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[joeysmuttonchops]

New Teen Titans (1980) #4

honestly the Raven and Arella relationship is one of the most important and powerful ones in early NTT period. Raven acts as the driving force this early into the book, but Arella is representative of the forces driving Raven

theres something there, that its as Raven ages out of childhood and begins to move on her own she finds a struggle-and she goes to her family and she goes to the system to ask for help, only to find that the resources aren't there for her anymore. that she has to manage on her own now. because she's changed, because she won't follow the rules, because the rules don't work for her the way they worked for Arella

and all Raven does in these early issues is ask for help. over and over again, no matter how many times she's denied it. she asks her mother and the people of Azarath and they say she's lost her way, she asks the justice league and not only do they deny her they demonize and threaten her. its not until she asks her peers that she's able to get help. i cant help but compare it to Arella being denied help from state agencies before being offered a new community on Azarath.

its not until Raven's peers ask her to that Arella changes her mind. Arella isn't able to change her mind until she's confronted with immediate danger, and outside thought. And there's something there too, that Arella wouldn't help when it was Raven asking but did when it was someone else. theres an immense seperation between the two: with Raven driving herself beyond a reasonable point and Arella needing external input to move at all.

[dio-icarticaae]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU, DCU (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Comics) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Clark Kent & Jonathan Kent & Martha Kent, Jonathan "Pa" Kent/Martha Kent, Clark Kent & Martha Kent, Clark Kent & Jonathan "Pa" Kent Characters: Martha Kent, Jonathan "Pa" Kent, Clark Kent Additional Tags: Accidental Baby Acquisition, Kryptonian Biology (DCU), pov martha kent Series: Part 1 of Superfamily Week 2024, Part 1 of Tidally Locked Krypton AU Summary:

Martha had always wanted to have a child. She’d hoped and prepared for so long before finally accepting that she and Jonathan would never have a child of their own. And then the little miracle currently in her arms crash landed in their field.

Or: Martha and Jonathan figure out how to raise an alien baby, and how to deal with all the complications that come with that.

 For @superfamilyweek Day 1: It's a Bird! It's a Plane! / Metropolis & Smallville

[joeysmuttonchops]

Manhunter (2004) #7

Lots of interesting things happening in Manhunter, but I'm taking particular note of who Kate thinks should be able to enact violence. Hawkman, whose criminal record was just mentioned, vs Superman, who has no such accusations. When compared with Kate's willingness to blackmail Dylan, a former criminal in witness protection, her extra-judicial killing of Copperhead, and this damning line:

Manhunter (2004) #4

I think we're provided a very insightful and cynical look into why she was drawn to a job in the justice system. A criminal is not someone who does violence, but someone you are allowed to do violence to.

[joeysmuttonchops]

anyone else get emo over raven being the one to resurrect joey?

like. she was the first one in the titans to learn ASL. he was the one who set off the Terror of Trigon. she only trusted him with her relationship with forrester. he found her mother for her. her ghosts are the thing that killed him. she was the one that brought him back.

[joeysmuttonchops]

[Wonder Woman (2023) #5]

if tom king did one thing for me it was these four pages. everything else ill kill him for, but these four pages DO hit.

Yara and Diana's relationship is more like Diana and Artemis' than it's like the other wonder girls. at this point Yara are Diana have only had a few major interactions: in Wonder Woman Rebirth #794-796, where Diana asks Yara for her help with Eros; in Trial of the Amazons when Diana gifts Yara with a new tiara (which she's wearing here), and in Wonder Woman Rebirth #800, in a dream sequence where they discuss sacrifice for the "cause". While its implied that Diana feels some responsibility for Yara, its only really because Yara is so much younger than her, and Yara doesn't return the kind of respect to her of a mentor, because she was never Yara's mentor. In many ways they see each other as equals. Or, if you have to interpret it through a hierarchy, as work friends with an age gap-an important and underutilized relationship.

which makes it interesting, how risky Yara's challenge is. Cassie and Donna's don't put either of them, or Diana, in harms way, but here Yara and Diana are, shooting each other. it could imply seriousness, that Yara is willing to risk this, or more of a measure of reality. Compared to Yara, both Cassie and Donna seem to be playing games (and Donna literally is). Even with Diana's line that Yara IS playing games, Yara ends up bleeding. It's also a major point for Yara, whose mythmaking is already a major character trait. Yara's challenge is by far the most cinematic, and it's impossible for her to have intended anything else.

i also want to point out that this is, essentially, four trick shots. meeting the first 6 arrows together means that one of them, if not both, were aiming for the arrows and not the other person for their whole conversation.

also "Modesty is not a virtue of the gods, nor of I," rips as a Yara line, even if you're making her talk old timey for no reason. why did you do that.

