Hometown: St. Louis Just a few random posts here and there. Anything that is usually on my mind at the moment. My blog mainly focuses on: - DC Comics (mostly pre-New 52) - Marvel Comics - The cartoons based off the various superheroes of both companies - Old & New Video Games, - Random old YouTube vids, etc. (on indefinite hiatus until further notice) Random DCAU Screencaps Random Young Justice Screencaps Some Fanfiction
Here are a few ideas I've been toying with in my head recently in regards to Young Justice, centered around Wally West and Artemis Crock. Hopefully, I can get around to writing these ideas; put them up on here or on Fanfiction.net or AO3.
The first idea:
Fandom: Young Justice (Cartoon)
Title: Untitled As Yet
Characters: Artemis Crock, Wally West, Members of the Team (Young Justice), Members of the Justice League (Young Justice)
Notes: Set in-canon during Team Year Four, not long after both Artemis and Wally moved to Palo Alto and enrolled at Stanford University
Tags: In-Between Canon, Set Between Young Justice Season One and Season Two, Canon Compliant, Canon Ages, Canon Relationships, Established Relationships, Light Fluff with Angst, Young Adult Angst, College Life, Freshman College Life, Birthday Surprise, Surprise Party
Fanfic Story Prompt: Artemis cheers a depressed Wally up with a surprise party on his 19th birthday.
The second idea:
Fandom: Young Justice (Cartoon)
Title: Untitled As Yet
Characters: Wally West, Artemis Crock
Note: canon for this story is set two years prior to Season 2 (Invasion) canon; inspired by a RP chat I did a year ago
Tags: Canon Compliant, College AU (though not really AU), Established Relationships, Canon Relationships
Scenario/Fanfic Prompt: In their first year in college in Stanford, Wally has to pose and take selfies in boxers for his girlfriend Artemis after losing a bet on what to give her for her 19th birthday.
The third idea:
Fandom: Young Justice (Cartoon)
Title: Miss Me, Babe?
Characters: Artemis Crock, Wally West, Brucely, Clone Roy Harper | Will Harper (mentioned), Lian Harper (mentioned)
Notes: this fanfiction short story/drabble/one shot is based on Young Justice (cartoon); set post canon events of Young Justice: Outsiders. this story is also based on/a parody of a scene from S9 Ep 31 "Blast From The Past" from the old '80's TV soap opera Dallas. This is only used as a reference.
Summary: Artemis is pulled out of her slumber by Brucely and led to the bathroom, where she gets an unexpected surprise inside the shower.
Dialogue exchange based on a YJ fanfic drabble I'd originally planned on.
Fandom: Young Justice (Cartoon)
Characters: Dick Grayson, Artemis Crock
Notes: a drabble one-shot with a 300 word count. Could be set during a covert intel mission in Season 3 (Outsiders) canon, with past canon references to Season One and Season Two (Invasion) as well.
Context: Dick checks up on Artemis in-between a stealth mission, after the bad guys - a group of hooded rogues - seemingly got away after a tense fight.
Dialogue:
Nightwing: "You whelmed?"
Artemis: sighs "Yeah."
Nightwing: "Traught?"
Artemis: "Definitely."
Nightwing: "Feeling the aster?"
Artemis: "Very."
Nightwing: "Ready to kick some ass?"
Artemis: "It's what we do, right?"
So I just found your blog and noticed that you wrote for Diana/Artemis AND Lin/Asami. You have elite taste and writing ability and I appreciate you for that.
Okay. Well, thanks for the compliment. I ultimately enjoy writing those stories, and I hope to get back to writing more stories with those couples and maybe more in the future... whenever I get over this perfectionism state of mind, along with a current battle with writer's block.
Note: Okay. I haven't outlined my quick opinion after watching Episodes 20-26 of the first season: I'm just more or less freestyling it here off the top of my head. So... bare with me.
Well, I finally watched the remainder of the first season of Avengers: EMH. And... consider me liking the way the first season ended. Can't wait to see the second season this week.
I can definitely see why this was/is acclaimed in the comic book superhero community, as I was on the edge of my seat with some of the twists and turns. Though that could also be due to the fact that I can be easy to impress, at times, anyway.
Whether it was the arc involving Ant-Man and his creation of Ultron, or them hinting or foreshadowing at a potential adaptation of Marvel's Civil War with Maria Hill for a few episode (which probably would've happened if not for DIsney's meddling.) to them foreshadowing the whole Kree-Skrull invasion, it was presented well. And they end the first season, concluding the whole season arc with Loki, Enchantress, and co. by setting up the aforementioned invasion by having Cap getting attacked and captured by a Skrull posing as him... that, too, was something that had me intrigued as to what would happen next.
As I've stated before, love the first season of A:EMH. Can't wait to see the next season when I do.
Just finished watching the first nineteen episodes from the first three volumes of Avengers: EMH DVD set. I've slowly begun to become a fan of this show.
I'll keep it sweet and short. Great characterizations among the heroes and villains, intriguing plot and story arc. Can't wait to finish the first season.
So far, I've watched a few Christmas episodes from BTAS/TNBA, Static Shock, and X-Men Evolution. How about you guys? What specials have you been watching?
