#Kent State University Golden Flashes

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Kent State University Golden Flashes - Ohio

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Essential Kent State University Merchandise Every Student and Alumni Should Own

When it comes to showing your Golden Flashes pride, having the right Kent State University merchandise is a must. From stylish Kent State tumblers to cozy apparel, these items help you stay connected to your alma mater, whether you're a student on campus or an alumni far away. Kent State merchandise isn’t just about school spirit, it's also functional, offering everything from hydration on the go to game day essentials.

Ready to upgrade your collection? Discover the top must-have Kent State gear that keeps you prepared and repping your school with pride.

Read the full blog to explore the top items!

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College Football By State - Ohio

College Football By State - Ohio.

FBS: Akron Zips - Akron, Ohio - They first played in 1891. They are in the MAC.

Bowling Green Falcons - Bowling Green, Ohio - They first played in 1919. They are in the MAC.

Cincinnati Bearcats - Cincinnati, Ohio - They first played in 1885. They join the Big 12 on July 1st.

Kent State Golden Flashes - Kent, Ohio - They first played in 1920. They are in the MAC.

Miami (OH.) Redhawks - Oxford, Ohio - They first played in 1888. They are in the MAC.

Ohio Bobcats - Athens, Ohio - They first played in 1894. They are in the MAC.

Ohio State Buckeyes - Columbus, Ohio - They first played in 1889. They are in the Big Ten.

Toledo Rockets - Toledo, Ohio - They first played in 1917. They are in the MAC.

FCS: University of Dayton Flyers - Dayton, Ohio - Their program was established in 1903. They are in the Pioneer League.

Youngstown State Penguins - Youngstown, Ohio - Their program was established in 1938. They are in the Missouri Valley Conference.

D2: Ashland University Eagles - Ashland, Ohio - They are in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC).

Central State University Marauders - Wilberforce, Ohio - They are in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC).

University of Findlay Oilers - Findlay, Ohio - They are in the G-MAC.

Lake Erie College Storm - Painesville, Ohio - They are in the G-MAC.

Notre Dame College Falcons - South Euclid, Ohio - They are in the Mountain East Conference (MEC).

Ohio Dominican University Panthers - Columbus, Ohio - They are in the G-MAC.

Tffin University Dragons - Tiffin, Ohio - They are in the G-MAC.

Walsh University Cavaliers - Canton, Ohio - They are in the G-MAC.

D3: Baldwin Wallace Yellow Jackets - Berea, Ohio - They first played in 1893. They are in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC).

Bluffton Beavers - Bluffton, Ohio - They first played in 1913. They are in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC).

Capital Comets - Columbus, Ohio - They first played in 1923. They are in the OAC.

Case Western Reserve Spartans - Cleveland, Ohio - They first played in 1890. They are in the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC).

Defiance YellowJackets - Defiance, Ohio - They first played in 1903. They are in the HCAC.

Denison Big Red - Granville, Ohio - They first played in 1889. They are in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC).

Heidelberg Student Princes - Tiffin, Ohio. - They first played in 1892. They are in the OAC.

Hiram Terriers - Hiram, Ohio - They first played in 1892. They are in the NCAC.

John Carroll Blue Streaks - University Heights, Ohio - They first played in 1920. They are in the OAC.

Kenyon Owls - Gambier, Ohio - They first played in 1890. They are in the NCAC.

Marietta Pioneers - Marietta, Ohio - They first played in 1892. They are in the OAC.

Mount Union Purple Raiders - Alliance, Ohio - They first played in 1893. They are in the OAC.

Mount St. Joseph Lions - Cincinnati, Ohio - They are in the HCAC.

Muskingum Fighting Muskies - New Concord, Ohio - They first played in 1895. They are in the OAC.

Oberlin Yeomen - Oberlin, Ohio - They first played in 1891. They are in the NCAC.

Ohio Northern Polar Bears - Ada, Ohio - They first played in 1893. They are in the OAC.

Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops - Delaware, Ohio - They first played in 1890. They are in the NCAC.

Otterbein Cardinals - Westerville, Ohio - They first played in 1890. They are in the OAC.

Wilmington Quakers - Wilmington, Ohio - They first played in 1900. They are in the OAC.

Wittenberg Tigers - Wittenberg, Ohio - They first played in 1892. They are in the NCAC.

Wooster Fighting Scots - Wooster, Ohio - They first played in 1889. They are in the NCAC.

My Favorite Mascot - The Capital Comets. Because space is awesome! Honorable Mentions - Central State University Marauders, Lake Erie College Storm, Heidelberg Student Princes, John Carroll Blue Streaks, and the Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops. "Don't Eat This Mascot" Award - The Ohio State Buckeyes. The "X-Men" Award - Lake Erie College Stortm. The "Barbarians At The Gates" Award - Central State University Marauders. They also win the "Cool Town Name" Award. Wilberforce, Ohio. "I Thought We Were An Autonomous Collective" Awad - The royalty loving Heidelberg Student Princes. The "Martin Lawrence" Award - John Carroll Blue Streaks.

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KENT STATE CAMPEÓN DEL TORNEO DE BASQUETBOL DEL SUN BOWL

El Paso, Texas. -En un cerrado duelo de principio a fin el quinteto de los Golden Flashes de Kent State University se impuso a los Mineros de la Universidad de Texas en El Paso (UTEP), con cartones finales de 47-46, para de esa manera adjudicarse el lugar de honor de la edición 61 del tradicional torneo de basquetbol colegial West Star Don Haskins Sun Bowl Invitational en duelo llevado a cabo en el Don Haskins Center de UTEP.

Al concluir las hostilidades del primer tiempo los ahora monarcas ya se encontraban arriba en el marcador 25-22.

Cuando faltaban 18.3 segundos para que concluyera el partido los Mineros aún se encontraban arriba en el tanteador 46-45, sin embargo, le cometieron un faul a Carry Sincere, quien anotó los dos tiros libres para poner arriba a los Golden Flases 47-46 que a la postre sería el marcador final.

Posteriormente los Mineros tuvieron la posesión del balón sin embrago en su intento por anotar la pelota fue enviada fuera de la cancha por un jugador de Kent State y los Mineros pidieron tiempo fuera.

