Green Lantern VS Shark - Negative Telepathic Shark Encounter!

[@davidj2074]

T.S. Smith exist: Big brain moves Gorilla Grodd: Sup, you too?

[@daverhoden445]

I imagine there's a long line of kids wanting sleepovers at Sasha's house just for the bedtime stories. "Do the voices Miss Sasha. Do ALL the voices."

[@PosthumanHeresy]

We are the long line of kids, age be damned.

[@comiccaptains8138]

Yes! This doesn't get old and the hot takes are always a delight!

[@DebjyotiZ]

I come here for her batman voice

[@dominoprzybilski7865]

Fighter pilot Hal Jordan vs. mutated shark TS Smith - yet another example of the classic rivalry of The Jets vs. The Sharks

[@philiphunn194]

Can't beat singing gang warfare, can you? *finger-snapping intensifies*

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

"And yes, the T.S. stands for Tiger Shark." Ah, my favorite poet: Tiger Shark Elliott.

[@CieJe.Alexander]

Thank you. I was hoping someone made this comment!

[@sertorrhenclegane]

I am so grateful I found this comment.

[@yurineri2227]

"invisible yellow force field" is the most silver age green lantern phrase I've ever heard lol

[@russellharrell2747]

I dunno, the invisible man-eating red bears in one of the early OZ books were definitely Victorian. They were bears that ate fruit from trees that turned them invisible. Imagine a random red bear sneaking up invisibly to just chomp on you. The only warning would be the smell, but those bears were probably smart enough to approach downwind.

[@yurineri2227]

@@russellharrell2747 wow, that sure gives "invisible yellow force field" a run for it's money

[@SimonMoon5]

Another "invisible but color" DC creation is the Green Glob which appeared in about a dozen issues of Tales of the Unexpected. It was completely invisible and none of the characters in any issue of Tales of the Unexpected ever saw it or even knew that it existed. But despite being invisible, it was definitely green. The Angel and the Ape miniseries eventually explained it away as the Glob being invisible except under certain frequencies of green light, so it was called "green" because of that. That miniseries also said that the Glob was a creation of the Guardians of the Universe, the guys who started the Green Lantern Corps. So, it has that Green Lantern connection.

[@yurineri2227]

@@SimonMoon5 my good that's so silly, I love it so much (＊0＊)

[@cyberp1ss]

hey, I see you everywhere around my dc bubble yuri neri, cheers :)

[@Oslogrolls]

this makes me wonder if Batman carries shark repellent as a reaction to shark characters in the DCU or because he's just prepared for ANYTHING 😂

[@skarloey1214]

He Can Carry Shark Repellent For More The One Reason.

[@CrisisComics]

The Shark was really big in the 80s, with regular appearances in Green Lantern as one of the big feared Earth villains. He took over Aquaman's kingdom (indirectly leading to his son's death by Black Manta), and was resurrected by Guy Gardner to fight the Qwardians. He even showed up during the finale of Grant Morrison's Animal Man run for the sole purpose of providing action. Turning him from a hyper-evolved shark to a normal sharkman really dulled his visual appeal, tbh. That weird fleshy, pointed face filled with teeth is so much more emotive and cruel than King Shark.

[@Awestefeld6612]

Shark fought the League.

[@kingdomcomesuperman3669]

Yeah his role in Aquaman is still one of my favourites

[@srstriker6420]

Yeah he should have been used more often because he has so much potential

[@srstriker6420]

@@Awestefeld6612 I wish they could have done a episode on that because I did thought alternative versions of the Justice league as monsters and they recruit the Shark to be a new member.

[@danielwilson8604]

he briefly appeared in death metal as a mental attack designed on hal's traumatic memories.

[@dcbandit]

I love the voices you give to these characters! Especially the added "om mom nom" to TS Smith's dialogue.

[@CGoliday1]

its better at 1.5

[@comiccaptains8138]

Yeah Sasha's Peter Parker gives me life lol!

[@dcbandit]

@@comiccaptains8138 I love how nasally she makes him!

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

The invisible yellow field disappeared. That was an actual thing that someone was paid money to write... and draw!

[@DSan-kl2yc]

Nothing harder than drawing something invisible

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

@@DSan-kl2yc I certainly couldn't have done it!

[@tysondennis1016]

How can something be invisible and yellow at the same time?

[@frumtheground]

So now we all know the trademarks of a highly evolved being: Shoulders pads, and speedos.

[@bobmathis-friedman6742]

Hal's stories played out at the time as inconsistently as a roleplay between 6-year-olds...

