Green Lantern : No Evil shall escape their sight

Imagine that you had the most powerful weapon in the universe that was based off your emotion and your thoughts anything you could think of could manifest into reality. You are ina group a corps of space cops from all different species an sectors of the cosmos you are a Green Lantern and your job is to protect the universe your boss are known as the Guardians they know Everything except the concepts of human emotion an feelings. The first Green Lantern was created in 1940 during the first superhero frenzy with superman. His Name was Alan Scott who first appeared in All-American Comics #16 in july of 1940 published by All-American Publications which would later merge into DC Comics. Scott was a Railroad Engineer who after a railway crash he came into possession of a magic Lantern which spoke to him an stated it would bring power. From this lantern he crafted a magic ring which gave him a variety of powers. The ring did have limitations it had to be charged every 24 hours by touching the Lantern. Also there was a time that it could not directly affect objects made of wood. Alan fought mostly ordinary human villains but he did have a few fights with the Immortal Vandal Savage and the zombie Solomon Grundy. After WorldWarII the popularity of superheroes had declined the green lantern comic was cancelled with issue #38 in 1949 and all star comics# 57 (1951) was the character's last golden age appearance. Once superheroes became popular again in later decades Alan Scott was revived. He became forever marginalized by the new Green Lantern Hal Jordan who was created to supplant him, initially Scott made Guest appearances in other books and eventually got regular roles in books like the Justice Society. He never had another solo Series. Between 1995 and 2003 DC comics changed Alan Scott's superhero code Name to " Sentinel" to distinguish him from the newer and more popular science fiction green lanterns. In 2011 the Alan Scott character was revamped with a new costume and the source of his power was changed t:-Oo the mystical power of nature it was referred to as the "Green." In 1959 Julius Schwartz reinvented Green lanterns character as the science fiction hero named Hal Jordan. His Powers were more or less the same as Alan Scott's but otherwise this wasn't the Green lantern of the 40's he had a new costume and a rewritten origin story. Hal received his ring from a dying alien and was commissioned as an officer of the Green lantern corps, and interstellar law enforcement agency that is overseen by the Guardians of the universe. Hal made his first appearance in Showcase#22 (September-October 1959). Alan Scott's green lantern history originally began thousands of years ago when a mystical "green Flame" meteor fell to earth in ancient china. The voice of the prophesied that it would act three times: once to bring death ( a lamp-maker named Luke Fair Clough crafted the green metal of the meteor into a lamp; in fear and as punishment for what they thought sacrilege, the local villagers killed him, only to be destroyed by a sudden burst of green flame), once to bring life ( in modern times, the lamp came into the hands of a patient in a mental institution who fashioned the lamp into a modern lantern; the green flame restored him to sanity and give him a new life and once to bring power. In 1940, the lantern passed into the possession of Scott. The ring instructed Alan how to fashion a ring from its metal, to give him fantastic powers as the superhero Green Lantern. He became a crime fighter and became a founding member of the Justice Society of America. When we enter the Silver Age The character of Harold "Hal" Jordan was a second-generation test pilot, having followed his Fathers footsteps. He was given the Power ring an Battery (lantern) by a dying alien named Abin Sur, whose space ship crashed on earth. Sur used his ring to seek out an individual who was " utterly honest and born without fear" to take his place as a member of the Corps. There was a point that Hal Jordan was incapacitated, it was revealed that there where two individuals matching the specified criteria on earth, the other was Guy Gardner. The ring chose Jordan solely because of his proximity to Abin. Gardner was listed as Hal's Back UP in case there is time when Jordan isn't around. Later on Guy was put into a coma it turned out there was a third human worthy John Stewart who was designated as the earth sector's " back up" lantern. Jordan Became a founding member of the Justice league of America and as of the mid 2000s along with John Stewart one of the two active lanterns in Earth's space sector. Jordan also automatically became a member of the Green Lantern Corps, a galactic " police" force which bears similarities to the "Lensmen" from the science fiction series written by E.E. Smith, although both creators Julius Schwartz and John Broome denied ever reading Smith's Stories. Following Superman's rebirth and the destruction of Green Lantern's hometown of Coast City in the Early 1990's Jordan went insane and destroyed the Green Lantern Corps and the Central Power Battery ( powers the planet of OA). Now calling himself Parallax, Hal Jordan would devastate The DC Universe off and on for the next several years. However after earth's sun was threaten by a sun-eater, Jordan sacrificed his life, using the last of his power to reignite the dying star. Jordan subsequently returned from the grave as the Spectre, the divine spirit of god's vengeance, whom Jordan attempted to transform into the spirit of redemption which failed miserably. In Green Lantern: Rebirth it is revealed that Jordan was under the influence of a creature known as parallax when he turned renegade. Parallax was a creature of pure fear that was trapped in the central power battery by the Guardians of the universe in the past. Imprisonment had rendered the creature dormant and it had been forgotten. It became known merely as the " yellow Impurity" in the power rings. Sinestro was able to wake to Parallax an encourage it to seek out Hal Jordan as a host. Although Parallax had been trying to corrupt jordan via his power ring for some time it wasn't until after the destruction of Coast City that it was able to succeed. It took advantage of Jordan's weakened emotional State to lure him to OA and cause him to attack anyone who stood in his way. After killing several green Lanterns, Jordan finally entered the central power battery( the powered core by each Lantern an Keeps OA "alive" ) and absorbed all the power, unwittingly freeing the Parallax entity and allowed it to graft onto Jordan's soul. The Spectre bonded with Jordan in the hopes of freeing the former green lantern's soul from parallax's grip. After this event and many that followed their where others who the ring had chosen Former Marine John Stewart took Jordan´s badge an became a green lantern once Jordan returned in the rebirth Arc he an Stewart became partners. Other worthy humans share the code name of Green Lantern Guy Gardner the wise cracking former athlete and Kyle Rayner The only human to become a White Lantern (brings life to all who died) and manifest the power of all the lantern within the emotional spectrum now the best an the one story everyone should read is blackest night the day that is mention in the green lantern Oath comes to life an brings back the Dead they feed off the hearts of love ones an there are special guest Very special guests its the only 7 graphic novel story before the NEW 52 universe was introduced to help you understand the ins and outs of the Core now say the Oath with me

