Bea's Recs

The Extremists lose no time taking control of Earth’s nuclear arsenals and suspending them over the world like 10,000 giant swords of Damocles. ( Or like SUPERMAN IV in reverse. )

Keith Giffen, Gerard Jones, and Bart Sears do this whole storyline. Warning for OTT violence and nuclear apocalypse. Which, okay, is another kind of OTT violence.

The Silver Sorceress and Bluejay have blamed their world’s destruction on nuclear weapons. They neglected to mention the gang of badass villains who set those weapons off.

Five of those villains are still hanging around their dead world. When they lose their last living human prisoner, they’re on the verge of turning on each other. Lucky for them, that’s when the Silver Sorceress stumbles back into town. From her comings and goings, they know she’s found a new world for them to conquer.

( She tries telling them she just went on a coffee break, but they know that’s bullshit because they destroyed all the coffee shops too. So you see why they’re irritable. )

Giffen, DeMatteis, Hughes. Warning for jump scares, ridiculous levels of violence, an extended pro-suicide thought sequence, and a scene that had me wondering if it was possible to fridge a dude.

Hate destroys. Hate makes you into a parody of the person you once were, an empty, scowling mask where a human being once stood, chasing goals that’ll never bring you lasting happiness. Oh, it might give you a burst of fearsome short-term energy, maybe even enough to destroy your enemies, but that’ll just leave you with one last enemy: yourself.

That’s the philosophy by which I try to live my life. Even when I have to watch the news. (Those Death Note fantasies are just fantasies.) But here to articulate a dissenting view is our new op-ed columnist, Despero.

( Still better than Bret Stephens! )