about Hal Jordan keep a back up Power Battery on Earth?Well, sometimes parents seemingly pick on the kids they like the most.
Great vid Rob, you couldve mentioned when Martian Manhunter scolded Batman for saying something about not mentioning the plan to everyone xD
A guardian put a central battery in inner Earth. It was a recent Green Lantern comic. There is even a person guarding it, John Stewart I think was the Green Lantern or it could have been Hal Jordon, brought to the area where the central battery on Earth is at.
It was Tom "Pie face" that was guarding it till Hal got there.
Well if this was taking place on this earth. Amanda Waller would still be elected president after the broadcast😂....😭
Wouldnt matter.
Anything negative was a deepfake. It’s all a conspiracy and the lack of evidence, witnesses is PROOF POSITIVE it’s definitely real.
When i see dove i immediately remember that hawk went nuts, got time powers and killed a bunch of people.
You went WAAY back with that one....ah the good ol days. I still love the comics, but reading them now is a bit different from reading with a kid's imagination. I still can't believe it was Hawk and not Capt. Atom
Waller got that fire shape up though! 22:43
Lmao facts
Your story telling is so refreshing.
Did he say Justice League Unlimited is ok? Rob, you’re losing us here man! Get it together!!!
Is anyone else surprised that sorrow isn’t a core emotion on par with love and will, fear or rage? There’s no way it can be anything less frankly.
Since It’s not like there’s a shortage of such people on earth or anywhere for that matter.
Waller could be back running the Suicide Squad with a little insurance policy in her head to make sure she follows orders and doesn't start acting independently
the grin on dreamer's face shows she's got that fire in her blood.❤🔥
I think it's pretty evident that Rob loves Love's the bad guys in Marvel or DC. Almost obsessively😅😅
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....damn.... stuffed in the fridge????
...ok Rob....im all in...that shyt wuz bonkerz son ! ! ! 😂
It started a movement/discourse called "women in refrigerators" where feminists started calling out writers/stories where women didn't exist as characters, but as plot devices. Also at the end of that Green Lantern run, Kyle Rainer gets revenge on Major Force by cutting off his head in a green projection bubble, and sends the head into space to float for all eternity. Major Force has regeneration powers & is functionally immortal so he's still alive/conscious through it all.
9:00 "the whole of reddit and twitter will inderstand my pain"
Definitely captures the sorrows of this world
Nightwing's plan: "Instead of doing nothing, we're going to fight back."
Oh, the Dreamer is so cruel and yet that punishment is so beautiful. Karma is a mofo. :) Well done, bravo! Oh, that’s gotta kill Amanda, to know she knows still but can never tell. Cruel, but perfectly beautiful.
Holy sh*t how dream came back is the type of story telling i like that was freaking brilliant
When the event first started, I almost dropped it because I adore green arrow and him working for Amanda. Waller is like Superman asking Darkside for a job. 😂😂😂 I should’ve known better so fucking cool.
You asked awhile back for anime recommendations Rob and listening to you gush about how the Amazos heal themselves leads me to an easy pick: Re:Zero is about a kid sent to another world where he learns in the absolute harshest way possible how weak and ordinary he is again, and again, and again in a very similar manner. The story also deconstructs what it would be like to have that ability, and doesn't shy away from getting really effed up (which I'm sure you' appreciate too).
It still cracks me up that Batman has a Bat-branded Bat-holo projector in his utility belt...
That's why I love the powers of shazam once they're stolen and the person that stole em either loses them or dies it goes back to the original owner.
Also not all of black adams powers were lost so thats where extra help came from
Curious to see that there hasn't been a story arc where some villain murders amanda waller after all of her misdeeds and the heroes are like "well, guess he's a good guy now" - only for the villain to betray the heroes because what did they expect? Either way, waller is probably the most despicable character in the dc universe.
I can always count on Comics Explained to remind me that there are grown adults out there who still whisperyell.
25:11. She hid herself to repair herself?? WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOORRRRRR!
Why was Rob shitting on the sorrow lantern for being heart broken? As if guys weren’t allowed such feelings and bitterness or else they’re just some raging incel or something. Not cool.
Lol it’s in terrible taste honestly.. especially considering how Hilarious hypocritical it is cuz I distinctly remember a time when he got his heartbroke..an he was that hurt guy all in his feelings an down bad in the dumps over it. Way back when..But this just reinforces the fact that part of being in this world is understanding 90% of ppl don’t care, especially when ur a guy An half of the percentage that do are glad that you have the troubles/problems you do. No one is coming to save you all you have is yourself.
Seriously tho they could have written that sorrow lantern much Much better but they just didn’t put too much into it.. which speaks for the declining quality of the stories being push out but that’s another conversation.
Nightwing fits the leader role like Batman so much…..it’s a old part in the comics when Batman told a young Grayson that he’ll lead the justice league after meeting them then early in his nightwing career he messed up so bad and asked Batman was he disappointed in him and now he is calling the shots !!!!
Fantastic run! Loved this series and your presentation of it. I hope you enjoy Justice League Unlimited!
THE ANIMAL MAN SLANDER WILL NOT STAND! Jeff Lemire and Grant Morrison both gave him GREAT runs, , partially created by the guy that helped make Barbara Gordon Batgirl, Barry Allen the Flash, etc.
He's a LEGEND! A LEGEND!!
Another dope ass video RIP Big Rob
I love how rob goes from
Shitting on Dove to Geeking for Major Force😂😂😂
Rob the Power Battery was discovered very early on in this run, Also Nate’s fine but he just isn’t in Carol’s league lol
Oh awesome, I must have missed that then.
Great video as usual!!!! But, I missed what happened to the Braniac Queen?
6:50 damn @ComicsExplained 😂😂😂
can’t see amanda waller without thinking of the viola davis portrayal she really did her justice
I am both frustrated and proud of nightwing’s righteously good big mouth. Seriously, where does he get off telling other people the obvious without just saying a thank you for the stupidity and after the slander. Something about this just steams me good. Can’t wait to see what’s planned for him and the titans now.
Damm Rob. 304..that hurt..😢
😂😂😂
Yo batman didn't hand wave this.
There's two comics that you missed that basically explained
1) Amanda capturing the time dude and making him use the hourglass on the amazo bots
2) an Amazo bot getting damaged and using the hour glass to fix itself. That's when Batman figured it out.
I can't remember which comics this was in.
Dude, the fact that you didn't watch JLU is crazy. Im in my 50's and will still rewatch the entire series at least once a year. 😂
If Sorrow gets a sidekick they should be named Pity Party
Nailing it with the Sorrow hate. Love it!
“JLU it’s ok”
Never in my life have I wanted to someone to drink a gallon of garlic till now
Somebody is about to get FRIDGED.
Keep smashing it!! Go big blue!
Red Tornado actually fixes himself. I think it was in one of the Justice League reboots where Batman admits that all he pretty much does is beat out the dents and does some basic work on RT. but that RT fixes himself / self repairs everytime. and even Batman doesnt know how.
Aquaman, Jack Reacher, Hawk and Dove. You tell him he's worthless .
The way the amazo's can go back in time, reminds me of how kang in marvel comic's doubles himself by going back in time, so can he never be truly killed, as he always has a back up plan. It may even be that he does die at this moment, but he sends a message back in time, so that he doesn't make the same mistake, which is a bit of a plot device, but kang is awesome so i don't really mind too much!
Rob got some back takes this episode 😂