In Brightest Day in Blackest Night No evil Shall Escape My Sight for those who Worship Evils Might Beware my Power! Green Lanterns Light!

If that isn´t motivation enough then I don´t know what is. Signing off Everett M. Smith

Arrow season 4 : Redemption VS Closure

Well guys its happening Oliver Queen will be running for Mayor of Star City which does not seem like the best of idea´s given the state of city leadership as of late now tonight´s episode was pretty simple to say the least as you all saw last week Laurel and Thea brought Sara back from the Dead which in itself was not a great plan. I love how Oliver is now using Sebastian blood´s old office as a cover for his new base of operations plus the Arrow Cave I know its not called that but it looks amazing. I am however glad to see that Digg trusts Oliver again this episode brought me back to the 1st season we see team Arrow working with captain Lance no inner tension which is great now tonight was based purely on redemption an how we all have sinned but we all can rise an do better but it was also a story of desperation the cops from the ex anti-vigilante task force turned to crime to help out their struggling families. But the Major case of the feels had to have come when Lance see that his second daughter is chained in a basement when he pulls his gun i really thought Sarah was going to go but mind you he is taking the advice of Damien Darhk who Lance is still working with but now as an inside man for Green Arrow an his team. The true Highlight of the night to close off this pretty decent episode Oliver is calling on John Constantine for help he is a master of the occult and black magic he is a chain smoking trench coat wearing bad ass and the leader of the Justice League Dark faction. SO this means not only will he be searching for Sarah and her tortured soul he is going to go up against Damien and that is going to be a battle of the mystics because Constantine fights dirty and I hope everyone is ready for this i believe season 4 of Arrow so far is getting its point across an is trying to grow out of the shadows of it being a Batman knock off an live its own life I look forward to whats next hopefully you all join me. Signing off Everett M. Smith Head of The Nation

The Shonen Jump Dynasty

Well Hello Party people!!!!!
Being this is my first post as a contributor to this fine blog i want to thank Mr. Everette himself for the opportunity to bringing my geekdom and nerdism on this forum. i will try and write as often as i can about alot of stuff but it'll mostly be about Anime/Mangas, video games, comic books, and of course tv and movie. kinda like Everette but not. Anyway without further ado, HERE IS THE SHONEN JUMP DYNASTY
                                     