Tras reanudarse el encuentro cuando faltaban 7.2 segundos recibió el esférico el mariscal de campo de UTEP, Shamar Givance, quien en un intento de penetrar a la zona de la pintura hizo su disparo al aro, pero fue taponeado por Miryne Thomas  y Kent State recuperó la pelota cuando quedaban 2 segundos por jugarse, para que finalmente los Golden Flashes consiguieran su segundo campeonato de este prestigiado torneo de basquetbol que es el torneo festivo más antiguo del basquetbol colegial de Estados Unidos. 

En el juego de consolación los Aggies de New Mexico State University se impusieron a North carolina A&T, con una pizarra final de 85-76.

"La competencia en el torneo de este año fue increíble, de arriba a abajo", dijo el director ejecutivo de la Asociación Sun Bowl, Bernie Olivas.

“Felicitaciones al presidente del baloncesto Barry Kobren por liderar el camino en este evento y un agradecimiento especial al patrocinador del título, WestStar. No podemos continuar este gran torneo navideño sin nuestro patrocinador”, añadió Olivas

 Cuadro ideal:

 Demetric Horton – Carolina del Norte A&T

Xavier Pinson –  NM State

Agravio de Shamar – UTEP

Miryne Thomas – Kent State

Tae Hardy – Premio Don Haskins

Lleva sincera - Premio Barry Kobren MVP

  (Por Carlos Mario Colmenero, texto, fotos y, videos)

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C's Alumni Update - Ravel Looking To Dazzle With Lansing

C’s Alumni Update – Ravel Looking To Dazzle With Lansing

Andy Ravel was drafted by Arizona in 2013 but opted to sign with Toronto in 2016.

Rhymes with travel—that’s how you pronounce the last name of Andy Ravel, whose travels have taken him to the Lansing Lugnuts this year. That’s where the 2016 Vancouver Canadians righthander is trying to unravel the mystery of pitching consistently in his first full season of professional baseball.

Ravel…

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hello do you mind explaining all the amazons?

All of them????

Okay uh I'll break down the ones i at least know about anyone who's deeper into the WonderFam please jump in I don't really interact with them that much.

But we've got

Diana Prince: Wonder Woman

Our Golden Age Princess of the Amazons. During the Golden and Silver ages she came from Paradise Island. She was truly animated clay here and several hundred years old by the time of WWII. During the Golden Age Diana married Steve Trevor and they had a daughter named Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor. (My break down of Lyta would be an essay in itself and she's not really an Amazon so). Diana was a member of the JSA here.

During the Silver Age Diana also married Steve but no kids. She rescued Donna Troy from a fire and sent her to Paradise Island to be raised by Hippolyta making Donna and Diana sisters. This is the first timeline to mention Ares is her grandfather technically as he made Hippolyta. Diana lost her powers at some point. She got really really good at martial arts and then two years later got her powers back. She supposedly died during Infinite Crisis but then you know didn't. During Convergence she killed a vampire Joker. That was fun. In this timeline Diana was a founding member of the JLA.

Okay and post crisis New Earth Diana is the first one to say Diana is from Themyscira. It was still called Paradise Island sometimes. She was molded from clay. Diana in this time was not a founding member of the JLA but came to America after it was founded. (I think Infinite Crisis retconned her to be a founding member but idk) Diana has become a member of the Trinity alongside Batman (Bruce Wayne) and Superman (Clark Kent). 

The Prime Earth Diana is the one from Flashpoint and onwards. She’s now the daughter of Zeus. In New52 if I recall right she was made much much younger like in her 20s and explored mankind in the modern era. The Doomsday clock thing reestablished her WWII origins. She was also said again to have been born during probably the Hellenistic Period (they said classical antiquity and that’s you know just a few thousand years) She just helped out in Death Metals and is now doing something with Infinite Frontier unclear I don’t really know what Prime Earth Diana has been up to lately. 

So on Earth-Two, Earth-One, and New Earth Diana was the granddaughter of Ares and as such her life span was greatly extended. On Prime Earth as the direct daughter of Zeus she is immortal. 

Donna Troy: Troia/Wonder Girl 

Donna is a tricky one. She was introduced real quick to fill the girl role on the Teen Titans cause the boys were getting a little too gay. So started Silver Age Earth 1. Okay so basically her origin kept changing but the one that’s ‘canon’ is she was created to be a playmate for Diana but was abducted and kept being cursed to live tragic lives in New Cronus. Right around the Titans era okay Donna was rescued by Diana and brought back to Earth. Donna was the one to suggest the Teen Titans name. Donna is a member of the Fab Five along with Robin/Nightwing (Dick Grayson), Aqualad/Tempest (Garth of Shayaris), Kid Flash/Flash (Wally West), and Speedy/Arsenal (Roy Harper)

Donna married Terry Long when she was 19 and they had Robert, got divorced, they died in a car crash. 

After Crisis on Infinite Earth Donna sorta realized all those ‘lives’ she led were other version of her which she was all of now. And also Donna was believed to be the Goddess of the Moon. She had to stop a sun-eater or whatever but failed (Hal came in with a clutch it it’s cool)

Donna also had to fix some shit during Infinite Crisis and ended up on a Universe Hopping road trip with Kyle Rayner and Jason Todd to find Ray Palmer for Final Crisis or something. She was killed by a Superman Android during the Teen Titans/Young Justice Crossover. (Edit thanks to that anon for this I legit couldn’t remember how she died)

And Prime Earth Donna was made to destroy Diana. She you know didn’t. 

Look I’ll be real I know next to nothing about what the New52 tried to do with Donna. I just go by her original origins of being Diana’s sister. 

On Earth-One and New Earth Donna’s life span was greatly extended and on Prime Earth she is stated to be Immortal as on Prime Earth Amazonian’s on Themyscira were granted immortality. 

Nubia: 

She is like Diana’s twin made from darker clay on Earth-One which is the silver age Earth. Nubia was actually slightly older than Diana but she was stolen as a baby by Ares who was going by Mars. Mars/Ares is Nubia’s grandfather and he wanted her help in taking down the Amazons. Nubia was raised on Floating Island (or slaughter island as Mars/Ares called it). Nubia fought Diana and hesitated to kill her leading to a draw. Nubia returned to Floating Island and at some point Supergirl had to save her life from poison of some sort. 

