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SORCERER SUPREME #2 variant cover, drawn/colored by me — featuring my new design for Scarlet Witch! ✧‧₊☽☾˚.⋆✧
Thanks so much for the kind words on the design — I was thrilled to do it and am thrilled you like it ❤️🔥
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I don’t support censorship in the least. That being said, I’m skipping DC’s animated feature ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ and strongly advocating that people do the same. This is not a call out to censorship; merely an opinion and personal recommendation.
The celebration of rape culture has no place in the realm of superhero comics, movies, and cartoons. It’s gross, tasteless, and creates a sense of exclusion for a large segment of the fans. I never understood the appeal of The Killing Joke as this great work of the Batman pantheon. Brian Bolland’s illustration is fantastic of course, and the idea of introducing very adult themes into superhero comics felt, at the time, innovative. Yet Alan Moore’s script in mean, misogynistic, and seems more akin to torture pornography rather than super heroic fantasy.
In the story, the character of Barbara Gorgon is used as an object, both by The Joker as well as by the narrative itself. She is shot, disrobed, photographed, and there’s intimation that she is raped. This is done not necessarily to hurt Barbara, but rather as an assault toward her father, Commissioner Gordon. Barbara never receives any retribution, she is merely left in the hospital in a hysterical state. Yet her father does get retribution, he wins in that he doesn’t allow what the Joker did to his daughter to change him or alter his moral core. The Joker fails to drive Commissioner Gordon insane and all Barbara is is an object, the vehicle through which Jim Gorgon’s moral fortitude is showcased. Alan Moore has written some truly amazing comics… but this is not one of them.
What possessed DC animated films department to decide to adapt this story is beyond me. I’ve seen nearly all of the animated films DC has offered and have enjoyed the lion’s share of them. I knew right off that this movie wasn’t for me, that I was going to skip it, and that would be that. And yet I read reviews and articles about the movie and it appears that somehow Bruce Timm et al. have managed to make the story even more objectionable.
Going with an R rating, the story has slipped in prostitution, a sexual relationship between Barbara and Batman, lots of murder, and (apparently) confirmation that The Joker did indeed rape Brabara after shooting her. On top of that, Barbara is portrayed as even more hysterical and out of control… mooning over Batman to the point that it leads her to make costly errors. Batman is basically forced to fire Barbara in her role as Batgirl. So not only is Babs shown as too inept to be a super hero, she is then shot and raped to add injury to insult. lovely…
The controversy surrounding this feature will likely help it to be a financial success. Yet I feel such success will come at a rather steep cost. Newer and younger fans, especially those who are girls and woman, are likely to feel insulted and alienated by this movie. It’s throw-back values undermines the sense of inclusiveness that the comic business has worked so hard to achieve.
My young nieces have become huge fans of Batgirl… they absolutely love the new version by Stewart, Fletcher, and Tarr. Perhaps this’ll prove a passing fancy or maybe they’ll each become lifelong fans. In any case, the idea that any of them (or any newer fan like them) may one day watch this movie just fills me with dread.
Again, I’m not advocating for censorship. I’m just asking you skip this movie… let the decision-makers at DC and other studios know that this is not okay, this is not the kind of content the industry wants or needs.
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Be kind to yourself in the year ahead. Remember to forgive yourself, and to forgive others. It’s too easy to be outraged these days, so much harder to change things, to reach out, to understand. Try to make your time matter: minutes and hours and days and weeks can blow away like dead leaves, with nothing to show but time you spent not quite ever doing things, or time you spent waiting to begin. Meet new people and talk to them. Make new things and show them to people who might enjoy them. Hug too much. Smile too much. And, when you can, love.
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Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.
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Awesome.
“Traitor!”
Ok but I feel like this guy knew him and I want that story
Need to know the relationship between Finn, this stormtrooper, and the one that died in Finn’s arms.
I already read a fic that gave the dying trooper designation FN-2003. I need some fanon to fill in the gaps.
I think Finn made friends fast, boy had like six people shouting traitor at different points of the movie.
