rotter's comic dump

horror hive aka Rotter | they/them, me/mim | 21 y/o | minors discouraged

[comiknitt]

gonna turn this into a general comics blog

[fredricwertham]

I want to staple these numbers to people’s faces any time they try to explain to me that N52 wasn’t really that bad

[casuallyodd]

This is one of those things that I wanted to look into more and my initial searches haven't gotten a lot of details...except this

Writers of the DC New 52

As with the other lists, I will include those writers who have been credited so far in the post-Flashpoint universe. For simplicity's sake,

This list stopped updating a while ago and probably isn't reflective of the complaint above, but it also illustrates the point well.

My eyebrows kept going up as I scrolled

[fredricwertham]

Hi! I made an addition to this post with links to a bunch of resources on women in N52 (or to be more accurate—after Dan Didio took over) and DC’s issues with writers during that period more broadly. It’s far from comprehensive, but there’s a lot there to dig through.

I especially recommend looking at Tim Hanley’s gendercrunching blog posts, which offer an in-depth look at what creative roles women have filled at both DC and Marvel for a decade plus worth of comics.

Both the post on editorial’s treatment Stephanie Brown (which is what this is a screenshot of) and the one on Cassandra Cain are also excellent.

Enjoy!

[24hrsoda]

while a bunch of you are reblogging my posts about the blackout and taking about how some nonblack dc fans don’t care about black people and supporting black art etc etc, i feel really inclined to say that a LOT of this support just stops at reblogging art or talking about comics about black characters. like a lot of nb people here don’t really seek black art in other ways outside of these comics or specific characters. and, relateldy, it’s starting to feel like some of these nb people have chose to make the blackout/(now cancelled) boycott the hill to die on when it comes to talking about black art and how much they support it.

in this fanbase i see people make playlists for characters and on these playlists sometimes there isn’t a single song by black artists. or the playlists lack any rap or hip hop or even soul music which are generes where black artists are very prominent.

i see people make AUs or crossovers or talk about how a character would enjoy xyz movie/show/musical and i can’t think of a single time it’s been a movie or show or musical by/about black people or black characters.

and sometimes it makes me feel a little bit awkward as a black person. like there’s been times where i try to say i think a song fits a character or ship and people have just never heard of the artist or the song or “i don’t listen to that stuff” (usually rap or hip hop) or don’t seem interested in hearing it. or, to get to know people, i ask them if they’ve heard xyz artist, or seen xyz movie, or watched xyz show. they never have.

like i remember last year BEGGING people over and over to please go watch sinners because it was SO good, some people admitted they waited until it was out on streaming because they didn’t think it would be a theatre worthy watch, etc. but when movies like FNAF2 or thunderbolts came out some of them ran to see them and talked about them for weeks??? (iirc there was even a captain america movie with a black lead that came out in 2025?? and i saw marvel fans fawning over thunderbolts so much and v little talk about a black man being captain america!!!)

those are just a few examples but really i guess i just want to say that a lot of people are seizing this opportunity to attack each other and bully each other and turn the dcsowhite talk in to a competition over who supposedly cares about black people The Most but all of that support is rarely going beyond this conversation or even outside of the fanbase. some people are putting black characters above real people as a whole (which was something that was acknowledged as a point of concern amongst black people discussing the blackout and was one of the things that determined the cancellation) and w some people it feels like they’re narrowing “supporting black art” down to comic books and then berating others for not caring about black creations when there’s so much more beyond comics that they themselves do not engage with at all.

there are so many other forms of art made by black people that you should all seek out with and engage with beyond just talking about comic books and comic characters! especially if you’re looking to branch away from dc or the comic business.

let your support go beyond talking about/reblogging posts about needing more comics.

[zeldareference]

guys hes literally the sun ☀️

[milowing]

duke thomas spends 10+ years getting comics and growth and plot and hes "too new" and people "dont know him well enough". superboy prime gets five minutes of character development and hes suddenly a fan favorite getting shipped with every character under the sun. i hate this fandom.

[comiknitt]

damian meeting jon :) don't mind bruce he's being himself

[sharksandjays]

Bart also says FUCK ICE!!!!

[tb-png]

hello world, his name is damian wayne and he is only 1 year old today (๑･̑◡･̑๑)

[comiknitt]

shaking my brain for my adhd jumping from idea to idea

[thatlittlesorceress]

a little fanart of these two because I recently finished the series

[prince-o-rot]

what if gambit took that hit like a champ

(icon i made for a superhero rp)

[vos-porwave]

the riddler but hes just some normal streamer. got peer pressured by twitch chat into doing stuff

[golden-x-mage]

jerma

[vos-porwave]

“no- chat i’m not gonna like, try to trick BATMAN like- n-no! no that’s- [unhinged laughter] OUGGHgh BATMAN solve my riddles or i’ll BLOW UP A WHOLE CASINO-”

[prince-o-rot]

i cannot simply selfship. i have to create a version of myself that exists within the context of a piece of media who, by that alone, has already become an entirely separate person from myself

[morgangalaxy43]

I really love Ororo and Kitty’s mother daughter relationship

[marazra]

Moon Knight (2011) #4

[dorykinny]

Dispatch would have been 90x better if they actually gave Robert a dad bod

[comiknitt]

didnt wanna redo tags so they pass peer review

[sreppub]

coloured this little tim bart drawing