On New Earth she went by Nu’Bia and was just a random Amazon, her job was to guard the Doom’s Doorway which is an entrance to the River Styx. She was not Diana’s sister. 

On Prime Earth Nubia is the daughter of Hippolyta and the half-sister of Diana not her twin. Nubia went undercover pretending to work with Darkseid before Themyscira could recover and rally to fight. Nubia is currently the Queen of the Amazons. She was given the crown by her mother, Hippolyta during the Dark Metals event. 

As with Donna on Earth-One and New Earth Nubia had a greatly extended lifespan and on Prime Earth Amazons are immortal. 

Cassie Sandsmark: Wonder Girl 

She is a New Earth entry who was for the new Young Justice team. She is the daughter of Zeus and Dr. Helena Sandsmark. Here as Ares is Cassie’s half-brother and technically the father of the Amazon’s this means Cassie is Diana’s great-aunt. 

Cassie as a girl was able to request a Boon of Zeus who she didn’t know was her father at the time I believe and demanded real superpowers. Her mother Helena was able to turn off Cassie’s superpowers at the start as well. Cassie was trained by Artemis for awhile. Cassie became Wonder Girl in honor of Donna Troy who handed over her old suit. Cassie joined Young Justice as a teenager and would later be on the Teen Titans. Cassie has become a part of the Core Four for Young Justice alongside Robin/Red Robin (Tim Drake), Superboy (Kon-El/Conner Kent), and Impulse (Bart Allen). 

Cassie’s best friends outside of the core four are Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) and Cissie King-Jones (Arrowette). Cassie and Conner Kent used to date as well and she was in love with him before he died during Infinite Crisis. 

On Prime Earth Cassie is the daughter of Lennox and the granddaughter of Zeus. In this version Diana is Cassie’s aunt not the other way around. Cassie is still a member of the Young Justice team here. I don’t exactly remember what was happening during the New52. She was still Cassie unlike Kon and Bart who’d been replaced. But during Rebirth she went with the other members of Young Justice to rescue Conner Kent from Gemworld. She is currently still a member of the Titans. 

On New Earth as the daughter of Zeus, Cassie is an immortal who would not age further once she reached her prime age (like 27 or so). On Prime Earth as the granddaughter of Zeus and the daughter of Lennox Cassie’s life is extremely extended. 

Artemis Grace:

Artemis of Bana-Mighdall comes from a separate group of Amazons not on Themyscira or Paradise Island. Bana-Mighdall is a tribe of Amazons in Egypt who left Greece millennia ago. 

On New Earth Artemis left her home at 14 and wound up working for Ra’s Al Ghul before returning to her home. There was a competition to see who would be the next Wonder Woman as Hippolyta foresaw Wonder Woman die and wished to spare her daughter the fate. Hippolyta ensured Artemis won the competition. Artemis was shunned by most of the world including the Justice League who refused to see her as the true Wonder Woman. Artemis was also thought to be too violent. Artemis would later die in a battle with a demon fulfilling the prophecy of Wonder Woman dying. 

Artemis got out of hell eventually and was given the job of training Cassie Sandsmark by Diana and would later train Supergirl in combat as well. 

On Prime Earth Artemis was raised being told she would be Queen of the Amazons. She was desperate to prove herself and wanted to be the Shim’Tar of the Bana Amazons. Artemis’ best friend and lover Akila was chosen instead. Without Akila by her side Artemis felt her home had nothing left to offer and set out on her own. She helped stop an invasion of Qurac into Bana as well. 

Artemis then joined the Outlaws and worked with Red Hood (Jason Todd) and Bizarro, a botched clone of Superman. 

On New Earth Artemis had a greatly extended life span. On Prime Earth he Amazons were gifted immortality but those who left for Bana-Mighdall lost this gift so it is most likely that Artemis has the same extended lifespan from New Earth. 

Grace Choi:

Grace on New Earth comes from the same group as Artemis in Bana-Mighdall. Grace’s mother is an Amazon but her father was a Korean American. Grace grew up in America in the foster care system. She ran away at 9 but was kidnapped and sold into a child prostitution ring. She managed to escape at age 12 after her powers kicked in. Grace began fightining both for pay and for fun and worked as a bouncer at a meta club in Metropolis. 

Grace worked for the Outsiders for awhile at the request of Roy Harper an ex-fling and good friend of hers. She helped rescue Lian from the same child protsition ring she was in as a child and generally had lots of adventures with the Outsiders. 

Later it was revealed she had Bana roots but Grace refused to join them as they were currently you know sieging down the US. Batman was briefly worried about her loyalties but Grace proved she had no loyalty or ties to the Bana Amazons. 

Grace has returned to the Prime Earth in Infinite Frontier and in Festival of Heroes and it seems like nothing has changed with her so far. 

Grace has increased longevity of her life. She is listed as half-amazon because only her mother is a Bana Amazon but all Amazons only have their mother who are Amazons so I don’t really see why she isn’t a full Amazon. Anyways increased life span. 

Jason:

He is Diana’s twin on Prime Earth. He was sent away cause you know no men on Themyscira. Jason was raised by Glaucus who was a member of the Argonauts crew and worked under the original Jason of Greek Myth. Who Jason was named for. 

Jason was raised on the Aegean Coast by Glaucus and became a Fisherman. Jason was trained in his youth by his half-brother Hercules. 

Jason worked briefly with Diana but wasn’t sure how to be a hero. There was a period where Darksied’s daughter tricked him but Diana talked him down. And Jason saved Diana’s life during the Dark Metals event. 

He is currently in the Dark Mutliverse living with a boyfriend on the Aegean Coast. 

As the son of Zeus, Jason is an immortal. 

⚔️ Also for fun the Weapons:⚔️

Lasso of Truth: Wielded by Diana Prince

Originally imbued with it’s power by Aphrodite and Athena later after crisis forged by Hephaestus and powered by Hestia, this lasso forces the truth from whoever it has ensnared. It is indestructible.

