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After again warning the kids to stay out his way, The Shade vanishes from the house - but at episode’s end he is seen standing atop the clock tower, holding the Black Diamond’s empty box and realizing(/worrying?) that Eclipso is going to “kill those children.” Swift says it would probably be best if they didn’t know what he is up to, but instead simply “stay out of my way.” A detente seems about to be reached when an impulsive Mike arrives to sic Thunderbolt on The Shade, but the supervillain’s shadowy tendrils easily neutralize the genie as well as pin down everyone in the JSA. He invites them to partake, but Pat and Court are intent on finding out what his agenda for Blue Valley is. At the Zarick home, the JSA and Pat find Richard Swift/The Shade simply sitting at a dining table, sipping perfectly steeped tea.
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Pat forbids Mike/Thunderbolt from coming along, and instead tasks his son with watching over the Pit Stop. But sure enough, the efforts pays off, and Thunderbolt points them to Zarick’s vacant house. With Courtney champing at the bit to stop The Shade in his tracks, it is agreed that Mike will use Thunderbolt to find the ISA alum’s current location, after they spend a great deal of time/a music montage hammering out the prolonged and very specific wish. When Pat asks Mike to summon Thunderbolt, the genie shares with Pat in private that, as with Johnny Thunder and now Mike, he typically is drawn to people who are feeling very, very lonely - a fact that Pat is saddened to hear. Over at the Pit Stop, Pat and the JSA learn about Mike now being in control of Thunderbolt, though Pat forbids his son from making further wishes. Barbara declines, and Swift becomes clearly agitated before enshrouding the closet in complete darkness and disappearing. Swift soon locks eyes on the box that held the Black Diamond, and when he find it empty, he asks if he can have the box. Meanwhile, Barbara is taking inventory of the late William Zarick/The Wizard’s belongings when Richard Swift literally emerges from the shadows, claiming that some assistant directed him to the room, and he figured he could help. On their way home from summer school, Courtney and Yolanda happen upon Mike and discover his newly discovered power. Later, Mike sees his bullies stealing cookies from a local Girl Scout, so he wishes that they would stop - and Thunderbolt rains down STOP sign after STOP sign in the lads’ path, until they scamper away in terror. But as with many a Monkey’s Paw-type device, lazily phrased wishes can backfire, as Mike quickly and repeatedly learns. The next day during his paper route, Mike is presented with hint after hint to say the words “So Cool” - and once he finally does, Thunderbolt (voiced by Jim Gaffigan) emerges from the pen and introduces himself as Mike’s “new best friend.” Thunderbolt explains his ties to Johnny Thunder and the OG JSA, and his ability to grant (almost!) any wish.
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Afterward, while lamenting both his exclusion from the JSA fun and his bullied paperboy fate, Mike mutters, “I wish I could be a superhero” - and we see the pink pen twinkle in his pocket. Upon returning home, Mike gets a phone call about a new subscriber, and when in need of a pen, he unwittingly grabs Thunderbolt from Courtney’s pencil cup. Mike is slogging through another run of his paper route, where he apparently gets bullied on the daily by a pack of punks with bully-type nicknames. But before the sidekicks could kick back with some eggnog, Ted Grant/Wildcat arrived to recruit Johnny, but not Pat, for the Big Show. This week’s cold open flashed back to Christmas Day 2010, where both Pat/Stripesy and Johnny Thunder (played by Ethan Embry) - beholder of Thunderbolt, which is “more powerful than Green Lantern, Flash, all of ’em combined” - had been benched while the rest of the JSA took on the ISA. This week on DC’s Stargirl, Mike believed he had the “write stuff” to join the JSA, just as the team confronted Richard Swift about his shady agenda. Tom Cavanagh on The Flash's 'Thrilling' Future Role Reversal, How Unlikely Eobard/Iris Pairing Came to Fruition Riverdale: Kiernan Shipka Teases Sabrina's Long-Awaited Crossover (and Explains Her Resurrection)