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Jessica Cruz and the Secrets of Sinister House

  It’s Halloween, and that means I get to dig through Green Lantern’s 80 year history and pull out one of the many, many examples of this franchise telling a pretty cool horror story.   And this time around, I decided to pick a fairly recent one, since I’m confidant not a lot of people read it when it came out.   The comic in question is “Secrets of Sinister House #1”, a horror anthology published in 2019.   And I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t even know there was a Green Lantern story in this until about a month ago.   Not many people talk about these holiday anthologies, and a lot of good stuff ends up going unnoticed and getting buried. The story in question is titled Fear 101, written by Che Grayson, with art by Miguel Mendonca, colors by Bill Crabtree, and letters by Dave Sharpe. The story centers on Jessica Cruz, a character who suffers from crippling anxiety and agoraphobia.  She has her good days, but her bad days can leave her struggling just t...

Characters Confirmed for HBO Max Green Lantern

  So we’ve finally got some solid details about the live action Green Lantern series coming to HBO MAX. And there’s really two big things to take away from this announcement.   The first is the format…according to Variety, the season will consist of 10 episodes, each an hour long.   That’s a good size, not too long, not too short. I’m happy with that. The second is the cast of characters we can expect to be following.  Because that’s been the big question on everyone’s mind: who will be the protagonists of the Green Lantern tv show when there’s so many characters to choose from?  And I never would’ve guessed that they’d go this far.  Taken from Deadline: “The drama will depict the adventures of a multitude of Lanterns, including Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz and Alan Scott — Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man — and many more. The series will also include fan favorites such as Sinestro...