Checkered Past Past Episode 10: Green Lantern 43!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Are you ready? Yeah. Are you with it? Yeah. Okay, let's go. You know what to do. [00:00:05] Speaker B: The whole world's watching and counting on you. [00:00:08] Speaker A: And all you people listening out there, everybody everywhere. [00:00:13] Speaker B: Hang on, hang on, hang on. Welcome to Checkered Past, a loving postmodern examination of the. [00:00:20] Speaker A: Go. [00:00:20] Speaker B: Go. Check. Branded comic magazines published by DC Comics between February 1966 and August 1960. I'm Dr. Bob, and each week I'll be your guide on this trippy tour through 535 mid century masterpieces of graphic noveldom. This week. Green Lantern 43 cover date March 1966 cover price $0.12. Cover artist Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson. Edited by Julia Schwartz. Featuring the catastrophic crimes of Major Disaster, written by Gardner Fox. Art by Gil Kane and Sid Green. In which our fine figured fish wives finagle a fine how do you do? For our fast friends. Are you ready? Are you with it? Then away we go. Go. I'm Superman and Green Lantern. They got nothing on me. I can make like a turtle in a dark fog afloat in the sea. You can just sit down thinking on. [00:01:25] Speaker A: Your velvet throne yeah, about a Rainbo. [00:01:31] Speaker B: Say you can have for your own cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine. Hal Jordan and Barry Allen are confused when mysteriously their girlfriends Carol and Iris learn their secret identities of Flash and Green Lantern. The two couples meet for a double date in Pioneer City where the girls share their secrets with each other. Flash and Green Lantern are then needed elsewhere to handle an earthquake. While protecting people and minimizing the damage, Green Lantern and Flash spot a gang of crooks entering a bank. Somehow, the disaster engulfing the area is not affecting the crooks. Both heroes find their own powers unable to touch the crooks. Then their powers fail altogether after he and the Flash stop the crooks during another robbery. Without their powers, Green Lantern remembers that Pie Face's casebook contained the information about his secret and that of the Flash. The heroes bring the book to the FBI where they find the fingerprints of the crook Paul Booker. The heroes also discover that they now poss each other's powers. Flash and Green Lantern begin to track down Booker. When more disasters strike. They begin to see a connection between their reversed powers, the catastrophes and Booker. Once the connection is made, the heroes are able to restore their powers. Then they stop the crooks. Finally, the heroes find Booker, also known as Major Disaster. But he is electrocuted by his own machine which had been responsible for the switched powers and the disasters. Confused? Don't be afraid. We'll be right back to explain everything after this message from the public Service announcement. Players. [00:03:07] Speaker A: Public service announcement. Theater presents. [00:03:09] Speaker B: Buzzy says balance your fun diet. Aren't you going roller skating this afternoon, Buzzy? [00:03:18] Speaker A: Gosh, Wolfie, I think I'll skip it today. This book is terrific. I can't wait until I finish it. [00:03:25] Speaker B: What a SAP. Imagine wasting time with a book. This is my big opportunity to take Susie roller skating. [00:03:35] Speaker A: And soon. [00:03:38] Speaker B: Buzzy must be getting soft in the head. What fun is there in reading a book? [00:03:44] Speaker A: Try it sometime, Wolfie. Hey, whoa. [00:03:49] Speaker B: My angle. [00:03:51] Speaker A: I think maybe he's going to get a chance to try it sooner than I thought. Next day. [00:03:59] Speaker B: Say thanks for sending over that book, Buzzy. You know, I'm kinda enjoying it myself. [00:04:07] Speaker A: Good. I won't feel so bad then. While Susie and I go off to enjoy ourselves. [00:04:12] Speaker B: Hey, where are you going? [00:04:15] Speaker A: Roller skating. No kidding, kids. Having fun covers a lot of territory. Don't overdo one thing at the expense of another. Balance your fun diet and you'll have more fun. [00:04:31] Speaker B: Presented as a public service in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly Coordinating organization for national Health, Welfare and recreation Agencies of the usa. Here he comes. Here comes Green Lantern. [00:04:45] Speaker A: Green Lantern. [00:04:46] Speaker B: Demon with the ring. No, he's not a demon, is he? [00:04:49] Speaker A: No. He could be if he wanted to be, though. [00:04:52] Speaker B: Well, he could create a demon with his magic ring. [00:04:54] Speaker A: Anything. He's only limited by his imagination and his will. [00:04:57] Speaker B: It's not really magic, it's science. [00:04:59] Speaker A: Okay, so he's bending matter, isn't he? He's forming, reforming matter. [00:05:03] Speaker B: I. I don't know. Is it? I thought it was light. It's light. That's hard. Or energy. Light is energy. [00:05:14] Speaker A: Light is energy. [00:05:15] Speaker B: I passed science. So, green lantern number 43. [00:05:20] Speaker A: Yes. [00:05:21] Speaker B: I happen to know that Green Lantern is your favorite superhero. [00:05:24] Speaker A: He is my favorite superhero. [00:05:26] Speaker B: How did that come to be? [00:05:27] Speaker A: I really can't tell you. I don't know. I think when I was a young lad, I might have picked up a Green Lantern comic or two and just really thought it was cool that he was a test pilot. [00:05:36] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:37] Speaker A: And I liked his ability to create anything from his imagination. And I can't say that I collected those comics. I just picked them up once in a while. And then I remember in the 1970s, seeing that was it like a Follies kind of superhero folly show. [00:05:53] Speaker B: Legends of the Superheroes. [00:05:55] Speaker A: Legends of the Superheroes. [00:05:56] Speaker B: Yes. With Adam west and Burt Ward reprising their roles as Batman and Robin. [00:06:00] Speaker A: And I was so excited that Green Lantern was on that show. I can't tell you. I just, I don't know why I. [00:06:07] Speaker B: Was too, until I watched it and saw that it had a laugh track and was not at all superheroic. [00:06:13] Speaker A: So was it 1976? 77. [00:06:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm gonna say 77. [00:06:19] Speaker A: I would have been five or six years old. [00:06:22] Speaker B: Yeah, me too. [00:06:23] Speaker A: Yes. So. Which is not true for you. Anyway, I would, I was very easily amused and it was definitely made for that target audience. [00:06:33] Speaker B: Right? [00:06:34] Speaker A: Yeah. So, I mean, I think I continued with Green Lantern and as we saw on the Super Friends cartoons, and it's just always been my absolute favorite character. [00:06:46] Speaker B: I remember on Super Friends, Green Lantern had a very deep voice. Did he? Very manly. Yes. He also had no discernible collar to his costume. The green went all the way up his neck to his jawline. [00:06:59] Speaker A: Yep, yep. Great hair. [00:07:02] Speaker B: Yeah, fantastic hair. [00:07:03] Speaker A: Yep. [00:07:04] Speaker B: That's kind of the hairstyle I'm going for nowadays. [00:07:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I can see that. [00:07:08] Speaker B: Swoop back with a roguish forelock falling down over your eyes. Well, here we are, Green Lantern 43, featuring guest star, the Flash. It seems like we just saw the Flash. [00:07:17] Speaker A: Flash. [00:07:19] Speaker B: Fastest man in the universe. So green lantern