Lasso of Persuasion: Wielded by Donna Troy

This Lasso forces someone to do what the wielder demands. This requires Donna’s or whoever wields the lasso to have a stronger will then who they’re using the lasso on. It is indestructible.

Lasso of Lightning: Wielded by Cassie Sandsmark 

This lasso was created by Ares and gifted to his half-sister Cassie Sandsmark on New Earth. This lasso channels Zeus’ lightning and can make someone experience intense rage if they are caught by the lasso. The power of the lasso is directly correlated to Cassie’s rage levels. 

Lasso of Submission: Wielded by Artemis Grace

Originally from Earth-3 this lasso has the ability to make someone obey any commands even those to inspire false love. After Superwoman (Lois Lane) of Earth-3 was killed Diana took the lasso and gifted it to Artemis. 

Bow of Ra: Wielded by Artemis Grace

The Bow of Ra was a gift from the Egyptian sun god, Ra to the Bana-Midghall Amazons. This bow goes to the Shim’Tar and forges a special bond with them. Those who are not the Shim’Tar cannot wield the bow and further if you are not a candidate to be a Shim’Tar the bow will harm or even kill you. The bow requires intense willpower to use or it can drive the wielder mad. Akila was driven mad with the power of the bow and had to be killed by Diana and Artemis. It is said to have the power to destroy stars so this bow is incredibly dangerous and powerful if not wielded by the right person. 

(Bonus Donna used to use a lasso that was golden but held no specific magical properties.) 

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DC: The High-School AU: The Series: The Staff (the musical)

So I finally cast the school staff and teachers for my DC High School AU, which I thought some of you would have some fun with! I took the subject list from a fairly fancy looking private school, because only schools you have to pay for have their subject lists online, so I’m probably offering way more classes than your average state school, but hey, it’s my AU and I wanted to cram in as many supervillains, obscure heroes, and bad jokes as possible.

Admin & Staff

Principle - Amanda Waller

Deputy Principle & Treasurer - Noah Kuttler (the Calculator)

Nurse - Myra Mason (she was Dr Midnite’s nurse and love interest in the 40s & 50s, then got fridged, but I’m unfridging her and giving her a job with much better survival prospects)

Councillor - Ethel Peabody (she’s a psychiatrist from the Gotham TV show, and also in my headcanon, Amanda Waller’s sister)

Librarian - Stanislaus Johns (The Librarian. I considered bookworm for this job but he’s literally called the Librarian, what was I supposed to do, not use him?)

Admin Staff - Laura Conway (Superman supporting cast and occaisional vampire), Mabel Martin (Riddler’s secretary), Theresa Collins (Goldstar, also Booster Gold’s secretary)

Business

Loren Jupiter (aka Mr Jupiter the richest and therefore most thrustworthy man in the world) - Business 101, Business Law, Entrepreneurship

Wesley Dodds (Sandman) - Business Communications

Annabeth Chamberlain (Brimstone) - Marketing, Hospitality & Tourism (she doesn’t work in tourism, but I figure anyone who can waitress while also having the power to set people on fire and damn them to hell and keeps her job probably knows a whole lot about customer service)

Family & Consumer Science

Miss Tribb (Lobo’s childhood teacher who inexplicably survived the extinction of their species) - Childhood Developement, Early Childhood Education

Neil Richards (The Mad Mod) - Texiles/Sewing, Fashion

Tenzil Kem (Matter-Eater Lad) - Food & Nutrition

Finance

Noah Kuttler (The Calculator) - Personal Finance

Foreign Languages

Matron Bertinelli (Nu52 Huntress, who I’m declaring a sepperate character and the aunt of pre-52 Huntress because they’re radically different characters and I like both of them) - ASL, Italian

Chang Jie-Ru (Nu52 Yo-Yo) - Chinese, AP Chinese

Yolanda Montez (Wildcat II) - Spanish, AP Spanish

Barbara Minerva (Cheetah) - Latin

Health Sciences

Myra Mason - Emergency Medical Responder training

Charles McNider (Dr Midnite) - Anatomy & Physiology, Health Class

IT

Brian Durlin (Savant) - Computer Programming, Web Dev

Jennifer Lyn-Hayden (Jade) - Digital Art 101

Arnold Wesker (Ventriloquist) - 3D Animation, 3D Graphics (I don’t know why but the idea of Wesker as an animator just tickled me. Obviously his real passion is stop-motion, but he learnt 3D because there were more jobs)

English (the fancy private school called this ‘language arts’ which is so prentious it makes me feel slightly nauseous)

Wesley Dodds (Sandman) - English Language, AP English Language

Rac Shade (Shade the Changing Man) - English Literature, AP English Literature

Chloe Sullivan (the worst character in the Smallville TV show, a hotly contested position) - English Language, Communications 101, supervises the School Paper and the Yearbook

Shelly Gaynore (The Whip III) - Englist Literature, Creative Writing

Basil Karlo (Clayface) - Intro to Shakespeare

Nick Scratch (officially his supervillain name is just Scratch, but I refuse to consider that a code-name, looking at you Drake) - Communications 102: Public Speaking

Mathematics (which has a 100% villain make-up, which seems accurate from what I remember of high-school maths)

Noah Kuttler (The Calculator, because I think I’m funny) - Pre-Calc, Calculus, AP Calculus

Harlan Graves (The Underbroker) - Stats, Algebra 1, Algebra 2

Angelo Bend (Angle Man, becuase I know I’m funny) - Geometry, Trigonometry

PE (I realise this is probably too many PE teachers but there are a lot more caonical althetes than just about any other job in the DCU except maybe scientist)

Lawrence Crock (Sportsmaster, you knew this was coming) - Gym, Weight Training, coaches Baseball, Basketball, Tennis & Hockey

Lisa Snart (Golden Glider) - joint-coaches Cheerleading, coaches the Drill Team, Wrestling

Randy Hanrahan (Stallion) - PE, joint-coaches Cheerleading & Cross-Country, coaches Football

William Everett (Amazing Man) - PE, joint-coaches Cross-Country, coaches Track & Field

Matron Bertinelli (Huntress, sort of) - coaches Soccer & gymnastics

Performing Arts

Lisa Snart (Golden Glider) - Dance

Hartley Rathaway (Pied Piper) - Music 101, Music Theory, Composition, teaches Guitar & Percussion

