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[DC] I freaked out when I saw the lollipop panel in action comics 1051 bc I drew heart lollipop MONTHS BEFORE (and never posted it here) .

Anyways, some kons, as usual, but featuring some of his mentor figures. The last one is an old au/hc from May 2022 blending the rots movie and the comics, I was thinking about his first moments at cadmus where he still “hatches” early but stays with Cadmus a little longer and is babysitted and watches a lot of tv, then goes out to become a celebrity sensation

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genuinely crying over the new spiderperson having ehlers danlos oh my god… oh my god. sun-spider means the world to me no one look at m

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LIKE!!! HOLY SHIT!! LOOK AT THIS

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SHE’S CANONICALLY A WHEELCHAIR USER WHO USES CRUTCHES AS WEBSHOOTERS TO AID WITH HER HYPERFLEXIBILITY AND WAS ORIGINALLY FANDMADE BEFORE MARVEL MADE HER CANON HOLY CRAP https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Sun-Spider_(Earth-20023)

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[id: two photos of Sun Spider, a superhero with a red spider suit equipped with braces on the suit, and holding crutches that shoot out webs. She's also wearing a silver web-patterned baseball cap and a black jacket.]

Ahhh this is amazing!!!

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The character’s name is Charlotte Webber, which I can’t fucking believe hasn’t been used in a Spider-Man comic before now.

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Harley Quinn's insane popularity during the mid-2010s is an interesting phenomenon precisely because her popularity was less about her as a character and more about everything else DC was doing at the time

Harley's New 52 aesthetic revamp from harlequin costume to a corset and booty shorts happened entirely because people loved her look in the Arkham games. Also almost entirely on the basis of her popularity in those games (and because the company was in desperate need of positive PR after mass criticism about their treatment of female characters in the early New 52), editorial greenlit a solo book for her.

Her 2014 solo book outsold most of DC's line partially because of the character, story, and the creative team of course; there's no way it could have been that successful without people liking those things. But its success was also largely because she was one of the few characters who (outside of Glass's Suicide Squad run, which was promptly yeeted into oblivion and never mentioned again) wasn't completely fucked over by the reboot and whose book DC editorial largely left alone during the notoriously micromanaged New 52 era.

She also had one of the few decent "fun" books at a time when DC's offerings were mostly either grimdark and edgy or doing something radically different with their protagonists than normal (for example...making Supergirl a Red Lantern or having Dick Grayson fake his death and go undercover as a super spy), making Harley Quinn a breath of fresh air for anyone seeking to escape the melodrama of Forever Evil, Future's End, and Convergence or find a new book after the ones they were reading ended or became unpalatable.

Over in the DCEU, people had two lukewarm movies they weren't really that excited about despite starring DC's Trinity. And then you got Suicide Squad, which was hot garbage and a critical failure but had the wonderful Margot Robbie playing Harley Quinn. No one else really made it out of that movie looking good, but Margot's depiction of Harley was widely praised and her look in that movie became wildly popular, selling tons of merch. So DC went "oh she's a seller!" and then greenlit the Harley Quinn cartoon and Birds of Prey 2020 while generally refusing to acknowledge that the lack of decent DCEU movies overall, Robbie's performance compared to her co-stars, and Harley's Hot Topic-esque look were the main drivers of Harley's popularity following the movie's release.

Basically: Harley got incredibly lucky because she got a major internal editorial push as a character at the exact same time basically every other character whose comics would have normally outsold hers got fucked over, and then got lucky twice when DC cast Margot Robbie to play her in Suicide Squad while the movie's Hot Topic Aesthetic™ was still somewhat en vogue. Combine those two things with the fact that her relationship with Poison Ivy (an a-list Batman Rogue) was confirmed at the same time same-sex marriage was legalized and DC was looking to promote a diverse character slate...and you get the wild popularity she's enjoyed since ~2012 that nonetheless is obviously starting to slowly return back to base levels.

I think at the end of the day, The Harley Phenomenon is less about Harley Quinn (though she does absolutely have her appeal as a character) and more about what happens when a company capitalizes on a character's aesthetic appeal and Cool Girl Status while largely abandoning the goal of making quality content starring the rest of their staple characters. She's certainly popular on her own, but she never would have achieved the level of mainstream popularity she's enjoyed over the past 10 years without an astounding set of major coincidences all falling in her direction.

i wanna rebrand this blog bc we simply do not simp for this man anymore but like. i know we're mostly not who was running this so it feels disrespectful lol

#would want it to be either more batman or more xmen themed #god what if we gotta have seperate marvel and dc blogs lol

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Starfire in her bubbly wide eyed, and flaming poofy haired glory.

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Soft Lead

Clark Kent, a cartoonist for the Daily Planet, visits his number one fan, Bruce Wayne, at his home for breakfast.

Edit - Per some requests, this is now available on Gumroad as a PDF! It includes some of the doodles. It is FREE / Pay-What-You-Want.

https://gumroad.com/aluhnim

Oh yeah any mutuals here I may be posting occasionally again. Long and short of it is I have DID and after that summer(?) I was super active or whatever idk what happened but uhh shit happened? Idr what happened but that/those who ran this blog pretty much disappeared from the headspace. Kinda getting pieces back a little at a time. Dunno how active we'll be . Dunno if anyone's gonna see this and so many people have changed usernames I don't remember who's who anymore except like 1 person

#hopefully this doesn't seem cringy #moved 2 or 3 times? moving seems to always trigger a reset #shit sux #but shit IS getting better