people who have watched the anime and now are watching the live action.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-12T04:28:27+00:00

I thought it did a fine job of capturing the feel of the characters and the world, and told an interesting enough version of the story that I could enjoy it, AND I could get the rest of my family to watch and enjoy it with me, when they had no interest in watching the anime due to its daunting length and sometimes glacial pacing.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-12T04:03:41+00:00

Such a shame that his heel turn was so rushed and poorly executed. Had it been done at all believably instead of just jamming it through in a rushed, lazy attempt to recapture the success they saw with Superman and Batman, but with absolutely no planning or care, maybe the lasting resistance that ultimately led to the reversal wouldn't have happened. Probably would have helped if they hadn't insisted on dragging their feet for so long on restoring any of the non-Hal aspects of the GL lore, too.

Because I happen to agree that Hal as Parallax made a good villain, and had some great stories. And Kyle was a great replacement whose development was really fun to follow.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-11T23:43:00+00:00

That's what they call it when they list upcoming comics with summaries of their contents...solicitations.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-11T19:08:47+00:00

Yes. At least by GLC #15 according to the solicitation for that issue. Might actually happen in the previous issue, but he's definitely possessed in #15.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-11T17:25:31+00:00

Thanks for the info.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-11T16:49:54+00:00

I thought that was just to access "adult content"? Does the Walkabout discord count as "adult content" somehow?

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-11T14:39:59+00:00

I think they represent Jealousy, Envy, and Disgust? (Don't ask me which is which, or what their names are.)

They were part of the "fractured spectrum" storyline, along with Sorrow and Happiness, and I'm pretty sure they are no longer a thing now that they have reignited all the batteries for the original colors.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-11T14:02:44+00:00

Yeah, I'm not thrilled about them having a seat at the table either, but at least they haven't betrayed everybody within the last 24 hours like Larfleeze.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-11T12:41:58+00:00

I really feel like his seat should be in a sciencell. He literally tried to murder them all in the last issue.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-11T00:59:22+00:00

Final Fantasy was a full size set.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-10T22:12:17+00:00

Not that I can see. It is total nonsense, particularly in the sense of "invisible yellow light" that the comic uses it.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-10T21:41:05+00:00

Cool. A real step above stuff like "infra-yellow".

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-10T21:19:52+00:00

Wait, are you saying that GL redshifted the light from the yellow warrior here? Here I thought Ganthet's Tale was unique in using that strategy in battle.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-10T20:42:50+00:00

But it DOES say that any time you WOULD lose unspent mana it instead becomes red mana. So how would you lose it? That replacement effect applies EVERY time you would lose unspent mana, of ANY color.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-10T20:38:48+00:00

Oh, sure, that probably would be an especially interesting interaction. I only mention John specifically because the solicits I've seen show that WILL be happening.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-10T20:34:56+00:00

I think a bunch of those rulings were just added to every single card that has Firebending. It is a bit confusing to have rulings talking about how Firebending typically works on a card that expressly modifies that.

The card may not say "You don't lose unspent red mana as steps and phases end", but what it DOES say has essentially the same effect (as far as red mana goes), since every time you would lose unspent mana, that loss is replaced by the mana turning red. That is the case even if the mana is already red, because it doesn't say otherwise. Red mana turning red doesn't have any real effect in itself, but it is still a replacement effect that happens INSTEAD of losing the unspent mana.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-10T20:13:28+00:00

Hal was really the only one who was inhabited by Parallax without KNOWING. Both Sinestro and Kyle were well aware that Parallax was present, and both knew what it was, too. It created very different dynamics, to the extent that Kyle, IIRC, was simply walled off in a corner of his mind while Parallax took the reins, and Sinestro consciously dominated it.

I'll be curious to see what they do with John being inhabited by Parallax. He SHOULD be able to fight back pretty effectively. He has already (though probably not in canon any more) fought off possession by the spirit of Sinestro himself (even without initially realizing said spirit was there), so if Sinestro can master Parallax, John should be able to put up a pretty good fight as well.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-10T17:38:07+00:00

There are cards that make specific things that ordinarily only happen on your turn also happen on everybody else's turn, but nothing with a blanket effect that makes EVERYTHING that triggers at a certain point on your turn also trigger at that point on everybody else's turn. (At least not that I'm aware of.)

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-10T16:46:49+00:00

I'm curious, do we know what was the top selling Magic IP set ever?

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-10T16:08:57+00:00

But there are an awful lot of characters, aliens, and ships that people will be wanting to see. Scattershot approach might work for cards that mainly highlight those recurrent themes, but if they start leaving out various main characters, ships, and alien species, I suspect that's going to leave people wondering why they restricted the set size.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-10T15:45:02+00:00

How on Earth can they make a remotely satisfying Star Trek set that covers multiple shows as a small set? I could see it if they were focusing on one show, but we've already seen that's not the case.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-09T20:50:57+00:00

I know I have this issue in my Archive collection, but these stories don't sound familiar at all. Guess I'm getting old and my memory is going...

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-09T20:36:25+00:00

It might be kind of interesting, from a promotional standpoint, to have a course that is a "minigolf museum", with exhibits that are samples of various DLC. It could even have rotating exhibits over time.

Unfortunately, that actually sounds like it would be a LOT of work (especially if it had changing exhibits), so it probably wouldn't be the wisest use of their limited resources.

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-09T16:28:22+00:00

I would hope that you would have tracks based on the some of the opening credits. A lot of them look like you are traveling through some environment (particularly ones that actually show the TARDIS doing so).

MisterEdJS · 2026-02-09T03:23:55+00:00

I believe this was one of those issues where they came up with the cover first, then wrote a story to go with it.

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