Isaac Bowin (The Fiddler) - Music 101, AP Music Theory, leads Jazz Band, Orchestra, Marching Band

Siobhan Smyth (Silver Banshee) - part-time, leads the Choir and teaches singing

Basil Karlo (Clayface) - Theatre, Theatre 101

Simon Trent (Grey Ghost) - Theatre, Theatre 101, Film Studies

Ted Kord (Blue Beetle) - Theatre Tech

Mary Louise Dahl (Baby-Doll, from B:TAS) - Film Studies, Video Production

Betty Bates (Lady-at-Law, who is technically owned by DC now due to corporate buy-outs) - Debate

Science (do you have any idea how hard it is to pin down areas of specialisation for comic book scientists? TNT is on this list entirely because he’s the only actual honest-to-god professional chemist I could find)

Kirk Langstrom (ManBat) - Biology, AP Biology

Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy) - Biology, Environmental Science

Thomas “Tex” Thomas (TNT) - Chemistry

Achilles Milo (Professor Milo, again not really much of a code name) - Chemistry, AP Chemistry

Will Magnus (I refuse to even dignify it as a code-name) - Physics, Earth Sciences

Ray Palmer (The Atom) - Physics, AP Physics

Adam Strange (DC is just doing this to fuck with me, personally) - Astronomy

Social Studies & Humanities

Barbara Minerva (Cheetah) - World History

Maxie Zeus (ffs) - World History, AP World History (fun fact, Maxie was canonically just a normal history teacher before he got lightning powers, became convinced he was Zeus incarnate, and set out to become a criminal, making him my favourite DC mobster by a country mile)

Terry Long (aka one of the only characters to really deserve to get fridged) - US History, AP European History

Eobard Thawne (every code-name he has is stupid, but lets just go with Reverse-Flash as the least awful option) - US History, AP US History

Nick Scratch - US Government, AP US Government, AP Comparative Politics

Rex Tyler (Hourman) - AP Art History

Magdalene Kyle-Burton (Sister Zero, she’s a sometimes-nun and a sometimes-sister to Catwoman) - Comparative Religion

Michael Carter (Booster Gold) - Economics, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics

Jonathan Crane (Scarecrow) - Psychology (there is exactly one heroic psychiatrist in all of comics, and I’d already used Dr Fate elsewhere. Scarecrow seemed like the least bad option of the remaining pool for being around children, and he does at least have teaching experience)

Adam Strange - Sociology

Betty Bates (Lady-at-Law) - Law

Richard Occult/Rose Psychic (it’s complicated, lets just say Dr Occult and leave it at that) - part-time, Criminal Justice

Technology & Engineering

Ted Kord (Blue Beetle) - Electronics, CAD, Woodworking

John Henry Irons (Steel) - Engineering, Metalworking

Will Magnus - Robotics

Visual Arts

Linda Lee/Danvers (she’s Supergirl, but I’m making her a different character from Kara Danvers/Kent because the DCU is really short on artists and I needed someone to teach the damn class, although the only thing that really makes her distinct from other supergirls is that she fucked a horse that one time and IDK how that will translate into a personality...) - Ceramics, AP Studio Art: 3D Design, Art 101

Rex Tyler (Hourman) - Graphic Design, Drawing, AP Studio Art: Drawing

Jack Knight (Starman) - Painting, AP Studio Art: 2D Design, Art 101

Jennifer Lyn-Hayden (Jade) - Photography

So there you go - I’ll be honest I still don’t really understand how high-schools in the USA work, and I have no idea what Design studio art even is so I kind of assigned those ones at random, but now it’s done and cannot be changed.

As always this universe is open to prompts so if you want a chapter focussing on any of these characters just drop me an ask or a comment and I’ll see what I can do. Making Dr Occult & Rose Psychic a single gender-fluid person is already on my list to do, since that’s who I thought they were for a longest time when I started reading comics and I’m still kind of annoyed that isn’t canonically what’s going on.

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Kent State Gymnastics

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FEEDBACK LOOP #1: Armand Hammer’s “Flavor Flav”

What are the Black purposes of space travel?

—Amiri Baraka, “Technology & Ethos”

Black futurism is a temporally troubled matrix Black futurism is a temporally troubled matrix that thrives on opposites and oppositions, flowing lines and nonlinearity, conflict resolution and asymmetrical warfare. It prefers the mad dash on shifting sands while in pursuit of higher ground and safe havens.

—Greg Tate, “Kalahari Hopscotch, or Notes Toward a 20 Volume History of Black Science and Afrofuturism”

Welcome aboard our spaceship, it’s so nice to have you here. —Newcleus, “Space is the Place”

Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but      for all times, sees races, eras, dates, generations, The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together. —Walt Whitman

I’m so tired of being forced to promote the myth of white supremacy by performing works by old white men like Whitman who said blacks...didn’t have a place in the future of America. —Timothy McNair

Today is the shadow of tomorrow, today is the future present of yesterday, yesterday is the shadow of today. —Sun Ra, “Secrets of the Sun”

This highly allusive track from billy woods and ELUCID toys with itself—that is, allusions are a figurative means of collapsing time in and of themselves. Past and present history & culture don’t contend so much as support one another. A set of stilts to do the Dance of Death on, if you will. “Start downhill running.” The Seventh Seal hilltop silhouette danse macabre steez, though. The whooshing, metal-creaking beat—with all its haunted psithurism charm—is the backdrop for this sleeper Shrines track.

The name “Flavor Flav” is used metonymically here to mean time. This isn’t a braggadocio, low-key threat in the spirit of OC’s “Time’s Up.” This isn’t a Grandmaster Flashian “You Know What Time It Is” (though the hands on the clock tower do spin clockwise and counter-). Neither is this a Kool Moe Dee-esque rhetorical “Do You Know What Time It Is?” Armand Hammer are frustrated by time, by the “ideals and dreams that don’t work.” woods laments his “time machine [that] don’t go backwards.” This no-good lemon of a H.G. Wells contraption he’s steering. This isn’t some Christopher Lloyd-cum-El-Producto Delorean. There’s no Great Scotting going on, just stubbornness.

