Chapter 17, Page 21b: Emotional Avoidance

Posted on June 30, 2026 by Brad Guigar

Countess Influencia has arrived — and Fairmount City’s heroes are already under her spell.

As her livestreamed crime spree unfolds, the heroes of Justice Ltd. are doing what any brave, noble defenders of justice would do in a moment of crisis: They’re staring at their phones, smashing the Like button, and assembling in her comments section.

Only Captain Heroic seems immune to her influence. Why? Because the last thing waiting on his phone is a text from Miss Match that reads: “We have to talk.”

And sometimes, emotional avoidance is the only thing standing between civilization and total collapse.

Dear Pentagram Forum

If you enjoyed the illustration that parodied those old “Dear Penthouse Forum” letters, the following exclusive post takes the joke all the way.

The short story tells the entire encounter from start to finish — the setup, the invitation, the escalation, and the kind of filthy left turn those letters always seemed to take when you realized you were no longer in the “saucy anecdote” section of the magazine.

This one is pure retro smut nostalgia: A horny little time capsule from the era when “I never thought this would happen to me…” was basically the Bat-Signal for bad decisions.

Transcript

Panel 1
A large monitor displays footage of Countess Influencia hovering over Fairmount City.
Several Justice Ltd heroes are gathered in the room, but instead of leaping into action, they’re all staring at their phones. Pink hearts stream upward from their screens.

Amazing Amazon: She’s… weirdly compelling.
Elastic Man: I only ‘liked’ ironically.
Wingman: I subscribed UN-ironically.
Captain Heroic: Why isn’t anyone… y’know…  assembling?

Panel 2
Amazing Amazon: We are assembling.
Elastic Man: In her comments section.
Phenomenal Lass: Grab your phone and join us.

Panel 3
Captain Heroic remembers his last text from Miss Match: “We have to talk”
Cap, in a narration box: I… uhhhh… turned that off for a while.

Panel 4
Captain Heroic, flying into action: Who knew emotional avoidance could be a superpower?

Green Lantern #17

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Brad Guigar

Green Lantern #17

Newsarama has a very good interview with Geoff Johns in which he discusses the upcoming developments in the Green Lantern storyline.

[Newsarama] The past has come back to bite Hal Jordan many times in his years as a Green Lantern, but perhaps not quite as hard as in the end of last week’s issue #16, when the benefactor of the bounty hunters who’ve been chasing Jordan revealed himself. The mysterious man looking for earth’s Green Lantern? None other than Amon Sur, the son of Abin Sur – i.e., the previous Green Lantern who, after crashing on earth gave his ring to Jordan.

…Amon’s return is only the tip of the pain in the butt iceberg that’s just beginning to show itself in DC’s Green Lantern series – Sinestro, the red guy with the yellow ring with the mad-on for Green Lanterns, and Hal in particular, is forming up his own team, and the Star Sapphire is back on earth – and hunting. Read the whole story.

The Sinestro Corp idea leaves me with mixed emotions. This sort of thing could be absolutely revitalizing to the Green Lantrern mythos. It has the makings of really, really superb storytelling. I mean a Sinestro Corp could be amazing.

Quoth Mr. Johns: …Green Lantern #18-#20 will have six page back-ups by me and Dave Gibbons called “Tales of the Sinestro Corps,â€? which will be in the style of the old “Tales of the Green Lantern Corpsâ€? which will start to introduce new members being selected, and what they do.

…The relationship between the Sinestro ring and their bearers are a little different – more like a host and parasite than the Green Lantern ring bearers and their rings. The Sinestro Corps members aren’t controlled by their rings, but they are a little more parasitic. The rings feed on fear, and feeds off the fear that the individual it has chosen can create…They have all the positive qualities of a Green Lantern ring, except they instill great fear instead of conquering great fear. So they’re essentially terrorists in a way.

…Or it could totally and completely stink.