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Unpopular opinion

Bioshock 2 was a great game and I don’t care what anyone says. I’m excited to get to playing it after I finish the first game again~

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Just In Case

If you ever see my Villainous work being uploaded on anything other than this blog, my DeviantART, or my Villainous Ask Blog, please let me know asap!

I had a hell of a time with the Undertale fandom about art theft *which is why I quite drawing for it and never will again*, and I just wanna make sure that the same doesn’t happen with Villainous. ;v;

So yeah, just IM me on here, my  ask blog, or my deviantart if you ever see some possibly stolen art~!

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Stan Lee gave so much to so many, but to me, as shy, awkward kid—growing up as an immigrant in a strange, new world—Stan Lee gave me the greatest gift of all. He gave me a place to escape into—an endless, imaginative playground filled with the most amazing, fantastic and uncanny heroes ever. And through these characters, Stan Lee gave me my childhood and showed me the value of being different. To embrace heroism and to shun prejudice. That it was cool to want to be the good guy and that there was a price for not standing up for the downtrodden, the oppressed, the little guy. And in these life lessons—whether learned on the streets of Brooklyn or in the antimatter depths of the Negative Zone—he taught me the true measure of a person was not defined by their powers but by the strength of their virtues and their commitment to truth, justice and tolerance. Even til recently, Stan was still out on the comic con circuit, tirelessly showing all of us how it’s done. Most importantly, he reminded us that the most epic stories can be told with the simplest of tools and that our dreams and ideas are the keys to creating a better future. “Face front, True Believers!” was one of Stan Lee’s classic proclamations. In today’s times, we could all heed the optimism and faith his words inspire.

Jim Lee

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Well there it is. Goodbye Stan Lee. We all saw it coming but still--For those of us who grew up reading Marvel comics--Especially in the 60s and 70s--it's the end of something. You can debate forever who really created what--Stan or Jack or Steve--but the truth is it was some magic combination of those guys. It made a big different to a whole lot of our childhoods and the world continues to be a richer place thanks to what they gave us.

Mike Mignola

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He was a controversial figure, yes. I credit him with more of the creation of Marvel Comics than some others do, less than others, but I stand by what I have long said: that if not for Stan, there was a strong chance that comic books--solely and exclusively for children before Stan and Jack Kirby came along--might very well have followed the path of drive-in theaters and automats, obsolete relics that no longer speak to who we are and what we crave. His collaborators brought their share, but it was Stan the showman who went out and recruited a whole new audience of teens and college kids. It was Stan who let the world know that comics were still vital and relevant in an era where other publishers were ashamed to talk about what they did for a living. It was Stan whose bombast turned Marvel Comics from a second-place publishing company into the cultural phenomenon it became. I had several meals and legitimate, no-showmanship conversations with Stan over the past 15 years or so. When I was at Boom! Studios working with him on a new line of books, I admit that I fully expected him to be disinterested and--let's say "light in oversight." Instead, he rolled up his sleeves and got into the creative process. He wasn't there just to sell us his name; he had suggestions, offered improvements, and--my hand to God--threw out little bits of wisdom that seemed obvious but were framed in a way that made me rethink the way I approached storytelling. The best day, the very best day I ever had with Stan, had to do with one of these projects. He didn't like one of the issues and said, 48 hours to press, that he couldn't put his name on it. I asked him to give me two days to rip up the floorboards and fix it all. I moved panels around, moved pages around, had art changed and redrawn, and rewrote heavily with the blessing of the writer, When I brought it back to him, nervous and skating on the edge of catastrophe, he sat down beside me on his couch, read it page by page, put it down, and said to me, "That's one of the best editing jobs I've ever seen." That moment goes in the highlight reel when I die. And then. And THEN. Then, with his face-front-true-believers facade dropped, just being real and heartfelt and sincere, Stan started talking about what it was like working with his Spider-Man partner, Steve Ditko. How great Ditko was from the start but how much, and specifically in what ways, Stan saw him improve over the years. He dissected for me in detail how Ditko approached storytelling, and I wish to God I could remember chapter and verse because no Stan interview or retrospective had ever covered any of this before. What I mostly recall is simply the complete and total sincerity with which he shared the anecdotes, in a voice I'd never heard from him before or since. Thank you, Stan. You had no idea how much you'll be missed.

Mark Waid

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I guess I'm supposed to be sad that Stan Lee has died, and I am, but I'm mostly smiling, thinking about what a kickass 95 years that was. Rest in Peace, Mister Lee, you earned it.

Jonathan Hickman