Progress isn’t made. Time stagnates. Like the “list of ill-fated quick licks under ’frigerator magnets.” And that “school trip permission slip”—likely a bus ride to a museum: a carefully curated collection of artifacts, most notable for its colonial muscling. The question remains: What is left out? What is excluded? What is ignored, discarded, or co-opted so as to not withstand the test of time? woods’ short-i assonance speeds the delivery up only to slow it down:

list | ill | quick | licks | ’frig | nets | trip | mis | slip | lick | split | skin | spliff

billy woods, son of a revolutionary, redefines Afrofuturism (re-re-re-defines—its brilliance is in how it remakes itself unconditionally). Afrofuturism becomes about birthing the next generation of Black revolutionaries, so he subverts the line and expectations when “big hand captured” refers to the clock, but “little man [not hand] chasin’” refers to a youngin. (Try to keep up.) Put the faith in the youth when our “ideals and dreams” stall out—when the days, months, years are fleeting and forceful (“It do tick faster / The hour coming rough”). The spliff that’s “[skinned] like an onion” turns the cypher into Perrault fairy tale “pumpkin,” Cinderella style.

“Don’t come ’round with that ‘Go slow’” is in conversation with Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam,” of course. It’s Nina who said “[she] can’t stand the pressure much longer,” who objected to those who “keep on saying ‘Go slow,” who had her band ironically chanting Do it slow. billy woods, like Nina Simone, decries reformism, incrementalism. Don’t do things gradually. We’re at the point where Nina stands up from her piano bench and shouts That’s it!

Forego the telephoto lenses, he insists, this is the “Battle of Algiers with the GoPro.” Urban guerrilla warfare uploaded and disseminated via YouTube. Again, time collapses. The struggle to decolonize continues. Watch for the This video is no longer available dead-end.

billy woods’ Nietzschean “loathing and fear” reverses the hallucinogenic time-warp of Thompson’s (and, in filmic relation, Gilliam’s) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. “History is hard to know,” Thompson writes, “because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ‘history’ it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash.” That flash will reappear in ELUCID’s verse.

If “all roads lead to Rome,” we’re settling into the inevitability of our moves. It’s a fatalistic shrug, but homophonically, all roads lead to roam—that is, the journey is prolonged interminably. It’s nomadic. Much static. So, naturally, you’re going to “[shake] the hourglass like a snowglobe,” distort time, and splurge on the “JC Penny Timex,” which is appropriately “flooded with rhinestones.” Flooded, because no more water: the fire next time. Don’t “lose track” and don’t “get trapped in the future.”

The chorus quotes the Rolling Stones’ “Time is On My Side,” but it ain’t that simple, no. The history is as messy as we’ve come to expect amerikan music to be. “Time is On My Side” was originally penned by Norman Meade (Jerry Ragovoy), and trombonist Kai Winding first recorded it. Jimmy Norman, a Black songwriter, fleshed out the lyrics significantly, and Irma Thomas recorded that version in the same year as the Stones. The song followed a path similar to that of “Strange Fruit”—a composition written by a white Jewish man under a pseudonym (Abel Meeropol as Lewis Allan) but popularized by a Black female jazz singer (Billie Holiday). As author Jess Row has said about jazz—hip-hop applies, too—it is “by its very nature multi-racial, intermingled, and collaborative across color lines.” But this cognizance must always be contextualized with views of Black artists like that of Art Blakey: “the only way the Caucasian musician can swing is from a rope.” Hip-hop has always had its Paul Cs and Rick Rubins, but the racial heterogeneity of a genre, or even a single recording, can’t cloak the power dynamics still in play. The Stones’ version of “Time is On My Side”—undoubtedly the most popular version—is a rip-off of Irma Thomas’ version. Mick Jagger even jacks Thomas’ ad-libs, which is to say, her rawness and spontaneity. Even the band’s shadowed faces on the cover of 12 x 5, the album on which the track appears, suggest the racial problematics, the minstrelsy heist. Armand Hammer mock the British Invasion blues filchers by adding “they” to the chorus line: “They said time is on my side.” They being white institutions (especially within music publishing, production, and recording industries) who promised enough airtime for everyone. They who urged patience. (Go slow!) But, as history shows, the profits only lined certain pockets.

ELUCID begins at the “golden hour,” which is both the photogenic beauty of the sky after sunrise and before sunset—a beauty too good to behold. It’s the sun glare shining in your face on the winter commute from work. It’s your high-speed accident and then the golden hour is the paramedics and doctors trying to salvage your corporeal existence. ELUCID’s verse is a hypnagogic jerk, gasping for breath as he takes a “portal to Orangeburg, ’68.” It’s a reference to the campus shooting of young people in protest—South Carolina State University. Unlike Kent State, which came afterwards, Orangeburg didn’t get the attention keening white women in Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs do, despite “live ammunition,” three dead, 28 injured, and “nine acquitted assassins.” Unnoticed. Black invisibility. Not that H.G. Wells type of invisibility—the Ralph Ellison kind.

We’re told what this is: it’s the aggregate stress (“the load of the allostatic”) of Black life. It’s one’s personal Extinction Agenda, the “post-traumatic” of the gunfire “flashes” that double as flashbacks. The pain, stress, the brain that can’t rest, the pressure on the chest.

“The center won’t hold” lets us know this isn’t all PTSD reverie—it’s a rebel poem: surely some revolution is at hand. ELUCID channels Achebe channeling Yeats. Things might fall apart but not without struggle. The “Flavor Flav clock spins centrifugal,” as a gyre, as an apocalyptic (91…) voice. Turning and returning. The words have an air of insurrection, proclamation.

He misses “watching how a flat circle fold”—it won’t budge, won’t wrinkle. We’ve been here before: on “Hunter,” on Paraffin, when billy woods was on that “time is a flat circle” shit. That Nietzsche eternal recurrence shit:

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain…will return to you. […] The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

“Can you find the level of difficulty in this?” suggests game playing, arcades. Calls to mind more Walter Benjamin’s Arcades, though. billy woods and ELUCID are gleaners and magpies of cultural cadavers in Benjamin’s way. Their bars are play and critique both. We’re left with a modicum of optimism at the song’s end. Even “only [moving] the pen six inches” is something, is struggle. The “pale faces beyond the fire” are ever-present, though. The “flinching, panic, [and] confusion” are committed to continue.