Like many kids of the american origins, this company here has impacted our lives and may be in fact the gateway drug to today's manga and anime series. Now of course there are a lot of other manga companies out in the world but we're only focusing on shonen and only only about 5 series that impacted and changed the game in america. Now of course there are ALOT of Shonen series but the main five is what broke america into the age of Japanese comics and anime series. It all started with the Saiyan himself Goku

Now in order to save time and space i'm only going to touch on both Dragon ball, and of course Dragon Ball Z for a bit because we have 4 other series to get into (yes i am also aware of dragon ball super, that deserves another post).  Dragon Ball was serialized from 1985 to 1995 with about 519 chapters which is about 42 volumes that was later adapted to two anime series Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. This masterful piece of art here was inspired by the Chinese story "journey to the west" which if you read it, you'll notice that ALOT of Anime and Manga's are loosely based off this story. Now if you're like many children this is what started us all into the Manga/Anime franchise. Here we follow young Goku on his adventure to be the strongest warrior in the universe surrounded by these magical 7 dragonballs that could grant any wish that's not beyond the dragons power. So with many episodes of great fighting and transformations the unthinkable happened; on April 7, 2003 the last episode of dragon ball z aired and we were all left like crack addicts needing another great show to fill the void. who was going to save us, who was gonna give the people the great story line and action we needed? Shonen answered and created the holy trinity: Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece

Again, in order to save time because i can go into a lengthy detail on all three we're just going to skip to the basics. in order from serialization and what not, going to start with One Piece then Naruto and finally finish it with Bleach.

 One Piece is about a pirate (Monkey D. Luff) who is trying to be the king of all the pirates by getting the Legendary Pirate Treasure on the grand line left in "One Piece" (Roll Credits). Luffy leads his band of pirates called "The Straw Hat Pirates" into crazy adventures against other pirates trying to be the next pirate king and of course, against the Navy/Marines because if you know history technically pirates are the bad guys. It wouldn't be a shonen manga/anime if they didn't have super powers and in this case they do. Luffy is a pirate who ate the forbidden fruit called the devil fruit. Depending on the Fruit it gives you different abilities and crazy power ups. In Luffy's case he ate the Gum Gum Fruit so he's literally a rubber man. There are other powers too such as Haku's but you just need to read the manga itself to learn more which it is a great read. One piece was serialized into shonen jump in July of 1997 and it's still going. They just released chapter 804 in the manga and we are on episode 718 so if you need something to watch over the summer to binge, i recommend one piece. Now if pirates are not your speed there is always Ninjas.

Naruto was serialized in August of 1997 with a completed series of 700 chapters and an extra 10 chapter for Naruto Gaiden. Thats about 72 volumes if we were to go to the numbers game. This series Lead to two Naruto animes: Naruto, and Naruto Shippuden. Naruto is About a Ninja named Naruto Uzamaki and his quest to become the greatest Ninja of all time AKA the Hokage. He is shunned in his village (the village hidden in the leaves) because inside him lives a monster called the nine tail fox. there are a lot of tailed beasts ranging from 1-9 and other villages but im not going to spoil it for you guys. Now Naruto's parents died when the Nine tails attacked the village leaving devestation and death everywhere, but the 4th Hokage Sealed the beast inside Naruto when he was a baby. Naruto goes to ninja school fails horribly until he learns a new jutsu and then gets stronger through out the series. The story line in this series is AMAZING. also, in this series everything is connected so an arc that you was reading or watching in the beginning might show up again down the road. Just Like DBZ, the Manga and the story that is Naruto is finished. The Anime is also wrapping up too but this is another series thats left me wanting more. Now time to go to the Story of Soul Reapers.

