Mosaic Comics

  I have a weird relationship with Zack Snyder’s DC movies.   I’ve been a defender of Man of Steel ever since it came out, and I always thought the criticism levied at it was unfair.   Though if I’m being honest, I do have a history of being too forgiving of movies right after I see them…I could walk away from basically anything and tell you it was pretty good, no matter what the quality actually was.   Part of that’s recency bias, part of it’s not wanting to admit that I wasted time and money on something bad, and part of it’s the fact that I generally want to see the good in things.   And that was complimented by the fact that Man of Steel gave me several things I’ve always wanted from a Superman movie but never got before. The original Christopher Reeve Superman is one of the absolute best super hero movies ever made, and unfortunately no Superman movie that came after it did anything all that different.  That movie had four sequels that all felt like w...

  A question that everyone eventually asks is just why there are so many Green Lanterns from Earth.   There are currently seven Humans active in the Green Lantern Corps, plus Alan and Keli who’re each their own independent thing.   But why?   Every other sector has a maximum of two Green Lanterns, why does there get to be so many from a single planet?   Doesn’t adding more of them just take attention away from the characters we already have?   Why not just bring in some alien characters from the Corps if your story needs more Green Lanterns?   And why can’t any of these new Human characters join other Corps instead of Green?   What is DC thinking? I’m going to be looking at this from two angles: the ways this makes sense in-universe, and the real world reasons that DC does this.  And by the end, hopefully we’ll all be on the same page and understand why DC keeps accumulating more Human Green Lanterns.  So let’s start with the fun one an...

  So today I’m going to be explaining to you what Ion even is, and believe it or not, doing that is going to involve spoilers for the Death of Superman, Reign of the Superman, Emerald Twilight, Zero Hour, Final Night, Circle of Fire, Power of Ion, Rann/Thanagar War, the 12-issue Ion series, and the Sinestro Corps War.   Yes I’m serious, so SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS, you’ve been warned. Ion is a great example of a really simple idea that was made absurdly complicated every step of the way.  The easiest way to explain it is to just say that Ion is the most powerful Green Lantern, and doesn’t need to use a ring because the power is inside their body.  Sounds simple, right?  That’s because I didn’t try to go into any kind of detail.  Because in order to explain this concept that first appeared in Green Lantern #145 in 2001, I have to start all the way back with Superman: The Man of Steel #18 in 1992. Here’s the extremely abridged version.  Doomsday sho...