Is it the fool or the insurgent who thinks time is on their side? We want the life we live to be “more brilliant than a sunbeam.” That’s to say, we don’t want to wait for the golden hour or the golden years. We want what they say we can’t have. We want what they say we shouldn’t imagine. But Armand Hammer helps us take solace in the “drum skin stretched”—the rhythm, the rebel. The oft-quoted Douglass gem, If there is no struggle, there is no progress, is played out for a reason. The reason is because it needs to be played again, and again. Like a mantra, like a song.

Images:

Sun Ra’s Space is the Place (screenshot) | Flavor Flav (detail), courtesy of archivist Sean Stewart | Grandmaster Flash “You Know What Time It Is” music video (screenshot) | Kool Moe Dee “Do You Know What Time It Is?” single cover | Nina Simone live at Antibes Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival 1965 (screenshot) | The Battle of Algiers (screenshot) | The Rolling Stones 12 x 5 album cover | Flavor Flav, courtesy of Stewart

[bunkershotgolf]

Leading Italian golf fashion brand Duca del Cosma has added Swedish Symetra Tour rookie Michaela Finn to the growing portfolio of professional players wearing its distinctive shoes.

Working hard to fulfill her ambition of playing on the LPGA Tour, Michaela is set to compete in the Symetra Tour’s return event in Michigan later this month wearing her favorite Duca Del Cosma shoes.

“I'm looking forward to being back out on the Symetra Tour turning heads with my footwear and my game," said Michaela. "Duca del Cosma shoes are very comfortable and I love how the design is so thought through - every detail is there for a reason and just completes the look.

“These details put Duca del Cosma at an advantage and they catch people’s eyes right away. I’ll be playing in the POSE shoes a lot in different colors, plus the MARQUESSA shoe in Gold. I love having the opportunity to change my shoes from day to day,” she added.

A graduate from Kent State University, Michaela was a member of ‘The Golden Flashes’ team that won the 21st consecutive Mid-American Women’s Golf Conference championship last year.

“We are really excited to have such a promising and talented young player as Michaela become our first signing in the US,” said Diederik Moreu, International Sales Director at Duca del Cosma. “As a talented European golfer, she has shown great determination to do well in the most competitive environment and we’re thrilled to be able to support her aspirations on the American Tours with our latest range of Duca del Cosma shoes,” he added.

A Swedish international player since the age of 14, Michaela was among those making history last year by competing in the first ever women’s amateur event at Augusta. During her short professional career, she has won the Swedish Golf Tour title and been runner up at the Eggland’s Best Tour Championship on the NWGA Tour, the developmental golf Tour for aspiring women professionals.

Once ranked 45th in the world as an amateur, she was a winner of the Jim West Challenge, the Illini Invitational and the MA Championship. She also had top three finishes in the European Girls’ and Ladies Team Championships, plus the Girls’ British Open Amateur Championship.

Duca del Cosma POSE spikeless golf shoes feature Italian styling and fashionable color options in Rose Pink/Navy and Rose white/Black. They incorporate a waterproof bootie system with a breathable membrane and Airplay VI outsole for enhanced stability during the swing, plus a comfortable Arneflex® insole with a memory foam. The metallic Nappa leather MARQUESSA Gold spikeless golf shoe is designed for female golfers looking to impress on and off the golf course. Other models in the style include Gold and Silver versions with animal prints such as Zebra, plus plain Silver. All shoes come with two pairs of luxurious laces to match with different outfits.

Another Duca del Cosma shoe - the FESTIVA shoe in White - was selected by Golf Digest among its Top 20 Hot List for 2020. For details of the full 2020 Duca del Cosma range for women and men visit: ducadelcosma.us

[junker-town]

4 Kent State players suspended for MAC title game over anti-Akron song on Snapchat

PHIL MASTURZO / USA TODAY NETWORK

Kent State suspended four players for the MAC championship game over an explicit Snapchat video.

Kent State men’s basketball only has one NCAA tournament appearance in the last 13 seasons. On Saturday, the Golden Flashes will play for the automatic bid in MAC when they face Akron in the conference tournament title game. Their task got significantly more difficult after four players were suspended for the game over an explicit Snapchat video that showed the players repeating “f—- Akron,” among other things.

Backup guard DJ Johnson reportedly recorded and posted the video. Johnson has been suspended indefinitely by the MAC. Three of Johnson’s teammates — Malique Jacobs, Cli’Ron Hornbeak and Julius Rollins — also appear in the video, and have been suspended for the first half of the championship game against Akron.

Here’s the video. Warning for adult language.

Kent State’s Mens Basketball team has 4 of its players suspended for tonight’s game because of this video: pic.twitter.com/fXgvZjfhAs

— O/Ver The Line (@OverTheLine__) March 12, 2022

Jacobs, a 6’4 senior guard, is the team’s second-leading scorer, leading rebounder, has the second most assists on the team and the most steals. Now Kent State is without him for the first 20 minutes of the conference tournament title game. Hornbeak and Johnson are not regulars in the rotation, and Rollins hasn’t played this season.

Here are the statements from the MAC and Kent State:

University statement on video posted to social media: pic.twitter.com/IYcG1w2mql

— Kent State Athletics (@KentStAthletics) March 12, 2022

pic.twitter.com/K4OoAJJX2n

— #MACtion (@MACSports) March 12, 2022

Should players really be suspended for using some bad language in a social media post? Did Akron players make this song specifically for the MAC title game?

Kent State is the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament, while Akron is the No. 4 seed.

We’ll update this story as it develops.

[stubobnumbers]

College Football Rivalries

Rivalry/Trophy: The Anniversary Award. Teams Involved: Bowling Green and Kent State. The series was first played in 1920. There have been 90 meetings. Bowling Green leads the series, 60-24-6.