Bleach was serialized in August of 2001, and with that it has 648 chapters which is about 69 volumes and one anime series just called Bleach. Story is about a kid name Ichigo Kurosaki who can see ghosts and one day finds that a ghost was being eaten by something called a hollow. while trying to save that ghost a soul reaper appears to slay the hollow. Ichigo's family gets attacked by these hollow, the soul reaper Ruki gets hurt and rukia gives ichigo these soul reaper abilities. he defeats them and rukia is stuck in a human body. the story gets a lot more in depth the further you read. they start explaining hollows and what they are, the job of a soul reaper and all of the abilities of said reapers.the adventures take ichigo and his companions to hell and back and other spiritual places. one thing i have to give them credit is their explanation of concepts in this series is a work of art. At this point in time they're at the final stretch and will be ending the series after this story arc. Now that the Holy trinity is about to come to an end (not including One Piece cause lord knows when that will end) what's next on this dynasty line? well i'll tell you after this emotional lil' comic strip

when i tell you i cried when this comic came out, i cried disgustingly. cried like Kim K type disgusting. Anywho, i digress. we all had speculation on what was going to take the lead in the Shonen Jump Dynasty, in my mind i believed it would've been Fairy Tale but that little kid in the comic strip told me different. After many debates over the internet on who that child was (could've been the figurative character that is the world), we finally understood who was up in line next. It was time for the age of Super Heroes.

Boku No Hero Academia aka My Hero Academy, is the next one up on the Dynasty that is Shonen.  Serialized in July 2014, Boku No Hero Academia has 64 chapters which is about 5 volumes and is gaining popularity by the minute. Story takes place in a world where all human beings suddenly gets super powers which they call them quirks. Each quirk is different, some people can control toys, or fly or have more radical quirks like fire and ice and insane super strength.  In this world you could also apply to be a hero (which is a civil servant job), ,and where do heroes get their education? well at a hero academy of course. The main character is a boy named Izuku Midoriya who dreams of being the greatest super hero of all time like his role model All Might. Problem is, he has no quirks at all. Not even a little bit, so of course he gets bullied but it never dissuades him. until one faithful day a monster attacks (yeah there are monsters and of course super villains) and he tries to save his friend and All Might shows up and rescues Midoriya and the friend. All Might was sooo moved by his heroism that he has dubbed him his successor to his quirk. Like Midoriya, he didn't have a quirk either, the quirk was passed onto him from his predecessor which gave All Might his INSANE super strength. This is as far as i'm going to say about this wonderful read but, i say pick it up, read it and love it. it has all the necessary elements a great manga has. Great character development, an in depth world, and ALOT of actions. soooo yeah, that's it.........'till the next post

--Jynn

Forever Evil: Arkham War Review : War has come to Gotham

Just image that one single event changed the world that visitor's from another universe or another earth came to ours an systematically wiped out the men an woman we viewed as gods. The Justice League is dead a group of super villains known as the Crime Syndicate of America a broken mirror image of the justice league are responsible for this tragedy heroes are no longer around none of them but the villains have been tortured to joining the syndicate others have rebelled to the bitter end. Our story takes place in Gotham city which is now in chaos an ashes its silent Guardian The Batman is presumed dead there is no longer a police presence no more ¨BatFamily¨to speak of. There is only one man who can save Gotham City on his own terms by any means necessary. The man who vows to save his now fallen kingdom is the only man to "break"The bat I'm talking about Bane of course now he is no hero by far he is completely the opposite. I love the premise of this story especially the idea that Bane has to adopt the symbol of his worst enemy to strike fear into the villain's an bring them to his bidding so he builds a suit of Armor an Becomes Batman! but this new Dark knight is viscous and furious the fighting is brutal an shocking to say the least. The Art is fantastic it brings the full package we have villains going at it bane is wearing a symbol he hates and of course we get a surprise guest Bruce Wayne the one true batman is alive an he wants to take his city back an bring bane down because an I quote This is not hell I am Hell!. We get a visit from the oldest group of close to immortal assassins The Court of Owls Mr. William Cobb is working with bane he is the great great great grandfather of Dick Grayson who is no longer the hero NightWing what happens to Dick isn't pretty. All I can say is if your looking for a great read then this is your go too book. I enjoyed every minute an for a time i found myself rooting for Bane I also found myself there during the war for Gotham city's soul. I give this book a Ten Out of Ten and recommend it too all readers new fans and old alike. It is the best story since Knight Fall and its a great continuation of the Court of owls saga its intense an puts you in a choke hold and barely lets go. Happy Reading Guys and Girls! Everett Signing off.

