Capes On The Couch - Where Comics Need Counseling

Intro Welcome back for Season 5  Describe changes to show New website Patrons now guest on trade paperback reviews Ariel’s column - Some Of Its Parts Background (03:52) Maxwell Lord created by Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis, and Kevin Maguire in Justice League #1 (May 1987) Father was a businessman who committed suicide after a product he created caused cancer, and his mother convinced him that powerful people cannot be trusted In the post-Crisis world, he wanted to bring the Justice League together - was actually under the control of a supercomputer created by Metron Later breaks free of the control of the computer, and befriends the League Gains mild telepathy during the Invasion event, and instead of using the powers for good, begins to distrust the metahuman community - using the powers gives him a nosebleed After being injured in a battle, he gains a cyborg-like body, but has to battle Kilg%re the computer for control Countdown to Infinite Crisis - he kills Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle, and