Who Were Those Masked Men?

I don't know 'bout y'all, but this whole pandemic business is wearing me down. It's been going on for an entire year now, with no end in sight, causing record deaths, unemployment and forclosures. And we owe it all to the Orange Buffon Who Formerly Occupied The White House.

As if all that wasn't enough, I'm also growing very weary of having to wear a mask everywhere I go. Note that I didn't say I'm not doing it— I'm a staunch believer in wearing a mask and wearing it properly. I'm just tired of having to breathe through one for nine hours a day at work. I'm sure you all are too.

So in order to take our minds off of mask-wearing for a while, I thought I'd recommend some movies we could all watch together!

How about we watch Casshern? It's a 2004 adaptation of an anime series of the same name, and featur... wait a minute. Something's wrong here. I don't want to watch this.

I know! Let's watch Mortal Engines, the 2018 fantasy epic about massive mobile cities battling in a post apocalyptic wastela... hold up. This is all wrong too.

OK, let's go with one of my all-time favorite films— 2015's Fury Road. It's the fourth installment in the Mad Max franchise, written and directed by George Miller. In this sequel/soft reboot, Max teams up with Furiosa, a fierce warrio... Oh, for frak's sake!

How about we sit quietly on the edge of our beds and stare at the floor till this is all over?

Mask Up!

This week The CW released a series of posters depicting the stars of their various Arrowverse shows wearing masks (even though many of them are already wearing masks of another kind), to promote proper pandemic safety.

Good for them! I'm all for anything that'll encourage the rabble to take the disease seriously. I don't mind wearing a mask in public, but I'd rather not have to do it the rest of my life, thanks.

Note the ominous caption at the bottom of each poster that reads, "Coming 2021." That means we'll get no new episodes of any Arrowverse shows the rest of this year! Jesus Christ! Thanks, Covid-19!

Nice to see Barry Allen masking up, though one would think his "speed healing" powers would eliminate his need for one.

And what about Supergirl and Superman? Can Kryptonians catch the coronavirus? If anything, we should be wary of catching some alien bug from them! Go ahead and wear those masks, guys!

Could Black Lightning use his electrical-based powers to fry the virus out of his body? You know, like shining a light up your ass or injecting bleach, much like a certain orange politician once suggested?

Wow, looks like the pandemic's a thing over on Earth-2 as well! Stargirl is from a completely different Earth in another universe!

Oh god, imagine the damage the Legends could do if they didn't wear masks! They have a timeship, and regularly travel to the past! They could spread Covid all throughout history!

Good to see that our Lord and Master Beebo is wise enough to mask up as well!

Not that it matters, but it appears this wasn't a specially commissioned photo shoot. As you can see above, it looks like they took pre-existing promotional images and Photoshopped masks onto them. They did an excellent job though, matching the lighting and angles and such. It's impossible to tell the masks aren't real. Well done!