THE POWER FANTASY LOVES YOU

reads way too many dc comics.

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Fade's creative stuff links

This was previously a page, but I am making a post so I can pin it to my tumblr. It just has all of the links to my general DC creative stuff.

Drawings:

My art (link) - my "my art" tag, including the art I draw.

Fanfic:

my fanfic (link) - my "my fanfic" tag on my tumblr, when I post new fics or write about ideas.

General ao3 page (link)

general ff.net page (link)

Action figures:

my custom action figures tag (link) - it just says "custom action figures", but I figure if I reblog other people's customs, I'll tag them other people's customs.

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My friend read brightest day and is trying to tell me it's NOT entirely about mera???? Sounds fake

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Women Having Problems: who to stan edition

if I think of more i'll add more but the current other women having problems I am thinking of don't have problems in the same way popular male characters have (or are perceived to have)

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I wish I'd been slightly meaner to dick here it's like. Donna's cool but it's not just bc she has superpowers. Even if she had no superpowers she'd still be cooler. Now I'd say "like that, but everyone else doesn't have to be written as stupider to justify why you're leader"

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#This is very kon and cir el 👀

Please add I want to see the comparison!

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I don't think Edward Hall was talking about the DMV when he said that the extensions of man cause him distress* but in my heart he was

*cannot remember the phrasing but WHATEVER

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Do i have any fantastic four fan followers? I need to know if my review is going to piss people off

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Reading the 60s fantastic 4 comics.

Its like Arnold drakes doom patrol but if the characters had no charm

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Do i have any fantastic four fan followers? I need to know if my review is going to piss people off

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Memento Vivi: Chapter 11: Memento Inferno

could not sleep last night so have another chapter I posted

This planet is like hell. He knows this from the little Scott Free has shared with the League, from previous encounters with Darkseid. It is the ultimate kratocracy, rule of the strong at the expense of the weak – and someone took his son there. But he can’t do anything. He’s Bruce, pretending to be Batman. He’s too small to even operate the Hellbat suit, the armored plates are made to protect arms at least twice as wide as his, the mask’s eyes won’t line up with his and he has to take it off, breathing in bitter air – and he loses the armor. He’s not on Apokalips anymore, he’s on the tile floor of one of his father’s buildings. He’s on his hands and knees, seeing blood on the floor. keep reading

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Mafia Infiltration Unit

Okay so!

expansion of Birds of Prey plotline where Helena leaves the team after finding out Babs was trying to manipulate her and takes Savant and Creote (the blackmail expert + his companion/minion who Barbara was trying to reform).

This is post War Games, in my head James Cooper did NOT disappear from canon (James is Helena's adopted son at the end of her 1989 solo series), he puts his inventive genius + unparalleled trolling abilities to use to help Helena and irritate the shit out of Savant. He would be a young adult here, like 18/19

Stephanie Brown, rather than dying in War Games or having her death faked and being spirited away to Africa (IIRC they literally NEVER got more specific than that) asks Leslie to fake her death, b/c she is too ashamed to face Batfam and her mom (tying into her Batgirl solo series theme about returning to Gotham and staying and trying to fight, this is during her flee era). She finds Helena and joins her team while recovering from her wounds, mostly kind of bouncing off ideas, not doing anything in the field -- she's still recovering. The cane is to assist in walking as she's recovering,

Savant, Creote, and Helena all had clearly defined canon roles in Birds of Prey

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Memento Vivi: Chapter 11: Memento Inferno

could not sleep last night so have another chapter I posted

This planet is like hell. He knows this from the little Scott Free has shared with the League, from previous encounters with Darkseid. It is the ultimate kratocracy, rule of the strong at the expense of the weak – and someone took his son there. But he can’t do anything. He’s Bruce, pretending to be Batman. He’s too small to even operate the Hellbat suit, the armored plates are made to protect arms at least twice as wide as his, the mask’s eyes won’t line up with his and he has to take it off, breathing in bitter air – and he loses the armor. He’s not on Apokalips anymore, he’s on the tile floor of one of his father’s buildings. He’s on his hands and knees, seeing blood on the floor. keep reading

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Mafia Infiltration Unit

Okay so!

expansion of Birds of Prey plotline where Helena leaves the team after finding out Babs was trying to manipulate her and takes Savant and Creote (the blackmail expert + his companion/minion who Barbara was trying to reform).

