#jackson king

[itsnottruuu]

beloved angel

[crosswalker]

The Gatekeeping is Over

Happy Pride Month!!

AND Happy launch day of my Summer Discord Event

I can finally show off the full Cherry Beach Jackson drawing, so think of this as my fruity gift to the public. 🍒🍒

I hope y'all enjoy it, because I, for one, am still very proud of this.

[peejayee]

Stormwatch at Clark's Bar

Shen's character demolition is a tragedy to be studied. When SW transitioned to the Authority, all of her character was just left in the dust.

Like, how did she feel about her only remaining comrade, Jack, and his growing ego after the death of Sparks— through her eyes, did a part of him die with Jenny? How does it feel to be caught in a revolving door of conflict where every person is eons more powerful? How does it feel to live in a sentient lunch box that can eat you at any moment?

her old fits are also cooler. 😔

[itsthehuntsmen]

THE HUNTSMEN

A story about where humanity and the supernatural meet. I’ve been working on the lore and characters for years now and I’m super excited to finally be able to share it! The current story, Hunter in the Mountains, is just the first of hopefully many. Check it out if you’d like and let me know what you think.

[probablyasocialecologist]

I stopped trying to be a woman – and I felt resurrected, fully myself for the first time

My decision to come out as a trans man was lifechanging, says freelance journalist Jackson King

After coming out my transformation was palpable. Not much was different on the outside beyond a boyish haircut and an ever-so-slightly flatter chest (there’s only so much a binder can do when you’ve got an H cup). But on the inside I’d been resurrected. I was showing up fully in my life for the first time. Small moments like having a Starbucks barista call me by my new name in a crowded coffee shop were euphoric. And as one of the lucky few trans people to have accessed medical transition healthcare in the UK, the more my body has masculinised, the more my contentment has grown.

Let me be clear: I love women. My intellectual heroes, political role models and most beloved artists are women. When submitting my deed poll after coming out as trans, I chose a middle name that would honour the women in my family who’ve made me who I am and taught me how to show up in the world with love and strength. I love femme women, butch women, trans women, cis women, and all the women who show the diversity of and push the boundaries of womanhood. But, dear reader, I am not a woman.

To transphobes, I have become the social failure I was warned about as a child. They see me as a quitter, a social abnormality, an abomination even. Because in refusing to have my gender determined by my genitalia I’ve chosen not to accept my fate. And they are correct: compulsory cisgenderism, and therefore compulsory womanhood, is a narrative I’ve rejected. I’m glad I made that choice, and I stand by it. What’s so scary about the possibility of choice or autonomy when it comes to gender? As the David Carrick case shows, men do not need to cosplay as women to cause harm.

My guess is that when queer and trans individuals choose not to abide by the rigid rules of cisheterosexuality, it throws into relief just how many people are unhappy adherents to behavioural norms thrusted upon them. Norms they’ve had little or zero personal choice in.

[doyouknowthisdccharacter]

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[smashpages]

Out this week: Waller vs. Wildstorm (DC Black Label, $24.99): 

DC collects this well-regarded miniseries by Spencer Ackerman, Evan Narcisse and Jesus Merino into one volume. It combines elements from the DCU and Wildstorm, as Jackson King and Amanda Waller battle for control of the agency known as Checkmate.

See what other comics and graphic novels arrive in stores this week.

[jetslay]

WALLER VS. WILDSTORM #1 Written by SPENCER ACKERMAN and EVAN NARCISSE Art by ERIC BATTLE Cover by JORGE FORNÉS Variant cover by ERIC BATTLE 1:25 variant cover by MIKE PERKINS $5.99 US | 32 pages | 1 of 4 | Prestige Plus 8 1/2" x 10 7/8"(all covers are card stock) ON SALE 11/15/22 The synopsis for Waller vs. Wildstorm #1 reads, "In the early 1980s, as the Cold War stubbornly refuses to thaw, a new battle heats up...for the soul of the intelligence agency Checkmate. As the agency’s super-heroic public face, Jackson King—a.k.a. The armored Battalion, former leader of Stormwatch and the symbol of American might—has long suspected that Adeline Kane is up to dirty tricks overseas, engineering horrors that betray everything he believes about service to one’s country. But King doesn’t know that Kane has a clever new ally—an ambitious young woman named Amanda Waller. She has her own ideas about how metahumans can serve their country. And honor, dignity, and long lives don’t factor into them... National-security reporter Spencer Ackerman (The Daily Beast, Reign of Terror), comics and video game writer Evan Narcisse (Black Panther, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Batman: Gotham Knights - Gilded City), and veteran artist Eric Battle (Aquaman, Kobalt) celebrate WildStorm’s legacy of espionage-flavored superhero morality plays, pitting Stormwatch against the deadliest people in the DCU—including Deathstroke himself!"