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[traincat]

there's a lot of good reasons to read a lot of comics like "genuine enjoyment of the story and characters" and "appreciation for the art form" but by far the pettiest and most valid reason is so you'll know when people you don't like on the internet are lying.

[avengerphobic]

[cosmicbeholder]

Now THAT’s what I call Avengers! A humble homage to some childhood heroes.

One of the first Marvel series that I read was the Avengers run by Roger Stern, John Buscema and Tom Palmer, and this was the line-up. The Wasp was a smart and dynamic chairwoman, with Captain America sometimes advising her. The powerhouses were Hercules and The Submariner, plus the Black Knight as resident scientist, and Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) who would go on to lead the team next.

The most famous arcs from that team were “Under Siege“ and ”Assault on Olympus”, which were great adventure stories. Buscema’s dynamic figures and compositions were wonderful, and the excellent inking / finishing by Tom Palmer always left everything looking like it was shiny and vibrating with energy.

It’s funny that this line-up is somewhat unusual once you know more about the publishing history of the Avengers. But for me, those guys will always be like a bunch of old friends. Those were the days!

[thingsfortwwings]

[Image: An Avengers team made up of Namor, Monica Rambeau, Dane Whitman, Janet van Dyne, Steve Rogers, and Hercules.]

[lanrre]

Government Property

[quetzalpapalotl]

This is just a long ramble about Arcee and her relationships and why she embodies the themes of Barber’s work and I have many many many feelings about her and this is me trying to put it into words.

Keep reading

[arceespinkgun]

The three Decepticon lieutenants' Dreamwave profiles.

The character dynamics shown as they all comment on each other are all great. I like Starscream and Megatron musing that they are so similar and that it leads to their conflict, for example. (Though I agree with the majority of the fandom that Pat Lee's house style really is bad....)

[eclipse-song]

Thank you for 50 fantastic episodes, Donbrothers <3

[andshecanproveitwasolidrighthook]

[vympr]

articles i read this september 2021 and would rec that you read too (bolded articles were rereads)

Society

We all hate our jobs – and it’s Silicon Valley’s fault

Scientists are working on a pill for loneliness

The Lie About the Supreme Court Everyone Pretends to Believe

People

Huge Moments In Fashion History That Were Inspired By Black Culture

Black Working Class Women are Gifts to Fashion

The Transfeminist Manifesto by Emi Koyama

In defense of the meaty tuck by Tre'vell Anderson

Judith Butler: 'We need to rethink the category of woman'

Culture

Ghost in the machine: inside the internet’s paranormal history

Britney Is Not a Fan of All These New Documentaries

'Becoming Thin Made Me Fatphobic' (huge tw for e/d, body image, and fatshaming, but i think it's valuable for people to address their internalized fatphobia)

[radicarian]

WHILE understanding that a hereditary ruling class is a fuck-stupid thing to have IRL, I have no intention of leaving off reading and writing about secondary-world nobles and/or royalty. It lets you elevate family drama to extremely weird levels and really raise the stakes on questions of obligation, tradition, inheritance, and being tied into a job you actually might fucking suck at. Feels like all my life I’ve been seeing finger-wagging about how it’s more virtuous to write about regular folks, and how dumbass fantasy fans just project themselves onto princes and princesses because they’re in denial that their ancestors did physical labor, and I’m like, “irrelevant. Sometimes you just want to see sibling rivalry escalate to stabbings”

[voynichs]

actually what's the opposite of a cultural reset because thats what joss whedon did to pop culture. a cultural constipation if you will.

[thesparrow1996]

what i hate the most is that they take the aesthetics of popular comics runs and repeatedly point at them like i’m supposed to be impressed. like oh cool. clint has a bandage on his face. he has a dog. but why does he have a bandage on his face? is it representative of the lowest point in his life where he feels he can’t contribute to anything? does it add to the larger picture of a depressed man at the end of his rope? is the sad looking dog the only connection he finds to grasp onto? does any of the quirky imagery taken from creators you’re not paying actually add to a coherent tone or message? no? you just thought it looked good and wanted to appeal to comics fans who have no functioning brain cells? why should i care?

[himejoshibutch-archived]

CASSANDRA CAIN in BATMAN: WAYNE FAMILY ADVENTURES (2021)

[bells-k-t]

DAY TWENTY EIGHT : KINETIX aka ZOE SAUGIN

for the month of august I will be posting a legionnaire portrait everyday! stay tuned to see all 31 legionnaires that’ll appear through august!

[tibby]

I’m curious what do you have against the MCU?

completely took over an industry that was already restricted by nepotism and wealth and privilege and made it even harder for any new or creative or diverse ideas to be made and convinced millions of people that having lots of cgi is good cinema so now everything is so polished and shiny and ugly and soulless but still has this unearned cult of worship surrounding it so NOBODY can dare point out the military propaganda or bare minimum diversity or frankly bland filmmaking because if you do you're just a loser and it doesn't matter if you're a movie lover who just wants new and different content or martin scorcese because marvel has completely taken over cinema and criticism is not allowed because how DARE people not give a shit about iron man or loki and there's no need for decent characterisation or complex themes because it's easier to just make villains that are like "capitalism is bad...and also MURDERING CHILDREN IS OKAY!!!" so you can put out your sloppy storylines and make people think it's the morally righteous thing to do to pay money to watch every single one of your sequels and spin offs and reboots and whenever people start to complain about how the film and tv industry is becoming a husk of repetition you just shove benedict cumberbatch in the next spiderman movie or whatever because how can people be mad that we're making sure we're slowing sucking life out of the moving image when we're doing such fun crossovers? and of course all these crossovers are SO important so you have to watch all fifty movies and twenty shows and thirty spinoffs to understand anything else in our universe and you're damn sure we're going to be releasing the next thing as soon as the other is out of theatres or is out of episodes because we CANNOT have people straying and finding media that isn't owned by us at least not until our parent company has bought out that media as well because absolutely everything has to be disney and WE'RE the powerhouse right now and you are never going to escape it and if you want your work to get any kind of support or funding then you better hope you're lucky, know someone rich or with connections, or it features captain america because otherwise you can get fucked but don't worry sometimes we have movies abpout women too so we're actually a #girlboss cinematic universe and if you don't like the stuff we make then you HATE WOMEN and you HATE CINEMA and you HATE PEOPLE BEING HAPPY and originality and creativity is a myth and you're either with us or against us but if you're not with us prepare to find us following you all the fucking time anyway because you are NOT allowed to have interests outside of the MCU we are everywhere and either you will watch spiderloki 58: captain marvel: the revenge of environmentalists or we will fucking kill you ourselves

[bikenesmith]

the phoenixfication of jean grey

[ will be a postcard print in my upcoming shop reopen - stay tuned ]