Here are a few comics I've been reading recently that I've rented from hoopla digital app. Update: Well, last month, actually.
Marvel Masterworks - Uncanny X-Men (Volume 6)
This page discusses in detail the contents of Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 1, which reprints Uncanny X-Men #141-150. Includes letters page
By now, I've read the first 5 volumes of the Uncanny-X-Men Masterworks - to brush up on the Chris Claremont/John Byrne era of X-Men stories, from the Giant Size X-Men all the way through to the Dark Phoenix Saga. Now I'm getting into reading (or re-reading when it comes to some like God Loves, Man Kills and Wolverine - both in 1982) some of the memorable stories from the early '80's I've heard about, some of which I think were adapted in the X-Men: TAS (Ms. Marvel vs. Rogue, the addition of Rogue to the X-Men, Storm and the Morlocks story, for example)
I wish I could go into further detail into my favorite 'new' characters they had introduced to the team (like Wolverine and Storm) or the various stories Let's just say I've enjoyed them all and then some, and leave it at that.
Teen Titans - The Judas Contract (1984)
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The Judas Contract - the famous TT storyline centered around Terra being a spy for Deathstroke sent to infiltrate the Teen Titans. It was the adaptation for the 2003 cartoon series Teen Titans that got me to change my initial thoughts for that show when I was a teen. In turn, the show's popularity was what ultimately lead me to read the various TPB's almost a decade later for the Marv Wolfman/George Perez run in the late 80's. By my last count, I read the first 5 volumes for this run, and I might consider looking into the Silver Age Omnibus, as well.
As for the story itself? I found it intriguing when I first read it, and I find it no less intriguing when I revisited it. Both Wolfman and Perez's work in writing and illustration speaks for itself and I won't go too deep into analysis there. Besides, this list is not really meant to be a deep analytical dive.
The main reason I've decided to read it again is to brush up on Deathstroke (Slade Wilson): his backstory, his personality, his family (his wife Adeline, his two sons Grant and Joseph (I know he ends up having a daughter Rose later on)), the whole nine.
Deathstroke The Terminator (1991-1996)
Look above - brushing up on Deathstroke the Terminator.
Just finished reading the first volume (issues #1-9 and the New Titans #70). The two story arcs (the first - "Full Circle" - a four-part story arc, and the second - "City of Assassins" - a story involving him, Batman, and a female police detective who looks to clear her name when they suspect her being dodgy with them) are the highlight of the first volume surrounding Slade Wilson. Especially the fight scene in issue #7, where Deathstroke owned Batman.
Nightwing - Vol. 1 (1996-2009 run)
How to sum up what I've read so far: it's Nightwing. It's Dick Grayson. It's solo run after he had stepped out of Bruce Wayne's shadow - more or less - and being the protector of his own city: Bludhaven. I'll leave it at that for now. Just finished reading the first volume, loved it. Moving on to Vol. 2!
Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year One
I'd played the video game series, and I liked it (though, personally, I can't help but imagine if the gameplay had been like the Arkham series rather than a Mortal Kombat fighting game, I would've liked it even better). I've seen the 2021 animated movie, and admit that while there were certain parts that I liked better than what I've seen so far in the comics (ex: Wonder Woman was so... eager to be Superman's sloppy seconds and his enabler), the opposite is true as well. (Like how Wonder Woman was able to see how just off the deep end Superman had gone near the end of the movie). I only wished that the movie could've been done as the first installment of like, 5 or 6 stories, just to show how Superman had truly fallen as a hero and become that which he fought against.
As for this tie-in comic series, I've already rented this earlier this year, and I am in the middle of revisiting it. IIRC, my favorite involved this scene in the Batcave at the very end of Year One, specifically the part with Alfred and Superman:
I won't say I took pleasure in seeing Superman getting beat up by Bruce's butler, but... given what happened earlier in the tie-in comic... not to mention in the game - when Superman basically killed Billy Batson when he stood up to him - I'll just say that there was some form of catharsis, when it came to this universe's Superman.
Right now, I've just watched the first four episodes of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. I plan to look at several more over today and tomorrow on the DVDs I rented from my local library. I got Vol. 1-3, so far.
screencaps courtesy of Fancaps.net and the Marvel Animated Universe fan wiki page.
Plan on Watching/Revisiting these Marvel Animated Shows from the '90's and '00's Part 2
Here is part 2 of the previous list (with the exception of the first show, I've yet to watch the other shows - although I have heard about the Spectacular Spider-Man and Wolverine and the X-Men):
Plan on Watching/Revisiting these Marvel Animated Shows from the '90's and '00's Part 1
Down the line, I plan on revisiting (or in some cases, watching for the first time) these Marvel Animated TV shows from the '90's that aired back in the day when I was a kid.
Binge-watching Superman Movies - Christopher Reeve Era
Right now, I'm gonna be binge-watching these movies before I have to take them back to my local library tomorrow:
Superman: The Movie (1978)
Superman II (1980)
Superman III (1983)
Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987)
I've already watched the first three movies of this particular franchise several times now since I've rented this a few weeks ago. All that's left now is to watch all four movies in one watch tonight.