[@THATGuy5654]

"As a wise woman once said, "Om nomnomnomnom." That woman's name was Sasha Wood." "...umm... Does the prosecution have any closing statements?" "I.... guess not?"

[@aqacefan]

I think my least favorite "can't affect anything yellow" has to be an issue of The Flash where Hal can't help Barry overcome some problem because one of the chemicals that got spilled on him during his origin was sulfur...

[@Awestefeld6612]

How about the time the Flash had to take his boots off to travel with Green Lantern.

[@ericmiller93]

Nah it’s the time Ch’p got hit by a truck because it’s headlights were shining on him. RIP Ch’p.

[@CrisisComics]

@@ericmiller93 But couldn't he just... fly away?

[@acorn_acrom]

@@CrisisComics the yellow headlights stopped him

[@BenChanNYC]

One thing I miss about the yellow weakness was how it allowed Hal to show his creativity in overcoming it. He weaponized *the air!* That was just clever and wasn't due to how OP the ring used to be.

[@pedrovallefin8406]

It sorta is about how OP the ring was. If you give your character a weapon that can literally do anything you have to also give him an equally ridicoulus weakness to balance things out. It wasnt enough to have him fight vilalins just as OP, he needs to be consistenly confronted with the same stupid weakness to give more credibility to the threat. And him showing creativity to get out of those imposible scenarios is neccesary for the reader to know that Hal isnt the hero beacause he has the strongest weapon in the universe, he is the hero because of how he wields it. So taking out the yellow limitation was udestandable, since there is only so many stories you can tell with that format (and in the Silver Age prety much every story followed the same patern anyways), but they really should have given the ring another weakness to balance things out. As of now, the only limitation it has is precisely the creativity of the user, something that can change wildly depending of the writer. It needs to have a more terrenal, but less ridicoulus, weakness for the lanterns to have to be clever again isntead of just a rainbow army.

[@LinguarumFautor]

So if I wear a shirt that says “this is yellow” I’d be fine?

[@skarloey1214]

Yes But Only If Its In The Right Font.

[@gregorycourtney1532]

@@skarloey1214 What if it is in invisible ink?

[@kcollier2192]

Given how the Power Ring worked back then I'm surprised Hal could get it to work on a sunny day, let alone a world with a yellow sun. Also, 7:58- I wish it worked like that.

[@DSan-kl2yc]

imagine he gets cancer cause the ring didn't protect him

[@GenerationWest]

T.S. Smith: The Shark Nanaue: The Cooler Shark

[@qwellen7521]

Smith: he does exactly what I do Nanaue: but better.

[@jimbobweizion3994]

Pie face is a deragatory name for Chinese people

[@DSan-kl2yc]

@@qwellen7521 except he doesn't. This shark is totally way above King Shark. The premise itself is different too.

[@DangerousBobTM]

Sasha's shark voices in addition to all her other impressions are quite simply amazing.

[@rasheedsanders1067]

I humbly request a DC Shark Week.

[@BlUsKrEEm]

Shark pulled a Jet Jaguar and reprogrammed himself to grow

[@aaronkelly1762]

I'm not the most knowledgeable about Green Lantern yellow defeats, but I'm sure the time Hal lost to a yellow billboard might be up there as one of the silliest.

[@orinanime]

Can you elaborate on this particular incident?

[@devforfun5618]

@@orinanime it is only worth elaborating if it is better than him flying full speed through a billboard and crashing because it is yellow, because that is how i imagined it

[@ThennaryNak]

@@devforfun5618 That is not too far off from what happened except it wasn’t because the billboard was yellow but because of vengeance.

[@kingdomcomesuperman3669]

Tbh the Shark's involvement in Aquaman is one of my favourites with how effective his strategy to take over the kingdom was and it leading up to the death of AquaBaby

[@Hasmanian]

In the hyper evolved animal category, there was a chameleon that came back in time to fight Superman. It hijacked Clark Kent's morning bus and took it further back in time to threaten his fellow commuters with dinosaurs (really). I don't know what issue, but definitely a 70's book.

[@MoesTube1]

"The finery, the escalating power scale, the outlandish plot, the flimsy science" Jonathan Hickman just left the comments. 😁

[@user-lj5ri3gp5o]

Haha. Don't know why but when Sasha says "num, num ,num..."can't stop laughing.

[@karenstarr]

Silver age Hal Jordan is my favorite himbo. Also would love to see a video of Sasha doing the voice of the shark dude. Complete with the “numnumnum “.

