be vigilant, i love you.

ven ; 18+ ; SEAsian

[ultra-baklan-the-ovosh]

[fizzyjacuzzi]

what takes precedence

heavily referencing J.C. Leyendecker's Arrow Collar ad, this was a really enlightening study on coloring skin and translucent drapery in particular 👗

[artimorpheus]

Absolute Martian Manhunter Fanart ...

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[yomi-art]

To celebrate yet another month without J'onn have an Absolute Martian Manhunter

[sms155]

ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER!

[peejayee]

A reader of bad comics is reminded that good comics exist

*breaks shackles*

Easily my favorite series in the absolute universe.

[despair-the-zero]

this is, in my opinion, the best panel from absolute martian manhunter since issue #4. incredible work on so many levels. the novelty of being encouraged to draw in a comic book is heightened by the context of the situation. “hey there, reader! want to participate in american imperialism? it’s fun and interactive!” asks a faceless and identityless uncle sam, whose blank face shows how hollow america is and always has been. the country has given up even pretending to be just or kind or relatable, and is encouraging its citizens to aid them in capturing and subduing empathy. this issue could not have been timed more perfectly.

[batgirlsmell]

Everyone call ogre stupid and it TRUE! Ogre barely even LITERATE! Ogre finally caught up on Absolute Martian Manhunter, but ogre can only identify surface level themes like "All life is precious" and "Apathy is a poison", and can't comprehend deeper ideas like "American imperialism is a blight on humanity" that make Deniz Camp's comic a modernist classic! Ogre so dumb, it makes ogre sad! At this rate, ogre will never understand Assorted Crisis Events!

[rabbitscreams]

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

[rabbitscreams]

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

[rabbitscreams]

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

[gay-milton-quotes]

briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.

In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.

[vforvalensa]

Ronald Wimberly's comic essay, Lighten Up, stays evergreen

[woolay]

New set up

[gaycop]

Ut

[woolay]

Not what it says.

[brighhton]

new magic wand

[killthesound]

the hanged man

[gaymattsharp]

[blessyouhawkeye]

in order for the fictive matt johnson to keep on his sisyphean journey of making art with his best friend the real life matt johnson also has to carry out holy grail quests to keep making art with his best friend. filmic matt johnson is blackmailing people and jumping off the cn tower meanwhile actual guy matt johnson is suffering through making critically acclaimed biopics and for your consideration events. matt johnson is successfully pushing the boulder up the hill in order to play a guy who will never succeed at pushing the boulder up the hill while acting like he's the one who has it worse here

[blessyouhawkeye]

"they come back in their apartment and they're in their own world where everything is warm and they're safe" - matt johnson and jared raab talking about lighting in nirvana the band [x]

[shoomlah]

Matt Johnson Plays Himself: a piece dedicated to Matt Johnson, director, and his troika of fictional Matt Johnsons from The Dirties (2013), Operation Avalanche (2016), and Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.

[vegeol]

Checking your mirror neurons (nudity)