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Writers: Sam Humphries and Tim Seeley / Artists: Sandu Florea, V Ken Marion, Robson Rocha, Julio Ferreira, Eduardo Pansica / DC Comics
With everything that’s going on in the world right now, a lot of us are either spending all of our time at home or at least a lot less of it doing what we used to. The result of this newfound lifestyle is a lot more free time than we were prepared to have.
While you might think that this is the perfect time for comic book publishers to take advantage of readers as a captive audience, that hasn’t been the case. Instead of getting new releases of comics every week, most of the industry was placed on a temporary freeze.
We at Black Nerd Problems are here to help fill the void by giving you recommendations of some of our favorite comics that you can go back and check out for yourself.
One of my favorite comics of late both in theory and execution was Green Lanterns, which ran from 2016 to 2018 and featured two members of the Green Lantern Corps named Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz.
One of the coldest quotes I’ve heard redone over and over again is essentially some version of “bravery isn’t the absence of fear, it’s moving forward despite it.” That pretty much sums up any quality Green Lantern story given that the Corps pulls their power from their own sense of courage.
Green Lanterns is a prime example of this idea, but it’s explored through two people who you might not consider brave on paper—a woman who suffers from agoraphobia after witnessing all of her friends being murdered and a Lebanese-American man who was unfairly investigated for being a terrorist and carries a gun as backup despite wielding the strongest weapon in the universe. The series serves as a buddy cop story with two equally compelling characters with deeply complex backstories. And their flaws honestly make them even more relatable than past Lanterns have been who fall more into the old school idea of bravery.
The series wrapped up a couple of years ago so you can dive right in and check out two of the newest Green Lanterns fight crimes and solve cases across the known galaxy. And you’ll even get cameos from some pretty familiar faces along the way.
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Writers: Sam Humphries and Tim Seeley / Artists: Sandu Florea, V Ken Marion, Robson Rocha, Julio Ferreira, Eduardo Pansica / DC Comics
With everything that’s going on in the world right now, a lot of us are either spending all of our time at home or at least a lot less of it doing what we used to. The result of this newfound lifestyle is a lot more free time than we were prepared to have.
While you might think that this is the perfect time for comic book publishers to take advantage of readers as a captive audience, that hasn’t been the case. Instead of getting new releases of comics every week, most of the industry was placed on a temporary freeze.
We at Black Nerd Problems are here to help fill the void by giving you recommendations of some of our favorite comics that you can go back and check out for yourself.
One of my favorite comics of late both in theory and execution was Green Lanterns, which ran from 2016 to 2018 and featured two members of the Green Lantern Corps named Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz.
One of the coldest quotes I’ve heard redone over and over again is essentially some version of “bravery isn’t the absence of fear, it’s moving forward despite it.” That pretty much sums up any quality Green Lantern story given that the Corps pulls their power from their own sense of courage.
Green Lanterns is a prime example of this idea, but it’s explored through two people who you might not consider brave on paper—a woman who suffers from agoraphobia after witnessing all of her friends being murdered and a Lebanese-American man who was unfairly investigated for being a terrorist and carries a gun as backup despite wielding the strongest weapon in the universe. The series serves as a buddy cop story with two equally compelling characters with deeply complex backstories. And their flaws honestly make them even more relatable than past Lanterns have been who fall more into the old school idea of bravery.
The series wrapped up a couple of years ago so you can dive right in and check out two of the newest Green Lanterns fight crimes and solve cases across the known galaxy. And you’ll even get cameos from some pretty familiar faces along the way.
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After a rocky season on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, NeNe Leakes has sought help from a psychotherapist. During a conversation with Basketball Wives star Jennifer Williams, Leakes said she realized that after this season of the show she needed to seek mental health services.
I’m seeing a therapist,” she said on Instagram Live. “I’ve had a phone call with the therapist. We haven’t seen each other in person because we can’t, because of quarantine. But, I felt very traumatized. I think, a lot of times, people see the tough exterior and they don’t really know that you hurt inside sometimes like everybody else.”
When she went live on IG earlier this week, Leakes said that she felt attacked during the taping of the RHOA reunion, which affected her mentally.
“The trauma that I experienced in the last few days, I felt, like, it was really time for me to see somebody.”
Leakes said during the first two hours of taping, she was hit with a lot of questions and her co-stars like Eva Marcille and Kenya Moore kept jumping in, making her feel “targeted.” So she ended up leaving the virtual reunion
“I closed my computer. I went to go use the bathroom, and I thought, ‘I need a break, so I’m just gon’ take a break.’ Whenever I felt like I wanted to take a break, I was gon’ take a break- because I’m just the person you’re gonna ask questions to, I’mma need a break a little bit more than everybody else, I guess.”
Leakes said she also didn’t appreciate her friendship with talk show host Wendy Williams being questioned by her castmates and being called a “strategic” friendship.
“I was asked questions about me and Wendy Williams’ relationship. I really felt like that had nothing to do with the show at all.”
Leakes has been through a lot of emotional turmoil the past few seasons. Besides having uglier fights with her castmates, she also took care of her husband Gregg as he battled cancer. We’re glad she decided to go speak to someone.
The World Health Organization has officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
To date, nearly 125,000 coronavirus cases have been reported from 118 countries; more than 4,000 people have lost their lives to the infectious disease.
“We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
“We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic,” he announced.
The term, which refers to a disease epidemic that has spread across a large region (think Bubonic Plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS), is not to be thrown around carelessly.
“It is a word that, if misused, can cause unreasonable fear,” Tedros explained, “or unjustifiable acceptance that the fight is over, leading to unnecessary suffering and death.”
WHO made its evaluation based on two main factors: Speed and scale of transmission, and lack of political commitment needed to control the virus.
“Let me be clear,” Tedros said. “Describing this as a pandemic does not mean that countries should give up. The idea that countries should shift from containment to mitigation is wrong and dangerous.”
On the contrary, this is a controllable pandemic—one that requires nations to “strike a fine balance between protecting health, preventing economic and social disruption, and respecting human rights.”
“We cannot say this loudly enough, or clearly enough, or often enough,” he continued. “All countries can still change the course of this pandemic.”
The Director-General doesn’t want people to focus too much on one daunting expression, though.
“Let me give you some other words that matter much more, and that are much more actionable,” he said. “Prevention. Preparedness. Public health. Political leadership.
“And most of all, people,” Tedros added. We’re in this together, to do the right things with calm and protect the citizens of the world. It’s doable.”
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