FN2187 was popular and his defection pierced the hearts of the entire fn troop
YOOOOOOOO I HAVE THE CANONICAL ANSWER FOR THIS AND I’M SEEING ALL THESE TR-8R POSTS I CANNOT STAY SILENT.
Greg Rucka’s Star Wars novel Before the Awakening is A) Quite good and B) Explains much about Finn’s stormtrooper training and social circle leading up to the movie.
In a nutshell:
Finn was trained in a squad of four boys: Him (FN-2187), Nines, Zero and Slip.
Nines and Zero have nicknames based on their alphanumerical designations (Zero’s is FN-2003, likely used by the ficcer mentioned above, Nines ended in 9s, etc.). Slip was called slip because he was a fuckup.
Turns out, most troopers have nicknames
Why does FN-2187 not have a nickname? Because nobody really likes him. An older trooper tells him straight to his face: he’s an outsider. It just happens to some troopers.
Why is this extra tragic? Is it because Finn’s a shitty trooper? NO. He’s actually top of his little trooper class. He’s the fucking bomb, with a blaster, with tactics, with hand-to-hand weapons. Phasma’s got extremely high expectations for him. (what a fuckin mary sue amirite)
So why is this actually extra tragic? What’s Phasma’s one problem with him? Finn cares too much. He cares about keeping his squad alive.
He cares about going back for his friends more than the mission objective SOUND FAMILIAR?
So Phasma tells him to stop coddling Slip or face consequences. He does.
And then: the skirmish on Jakku. A trooper dies and Finn loses his final shred of faith in the First Order. Who is that trooper? PROBABLY SLIP, IT REALLY SEEMS LIKE. Basically Finn’s brother, even if he never really fit in with his squad.
And then: the first thing Poe does is give him a nickname based on his alphanumerical designation JUST LIKE HIS TROOPER FAMILY, NINES AND ZERO AND SLIP, WHO NEVER LIKED HIM ENOUGH TO GIVE HIM ONE.
IN CONCLUSION the trooper in the gifset above who recognizes Finn on sight (and who has been meme-nicknamed TR-8R) is likely Zero or Nines.
IN CONCLUSION finn my bby D:
…That would make the fact Poe killed that exact Stormtrooper even more tragic
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It’s tragic across the board. Rather than using clones (which is in and of itself ethically reprehensible), The First Order is abducting and indoctrinating children to create their military forces (which is even worse!). Although we never see the stormtroopers as children, Captain Phasma looks at a readout hologram or whatever, showing the child-aged Finn.
It’s easy to feel sympathy for those abducted soldiers when they are just kids, like those poor souls forced into the Tora Boro of Chad or the liberation forces of The Congo (check out the stellar Netflix movie, ‘Beasts of No Nation’). Yet, when those kids grow up into men, the sense of sympathy tends to wane. I don’t think any of the First Order Stormtroopers chose to be there… they’re all abductees, molded and trained to be soldiers.
Finn is special in that he somehow possesses the strength to break free from his conditioning. Yet, if you think about it, all the other stormtroopers are still victims themselves. It’s very sad.
gah.. I hate it when real life widdles its way into my fantasy escapism…
The Death of the Superhero Dream?
I’ve been noticing a trend in some of the recent stories Nick Spenser has been telling, and it seems to be how superheroes are being crushed by the weight of reality. For example:
Superior Foes of Spider-Man portrays the life of small time Spider-Man villains. They live out of pretty nasty apartments, they constantly bicker, and it humorously takes the glamour out of the super villain lifestyle. All the desperate attempts to get rich come off as petty and all the alliances and relationships only exist to the benefit another until they can stab the other in the back.
Even the actual hero in the book, Mach V, comes off as oafish and is ignored quite a bit from Iron Man as being a needy nobody.
Which leads us to Ant-Man, a book about a hero whose life is pretty much in the dumps and only gets worse. While the last book dealt with supervillains, so it’s understandable that their lifestyle would be miserable, Ant-Man kinda amps it up to 11 with his misery. The first issue has Scott living in an apartment with nothing in it. He’s sleeping on hard floor. He has a strain relationship with all other heroes. Eventually he ends up living in a doll house and is running a company that has no clients. And this is BEFORE the relaunch!