number 43. The COVID features Major Disaster throwing fireballs at our heroes who have reversed powers. Green Lantern is running at super speed and Flash is flying through the air with green light surrounding him. [00:07:39] Speaker A: The green aura. [00:07:40] Speaker B: Major Disaster is. This is his first appearance in comics and his last. [00:07:47] Speaker A: No, no, he dies in this. [00:07:49] Speaker B: Well, death is never permanent in comics. [00:07:52] Speaker A: Okay. [00:07:53] Speaker B: No. Major Disaster will return several times throughout the 60s and 70s and in the 1990s actually turns hero and joins the Justice League. [00:08:04] Speaker A: Wow. [00:08:04] Speaker B: Yeah. So he's sporting here a fine costume. Thigh high, pink button up boots, blue tights. [00:08:15] Speaker A: Blue. A blue, I'm gonna call it a blouse. [00:08:18] Speaker B: Mm, yeah. [00:08:19] Speaker A: And a cowl. [00:08:20] Speaker B: A cowl with a short cape. [00:08:23] Speaker A: He looks like he's just taking a break from skiing. [00:08:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:27] Speaker A: To conquer the world. [00:08:29] Speaker B: Do you wear thigh high button up. [00:08:30] Speaker A: Boots when you ski? Well, you do wear, wear something to protect the snow from collecting into your, your, your, you know, your feet. So he certainly has taken those precautions. [00:08:41] Speaker B: This looks kind of like. What are those boots men wear when they're fishing? They're fly fishing. [00:08:47] Speaker A: Hip waders. [00:08:47] Speaker B: Hip waders. Are those button up though? [00:08:50] Speaker A: No, these are much more form fitted. [00:08:54] Speaker B: That's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 buttons. [00:09:01] Speaker A: And that cowl, you know he's got to be hot, right? [00:09:05] Speaker B: I. Well, especially since he's holding fire in. [00:09:08] Speaker A: His hand, which never Happens in the comic. [00:09:10] Speaker B: Right. Well, this is edited by Julius Schwartz. [00:09:14] Speaker A: So often the COVID art is created separately from the actual story. [00:09:20] Speaker B: What's his name made. [00:09:21] Speaker A: Who? The. The artist? [00:09:23] Speaker B: Julius Schwartz. [00:09:25] Speaker A: That's a guy. [00:09:26] Speaker B: That's the editor. The editor artist is Gil Kane, whose work we admired a couple of weeks ago with the Star Hawkins story. [00:09:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:35] Speaker B: All right, let's go inside the issue here. [00:09:39] Speaker A: Yes. Where he looks cross eyed as he's reaching out to Green Lantern. Oh, I said lantern. I always say lantern, Green Lantern and flash. [00:09:47] Speaker B: Right. He's cross eyed and big buck teeth. [00:09:53] Speaker A: Yeah. And what's he wearing on his head? A menorah. [00:09:57] Speaker B: No, I don't. A pitchfork. Yeah, like a pitchfork shape under the cowl. [00:10:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:04] Speaker B: Is that really a cowl? I would think the cowl would be the overhead mask itself. And then the. [00:10:09] Speaker A: Well, they always say. They always say cowl necked sweater. Right. Or cow. [00:10:12] Speaker B: Okay. [00:10:12] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. It's a cowlin hood. [00:10:14] Speaker B: You know what we need? [00:10:15] Speaker A: What? [00:10:15] Speaker B: A fashionista. To come and guest star. [00:10:18] Speaker A: Maybe. Maybe she'll come and visit us soon. [00:10:20] Speaker B: Maybe. So we open up the issue with Hal Jordan, test pilot. [00:10:24] Speaker A: Yes. [00:10:25] Speaker B: Talking to his boss and paramore, Carol Ferris. She looks smart, doesn't she? [00:10:32] Speaker A: She has an unusually long neck in that first panel. [00:10:35] Speaker B: And a tiny, tiny waist. [00:10:37] Speaker A: Wasp of a waist. [00:10:38] Speaker B: You know who has a tiny waist? [00:10:39] Speaker A: Who? [00:10:39] Speaker B: Keira Knightley. [00:10:41] Speaker A: Does she? [00:10:41] Speaker B: The actress? Yes. [00:10:44] Speaker A: So Carol Faris is talking with him and her hair's flipped up. [00:10:47] Speaker B: She just looks. [00:10:48] Speaker A: Well, she just looks adorable. She's far too thin for my taste. [00:10:51] Speaker B: Well, yes, but she's got a cute little like a Marlo Thomas hairdo, doesn't she? [00:10:56] Speaker A: Yeah, she's great. She's got a little necklace of pearls, white gloves, black turtleneck. She looks great. [00:11:02] Speaker B: I wish women still wore gloves. Do you? I just can't. The thought of their filthy hands all over everything. [00:11:08] Speaker A: Oh, they had to wash them all the time. I wish men still wore hats. [00:11:14] Speaker B: Well, some men do. The hipsters are bringing it back, you know. Only hipsters don't wash their hair. [00:11:21] Speaker A: Yay often. I've seen that. [00:11:24] Speaker B: So Hal is getting a plane. Ready for a trip with Carol. [00:11:30] Speaker A: Yes. [00:11:32] Speaker B: Carol says something's come up. We're not taking the plane on this trip. [00:11:36] Speaker A: Honey, I knew. I thought you had plans. But we're doing something else. And she calls him darling. [00:11:42] Speaker B: Darling. [00:11:44] Speaker A: Which she's probably never done before. [00:11:45] Speaker B: Look at his face. He's gobsmacked. [00:11:48] Speaker A: He is. His eyebrows are arched as high as they can go. What? [00:11:52] Speaker B: What? [00:11:52] Speaker A: What? [00:11:53] Speaker B: So what you May not know. Listener is that Carol Ferris is not aware that Hal Jordan and Green Lantern are the same person. [00:12:01] Speaker A: No. [00:12:01] Speaker B: She's got a giant crush on Green Lantern. And she can't be bothered with Hal Jordan. He's just a flyboy. [00:12:09] Speaker A: Ne' er do. [00:12:10] Speaker B: Well, you know how those test pilots are. She leads him into the hangar where he keeps his secret power battery, which. [00:12:19] Speaker A: Charges his ring, which she knows about. She knows everything. [00:12:23] Speaker B: All of a sudden, she knows that he's Green Lantern. [00:12:25] Speaker A: She says, hurry, put on your Green Lantern uniform, then charge your ring at the invisible power battery. [00:12:32] Speaker B: This might be a good time to pause and explain about Green Lantern in case people aren't up to speed. [00:12:37] Speaker A: You really have to explain about Green Lantern? [00:12:39] Speaker B: Do you know his origin story? [00:12:44] Speaker A: Well, it depends. I mean, I know that. That he. That there is this planet of. Oh, is that right? Oa. Oh, and there are the immortals there. [00:12:53] Speaker B: Guardians of the universe. [00:12:55] Speaker A: Okay, we're just going to accept that I'm not going to have this, you know. Correct. 100. Correct. And he is part of an international police force. [00:13:03] Speaker B: Well, intergalactic. [00:13:05] Speaker A: I said international, didn't I? Oh, my God. Can we do this over again? That part. No. Oh, God. Okay, so, intergalactic police force. And I know that he was chosen. [00:13:14] Speaker B: Right? [00:13:15] Speaker A: The ring chose him. [00:13:16] Speaker B: Right. [00:13:17] Speaker A: And for qualities that he didn't necessarily know about himself. [00:13:22] Speaker B: He was born without fear. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Okay? [00:13:24] Speaker B: That's the only quality required. [00:13:26] Speaker A: And he charges his battery once every 24 hours and charges the ring from the battery once every 24 hours by reciting the Green Lantern mantra, which is. I cannot remember. [00:13:40] Speaker B: Let's say it together. In brightest day. [00:13:42] Speaker A: In brightest day. In blackest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. [00:13:47] Speaker B: Let those who worship evil might Beware my power. [00:13:51] Speaker A: Green Lanterns light. [00:13:55] Speaker B: I'm totally reading your lips. [00:13:59] Speaker A: Oh, how can I be such a fan of Green Lantern and not know that that's. I seriously considered having. I considered having my motorcycle tank painted with Green Lanterns insignia. [00:14:09] Speaker B: Really? [00:14:09] Speaker A: Yes, I did. [00:14:10] Speaker B: That's a fine idea. Get started on that right away, Carol. Er, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm not Green Lantern. She whips out a sheaf of typewritten pages from her handbag. [00:14:24] Speaker A: She's. It's a sheaf, Bob. It's a. Just a dossier. [00:14:27] Speaker B: Right? She's gotten this letter which describes all about his secret identity, his cases, dates, names, everything. [00:14:39] Speaker A: You can stop your hemming and hawing, Angel. Mine, I know your Green Lantern. The facts are listed here in this dossier. I received this morning in this morning's mail. Dates, cases, people's names, everything. The proof is complete, irrefutable. [00:14:52] Speaker B: Meanwhile, more than a thousand miles away in Central City. [00:14:57] Speaker A: Central City. [00:14:58] Speaker B: Irish. Irish Iris. [00:15:00] Speaker A: Iris West. [00:15:01] Speaker B: Iris west is confronting her fiance, Barry. [00:15:05] Speaker A: Allen, in very much the same body posture we left her in the last time we saw her. [00:15:09] Speaker B: Fish wifing. [00:15:12] Speaker A: Is this now a time to apologize for using the word bitch? [00:15:15] Speaker B: Yes, we should apologize for using the word bitch. [00:15:17] Speaker A: And we're not going to use it anymore. No, and no one said anything to us. It was a conversation we had after the podcast. [00:15:24] Speaker B: I do reserve the right to use the word fish wife. Yes, because that's what these gals are doing. [00:15:29] Speaker A: Well, why aren't we going to use the word bitch anymore? [00:15:31] Speaker B: Well, because that's just not. [00:15:34] Speaker A: Done. [00:15:35] Speaker B: It's derogatory and it's offensive and it's. [00:15:39] Speaker A: And it really. It trivializes fish wifery. No, I think it subjugates the female gender down to this. Yeah, subjugates the female into this role of subservient to the male. You know, she's such a bitch. You know, that's not. I don't agree with that. And we just used it because it was a fun term to use, and then we thought better of it afterward. We do like the word fish wifing, though. [00:16:05] Speaker B: Yes. [00:16:06] Speaker A: And we will continue to criticize these men for their stupid actions. [00:16:11] Speaker B: Right. [00:16:12] Speaker A: No one's safe. [00:16:14] Speaker B: So we will, though, later on need to apologize to Native Americans. [00:16:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. We didn't create these. [00:16:23] Speaker B: No, we're just reporting, looking back on it. So Iris orders Barry to empty his pockets. You empty your pockets right now. He pulls out some change and keys. [00:16:36] Speaker A: Is this what you're looking for? [00:16:37] Speaker B: Keep digging, Barry. There's more in your pockets than this. How about that trick ring of yours? Well, she's talking about the ring where he keeps his super compressed costume. [00:16:46] Speaker A: I told you how upset this makes me. [00:16:48] Speaker B: I know. [00:16:49] Speaker A: It's not the fact that the costume can. Can jut out of the ring. [00:16:54] Speaker B: Right, right, right. [00:16:55] Speaker A: And it's the fact that I don't know how he gets it back into the ring. Right. [00:16:57] Speaker B: Well, I'll do some research when we see how that works. [00:17:00] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:17:01] Speaker B: Iris has also received a letter explaining many things. [00:17:06] Speaker A: Hers is just two pages. [00:17:08] Speaker B: Right. Well, there's not much to explain. Barry Allen. Is the Flash done single spaced? [00:17:14] Speaker A: Maybe. Maybe they double spaced it. 14 type font. [00:17:17] Speaker B: So Flash gets dressed in his costume, takes off with Iris in his arms, running cross country, protecting her Because I. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Was worried about the friction. Uh huh. Protecting her. His aura. And protected from friction by his aura and nestled safely in his arms. Right. [00:17:33] Speaker B: So yes, Flash has a super speed aura which prevents him from burning to cinders as he's running at the speed of. He's extended it around Iris across the country. [00:17:44] Speaker A: She's wearing great heels, isn't she? [00:17:45] Speaker B: He's just hoisted her up as if he's carrying over the threshold. Right. And running. [00:17:52] Speaker A: Yes. [00:17:52] Speaker B: Is that possible? I'm asking. [00:17:54] Speaker A: There's no other flattering way to do that. What's he going to do, put her on her back like a piggyback ride? [00:17:58] Speaker B: What? I'm saying he's not super strong. I'm asking because I'm not a runner. I don't know if you could hoist someone up like that and then go for a run. [00:18:06] Speaker A: Well, okay, so Captain Butler, he and I could run together. Right. And if I had to run with him in my arms, he's £52, right. I'd get about maybe a minute and then I would just have to put him down. [00:18:18] Speaker B: Okay. Now I'd say iris is probably 120, 125. [00:18:22] Speaker A: Sure. Well, but he's quite fit. I mean, look at those muscles. [00:18:25] Speaker B: Still, he's running full speed a thousand miles. [00:18:29] Speaker A: How long does it take him? A couple seconds. [00:18:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Her hair's not bothered one bit. [00:18:34] Speaker B: Maybe that's the super speed aura as well. [00:18:37] Speaker A: How does it keep. How does she keep those heels on? Well. [00:18:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. There's no strap. I don't know. [00:18:44] Speaker A: I. And this week, last week, I criticized her outfit. She had a giant bow on the front of her dress. Right. This week I'm really. I have nothing to say about it. Right. [00:18:52] Speaker B: It's a cute little cocktail dress. [00:18:54] Speaker A: It's great. [00:18:56] Speaker B: So we're in Coast City. I should explain. Coast City is inferred to be in California. [00:19:02] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:19:03] Speaker B: I don't know where Central City is. [00:19:04] Speaker A: Okay, Well, I think probably Chicago. [00:19:07] Speaker B: Could be. There's also some supposition that it's central Ohio. Really? [00:19:12] Speaker A: Yeah. So Coast City is the west Coast. [00:19:16] Speaker B: Coast City is the west coast. Green Lantern and Carol are heading off for their rendezvous. Rendezvous? It's not pronounced that way. Rendezvous. [00:19:26] Speaker A: You don't get to say it over. If I don't get to say it. [00:19:27] Speaker B: Over in Pioneer City. I don't know where that's supposed to be. Pioneer City, probably Northern California. [00:19:33] Speaker A: I assume it's Georgia. Oh, no. They're rendezvousing, so it must be somewhere in between. Yes. [00:19:40] Speaker B: Oh, I don't know if it's in between. Oh, maybe it is. Like Denver. [00:19:43] Speaker A: Yes. [00:19:43] Speaker B: Okay. [00:19:44] Speaker A: Idaho. Iowa. So. [00:19:50] Speaker B: Green Lantern and Carol are surprised to see Iris with the Flash because