This is post War Games, in my head James Cooper did NOT disappear from canon (James is Helena's adopted son at the end of her 1989 solo series), he puts his inventive genius + unparalleled trolling abilities to use to help Helena and irritate the shit out of Savant. He would be a young adult here, like 18/19

Stephanie Brown, rather than dying in War Games or having her death faked and being spirited away to Africa (IIRC they literally NEVER got more specific than that) asks Leslie to fake her death, b/c she is too ashamed to face Batfam and her mom (tying into her Batgirl solo series theme about returning to Gotham and staying and trying to fight, this is during her flee era). She finds Helena and joins her team while recovering from her wounds, mostly kind of bouncing off ideas, not doing anything in the field -- she's still recovering. The cane is to assist in walking as she's recovering,

Savant, Creote, and Helena all had clearly defined canon roles in Birds of Prey

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it is funny (well not 'ha ha' funny more of an observation) that for Bruce, generally when he's being written as a bad father it's in comics that are about him*, he's the POV character and the protag, but when talia is written as bad mother, it's in comics that ARENT about her. her being written as a bad mother is never to further her character, its always to further the angst of some male character (bruce or damian), and bruce being written as a bad father is ... to further his story**.

generally when characters have jerkass moments its important to consider who is the protag and who the writer is focusing on the development of.

*some exceptions, like nightwing year one and boring dick angst stuff, but i'm talking about things that aren't retcons

**this does not mean it's done well, just that normally these writers are focusing on bruce's character and his story

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I'm too busy to search for the panels right now, but another reason why I'm kind of really bothered by Damian just turning into this overly obedient kid after Bruce yelled at him in Fraction's Batman run is that in PKJ's Batman and Robin run Bruce and Damian argued too, but both of them showed a degree of emotional maturity by making it clear that while they disagreed they still had taken the feelings and history of the other into account.

Damian stood his ground against Bruce with angry, but reasonable arguments that made it clear that he was disagreeing with his father not because he didn't understand or know Bruce, but exactly because he did. And Bruce tried to show empathy too. Bruce was motivated by care and fear for his son even when it lead to him doing something questionable.

The fight in Fraction's Batman is basically just Damian...honestly, I'm not even sure if it can be called a making real mistake, he was lacking information and had bad luck; Bruce had a complete violent overreaction to it and then Damian turns into a meek, obedient and blindly loyal child and the only thing that goes away a bit after Bruce gave him affection crumbs as a show of willingness for reconciliation is the meekness.

That's not Damian and it's especially not approriate for his age and character developement. Damian was never shy when it came to defending his own position against Bruce and criticizing him even when an argument became very heated. Damian is like a cat, not a beaten dog.

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The way that recent batman writers want to portray damian as overly obedient / blindly following Bruce (fraction, zdarsky) also when they're portraying this as a bad thing (at least in zdarskys case) is so distasteful to me.

Like damian was demonized for being in disagreement with Bruce in the rebirth era, now hes written as obedient and a shadow of his former self just to repeat boring ass story beats no one asked to be repeated way more poorly than they were done the first time

Idk if I have coherent thoughts to add or just wound up preaching to the choir but anyway

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Every time qward shows up in my silver or bronze age comics I get insufferably nitpicky

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See there is nothing that you can objectively say is evil*, evil is constructed by people amd society. If your premise is that in the anti matter universe the morals are such that whatever your mainstream earth as represented by superheroes would consider them "opposite", then i don't think the people of qward would consider themselves evil, they'd consider the superheroes et Al evil, and if their society has violence that would be considered pro social** that the superheroes consider antisocial and evil, it would be considered good abd necessary in a society where it is desirable

Then I remember this is a comic targeted at children Inn the 1960s during CCA and I'm like ok maybe I need to not overthink this

*is this means saying that acts that are considered evil don't exist? No!

**granted is there a huge blind spot in which violence is considered acceptable in mainstream society, which is often un interrogated.

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Every time qward shows up in my silver or bronze age comics I get insufferably nitpicky

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so in shadow war, they refer to cameron chase as 'director chase', and in zatanna we hear 'director bones' for the D.E.O. stuff.

important question:

do they have two directors? is the transfer of director-ness explained in any comics that i haven't read? or is this just a case of writers not on the same page?

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So court of owls was not the first time dc played with "Bruce had a secret older brother who was injured in a car accident and left to be raised in an asylum* and then became a criminal?

They also did it in world's finest comics 223.... truly no new batman stories under the sun

*like he was??? Nearly brain dead? really unclear his parents were like yeet the baby ig

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Also Deadman has decided to live his life inside this poor brothers body bc i guess if you're mentally ill* you don't deserve your own body..

*at some point he clearly becomes capable of walking talking etc is not braindead, but is portrayed as mentally ill (vaguely written)

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So court of owls was not the first time dc played with "Bruce had a secret older brother who was injured in a car accident and left to be raised in an asylum* and then became a criminal?

They also did it in world's finest comics 223.... truly no new batman stories under the sun

*like he was??? Nearly brain dead? really unclear his parents were like yeet the baby ig