After the relaunch, his daughter Cassie even hates him. His previous girlfriend, Darla Deering hates him. His coworkers are tempted to work with his arch enemy. The person funding his company is upset with him. And throughout the book, it’s revealed that Scott is present day in jail.
As funny as the book is, there is this pretty sad feeling behind it where everything in Scott Lang’s life is going wrong and getting shittier. All his victories are short lived and debt and money issues seem to keep closing in on him.
Which leads me into the latest Captain America issue.
Diamondback, if you didn’t know, is one of my favorite Marvel characters, and it’s been revealed that she’s now working in a strip club.
Her mercenary gig has dried up cause nobody hires a “Good guy mercenary”, and repo men took her things even though she is a hero. And seeing how she’s a high school dropout, she could only turn to a strip club. All of this paints a pretty bleak picture to a character who was once a pretty stable Captain America supporting cast member (in the 80′s that is)
And it started to click with me what Nick Spenser is showing, the whole Superhero universe is pretty much celebrity culture. Whomever is popular and hip gets all the praise, attention and love. But when the spotlight shifts, or if you aren’t hip or cool enough, you’ll fall to the wayside and the realities of debt and life start to crush down on you. There is no more “family of superheroes” anymore, it’s “Survival of the most popular/powerful”. It makes it seem like the only way to become a successful hero is if you don’t have to worry about money issues.
It’s actually a really interesting theme he’s creating in his books. It’s tying in crushing reality to these once great heroes and characters and it makes it all hit home a lot more.
All I can say is that Diamondback kind of sums it up best:
I hope this trend reverses soon.
This is a very interesting analysis.
Both Marvel and DC has tried for a long time to invigorate a sense of youth with new characters into their books. Over the last few years, these efforts on the part of Marvel seems to have finally taken hold and younger characters, like Ms. Marvel, Miles Moralis, Nova, Squirrel Girl, X-23, and Kate Bishop, have garnered a sense of staying power and fan loyalty that suggests they won’t be fading into the background any time soon.
Finally succeeding in establishing a younger generation of heroes, however, is not without it’s consequences. It pushes the older heroes more firmly into full adulthood. And adulthood isn’t always an especially wonderful place. The limitless possibilities of being 20-something tends to narrow considerably as we move into the realm of 30 and 40-something.
For some, it works out well. Despite all the hardships thrown his way, Peter Parker has managed to make his way into adulthood without becoming jaded or losing his sense of optimism. Likewise, Carol Danvers, who has shed her prior difficulties with alcoholism, has grown into a more fully actualized version of herself. The new Spider-Woman book has been doing a very interesting job of exploring Jessica Drew’s efforts to cope with the transition to adulthood from young adulthood now that she is pregnant.
Yet some characters are bound to be not as fortunate as others. The villains of The Sinister Six (Boomerang, Shocker and the gang) have lived irresponsible, frequently criminal lifestyles. And they’re reaping what they’ve sown… left with little more than crumby cold-water apartments, and more resentment and regret than they know what to do with.
Luck and chance often plays a substantial role in the type of adults we all end up becoming. Scott Lang and Diamondback are both good people. They’ve made some bad decisions in the past, but have certainly made up for it with their heroism. Yet finding gainful employment can be incredibly hard when one has a criminal record… and, as well all know, ‘Baskin Robbins’ don’t play.’
It’s sad to see cool characters like Diamondback and Antman struggling with the looming prospects of entering into the middle phase of life, but it’s also a bit more realistic.
That and Nick Spencer has a very sardonic sense of humor…
People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
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Sure, Wonder Woman has her own ongoing comic book. She has a starring role in Justice League, and appears in countless other DC series. But if you want to see Wonder Woman at her very best, triumphing everything the character has ever stood up for, you seriously need to read Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman.
io9 published a nice article recently praising Sensation Comics and featuring my Wonder Woman story, among several others. As Sensation Comics is ending soon, I wanted to speak a little piece about why it worked, and some of the editorial dynamics of how it is created versus the main Wonder Woman comic. In essence: why we may not see the strong points of Sensation repeated elsewhere with Wonder Woman.