Carol thought Iris's date was going to be with Barry Allen. What a tangled web we weave, ladies. They land. Iris shares the news that Barry is secretly the Flash. Carol shares that Hal Jordan is Green Lantern. The end. We could end the story right here. [00:20:16] Speaker A: We really could. That's enough. [00:20:17] Speaker B: If it was written these days, they would end and this would continue for six more issues. [00:20:23] Speaker A: Really? They used to pack a lot more content in these. [00:20:25] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:20:25] Speaker A: You know, I'm going to pick up an issue of Green Lantern this week and see what it's like. [00:20:31] Speaker B: Okay. [00:20:32] Speaker A: I know I won't be able to understand anything. [00:20:34] Speaker B: Probably not. [00:20:35] Speaker A: Like all modern comics, it'll require me to go back 20 years into history to put it all together. [00:20:38] Speaker B: Well, there's all kinds of different. They all. All the colors have rings now. [00:20:43] Speaker A: Oh, I'm not gonna pick up an issue. I don't even care. [00:20:45] Speaker B: And there's like, four or five Green Lanterns just on Earth. [00:20:49] Speaker A: Is there still Kyle Rayner? [00:20:51] Speaker B: Yes. [00:20:52] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:20:54] Speaker B: I think I haven't read Green Lantern in a while. Yeah, Nobody knows what we're talking about. Now, out of the restaurant, Flash and Green La, where do they go? [00:21:01] Speaker A: What's the restaurant called? [00:21:03] Speaker B: It doesn't say. Just says the restaurant. Yeah, but it must be fancy because they have a maitre d in a tux. [00:21:09] Speaker A: They do. And who's the person clapping over there? [00:21:12] Speaker B: I don't know. Why would you clap? [00:21:14] Speaker A: Well, they must be watching a show. Oh, they're clapping because these superheroes are. [00:21:17] Speaker B: Because the superheroes are coming in. Damn it. Perino's is my place, my restaurant. So they're seated in a corner. [00:21:26] Speaker A: That's a reference to Mommy Dear. [00:21:27] Speaker B: Yes. Everyone knows that. [00:21:28] Speaker A: If they're listening to this, I don't think all of your audience knows that. [00:21:35] Speaker B: So they're seated in the corner. All of a sudden, there's an earthquake. They must still be on the. [00:21:40] Speaker A: They're hovered. They're huddling together in the corner, sharing secrets back and forth. [00:21:44] Speaker B: Girls say, don't worry, boys, we won't give away your secrets. That's just for us, girls. [00:21:48] Speaker A: Yes, indeed. [00:21:49] Speaker B: Well, there's an earthquake. They must still be on the West Coast. Then there's an earthquake. An earthquake and a Titanic windstorm. [00:21:57] Speaker A: Mmm. As you can see from the words splashed across the page. Rumble. [00:22:05] Speaker B: Maybe they're in Mexico. Maybe it's a Mexican. Flash saves the day. Green Lantern holds up buildings. Look at these people running. [00:22:14] Speaker A: Wait a second. [00:22:15] Speaker B: Bottom of page six. [00:22:15] Speaker A: You passed over the panel that first pissed me off. [00:22:20] Speaker B: What? [00:22:21] Speaker A: It was Flash running around. These guys are. These guys were perfectly safe over here on the crevice. And then what does it say? He says, as the cars thump and crash harmlessly the fastest man on Earth rotates around the crevasse, lifting out two men who have fallen into the awesome pit. And look at them. They are just benignly standing there with their arms and legs extended as if Jesus Christ were resurrecting them from the dead. As if they were ascending into heaven. It's not that easy to be lifted out of a giant pit by a whirling man in red. [00:22:55] Speaker B: Yeah, if you create a suction updraft. [00:22:58] Speaker A: They'Ll be pulled out. It's pretty violent. [00:23:02] Speaker B: How do you know? Have you ever happened to you? [00:23:05] Speaker A: No, but I've fallen. I can imagine. It's the reverse. I've seen skydivers, okay? [00:23:12] Speaker B: This is not exactly the same thing. They have already fallen into the pit. He's sucking them up with his whirlwind. [00:23:19] Speaker A: I'm just saying, it's. Look. Look how happy they are. Look at this face. Look at the guy. Look at his face. He's just so benign. [00:23:26] Speaker B: Because he's being saved. He was gonna die in a crevasse. I hope it never happens to you. [00:23:33] Speaker A: I. Well, if it does, and the Flash comes and zooms around and creates a whirlwind which lifts me, sucks me out of a pit you can be damn sure that I'm not gonna stand there with my arms and legs extended with a benign smile on my face, saying, take me to heaven. [00:23:48] Speaker B: No, but you might be happily smiling that you're lifted onto the solid earth. [00:23:52] Speaker A: My face will send into a crevasse. [00:23:55] Speaker B: Well, no one can see that. You're on the radio. [00:23:57] Speaker A: I have a big, surprised look on my face. [00:24:00] Speaker B: Let's move on. [00:24:02] Speaker A: And another thing. [00:24:03] Speaker B: Okay. [00:24:04] Speaker A: Green Lantern stitching up the Earth, right? Sure. That checks out with a giant needle and thread. [00:24:09] Speaker B: Superman does the same thing, only he uses, like, a telephone pole that he forms into a needle. [00:24:13] Speaker A: Are you kidding? [00:24:14] Speaker B: No. [00:24:15] Speaker A: Oh, come on. [00:24:16] Speaker B: That's Stitch up the Earth Superhero 101. [00:24:18] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. [00:24:22] Speaker B: Moving on. They saved the day, then. Look at this. This building is collapsing. But the pieces of the collapsing building are diverting their way around. These costumed criminals never explained. No, it's not. The criminals are entering a bank. [00:24:46] Speaker A: They walk out with cash. [00:24:47] Speaker B: Green Lantern forms a net to catch the criminals to catch the criminals. It also is diverted, deflected away from them. He forms a big. What do you call this thing? [00:24:58] Speaker A: Crane. A hook. Crane. Crane, like the thing you have in the little machines where you put in place to pick up things, pick up stuffed animals. [00:25:06] Speaker B: That never works. [00:25:07] Speaker A: What's that called? Like a. [00:25:09] Speaker B: A hook thing. [00:25:10] Speaker A: You. [00:25:11] Speaker B: It never works. Have you ever seen anyone catch anything? [00:25:13] Speaker A: Never. But do you know when we go to the movies up in Hagerston? And do you remember the song on that place? The one place that when you walk into the theater. [00:25:34] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't learn the second. [00:25:35] Speaker A: Oh, it's the worst. [00:25:37] Speaker B: He's trying to pick up their car with this hook thing. Also deflected away from them. Here comes Flash running, also deflected. [00:25:45] Speaker A: I loved this panel. When Flash is going to run to these guys, he said, looks like Green Lantern's having power ring trouble. I'll take that car apart so fast, those crooks won't even have a way to make their escape. [00:25:58] Speaker B: Right into the telephone. [00:25:59] Speaker A: Hey, what's this? I was repelled away from the car and forced to crash into this light pole. [00:26:03] Speaker B: Wah. [00:26:05] Speaker A: And then they both fall unconscious. [00:26:08] Speaker B: Right? What dread peril awaits Flash and Green Lantern? Does her superpowers fade away from them? Let's find out in part two. Oh, this is a great panel. Green Lantern falling. Full page panel. Flash