/ fuck EA.

lotus

hang on i have to go build something in the sims... so i guess i'll be back after i start to hate myself??

Glad to have you back, Hal.

We're all (yearning for) Todd Rice('s coffee)

If everyone was Todd Ri-

Oh, man, do you know how we'd be able to get some really good coffee right about now?

...Big Belly Burger.

Four Big Belly Burgers, with Loaded Fries.

Maybe don't go to the end of the world, Hal. Love the enthusiam, but we just got you back.

I — Honestly? Yeah.

It doesn't make sense yet, but it's not ... nonsense. Not anymore.

Maybe its about willpower? Whoever's heart is the strongest within whatever 'course of action' they're following?

Maybe there are other ways to crack these things. 'Cause, I used my ring to stop you using the Hand.

Direct action won out over free action.

And if Todd's made of the same thing, then understanding also won out over free action.

Red... and Red was — Red was Abstention from Action? Red's restraint.

Huh... If pink is empathy, maybe 'removing yourself from a situation' is the opposite of that?

Well. It's colors, right? I mean - it looks like 'colors', so if we're sticking to that as a framework?

What's the 'opposite' color of pink?

Hal, you started floating off of the ground, preaching cosmic empathy, and then you ... literally pulled Todd out of the darkness.

I'd be surprised if that was a 'bad thing'.

/ recruiting the gang for a space war to end all space wars, he'd better have some aura!

/ they let al ewing have an entire cosmology to himself and he's having a fucking ball.

NEED Tomar Re to drop all kinds of lore next issue

Doing whatever, just because. No benefit, no bother, just ... freedom.

And apparently that's at the 'top' of the pecking order, with 'understanding of action' being at the bottom.

I've had weeks to process it, and I'm still right here.

As soon as I got the bullets out, I was back to 100%.

lotus

I was in the middle of reading issue #11 when I was writing this. Old girl got GOT on the very next page.

Correct Action... Or - Right Action. I wanted to do the right thing to keep that thing from crushing us, and the ring helped me do that.

That's what John and Guy and — ugh, that's what they said.

The first golden man or the space one? One shot me, the other's just a 'death sentence'.

Fine, let's talk!

Not too sure what he wanted, or why.

Not too sure who MOGO is, or why I need to kill him with the green lan - GUN that's following me around...

You glow hot pink, and there's a golden man with a sentence for a name out there doing ... something.

You don't want to be Todd Rice with me?

I'm just quoting a very wise man that I know.

"Maybe we're all Todd Rice."

So true, bestie.

Man, you really have been out for a while.

Come with me upstairs, huh? Got a few things you might need to be caught up on.

Hal, as soon as I figure out how I'm feeling, you'll be the first to know. Not Cam, not Simon, or the psychic. I'll tell you. I promise.

...good to see you on your feet again.

Feeling alright?

...

'Love has no kiln on Apokolips. Greed bears no seeds in The End. and Hope? Hope is the rallying cry of beings who cower behind those stronger, deadlier, more absolute than themselves... Hope is a flimsy shield, and a tattered cloak to bury oneself in. It has no foundation in this universe.'