[@jimgillespie6109]

SHARK VOICE! Please, more Shark voice!

[@HMAlves]

Invisible Yellow sounds like one of those weird color names in decoration, like old green or luminous cian.

[@treydodson4726]

Speaking of The Shark, there are various versions of The Terrible Trio throughout other media.

[@Kierste_n]

I love these self contained character spotlights. They’re nice and accessible

[@ronaldlennier86]

I appreciate the random nom noms in the sharks speech

[@uatu3021]

I remember reading an original copy of this in the early 80's, ages after it came out. It was pretty cheesy even then. Now take a look at the introduction of Earth One's Major Mynah in the Atom, and maybe a commercial for Hostess fruit pies for dessert. Then we might be able to explain my eternal love of pie, and unreasonable disinterest in DC titles.

[@1locust1]

Fond memories of Major Mynah. He could have been a fun team player for the Atom.

[@nobod2567]

Looks like we have a weaker version of King Shark, and Green Lantern's earth villains are SOO underrated!

[@ivane5110]

I remember first seeing the Shark back in the 70's and I'm sure the fact I had Jaws on my mind is what made him so cool to me. The idea of Jaws suddenly being able to get on land and come up with schemes. Wow! Of course now I'll never be able to read his stories without hearing that "nom nom nom" sound, lol. And I'm okay with that.

[@demonpniff]

Invisible yellow force field? Why doesn't the shark just use an invisible yellow baseball bat or something?

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

Yellow is my favorite color, but I never knew it could be invisible.

[@trntavry]

Great vid, naturally. I, for some reason, am struggling to move on from the fact that GL made a magnet to collect them air molecules. An air magnet? The science isn’t sciencing up for me and I can’t shake it.

[@coyotestarship7412]

I ran across this character reading an old DC WHOS WHO, comic the DC equivalent to the old marvel universe books that told you all about the various characters and their origins, and was driven absolutely mad by how little info I could find online about this character after suicide squad came out, thanks for making me feel sane again ma’am

[@danielwilson8604]

er... the shark is actually very different to king shark.

[@coyotestarship7412]

@@danielwilson8604 yes I know

[@danielwilson8604]

@@coyotestarship7412 sorry, i was a bit unsure. i should not have assumed.

[@coyotestarship7412]

@@danielwilson8604 no worries mate!

[@thomasdeja523]

Two points: 1) If you want to check out more hyper involved guys in speedos, check out Alpha The Ultimate Mutant who turned Magneto into a baby in early issues of THE DEFENDERS, and The Futurist, who bothered the FF in an issue of FANTASTIC FOUR drawn by John Byrne but not written by him (#216) 2) Quite some time ago, I did a podcast called DJ'S COMICS CAVALCADE. During its run I covered the first twenty some odd issues of GREEN LANTERN...and every time I referred to Tom Kalamaku, I would express my dislike for his nickname most clearly.

[@totoranger01]

I first discovered The Shark when he appeared in the Geoff Johns run and he pretty much immediately became tied with Doctor Polaris for my favorite Earth Green Lantern Villain. He's just a shark dude with psychic powers that gets bigger the longer between meals in that story and I found it so funny and I love it

[@nolawargaming7461]

Ch'p's original death. I like to think he was frozen by the yellow headlights of that truck. Poor squirrel

[@ramblingRJ]

I love your work. I'm an old guy now and I enjoy when you do these silver age books I collected as a kid. Great nostalgia. Keep it up.

[@leonerdo9432]

🤣😂Sasha you're killing me! You really should do an audiobook

[@cyberp1ss]

I feel less alone knowing that Sasha is reading Silver Age GL with me, I love those stories, and at times I rather read them than some weird homages to Silver Age (I'm looking at you Grant Morrison).

[@gregorycourtney1532]

Grant Morrison: Yes, let's throw in character without explaining them who was in a single issue decades ago. Everyone will know who they are and not be confused.

[@cyberp1ss]

@@gregorycourtney1532 the worst part of it all is that even when you get the reference Morrison never goes anywhere really interesting and new with it, so it's extra disappointing, referencing for the sake of referencing is so boooring, the actual silver age is at least funny

[@gregorycourtney1532]

@@cyberp1ss or he goes so spiritual and estoric that you would need a degree in various theologies to understand it.

[@jasonpratt5126]

"Swim, eat, swim, eat, don't die." -- you forgot, "...and make little sharks. And that's all it does."

