The Avengers made Marvel's biggest experiment work: take a group of people who don't particularly like each other and somehow convince us they belong together.

Fourteen years later, Avengers: Doomsday has the same problem on a ridiculous scale.

This time we're not just dealing with Iron Man arguing with Thor or Steve Rogers trying to keep six Avengers focused. We've got Avengers, New Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Wakandans, multiple universes—and Doctor Doom sitting right in the middle of it.

So for this Road to Avengers: Doomsday rewatch, we're going back to 2012 to figure out why the original Avengers actually worked.

We get into how quickly the movie establishes each Avenger's personality, why letting them fight and disagree is essential to eventually making the team believable, Steve becoming the field leader, Loki accidentally creating the Avengers in both comics and the MCU, the escalation from the Tesseract to thousands of incursions, and why we desperately miss this version of Hulk.

Then there's the bigger Doomsday problem:

Who the hell leads everybody?

Steve Rogers? Sam Wilson? Reed Richards? The X-Men? And what happens when saving one universe might mean another one doesn't survive?

And maybe most importantly—what happens if Doctor Doom doesn't walk into the room offering a fight?

What if Doom offers them a solution?

Because the worst version of Avengers: Doomsday is just a parade of characters showing up so everyone can cheer.

The rotating Avengers shot in 2012 worked because the movie spent two hours making us believe those six people had finally become a team.

That shot was the payoff. It wasn't the story.

Avengers: Doomsday doesn't just have to assemble everybody.

It has to earn another Avengers moment.

Road to Avengers: Doomsday continues as we figure out what each movie adds to the board.

We're finally jumping into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics—and somehow we picked one of the strangest possible starting points.

TMNT: Black, White & Green isn't one continuous story. It's four issues filled with short stories from completely different creative teams, all telling their own version of the Turtles using only black, white and green.

Which makes this thing almost impossible to rate.

Some stories had us wishing they were full six-issue arcs.

Some felt like they ended right when they were getting interesting.

And at least one had us wondering what the hell we were even reading.

Miguel and Luis get into the best and worst stories, the wildly different artwork, whether eight pages is actually enough to tell these stories, why the Turtles still feel surprisingly consistent across completely different creators—and Luis somehow changes his rating in the middle of the episode.

Then we get into the important shit:

Who's the best Ninja Turtle?

And with this book officially kicking off our TMNT comic journey, we're already looking ahead to the big one:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin.

John Stewart is finally Green Lantern. So why didn't it completely feel like it?

The Lanterns Season 1 finale answers the murder mystery, reveals what really happened to Hal Jordan, gives us Noah's Manhunter truth, closes the book on Hal and John in a surprisingly emotional way, and finally puts Hal's ring in John's hands.

And a lot of it works.

Noah and John becoming two sides of the same question about programming versus choice? Works.

Hal finally being given the opportunity to hold onto life and choosing to let go instead? That got me.

John rejecting everyone else's plan for his life and creating his own Green Lantern oath around the words “I choose”? I actually like it more the longer I've thought about it.

But then John finally flies.

This should've been the moment where, after eight episodes, I went:

There he is. That's John Stewart. That's Green Lantern.

And…I didn't.

So we're getting into everything from Kerry and Noah to Hal's goodbye, John's new oath, Sinestro's strange fear-infused Lantern, what John actually is now, and why I don't think this finale needed a giant CGI battle—but desperately needed one definitive Green Lantern moment.

Because I think Lanterns understands John Stewart incredibly well.

I'm just not sure the finale completely understands the fantasy of being Green Lantern.

And somehow the biggest question I'm leaving Season 1 with isn't what happened to Hal Jordan.

It's:

What the hell kind of Green Lantern did John Stewart just become?