unconscious on the ground. Green Lantern falling from the air. [00:26:26] Speaker A: Poor Green Lantern. [00:26:28] Speaker B: Yeah, don't worry. He'll be okay. We flash forward to the escape vehicle that the criminals got into and who's driving. Major Disaster. [00:26:41] Speaker A: Paul Booker. [00:26:42] Speaker B: He's got thin lips. [00:26:45] Speaker A: What are you saying about thin lips? [00:26:47] Speaker B: He must be British or of British descent. Big lips in those. Big lips. Thin lips and those bug eyes. That's what I meant to say. Bug eyes. [00:26:58] Speaker A: Bug eyes and a pitchfork on his head. [00:26:59] Speaker B: Pitchfork on his head. I don't understand the pitchfork. [00:27:04] Speaker A: I think he might have been designed by a teenager. [00:27:07] Speaker B: Well, he was designed by Gil Kane, who is not a teenager, but I take your point. [00:27:12] Speaker A: Mm. [00:27:13] Speaker B: They're driving to an old mansion. Must be their hideout. And now Major Disaster is flailing his arms as he explains his plan. [00:27:23] Speaker A: This is the panel where he looks like a portly gentleman. [00:27:26] Speaker B: Yeah, he gained about 30 pounds right there. [00:27:29] Speaker A: Right? He must have. They must have stopped to have some burgers and fries. [00:27:32] Speaker B: Could be. [00:27:32] Speaker A: Yeah. These buzzers were pretty salty. Must have retained a lot of water. [00:27:36] Speaker B: That's. [00:27:36] Speaker A: Don't you hate when you do that? When you eat something salty and your ring starts to hurt? [00:27:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. You know, I don't like French fries. I just eat them because they're there. [00:27:45] Speaker A: I love French fries. [00:27:46] Speaker B: I know you do. I like Tater Tots. I like mashed potatoes, but I don't like French fries. [00:27:52] Speaker A: Do you know something else? [00:27:53] Speaker B: What? [00:27:53] Speaker A: I will not eat a hot dog unless it's really, really hot. You know how when you go to cookout and people and they say, hey, burgers and fries are ready, or no, burgers and burgers and hot dogs are ready and I have to get my hot dog right off the grill. If it sits on a platter and cools down, I won't eat it. And I'm not that particular about food, but I am very particular about the hot dogs. [00:28:13] Speaker B: Okay, good to know. [00:28:14] Speaker A: And you put condiments on it and they're cold. Okay, I'll just move along. Let's go back to. Why don't we go back to the story? [00:28:19] Speaker B: Okay, well, that's what we're here for. People aren't listening in to hear us talk about our personal lives. [00:28:25] Speaker A: No, actually they are. I think they listen to. Listen to us argue in all of our diversions. [00:28:30] Speaker B: I've got it backwards. Flash and Green Lantern wake up, realize their powers are gone. [00:28:37] Speaker A: Wait, wait, one more thing. [00:28:39] Speaker B: Yeah? [00:28:40] Speaker A: When. When Major Disaster hits his hand on the table. Look at his eyes. He's got Joan Crawford's. So I'm so angry my eyes are crossed. Eyes. Look how they're crossed toward the top of his temples. Clean up this mess. [00:28:59] Speaker B: So Major Disaster knows that the powers have been switched, but Green Lantern and Flash are unaware of that yet. [00:29:06] Speaker A: And it hasn't been explained right. I mean, he talks about, he says to the scientists, the stress null beam rays you discovered, which enabled me to trigger off the earthquake and windstorm also had the side effect precisely as you calculated. So it's. Now, remember this stress null beam, it is the only time it will be discussed in this entire comic. [00:29:27] Speaker B: Okay, well, it only. [00:29:31] Speaker A: And as they predicted, as the scientists predicted, it had the effect. As the side effect of doing whatever it was that was done to their powers, which they don't know about yet. [00:29:41] Speaker B: Transferred. [00:29:42] Speaker A: Transferred their powers. [00:29:42] Speaker B: Powers to each other. Because as the scientists explained, matter and energy cannot be destroyed. [00:29:48] Speaker A: But what makes me so angry? I mean, really angry. Like I. I yelled out loud when I read this. [00:29:55] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:29:57] Speaker A: Was how Green Lantern and the Flash undo that. [00:30:03] Speaker B: We haven't gotten there yet. [00:30:05] Speaker A: We will. And it will be my thing today. Okay, okay. [00:30:10] Speaker B: Just the one. The boys return to their girlfriends who explained they don't Care if they've lost their powers. They don't care if they're not gonna be Green Lantern and Flash anymore. They love the men inside the costume. [00:30:26] Speaker A: And for once, Iris. Iris west is not angry. [00:30:30] Speaker B: Did she change her dress? Because now it's black. [00:30:32] Speaker A: She did. [00:30:33] Speaker B: It was blue when they left Central Stage. [00:30:34] Speaker A: Well, it's blue in this upper panel. It's black down here. It's probably one of those. The material that changes in the light. [00:30:41] Speaker B: Yes, like the popular Internet meme that was so popular on social media several months ago. The color changing dress. You don't have any idea. Don't even care about it. Okay, so they hop in the car. They're driving back to Coast City. It's a rented car. The text is certain to make clear. [00:31:02] Speaker A: It's a convertible, though. It's a nice rented car. It is. [00:31:04] Speaker B: I'll say. [00:31:05] Speaker A: Meanwhile, major disaster is readying another disaster, this time aimed at Coast City itself. It will be the dark. It will be dark when the media shower starts to fall. Really? Because that's not what we see when it happens in the panels. [00:31:18] Speaker B: Yes, it is. [00:31:19] Speaker A: Barely. It's 1940s day night. [00:31:21] Speaker B: Right. [00:31:24] Speaker A: That will do. [00:31:25] Speaker B: What does he say? [00:31:26] Speaker A: That will add to the problem and the authorities face blah, blah, blah. [00:31:31] Speaker B: Read much? [00:31:32] Speaker A: No, actually, remember, I have a stuttering problem. [00:31:35] Speaker B: Do you? [00:31:35] Speaker A: Yes. I always have. [00:31:36] Speaker B: Well, I can't say the word. February. [00:31:38] Speaker A: I'm sorry. [00:31:39] Speaker B: So here comes a meteor storm crashing down on the city. Now, these meteors are enormous. Enormous. This would decimate the entire Earth. If these were actual meteors falling on top of it. [00:31:50] Speaker A: Look, I was thinking. And they were like giant meatballs. [00:31:53] Speaker B: Oh, maybe they are meatballs. [00:31:57] Speaker A: That's not his power. No, I call foul. [00:32:01] Speaker B: So the meteors also are diverted away from the rented car. Thank goodness, because that would be expensive to cover. [00:32:10] Speaker A: Why? [00:32:12] Speaker B: It doesn't say. [00:32:13] Speaker A: It doesn't, does it? [00:32:14] Speaker B: No. After depositing the girls in Carol Faris Mansion. Say mansion. I like the sound of that. The powerless superheroes drive into the heart of the disaster area and start piling people into their rented car. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Come on, folks, pile in. We'll take as many as we can away from here. [00:32:33] Speaker B: I don't know if that's. I wouldn't invite strangers into my rented car. [00:32:36] Speaker A: No, it's a dirty it up. It's a convertible. There's plenty of room. Everybody can get in there. Pile in. [00:32:43] Speaker B: So the only thing going for them is that the meteors seem to be diverting away from actually doing any damage to people. [00:32:49] Speaker A: And it's sort of bouncing on the ground. [00:32:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Maybe they're made of rubber. [00:32:53] Speaker A: I. You know. You know when you watch a meteor shower? [00:32:56] Speaker B: Uh huh. [00:32:57] Speaker A: Those meteors that you watch streaking across the sky, they're usually about the size of a grain of sand. Not a giant car sized meatball. [00:33:06] Speaker B: Alright. They see Major Disaster. [00:33:09] Speaker A: Major Disaster. [00:33:10] Speaker B: Now look at this move. Green Lantern without his powers wrecks the rental car into Major Disaster's car. Leaps from the convertible, from the moving car, from the moving car that just crashed into another car. Into the passenger side window of Major's disastrous car. Only it must be spinning because by the time he gets to Major disastrous car, his fist is coming in the driver's side. [00:33:40] Speaker A: And that is why Green Lantern is my favorite superhero. [00:33:44] Speaker B: Because he's badass. [00:33:45] Speaker A: He is. [00:33:46] Speaker B: He has no fear. Punch is. Major Disaster knocks him out. [00:33:52] Speaker A: This next move at the top panel with where Flash and Green Lantern are joining hands together to knock these guys over bowling pin style is fantastic teamwork. [00:34:05] Speaker B: Yay. Yep. They link arms, barrel through the henchman, knock them over like bowling pins. [00:34:15] Speaker A: We'll use Justice League tactics and work as a team. [00:34:18] Speaker B: Ka pow. Major Disaster wakes up in the front seat of his car. Starts now. [00:34:27] Speaker A: The panel stars and everything around his head. [00:34:29] Speaker B: The panel says a special signal summons those who are left of the uniformed men. [00:34:34] Speaker A: What's the special signal? [00:34:34] Speaker B: Bob the car horn. [00:34:37] Speaker A: Your date's here. Hurry. Hurry. [00:34:43] Speaker B: Extry extra. Call off the assault. Come back to the car. You gotta stop screaming. I think that you're overpowering the microphone. [00:34:52] Speaker A: I'll just talk like this. [00:34:53] Speaker B: Okay, That'll be fine. Thank you. Some of the crooks are taken and turned into the police. All right, so Green Lantern figures out that his. His friend Thomas Kalmuku, the Eskimo. The Eskimo grease monkey who works for Ferris Aircraft. Now all that is fine, I suppose. I think we're not supposed to say Eskimo anymore. We're supposed to say Inuit. [00:35:19] Speaker A: Though Inuits are not all of the. [00:35:22] Speaker B: Right, I know that. I know, but I think the word Eskimo is offensive. However, what's more offensive is that Thomas Kalmuku's nickname is Pie Face. Yeah, because he has a round face. Is that why? [00:35:40] Speaker A: I don't know. Maybe he likes pie. He just loses control. [00:35:47] Speaker B: It could be. I, I don't think that's it. [00:35:49] Speaker A: No, I'm sure it's not. I'm sorry, what? I'm sorry that he calls him Pie Face. Well, yes, maybe I would love to say that it's a childhood nickname that Just stuck. [00:36:03] Speaker B: But it's not. [00:36:04] Speaker A: No. [00:36:05] Speaker B: Now I will say that Thomas Kalmuku is still around as a character and is no longer called Bi Face. They thought better of that. And in fact, I think they did have an in story apology of sorts about ever calling him Pie Face. Anyway, Pie Face keeps a secret diary about the adventures of Green Lantern because he does know that Green Lantern is Hal Jordan. [00:36:29] Speaker A: Okay. [00:36:29] Speaker B: He's the only one who knows. [00:36:31] Speaker A: Why does he keep a secret diary? [00:36:32] Speaker B: Well, it's like he calls it his casebook. He just writes down the adventures of Green Lantern. I don't know why. I mean, I think it's a fine idea. Why would you put secret details in it written down in a book where anyone could find. He's got a secret panel where he keeps his case book. Flash is going to take it to the FBI to get it fingerprinted to make sure no one is fiddled. [00:36:57] Speaker A: So I have a question. [00:36:58] Speaker B: Yeah? [00:37:00] Speaker A: PI says to him, jumping fish hooks. GL if you blocked out my knowledge of Flash's secret identity, why didn't you use your power ring to prevent anyone from reading my casebook? You could have made the pages look blank or something. Right? [00:37:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:14] Speaker A: So this is my question. When Green Lantern uses his ring, right, could he do something like cast some sort of an energy spell over the book to have it permanently unreadable from someone else or. I've always thought that Green Lantern's tactics are related to the assault or whatever it is that he's engaged in. It's not like, you know, this. This. This glass of water is invisible now and will remain so as long as I'm alive. You know, Bink, right? Do you know what I mean? [00:37:51] Speaker B: I do know what you mean. It's very amorphous and not very well explained. Yeah, well, yeah, there's just a little. [00:37:57] Speaker A: Warm up for what's about to happen. [00:37:59] Speaker B: I would think anything that he does with his ring, even if it is something like making someone's memory of a certain event go away, that that would wear off after 24 hours, right? If his ring runs out of power. [00:38:12] Speaker A: Well, you would think so, yes. Like something I have. How often does he use his ring to alter memories? That's horrible. [00:38:19] Speaker B: It's all the time. [00:38:21] Speaker A: Is Carol Faris even going to be able to put sentences together by the time she's 35? [00:38:26] Speaker B: There's actually a story dealt with all that in recent times. [00:38:32] Speaker A: Know so much. I sure do. You? Just a repository of useless comic knowledge. [00:38:39] Speaker B: Yeah, there was a lot of memory wiping back in the day here. And they actually did some modern day follow up to that. [00:38:48] Speaker A: Wow. [00:38:48] Speaker B: It didn't work out very well for anyone involved. [00:38:53] Speaker A: We're almost through this story. [00:38:55] Speaker B: I'll say. Well, now. [00:38:57] Speaker A: No, no, I'm sorry. The section of the story, Green Lantern. [00:39:00] Speaker B: Goes to charge his power ring. Here's the the oath. In brightest day and blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. [00:39:07] Speaker A: The dice of worship evils might beware my power. Green Lantern's blood. [00:39:11] Speaker B: He finds that his ring is not glowing, but Flash is. Flash is getting charged by the battery. And he sure looks happy about it. [00:39:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:39:21] Speaker B: Fists in the air. [00:39:23] Speaker A: Look at him smiling. [00:39:24] Speaker B: Yay. [00:39:26] Speaker A: So down in the bottom panel we get. Whatever happened back there in Pioneer City must have transferred my powering energy to you. Maybe we both switch powers and you or your power ring is now super speed. Has my super speed. Let's try it out and see. Okay, so now we understand. Essentially they're saying, you know, it's like the parent trap. We've reversed, we've tricked everyone. Or maybe it's not like the parent trap, but. [00:39:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I didn't see where you were going with that. [00:39:51] Speaker A: Okay, we've reversed powers. Any sort of 1970s sitcom that you've seen involving two kids, they've reversed their powers. Well, great. [00:40:01] Speaker B: Are there sitcoms about people with