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  Alright, Future State, one last time.   We’ve got six series to talk about today, but it won’t take all that long.   Some of these are pretty light on Lantern stuff, but I wanted to be thorough and mention them anyway.   And if I missed any, let me know.   A reminder that I already covered both issues of Future State Green Lantern, as well as the first issue of Future State Justice League, and I’ll link to both of those videos at the end of this one.   This time I’ll be spoiling Future State Justice League, Swamp Thing, Immortal Wonder Woman, Shazam, Suicide Squad, and Superman House of El…and I’m gonna save the best for last.   So let’s get started by picking up where we left off with Jo and the rest of the League. JUSTICE LEAGUE If you remember, issue one of this book was incredibly light on characterization and development because the League has chosen to operate under rules that keep things strictly professional.  And because of that, it...

  The second half of Future State is here, and today I’m going to be talking about Future State Green Lantern #2.    This issue picks up with the conclusion to “Last Lanterns” by Geoffrey Thorne and Tom Raney.  If part one of this story was all about introducing new characters, part two is all about hitting us with surprising concepts.  We’ve got claims that the God in Red killed the Guardians, we’ve got microscopic scientists from a world called imsk building their own Mother Box from scratch, we’ve got the enemy general’s armor being made from the body of a robot Green Lantern named RRU-9-2, and then we’ve got the revelation that the God in Red that the Khunds worship is actually Orion of the New Gods.  Orion says his transmission to this plane is flawed, so I assume the reason he looks this way is because John’s team built their own Mother Box and it just didn’t work quite right.  But once he shows up, and lays out why the Khund got it all wrong, it...

  Star Sapphire has always been the one character in Green Lantern with the strongest link to the theme of love, even before the invention of the Emotional Spectrum made love into the Sapphire’s literal power source. Having a character that revolves almost entirely around one specific emotion should ideally allow for some pretty deep, thoughtful exploration of the nature of emotion, what it means to a person, and what wearing a ring made of pure concentrated emotion actually does to someone.   In the case of Star Sapphire, love tends to be more a source of anguish than anything else, starting with the soap opera that is the relationship between Carol Ferris and Hal Jordan. Just so we’re all on the same page:  Hal Jordan is a pilot working for Ferris Aircraft.  Carol Ferris is Hal’s boss, and the two of them have this “will they won’t they” sort of relationship.  Carol is also Star Sapphire…kind of.  Unlike Green Lantern, Star Sapphire isn’t just Carol usin...