[@CieJe.Alexander]

That and fly around in tornadoes. (And for this they get a whole week on Animal Planet, and a Spielberg film*?!) *with a lot of lesser sequels

[@slake9727]

In another story, Shark tried to capture Wonder Woman to be his mate.

[@jasonpratt5126]

@@slake9727 And so the trifecta has been made complete!

[@spookydookie4046]

This is hilarious. I get a little bit of a Zim feel for TS's voice. Lol. Good stuff. Lol. You really can't think too much with this story. Lol. I feel like I should be high when reading this. Favorite Sasha Quote: "So if you evolve thousands of years, you get a free speedo" "Nom nom nom" lmao love how you just threw that in there.

[@tysondennis1016]

It gives me Gollum vibes

[@andreworders7305]

Poor, poor Coast City

[@karenl6908]

I like to imagine Tom's family had a bakery, and that as a kid, he always had his face in the pies, so the other kids just called him "Pie-face". A nick-name like that can stick!

[@DSan-kl2yc]

I can imagine it not being racist. But that is still a pretty bad nickname. It sounds bad saying it in one's head or outloud. It sounds like an insult even if it isn't racial. Edit: I'll add that carol danvers in one of her comics said call signs weren't bad ass sounding and hers was cheeseburgers.

[@karenl6908]

@@DSan-kl2yc Have you ever seen a kid with a nick-name like "Stinky" or "Mop-hair"? Kids can be cruel!

[@scottboswell6406]

the ad libbed 'nom nom nom's are eating me up!! LOL!

[@richardleatherman5075]

Great voice again, Sasha! Nice modulating sinister sharky tones.

[@dadoctah]

Really? Nobody's going to mention TS Smith's casual reference to the Diet of Worms?

[@kilroywashere513]

Yeah, is a weird idea as an enemy of Hal Jordan’s green lantern, and Sasha you adding the:”num, num, num” to your is hilarious too.

[@leonardodeoliveira1921]

Nom Nom

[@screamingblue7]

I adore the voices, from whiny Spider-man to T.S. Smith and all the others in between! So entertaining!

[@abrealcomics4149]

This whole time I've been waiting for you to hit 100,000 I step away for 2 days and you've well on surpassed that congratulations Sasha.

[@peterdubois7276]

I think the best Green Lantern/color yellow moment was Ganthet's Tales by Larry Niven. Hal Jordan flew fast enough that the green energy from his ring shifted to the color yellow and he beat an opponent who was vulnerable to yellow.

[@RobertJazo]

This isn't a favorite yellow defeat, but a victory. There was a "Tales of the Green Lantern Corp" backup where an alien Green Lantern was trapped in a yellow sphere. However, she was a mother who had bought some sort alien version of B'LOONIES for her daughter, and she used it to coat the interior of the sphere with substance so it was "red" from her side. She then was able to shatter the sphere with her ring.

[@CieJe.Alexander]

Real moms are always prepared!

[@JS-hw8ve]

The bit about millions of years of evolution resulting in still just a normal shark was absolutely hilarious. The rest was funny, but that was the best.

[@bsabruzzo]

Also, I had that "Baby Shark" song in my head the entire video.

[@alejandropradillaamador6435]

Shark week in casually comics?!?!

[@voidaspects9173]

...honestly, I 100% want you to cover tiger shark too. Get the whole set!

[@JSRLPadre]

🎶Salty forever/ Can't let go🎶 Such verve😂

[@pr0t34n]

Sometimes I think my life is a continuous circle of watching and upvoting Casually Comics, uninterrupted but for the briefest of moments needed to sleep and eat. Anyway, MOAR SHARK VILLAINS PLZ NOM NOM NOM

[@bsabruzzo]

I see Casually Comics and Comics Drake as the way we fill in those wiki pages that are mostly empty.

[@robsyers8647]

BEAUTIFUL Gil Kane art! OK, now that that's out of the way... I think the narration boxes in this one are unreliable. Why, you ask? Because if TS Smith was so 'highly evolved' he would OBVIOUSLY be trying to marry Lois Lane!

[@johnquiett1085]

YES TIGER SHARK! It is now my dream to write an all shark villain story for DC.

[@davidsparham658]

Green Lantern's Shark. Not to be confused with the Green Lanternshark which is an actual species of shark. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_lanternshark

[@mobyt.3900]

glsd to see you didn't JUMP THE SHARK with this one!

[@CieJe.Alexander]

Aaaaaay 😎👍👍

[@ladymarianne9680]

Thanks for covering this, the Shark's my favourite silver age age GL villain.