powers? [00:40:03] Speaker A: I. You're gonna have to forgive me. I didn't get enough sleep last night. I really didn't. [00:40:09] Speaker B: Okay. [00:40:09] Speaker A: So I'm. I'm working on fumes here. [00:40:12] Speaker B: I can smell flash of Green Lantern. Off to. Where are they now? In this office. Oh, the FBI gone to the FBI to check out the fingerprints. They found Paul Booker's fingerprints and they are using the ring power coming out of Flash's finger to track down Paul Booker. Paul Booker, who is now a major disaster, was mere months ago a punk crook fleeing from the police. He finds an unlocked apartment window. Now, here you go. A man wearing a hat. He's a punk crook, but he's wearing a hat nonetheless. He finds an open window. It's pie face's apartment that he sneaks into where pie face and his wife Turga live. He accidentally hits the switch which opens the desk. [00:41:05] Speaker A: Yeah, accidentally, accidentally hits the switch opening the desk. Nice. [00:41:10] Speaker B: I always hoped that I would find. You know, we live in a civil war era house. I always hoped I'd find a box full of confederate gold or something. [00:41:18] Speaker A: Yeah, we do. We did find that we would hope. We found that underneath one of the floors. One of the floors here is. There's so much space between the floor and the ceiling below that you can almost. You can crawl through it. [00:41:29] Speaker B: You could live down there. [00:41:30] Speaker A: You could. Hey, you could rent it out. So he accidentally hits the secret panel. You know, they could have set it up here. The writers could have said. He decides to search the place for some loot, you know. Instead, he accidentally, whoa. I've hit a secret panel with my hand underneath his desk, as if. And he finds this book. He says, wow, I stumbled onto something big. I'll borrow this book, read it over, then put it back in place so the owner won't tumble to what I've done. And then. [00:42:04] Speaker B: And then all of a sudden, he's. [00:42:05] Speaker A: A major disaster, right? With his costume. With his snow costume and his boots and whatnot. [00:42:11] Speaker B: He. [00:42:12] Speaker A: And we don't know what his powers are. [00:42:14] Speaker B: Well, what I've gathered is that he kind of just went to these scientists, and the scientists are creating these devices for him to cause disasters. [00:42:27] Speaker A: So why the costume? Why any. [00:42:30] Speaker B: Why not? It seems to be the world they live in. Everyone's got a costume. Flash and Green Lantern are off with each other's powers. Here comes another something. A meteor storm. Oh, it's a landslide, but it's a landslide. [00:42:43] Speaker A: Ends in lightning. [00:42:43] Speaker B: Meteor, storm, and lightning. [00:42:45] Speaker A: Although lightning is yellow. [00:42:49] Speaker B: Right? [00:42:51] Speaker A: Lightning's not yellow. [00:42:53] Speaker B: Well, it looks yellow. [00:42:55] Speaker A: No, it doesn't. Well, I grew up in Florida. No lightning ever looks yellow. [00:43:01] Speaker B: Okay, well, maybe on this Earth, now that we know there are multiple Earths. So, Flash, Green Lantern, dealing with the disasters, now, here is this. [00:43:12] Speaker A: I love. I love this thing. This thing that the Green Lantern does, which Flash has done before, where he whis. He spins his arms in circles so quickly. I just. I just can't imagine what that must feel like to spin your. [00:43:24] Speaker B: Your. [00:43:25] Speaker A: Your arms so quickly that you create tornadoes. [00:43:30] Speaker B: Well, why don't you try it? You don't have to imagine. Just do it. [00:43:37] Speaker A: I can't do it. So this is where I get so angry, because it's this panel in the middle of the page. Next, A storm of ice particles and a great forest fire draw their attention. And then if. And Flash says, if Paul Booker originally caused the disasters in Pioneer City which were responsible for the switch into our. Switch in our superpowers, maybe those transferred superpowers are somehow to blame for what's happening now, right? So he says. I had this idea. And Green Lantern says, it's up to you to check that out. Flash, transfer our superpowers back to each other, and that's it. [00:44:20] Speaker B: And that's It. [00:44:21] Speaker A: They have the thought and it happens. And this made me so angry. I have get. I can tolerate a lot of things, but in comic books, you often get these ideas where the conflict builds and builds and builds. And then you get this. Deux example. Deus ex machina. And whereas. Whereas, like this. This. The conflict is wrapped up with this ridiculous contrivance that kind of clumsily brings it to a closure. I. I hate that. And that's exactly what this is. They have a thought and boom. All of a sudden, their powers are restored back to each other. No questions asked. No. Oh, let's get in the way of the beam. Nothing. Just boom. Done. [00:45:10] Speaker B: Right? Yeah. [00:45:12] Speaker A: Next channel. Their powers have been switched back. [00:45:14] Speaker B: I wish I could say that there's some esoteric comics knowledge that I'm aware of that could explain what exactly happened, but there's not. [00:45:22] Speaker A: There is not. [00:45:23] Speaker B: Somebody dropped. [00:45:23] Speaker A: It's what I call the 445 rule on Friday afternoon. [00:45:26] Speaker B: Right. [00:45:26] Speaker A: It's like, we gotta go home. I gotta wrap this up. Let's. We've only just a couple more pages to go. Boom. Wait, wait, Julius. Are we going to explain this? No, we're not going to explain it. [00:45:36] Speaker B: Nope. Martini's not going to drink itself. Major Disaster has saved his best weapon for last. Not even Flash and Green Lantern will be able to stand up to this. I wish I knew what it was. [00:45:51] Speaker A: But we don't, because I'm assuming it's. That's that matter transfer beam null void thing. [00:45:57] Speaker B: Well, he pulls the lever, and he forgot to wear his gloves. His insulated gloves. And so it explodes and kills him. [00:46:05] Speaker A: Now, if you've got to pull a lever, right, to make this thing work, which is fine. Okay, Are you going to create a lever that has a metallic surface to it that. That will shock you? There's no grounding to this. I mean, just like, touch it, boom, you're dead. Really? [00:46:20] Speaker B: Well, especially really, seeing as how he's been wearing gloves this whole time. Except for this one panel where he has to wear gloves to touch the machine or it explodes. [00:46:30] Speaker A: Maybe he just went to the bathroom and he washed his hands and forgot to put his gloves back on. [00:46:33] Speaker B: Well, I mean, at least he's washing his hands. [00:46:35] Speaker A: That's the only way you can explain it? How else would you explain every single time we've seen him, he's been wearing gloves? And then the one time he's not wearing gloves, he dies. [00:46:46] Speaker B: Well, at least he dies with a clean conscience. He doesn't have that to live on in the afterlife. Dirty Hands from going to the bathroom. [00:46:53] Speaker A: Yeah, well. [00:46:55] Speaker B: Well, he explodes and dies. The end. [00:46:58] Speaker A: Except great looking, great looking drawing. [00:47:02] Speaker B: That is fantastic. Except the girls still know. Yeah, their secret identities. [00:47:09] Speaker A: Yeah. This is the other thing that pisses me off. This whole. I don't think we're gonna wipe out their memories. Why? Maybe let's go ahead and wipe out everyone's memories. [00:47:17] Speaker B: Well, no. So they return to Coast City and it seems that the meteor shower has mysteriously wiped out every citizen's