Reading Order? I Hardly Know ‘er

The worst thing that can happen to a comics ship is for it to get popular with people who don't actually read comics

Attempts at Carol Ferris spotlight arcs are always falling flat because of the mass delusion that the conflict at the core of her character is whether and in what way she should date Hal Jordan when it's actually whether and in what way she should quit her job.

Carol cannot thrive owning Ferris Airlines and she cannot cede owning Ferris Airlines. As Hal's foil she also has chronic sky madness and can only be content if she's a pilot. Unlike Hal she continuously denies herself this freedom out of obligation to her family legacy. The concept of her inheriting her father's business was conceived in an era where the writing was so profoundly sexist it basically framed a woman owning a business as being gender nonconforming, and she fought so hard to prove she CAN do it it completely fell by the wayside whether she WANTS to do it. If she ever let the business go it would prove all her naysayers right while abandoning what her father entrusted to her and implicitly declaring the job Hal's father died doing (in front of them) wasn't that important. How could she ever do that? So her storylines can experiment with her escaping her life into whatever a given era is framing Star Sapphire as, but she can never actually be free. There's always the airline.

Hal having a panic attack when his hair starts greying naturally because of Parallax... the past coming back to haunt him... is this anything?

so thankful Jo Mullein hasn't been discovered by the Tumblr batstans

deeply upsetting whenever people forget that hal and carol are childhood best friends. like it's fine if you don't ship them romantically but they're BEST FRIENDS. LET THEM BE IMPORTANT TO EACH OTHER

everybody's always talking about how "oooh gotham residents are probably not afraid of anything with all the shit that goes in that city" like okay what about coast city then… the canonical city without fear… one time instead of evacuating during an alien invasion they stayed and started cheering on the green lanterns like they were watching a football match

Changing the relationship status to "Stalemate"

Changing the relationship status to "Uneasy truce"

Changing the relationship status to "Mutually assured destruction"