Arrow Season 4 episodes 1 and 2: Enter the Dark

Last time we left Oliver Queen his identity of the arrow was destroyed an AL-SAH-HIM the next heir to the demons head had surfaced. This was a deception planned by both Oliver and Malcolm Merlin to defeat the great Ra's Al Ghul and save starling city but at great cost to do so. Oliver had kidnapped and endangered his partner and former body guard John Diggle's wife an child on top of that Roy Harper took Oliver's place as the Arrow to save Ollie as a way of Paying him back for all he had did  giving him purpose as arsenal until he was stabbed in prison the vigilante was gone Roy survived but left the city . Dr. Ray Palmer of  Palmer technologies an also know as the A.T.O.M couldn't save his city.  we see a explosion in caused by  Mr.Palmers hand killing him  an now his city of the future has a name that is dedicated to his memory  the old starling is now Star City  and Ollie's girlfriend  and technical eyes an ears Felicity Smoake is now the CEO of Palmer tech and the Holder of his Legacy.  We enter 6 months into the new lives of Oliver an Felicity they have a house white picket fence the nice normal life Oliver has always wanted. Over in Star city Team Dig is trying to keep the city safe from a highly trained team known as only the ghosts.  As i watched the premier I noticed the fighting has  been improved for Thea who is calling her self Red Arrow now which I think needs work but ill keep seeing her as speedy just like Oliver does. Thea is having issues with anger and control  an in the next episode you see it in force taken out on Oliver who explains to her after all this time that the Lazarus pit which brought her back to life also has some nasty side effects. Now your caught up lets talk the fight scenes have been improved since the show started but I still cant not see Laurel lance as the Black Canary I still see Sarah kicking ass an breaking bone. Now Diggle who is still pissed at Oliver who is asked to come back to help take out these ghosts  by request  from laurel and Thea who still call him The Arrow. Dig now has a helmet he uses to conceal his identity when he stands still it looks like he stole it from magneto  from the x-men but in motion doesn't look so bad and the automatic gun arm holsters the leather jacket not to shabby either now people have a theory that Diggle is moving to become the hero know as Guardian because of the helmets design. Oliver and team Dig get to meet the leader of theses so called ghosts who are actually agents of Hive The organization mentioned to Diggle by Floyd Lawton AKA Dead Shot who reveals that they Killed Diggs brother Andy.  Now Oliver receives a new Suit that was designed by Cisco Ramon of Team Flash the suit is well put together.  The Leader of the Ghost who introduces himself early on is Damien Dahrk The same man who was  a fierce rival of Ra's Al Ghul systematically an maliciously takes out star city's leadership within Minutes. Oliver meets Dahrk and we see that not only is he vicious an a great hand to hand combatant  he is mystical  he killed a man by touch stopped Ollie's Arrows with the wave of his hands he also heals himself with a statue that requires an incantation an some blood. I really  enjoyed Damien's character the actor who plays him is a stellar actor an portrays a great villain i love that he isn't a meta human an does not tolerate  failure at all beside if a man can kill you by touching you why would you piss him off?  before we hit episode two there is a scene ( Warning slight spoiler) with Oliver standing at a grave we don't see the name on it  but Barry Allen AKA The Flash apologizes for not being able to attend the  funeral  Barry asked Oliver what he is going to do he replies that he is going to kill "him" is he  talking about Dahrk? Malcolm Merlin maybe or RA's possibilities are endless. He also says the name Zoom to Barry who nods stating that's the reason for his non attendance which say for the Flash things are going to go into the Dark  very soon very fast. As the second episode go through in the premiere Oliver takes up the  new code name Green Arrow as he should be rightfully called. Laurel offers to take Thea on a vacation to get her away from Ollie who she rages on an hands a great ass kicking too. Little does Oliver Know the ladies aren't  heading to a Spa They are going to Nada Parbat to find out exactly what happened to Thea this in itself will cause issues for Thea because Merlin is now the New  RA's so this will be fun but they are alone they will be  taking some Cargo with them The Body of Sara Lance an that means will see a Resurrection an lots of fighting an that will help us slowly go into The legends of tomorrow.  In closing as a Whole I'm excited to see what season 4 has in store I believe we will see some great fights an interesting villains who will submerge us in Dark an injustice hopefully Oliver Green an Our Green Arrow wont fail us or Our city. until next Wednesday embrace your darkness but always Aim Higher.