memory. [00:47:25] Speaker A: Because that's what happens when things fall on the ground. They wipe out your memory. [00:47:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:47:29] Speaker A: They're not supernatural meteors, they're just meteors. Maybe they're meatball meteors and they're stuffed with narcotics. [00:47:36] Speaker B: So the meteors have made everyone in Coast City lose their memories. Green Lantern is going to use his ring to restore their memories. Except leave out the part about them being Green Lantern and Flash. To Carol and Iris, that's pretty precise control. [00:47:51] Speaker A: That's amazing. He's had a lot of practice with that ring. [00:47:57] Speaker B: Iris seems to remember going on a date with the Flash. Yeah, but she doesn't remember the Flash and barrier of the same person. He explains helpfully. [00:48:07] Speaker A: Go ahead. [00:48:08] Speaker B: I had some er work to do. Since Flash is my best friend, he agreed to fill in for me. Is that how dating works in the straight world? I can't go on a date with you, honey. I'm gonna send my best friend. It doesn't seem like that would work out very well. [00:48:25] Speaker A: That's how relationships end, right? Isn't it? [00:48:28] Speaker B: That's my assumption. [00:48:29] Speaker A: It's like a little stand in. I'm gonna have my best friend stand in for me. [00:48:32] Speaker B: I don't know. I've been off the dating scene for quite some time now. [00:48:36] Speaker A: Well, at least we end the story with Iris West. Not in any sort of scowling posture. [00:48:44] Speaker B: Right? [00:48:44] Speaker A: She's not fish wiping him. [00:48:46] Speaker B: She's happy. [00:48:47] Speaker A: She's so happy. Look at her. [00:48:48] Speaker B: Meryl Ferris on the other hand. [00:48:50] Speaker A: On the other hand. Little miss Neck neck at all. Look how long her neck is. [00:48:55] Speaker B: It's like Barbie. It's like a Barbie neck, isn't it? With her head like about to pop off. She. [00:49:00] Speaker A: You know why she looks so angry? Her neck is in pain. [00:49:03] Speaker B: Right. I heard about someone once whose they had cartilage missing or something. So essentially their skull was not connected to their spine and it could like pop off sometimes and just hang there. [00:49:15] Speaker A: Was it one of your voice students? [00:49:17] Speaker B: No, it was some. It was a friend of a friend. [00:49:19] Speaker A: Okay. [00:49:21] Speaker B: I wonder if Carol has That condition. That's why she's so angry all the time. [00:49:24] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:49:27] Speaker B: Hal Jordan. Reading the social pages, I see by this paper you had a date with Green Lantern. Carol, I thought we. [00:49:34] Speaker A: He's asshole. He's being an asshole right now. [00:49:37] Speaker B: He is smirking. [00:49:38] Speaker A: Yeah, he could have left it alone. [00:49:40] Speaker B: Young William Shatner, doesn't he? Now listen, Hal, you're a good friend, but that's all. It's Green Lantern I love. Well, we know that's not true because they admitted earlier in the issue that they love Halle and Barry, right? [00:49:53] Speaker A: Yes. She says, now let me tell you something. He says to her, now let me tell you something. When you get married, it's going to be me, Hal Jordan. I'll win out over that costumed rival of mine yet. So is he proposing to her? [00:50:06] Speaker B: Well, I don't know. It seems to be a lot of work. If he wants to marry her, why wouldn't he just tell her that? He's Green Lantern. He's gotta keep up this facade and pretend like he's a rival of himself. I don't get it. [00:50:20] Speaker A: Keeps the readers interested. Well, you know, they're putting a lot of content into these issues. [00:50:26] Speaker B: Well, I'm not interested. Clearly. I want it to be. Just tell her and move on. [00:50:33] Speaker A: Of course, she does leave this. This issue interested in him. She says. Oh, my. I never realized you were so masterful, Hal. You're sort of like Green Lantern himself when you act this way. [00:50:44] Speaker B: Yeah, ladies like a firm hand, don't they? Ah, the microphone almost fell over. Hey, I don't have anything else to talk about. [00:50:57] Speaker A: Did you like this issue? [00:50:59] Speaker B: You know, it was just kind of a run of the mill issue. Yeah, it seems like it'd be more exciting if you have two server heroes teaming up together. It seemed like be more of an event. [00:51:08] Speaker A: There was that, that, that move that they did with the joined hands and swept the guys. [00:51:11] Speaker B: That was great. [00:51:12] Speaker A: That was kind of cool. I was surprised they didn't do a super spinning move where they. Where they ran out of them. [00:51:16] Speaker B: They didn't have their powers. They didn't have their powers, remember? [00:51:17] Speaker A: That's right. [00:51:18] Speaker B: Or they didn't know they did. [00:51:19] Speaker A: Right. But he could. But Hal Jordan could crash a car. Or Green Lantern could crash a car into another car and jump from the moving car and punch a guy. [00:51:29] Speaker B: Well, yeah, he's a test pilot. It's probably part of his training. So you have to learn how to jump through. Like if you're gonna be an. He might be an Astronaut in training, so. Gotta fly through those little holes in zero g. Yeah, well, is that what. [00:51:44] Speaker A: Astronauts crash in a car and fly through holes in zero g? [00:51:48] Speaker B: You know, I used to see John Glenn jog down my street when I was little. [00:51:51] Speaker A: Yes, because you grew up in Columbus, didn't you? [00:51:53] Speaker B: Yes, possibly the home of Central City, where the Flash lives. I never saw Flash, though. Bet John Glenn could jog pretty fast, could he? Yeah, he's a little fella. [00:52:05] Speaker A: Really? [00:52:06] Speaker B: Yeah. What's coming up in the future? [00:52:08] Speaker A: Well, I happened to think that it was my first Green Lantern issue to discuss with you. That it was rather disappointing. [00:52:14] Speaker B: I'm so sorry. [00:52:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:17] Speaker B: Well, we have some more Green Lantern coming up. And we'll see Green Lantern in the pages of Justice League and other places. What's next? It depends how I can line up the guest stars. It's either going to be a full length romance comic, radio theater. [00:52:33] Speaker A: Oh, I would love that. [00:52:35] Speaker B: Or an undersea special with Aquaman and the Sea Devils. [00:52:40] Speaker A: Aquaman? Well, I'm hoping that we do engage in a full length radio theater. [00:52:46] Speaker B: Oh, we will. Don't worry. It's coming up. [00:52:49] Speaker A: We have some. Some special guests coming. [00:52:52] Speaker B: That's right. [00:52:53] Speaker A: And it's always nice to have somebody up, somebody else on deck to help us put this together. [00:52:57] Speaker B: Right. Well, you can find us on Facebook @Gogochuckpod. Go, go checkpod. You can find us on Twitter @Gogocheckpod. Go, go checkpod. You can find us on Instagram @Gogocheckpod. Although I haven't put anything on Instagram yet, but it's there. It exists. You can rate and review us on itunes or wherever you get your podcast downloads from. [00:53:21] Speaker A: I get mine from itunes. [00:53:22] Speaker B: We sure would appreciate a rating and a review though, wouldn't we? [00:53:25] Speaker A: Share it with your friends. [00:53:26] Speaker B: Yes. Tell everyone and we'll be back next week. Yeah, yeah. [00:53:32] Speaker A: Super, super. [00:53:34] Speaker B: I see what you did there, what you said. Super, super. Okay, bye. [00:53:39] Speaker A: Bye.