tempest, my beloved

hellsite’s #1 Garth stan ask me about Tempest & the Aquafam call me letifos kny sideblog is Kuwajima

[garthofshayeris]

Someone was looking for a Garth reading list and I was going to pass along one that I saved from you, but now I think the post that I saved was actually just that sad Sonic post about reading Tempest (1996) again, which I guess my brain decided to consider a reading list?

gkdkj this picture?? to be fair this absolutely qualifies as my rec list

I also thought I had a reading list for Garth on here but I can't find it...I'll make a super quick one for you tho!! I'm probably missing some but here's a good place to start. Also sorry if these aren't exactly in order.

Adventure Comics #269 (First Appearance) I love Silver Age so I would honestly read all of it. If you don't want to do all that, here are some fun Garth stories: Aquaman (Vol. ) #17, #18, #23, #33 Teen Titans (Vol. 1) #1, #19, #28, #29, #44-53. Tales of the Teen Titans #45, #46, #47, #78, #79, #80, #85-88 Death of a Prince

For stories that are set during this era but published more recently, read Teen Titans: Year One and the 2008 Brave and the Bold #10 Crisis on Infinite Earths

Teen Titans Spotlight #10 Teen Titans Spotlight #18

Read all of Aquaman Vol 5. Stop at #9, and read Showcase '96 #1.

Resume Aquaman Vol 5 until #19. Read Tempest (1996)

Resume Aquaman Vol. 5. #36-37, #40-46, #55-56, #60-63 in particular but honestly just read it all at that point

JLA/Titans Read at least the first half of Titans (1999)

Justice League of Atlantis JLA #68-#75

Aquaman Vol. 6 #4-12 and #32-34

I am not going to suggest reading any of the New 52 or Rebirth Garth content because I don't like it. Instead, re-read Tempest (1996) and feel sad that DC fucked this character over.

[garthofshayeris]

u can just make your own merch btw. Nobody can stop you.

[jenny-holzer]

[garthofshayeris]

the recent garth reblog is ai. i got so excited before i went thru that account LOL. garths arm is backwards

ughhh you’re so right. I should check people’s accounts more often lmao because whyyyy would you kill our planet to generate ai pics of BERRA?! Berra sucks lmao

[damejoansutherland]

okay new game. reblog this post and tell me in the tags what book you would pose with if you were being photographed for an ala read campaign library poster. mine would be the house of the spirits 🙂

(if you aren't familiar with the ala read campaign, idk, google it)

[soranatus]

hot people only 😤 by Denise Zhang!

[joyflameball]

Mischaracterization getting so brutal I'm about to ask people for sources and citations on their wrong opinions

[joyflameball]

What is your source for the idea that he would fucking say that

[teratocore]

actually Shazam is the name of the wizard, you’re thinking of Shazam’s monster

[sodiumfreak]

when the time loop gets to the part where they start committing suicide in different ways every day

[capetism]

aquaman vol. 6 #34 / adventure comics #452

[arkham]

dead internet theory but it's realizing that most of the people you see posting about comics do not read comics

[arkham]

every time i post something like this someone gets mad at me but i really don't know what to tell these people. every year we get an influx of people who will enter these spaces for a shared interest in comics that they not only have not read, they often have no interest in reading and sometimes will actively degrade the entire medium to justify not reading them. and if you express any discontent with this arrangement you're the bad guy for not enabling a deeply incurious practice of not wanting to engage with art or its creators beyond digestible abridged versions plastered over slideshows of out of context panels and stolen fanart

[donkoogrr]

As an anecdotal note, my brother, who does not read the comics, still enjoys talking about Batman, Superman, DC, and Marvel. He loves the TV shows and the movies and the video games. There are a lot of times he's been mocked and sneered at by comics purists for this.

So I wonder if the issue (pardon the pun) is that so many people aren't communicating clearly or are gatekeeping whether someone's opinion is valid based on what media is/was available to them.

The property that owns Batman is DC Comics, so a person can be yapping about a Batman show under that tag. It doesn't mean that they've read the comics - it means that they liked the show and want to talk about that. Their character interpretations for that show are still valid and they still may have really interesting takes and thoughts to share.

Engaging with people on their level is fun as fuck and extremely eye-opening to different ways of life. For the best fandom experience, let yourself be open to the next Gen character enjoyers who are growing up watching Batwheels and TikTok. A lot of them are going to come onto the Internet excited and wanting to yes, talk about a character outside of the comic book medium.

Because most of these characters have also been on TV shows and video games and movies for nearly a century and we should really be used to that by now. Give the comic book classism a break and listen to the new kids the way you wanted adults to listen to you when you were new. Treat someone with respect and you might make a friend who will listen to you describe a comic plot and then they can talk about how elements of it were adapted to a different medium.

[arkham]

this is just fundamentally not the point i'm making, given that i am expressly talking about the comics, discussions about the comics, and forums and communities about and surrounding the comics. i pointedly did not mention adaptations because i am not talking about the greater fanbase or cultural presence for these characters, i am talking about the comics.

it's the same principle as the wizard of oz books vs the wicked books. they're the same characters, one is an adaptation of the other, but ultimately, if you've only read the wicked years and then join a forum by and for fans of the oz novels and then try to speak with authority on what happens in them, you are just not engaging with the same material. there's nothing wrong with being a fan of the wicked novels, and there is overlap between the fanbases and characters, sure. but you still haven't read the oz books, you don't know what happens in them, and you're in a space of fans of those books who are engaging with those specific stories.

most of the people engaging with this post are the "new kids" within comic spaces, and you can see just from scrolling through the notes that there is a very clear consensus about this for a reason. comic books and graphic novels are their own stories, written by real writers, drawn and colored by real artists, that have real fans who are engaging with those works, not just the nebulous, overarching cultural presence of batman.

it's not about classism, and while i find that insinuation endlessly ridiculous considering comics are just about the easiest thing to pirate on the internet right now, it's also just not the point! this is not about who should be allowed to talk about superheroes. i do not care if you have only seen mcu movies or only like the dcau. they are different iterations with different creative teams and different narratives and artistic presences altogether.

nobody is making you read the comics to post on tumblr or talk about it with your friends and family. but if you are in a space with comic fans, talking about the stories, events, and narratives in the comics, then yes, i expect you to have read them!

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[az-movedlala]

superhero family that just loses and loses

[rockdistributor100]

I Was So Good And Polite They Are Putting Me In The Touch Tank At Aquarium Tomorrow.

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[iggyfing]

absolutely flabbergasting to see people who have so enthusiastically succumbed to despair. like okay denethor, but some of us are gonna actually face the armies of mordor in battle nonetheless.

[figtreeandvine]

The thing about Denethor is that he not only succumbed to despair, he wanted to ensure that Faramir succumbed with him. Similarly, a lot of people now are not only succumbing to despair, they're actively proselytizing despair, trying to convince others to join them in their hopelessness. Despair is apparently lonely and they want company in their self-immolation.

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

btw denethor succumbed to despair bc he was doomscrolling on the palantir. Sauron tweaked his algorithm so he only saw bad news, and he fell into the trap of thinking the world couldn't be saved.

[casualfoxwitch]