one actually designed (idk how well it holds up to marvel rivals design standards tho) and one of her canon swimsuit from Strikes Back just for fun
And a beach themed recolor for the sun dress, I feel clever for thinking of putting her G belt buckle on her hat. Also since the dress is now blue her eyes are now pink.
I do want Gwen in rivals but this is also just an excuse to play dress up w her. I have no idea what her move sets would be so idk if these designs would need to keep any features like her katana or gun holsters
Oh yeah before the Ace Force fake cover I actually planned on doing this one first but I ended up not fixing it (I jazzed up the sketch colors for u tho 😋)
It had the other working title of “Perception Is Reality” but I figured “Omicron” by itself would be a better selling title, yes it’s from X-Men: Worst X-Men Ever used by beast to describe Miranda’s mutant reality warping abilities. Given that Miranda’s abilities are like if Gwenpool didn’t have editorial oversight I thought it was fitting for all three of these reality warpers (although Gwen is currently the weakest of the three, I think a book like this could serve as a training arc for her)
I don’t have a concrete idea on what a book like this would be, but I’ve had several fleeting thoughts about different possibilities. The first time I brought it up here on Tumblr. I originally imagined it as there being some sort of reality-based threat that necessitated a team up. Then later, I had the idea that Wanda might serve as a good mentor for all three of them with their powers since there are a lot of moral quandaries involved with reality manipulation that would be really neat to explore. And then, even later one of my classmates brought up Legion to me (Charles Xavier son) And I had a thought that he might be a cool villain for this team up especially considering the wishy-washy nature of their mutant statuses, but like a villain that needs help?? Although I’m not well-versed on his lore AT ALL, so I don’t know how that would pan out
Anyway thanks for reading I just literally forgot I had drawn this
In hindsight, I think the most disappointing thing about Cavan Scott’s Gwenpool run was that the central premise of Gwen Stacy(‘s clone) returning as “Weapon X-31” is conceptually excellent for both drama and comedy purposes. It’s a shame that most of that potential was utterly wasted.
The Volume 11 run itself even points out the homage to/parody of past cases of supportive side characters becoming gritty antiheroes like Winter Soldier and Red Hood, and Clone Gwen Stacy’s new brooding Weapon X attitude works as both a contrast to her original self and to Gwen Poole’s zany humorous personality that masks her own existential worries. With that alone, you’ve got plenty to work with (provided you don’t shove Gwenpool aside to do yet another uninspired Spider-Angst plotline) but we can go even further with this idea. For example:
Consider the baseline difference between (Clone) Gwen Stacy and Gwendolyn Poole, beyond just their names and powers.
Gwen Stacy’s awareness of the wider Marvel Universe has been almost always confined within Peter Parker and by extension Spider-Man’s social orbit of heroes and villains. She knows (or at least knows the existence of) the founding members of his dedicated rogues gallery, some street-level vigilantes and a few Avengers, the Fantastic Four and maybe a handful of OG Mutants. However, since most of her memories are from a character who died in 1973 (and her later clone selves were mostly focused on Spider-Man during their brief lifespans) the fact of the matter is this:
“Weapon X-31” Gwen Stacy has NO idea what’s been going on for the last 50 years of Marvel Comics, wheras Gwendolyn Poole knows almost everything about almost everyone. And that, true believers, is a gold mine of comedy.
Gwen Stacy doesn’t know who Batroc the Leaper is, she’s never met Miles Morales, and she has no context for the decades of retcons and rebirths and wars that have shifted the status quo of her home city. Regardless of whatever discount Red Room combat training she got from Weapon X (keep in mind, unlike Bucky Barnes and Jason Todd, Gwen had no superhero-combat experience before her edgy rebirth) if she faced Gwenpool in a fight and had to suddenly deal with America Chavez, Kate Bishop and/or Julie Powers, she’d have no frame of reference and therefore be at a tactical disadvantage.
A more skilled writer than Cavan Scott could’ve done a lot more with the premise of Gwenpool threatened with a Weapon X version of Gwen Stacy’s clone (Subject the otherwise 4th Wall unaware Gwen to Duck Amuck levels of panel manipulation and prop comedy, go in a more somber direction with Gwenpool helping Clone Gwen deal with the existential nightmare of being the resurrection of a clone who was only brought back this time around for a cheap attention-desperate promotional stunt, have her actually meet the post-Winter Soldier version of Bucky, maybe a confrontation with Wolverine and the other Weapon X kids like Daken and Laura, keep Spider-Man as far from center focus as possible because this is the third time, Pete, nobody takes the Clone Saga seriously any more) and it’s unfortunate that we got stuck with this nothingburger of a comic run instead. Maybe in the future X-31 could return to be the Shadow to Gwenpool’s Sonic, but considering the current track record of side characters that aren’t Jeff returning from previous Gwenpool runs, I expect she’ll be showing up exclusively in fix-it fics.
this and also the only difference between fanfic writers and writers who sell their own original works as careers is that fanfics aren’t monetized. that’s all.
being a “professional” writer doesn’t mean your works are inherently better than fanfics. I’ve read so many fics that are more professionally written than some published books.
whether or not a piece of writing is monetized has nothing to do with its quality.
anon in my inbox said fanfic writers who wrote about dark and taboo topics were not “real writers” because of what they wrote about.
reblog if you believe anon is wrong and writers are writers, no matter what they write about. no matter how they portray these taboo topics.
reblog if you believe art can be about topics that are controversial, taboo or outright disturbing, and artists who create controversial, taboo or outright disturbing art are as valid as artists who create art of conservative values.
I’ve been a bit absent in the gwenposting department whoopsee
I think I said this in the tags of a post a while ago, but Cecil calling her comic awareness “her Truman Show thing” as a dismissal is really fucking funny to me because the whole point of the Truman Show is that he is actually on the Truman Show. Like. Truman is right.
(I didn’t feel like finishing all the Gwen’s)
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