[@justicierodelaliga]

Thanks for the video! Where in the New 52 appeared Shark? He didn´t in the Green Lantern neither Justice League. PS Can you imagine the romance between him an Orca? PS2 A video about Orca.

[@unigenius]

Silver age Green Lantern and the cartoons based on him are what made me HATE Green Lantern as a kid because the powers were SO nebulous!

[@IzzysIssues]

I'd love you to do a list dive on just the dumbest yellow (or wood) Lantern defeats / the stupidest solutions they come up with to escape

[@DoneRandomLee]

I really appreciate the omonomnomonomnon you added

[@LarryRodgers]

Tom can still be Pi, just make his birthday March 14th

[@j.r.242]

Your channel is so entertaining and interesting. It always feels like you’re talking to a friend . Thanks Sasha. Also the voices..... amaze balls

[@tonyibraham5931]

Love your sped up Cookie Monster cookie eating sounds insertions

[@fredcampbell4066]

No one may have asked but to paraphrase the Rolling Stones you don't always get what you ask for but you get what you need.

[@spookydookie4046]

Omg you should do the most ridiculous superhero defeats!

[@grey1213a]

Oh forget the color yellow... let's talk about being weak to wood... as in dead trees kinda wood. Now that's a ridiculous weakness.

[@rbourne35]

It makes sense that there would be a substance that a power ring couldn't affect. And wood is common enough to be a real problem. Much easier to write in while facing yellow is often very contrived. There are issues if you try to figure what it is about the wood that would make it immune. But I don't hate it.

[@nadirahmed7823]

What do you mean invisible yellow field? Did the Shark discover *gasp* Ultrayellow light? (like Ultraviolet, but in the yellow portion of the spectrum that human eyes cannot see?)

[@CieJe.Alexander]

Oh no! More Corps/sub-corps to deal with!

[@skarloey1214]

I Think You Should Do A Video About Rick Jones.

[@molsongrrrl]

Nom nom nom ... lol. I always enjoy your voice work!

[@Polycomical]

Shark nature numnumnum. Video worth it for this alone.

[@blackphoenix77]

From shark to ape to man to future man, and then to a shark man. Yeah, that's how evolution works.

[@TheVetoSkreeemer]

There is a really creepy story of the Shark vs Wonder Woman from the 70 s.

[@michaelthomas5433]

I'd like to think a super evolved shark would be more into Bitcoin than going all nom nom nom on humans.

[@cantstopcray]

Your Nom nom Noms literally made my life.

[@simonkennedy6116]

Sasha's really throwing in on this character, wonder what her TTRPG's are like

[@justafan7472]

I really enjoyed this, however I have to speak up about the pie face thing... Now yes it was unfortunate that he was Inuit which made it far more noticed then it should have. Pie face was a term back then. It was speaking of the stunned look people got on their face when they were told something shocking. You have to remember that a pie in the face was the punch line for many, many jokes at the time. Even before the 3 stooges films, in vaudeville and everywhere else. The jokes were simple, something happened, a person stood there with a stunned look on their face which ended with a pie. So a round almost gullible type face, or just blissfully nieve was called a pie face.

[@skarloey1214]

Great Video Shasa.

[@euansmith3699]

num-num-num-num-num 😂

[@TheDukeofMadness]

This whole thing is ichthyilogical.

[@adrianscott4288]

I don't even read comics, but love your channel. The voice acting is just fantastic. More Shark episodes please!!!

[@firetarrasque4667]

Remember, kids: In the wild, animals don't seek out prey to challenge themselves. They eat the easiest things they can find and then sleep until they have to eat again. Gotta save those calories.

[@lordpepito]

We need a comics Shark Week

[@yasspanda2559]

Sasha casually cosplaying as Ivy

[@jaymesEo6]

Never been this early for literally anything

[@HBHaga]

By all mean, let's have Shark Month! King Shark, The Shark, Tiger Shark (when you've got a tiger by the tail, hold on ... ), Spidey villain Hammerhead!

[@MrSafior]

Wich Tiger Shark ? The marvel or DC one ?

[@mynardomacaraig2697]

There have been multiple Tiger Sharks in DC. Infinity Inc fought a mutated human-shark hybrid. There are also different versions of Blackhawk arch-foe Killer Shark..

[@YouCallThataKnife253]

I come for the stories, but stay for the voices

[@dmitry1263]

I am DYING from your voice-over, so good.