[dio-icarticaae]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU, DCU (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Comics) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Clark Kent & Kon-El | Conner Kent & Kara Zor-El & Jonathan Samuel Kent, Clark Kent & James "Jimmy" Olsen, Lois Lane & James "Jimmy" Olsen, James "Jimmy" Olsen & Superfamily Members, John Henry Irons & James "Jimmy" Olsen, Natasha Irons & James "Jimmy" Olsen, Clark Kent & Lois Lane & James "Jimmy" Olsen, Clark Kent & Jonathan Samuel Kent & Lois Lane, Lois Lane & Superfamily Members Characters: James "Jimmy" Olsen, Clark Kent, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Kara Zor-El, Jonathan Samuel Kent, Lois Lane, Natasha Irons, John Henry Irons Additional Tags: Superfamily (DCU), POV James "Jimmy" Olsen, Superpowers, Supersenses, Senses, Kryptonian Biology (DCU), Humor, Fluff and Humor, Candy Series: Part 7 of Superfamily Week 2024 Summary:

It was one thing to know that Kryptonians had senses far beyond a humans, but it was an entirely different thing to comprehend the extent of them and how beyond understanding they were. Sometimes, the moment that inspired this was some amazing feat like tracking down a missing person through hearing and faint traces of their smell, or disarming a bomb by literally looking through it, or speeding to rescue Jimmy at the sound of his signal watch.

Sometimes, though, one was reminded of the extent of Kryptonian senses in a truly ridiculous way.

Or: Kryptonian supersenses VS food dye - who wins?

For @superfamilyweek Day 7: Free Day

[dio-icarticaae]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU, DCU (Comics), Superboy (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Comics), Steel (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Natasha Irons & Kon-El | Conner Kent Characters: Kon-El | Conner Kent, Natasha Irons Additional Tags: Piercings, Ear Piercings, Kon-El | Conner Kent is Afraid of Needles, Banter, Friendship, Superfamily (DCU) Series: Part 6 of Superfamily Week 2024 Summary:

So, I want to get my other ear pierced.” Kon announced to Natasha one day out of nowhere while they were hanging out on the Steelwork’s roof. “Get one on my own terms and all that.”

“Sure, it would look cool. Go for it.” She said, rolling with the sudden conversation change.

Kon shuffled nervously. “It’s just with, y’know, Kryptonian abilities, invulnerability, yadda yadda, it’s hard to get one. Can’t exactly march into a tattoo shop and break all their equipment trying to get a piercing.”

“Yeah, that wouldn’t be ideal.” Natasha chuckled.

“And it would have to be someone I really trust.”

“Obviously.”

Or: Nat and Kon's adventures in at home piercings.

For @superfamilyweek Day 6: Of Tomorrow

[dio-icarticaae]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU, DCU (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Jor-El & Clark Kent Characters: Clark Kent, Jor-El Additional Tags: Global Warming, Krypton (DCU), Krypton is Destroyed (DCU), Natural Disasters, Father-Son Relationship, Grief/Mourning, Journalist Clark Kent, Fortress of Solitude (DCU), Character Study, Hope, Sad Clark Kent, Hope vs. Despair Series: Part 4 of Superfamily Week 2024 Summary:

Clark was first able to contact and understand Jor-El’s hologram and all the other information sent with him as a teenager, and finally, he had answers to some of the questions he had asked himself for years. Who was he? What was he? Where did he come from? Why was he sent away? From those answers came the fact that he was truly and utterly alone in the universe in some ways and would be forever; Krypton was gone, utterly destroyed, and he was the sole survivor. As a teenager, he could never truly understand Jor-El’s despair over his inability to save Krypton – something that big, that catastrophic, what could one person do? You couldn’t beat yourself up over that. As an adult, he understood it far too well.

Or: on Clark & Jor-El, and the parallels between Krypton's destruction and climate change.

For Superfamily Week Day 4: Krypton