The Anniversary Award is a traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the annual college football game between the Bowling Green Falcons of Bowling Green State University and the Kent State Golden Flashes of Kent State University. Both schools, founded together in 1910, are located in northern Ohio, with Bowling Green in Northwest Ohio and Kent State in Northeast Ohio. The series between the two began in 1920, the first year Kent State fielded a football team, while the trophy was introduced in 1985.

The Anniversary Award was created by each of the schools’ alumni departments and commemorates the founding of both institutions, which occurred in 1910 as a result of the Lowry Bill. The award was first given out in 1985 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of each school.

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C's Chat - Joey Murray

C’s Chat – Joey Murray

Joey Murray made his professional debut with two scoreless innings against Everett at Nat Bailey Stadium June 20.

2018 Vancouver Canadians pitcher Joey Murray is the latest guest on this episode of C’s Chat.

Murray is wearing number 32 for the Canadians this season, the same number Blue Jays first-round pick Nate Pearsonwore in 2017. Pearson was all the rage in Vancouver last summer with his…

[ohtheplacesblog]

Join the Kent State Black Alumni Chapter for a #GivingTuesday Zoom event on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 8pmEST/7pmCST. For event details and Zoom information (to be posted Tuesday afternoon), follow our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/KSUBlackAlumni #KSUBAC #scholarship #GIVETOKENT #KentStateForever Kent State University launched its month-long celebration of philanthropy, Giving Tuesday, on Nov. 9 and highlighted a fundamental belief within the Golden Flash community: “Flashes Take Care of Flashes.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CIPdFM-BBI0/?igshid=ikcwpcyqdp3h

[davidmann95]

Hi! May I ask what is your opinion on the current Superman Rebirth/Reborn: to have Superman marry Lois Lane and second, give Superman a kid— Jon Kent. Thank You.

For the first two points: the whole Rebirth/Reborn era has been consistently weak and often actively awful across the board in terms of actual technical execution (at least as far as the writing goes; plenty of excellent art in the mix between the likes of Gleason, Mahnke, Jimenez, and Bogdanovic), but builds a perfectly serviceable baseline and status quo for creators who know what the hell they’re doing to build on whenever the guard finally changes, and I’m entirely in favor of Lois and Clark being married. For that last part…well, that’s what it’s really all about right now, isn’t it?

I’ve mentioned this once or twice before, but it really is worth reflecting how nuts Jon’s entire existence is. Superman and Lois Lane have a kid now. A no-fooling son who is Superboy. Not a hoax, dream, or imaginary tale, and in fact with Reborn DC’s doubled down on him being Superman’s Very Official Real Kid Forever Now. Even Batman had family sometimes portrayed as his children before, and his biological kid was specifically framed in the light of being dropped in his lap at 10, but Jon had to be an ancillary side-effect of a failed event slipping through due to Superman editorial’s failings, because “also they’ve had a kid for awhile now” isn’t the sort of thing that’d ever be retroactively slotted in via a normal reboot. Regardless of how he came about though, I’m absolutely willing to call Jon the best idea to hit Superman since at least Morrison folding back in the Golden Age adventures, and very possibly since Lois and Clark getting married in the first place.

Firstly, there’s just that the kid already has a distinct personality. Not without kinks - most books seem to still be writing him pretty generically, and even his creator Dan Jurgens exclusively portrays him as a grab-bag of generic traits for how a middle-aged man would think a 10 year old would speak and act in the 21st century - but for all his many shortcomings as a writer, one thing Peter Tomasi certainly has going for him is that he’s really good at writing kids. So whether bouncing off his dad or Damian, he’s both fun and a character who makes sense given he’s essentially tiny Superman as raised by Superman and Lois Lane: he’s got all of his dad’s optimism and exuberance, but because he’s as open and outgoing as his mom he doesn’t reign it in to dignified, stately charisma; he’s just a goofy upbeat kid. He’s got their collective temper too, and his mom’s unwillingness to let go of a lead, and that El Family sense of wonder at the universe. He’s easy to like and root for, and you can absolutely see how he came about as the product of that household.

What hasn’t been dug up nearly as much yet is the purely thematic, conceptual side of him, which is as rich a seam as it gets. On his mom’s side, there’s this blunt, adventurous woman who’s never had the slightest issue throwing herself into the most intense danger imaginable for the sake of a story having to take physical and emotional responsibility for a dumb, tiny little human who’s going to grow up to be the next Superman, and having to figure out pretty much from scratch and secondhand experience how to make a stable homelife happen after spending her own childhood moving from one army base to another under her asshole dad. With Clark, there’s after all these years of unconsciously isolating himself finally another being in the universe who could possibly understand what it’s like to grow up a Kryptonian on Earth…except it’s his kid who thinks he’s God because he didn’t learn he was Superman until he was old enough to know what that means. 

He’s a second-generation immigrant kid, he’s the Silver Age Superman reared by the original (he was Superboy in a small town alongside Krypto under his Ma and Pa and is growing up in an actively weirder world and a little more open about his hopes and fears), he’s the Nightwing to Clark’s Batman in that he’s being raised by him to not have the same issues but there’s a question as a result of if he’ll have the same drive, he’s a little Superman who can make mistakes and struggle, he’ll pretty much be a celebrity kid once the world at large realizes why he’s wearing the S, he has an entire world of relationships to build defined by others’ own relationships with his parents, he has potential brain/brawn partnership with his mom given she’s been doing this longer than he has, he can see all the craziness of the DCU through fresh eyes, you can do stuff with him once he grows up and becomes Superman II, and on and on and on. There’s just so much that you can do with him, and while he’s also already taking after his parents in that no one seems interested in doing any of it, he’s a goldmine as a sidekick (what if your dad was Superman?!) and as a permutation of the Superman concept in general, a logical continuation of basically every version of Superman that’s come before (he’s the scrapper the Golden Age guy was, his existence owns up to the domestic nature of the Silver Age and recaptures some elements of that actual Superman the current guy doesn’t, he’s the inevitable endpoint of the soap opera stuff), and something that feels like a natural part of that world. I sure hope he’s taken the places he deserves to go.

(Also, can we ditch him accidentally flash-frying a cat? That was an unbelievably weird way of getting off on the wrong foot with his debut to the superbooks proper, and I don’t think anyone would much complain if it was abandoned. Hopefully Reborn already silently took it off the board)