Sensation is edited in a special projects/digital office, an office which is sadly under-utilized in the internal turf wars of DC and faces shutdown/restructuring as a senior male staff member finds it unnecessary… despite the plaudits its books (including Sensation) have achieved.
The main Wonder Woman comic is part of the Superman office. Now, the Superman office allegedly employs no women, and a cursory glance over the mastheads of several Superman titles and Wonder Woman seems to confirm that allegation. The reason, I’ve been told by several people who work or used to work at DC, is because one of the most senior editors is a sexual harasser with multiple incidents on his HR file. I don’t use “alleged” here because at least one incident (grabbing a woman’s breasts) happened publicly at a corporate social gathering with multiple witnesses. There was also something about sticking his tongue down an artist’s girlfriend’s throat when the artist was in the bathroom. Again, public gathering.
It is not known to me whether the no-chicks-in-Supes-office diktat is the preference of the harasser, or whether it’s the HR department crossing its fingers and hoping to Jesus they don’t get hit with a liability lawsuit so big it’s visible from space. This guy was kept in the move to Burbank despite his record – allegedly because he has blackmail on one of DC’s most senior staff members.
Now, of course you don’t need women on staff to tell a great story with a female character. I’m not saying that. And plenty of women have written rotten stories with female characters. I am just positing that this situation in the Superman office may not be the best environment to foster innovative, compelling stories about DC’s foremost female character, in the way the Batman office has done so well recently with Batgirl, Gotham Academy, and even reaching back to things like Gotham Central and Batwoman.
I’m also talking about it because man, I am sick to death of corporate comics telling me they caaare about me and my lady-dollar as a reader, and then continuing to employ / protect known harassers. Kids, there are five known big-name, vindictive harassers in comics, and about three bad drunks. Two harassers are writers employed by DC; one is a DC editor; two are writers employed by Marvel.
Not only does protecting these people disrespect female readers, it disrespects all the creators and editors working hard at those companies to make awesome comics for all readers. DC and Marvel are not the Augean Stables. There are many, many good people at these companies, and things have gotten immeasurably better over the past decade for readers who are not cis/het white dudes. But we’re not done. Diversity isn’t a fad senior management can get away with giving lip-service to. You can’t celebrate black culture and not employ black people. You can’t hold up female heroes while coddling male harassers. WE SEE YOU.
Indie comics are not perfect – at one of the companies I work for is a Bad Drunk, who again has done harassing shit (to other men, though het) at public social events. I believe he’s been taken aside by HR and told “ginger ale or GTFO”, but I don’t want your take-away to be that DC/Marvel Bad, Indie Good, cuz it ain’t that clear cut.
It isn’t even really a comics problem. You get ANY company with hundreds of employees and statistically speaking, at least one of them is going to be a screaming fool who should never be allowed alcohol or thinks mailing dick pix to female employees is a gas and fuck her if she can’t take a joke. But it’s what senior management does about these people that matters.
The irony is that nothing will be done by DC and Marvel about these harassers, but I will be blacklisted (even more than I already am) at the Big Two. And I do not care. While I have great affection for some of the characters owned by these companies, and love many of the creators and editors who work there, these corporations have repeatedly shown to me over 2015 that their senior management’s values and priorities are not a good fit with my values and priorities.
(Don’t worry about me, folks – my current creator-owned workload right now is more than enough to keep me working 12 hour days for the foreseeable future.)
(also, inb4: “I’ve worked with everyone in that office and they are absolutely lovely and committed to world peace and hugging squirrels” “she was asking for it” “misandry!” “but Gail Simone!” “she couldn’t take a joke” “I love current Wonder Woman, shut up bitch” “you’re just sour grapes, fuck u” “where is the PROOF, does anyone have videos or pictures” “men can be victims too!” “they just put a black woman in Superman, sit down, it’s all good now” “u can grab titty and be a good editor too!”)
