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[QSandA]
Let's see...
Mr. Hawkins, TY for answering my questions.
-What were the hardest parts of adjusting to being "public", rather than operating with a secret identity? Relatedly, unlike some public Heroes, you weren't given a choice in the matter; how do you feel about that?
-Back in the day, did you interact with other sidekicks much?
-Are there any things about the way "superhero culture", for lack of a better word, has changed from the Golden Age that you find particularly gratifying, or alternatively, that bother you?
-Have you ever felt awkward when interacting with German or Japanese or Italian people in the 21st Century?
-Speaking of social awkwardness, is it difficult interacting with people from your native era who, uh, got here the old fashioned way, so to speak?
-What was the biggest adjustment in your, uh, let's say fighting style, upon finding yourself a superpowered adult, rather than a unpowered teen?
-So, what were you doing when you heard about Pearl Harbor?
-Are there any there any Legacy villains who's existence particularly irks you?
-Some Golden Age Heroes have mentioned that both at the time and even today, feeling guilt about not being on the front lines. Did you have similar feelings?
-Pretty much everyone in your age group read superhero comics, of both the real ones and fictional. How awkward was it when discussions came up? Especially the inevitable arguments about who would win in a fight?
-Speaking of, did you ever interact with any of the people who wrote the comics about you and Mr. Dodds?
-Speaking of stuff written about your mentor; have you read Sandman Mystery Theatre, and have any thoughts about it?
-It's been reported that, while many were intellectually aware of the Nazis and Imperial Japanese attitudes towards they considered inferior, they did not actually grasp the depth of their depravity, even those who were reading perorts reports about the Camps, Unit 731, etc. Until confronted with the irrefutable evidence, many just could not believe that modern people were capable of such monstrosity. Do you have any thoughts on this?
-I can understand if you want to skip this last one, but do you sometimes feel resentful of some of the JSAers who made it to today, when Mr. Didds didn't?
Thank you!
Sandy: *Looking down at the paper print out of the questions in front of us* ...This is the guy you warned me about, isn't it?
Me: My best customer. Let's get to it! (This is a long one. Re-edit for readability)
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最近的和朋友玩的时候的约稿,堆一下
[ID: Fanart of Hank King Jr and Sandy Hawkins from DC Comics. There are three sets of them on the picture. In the first they're relaxing in casual clothes against a pile of pillows. In the second, they're in casual clothes again, they are sitting and Hank is hugging Sandy's back and kissing his cheek. To the side is a chibi of them in costume as Sand and Brainwave Jr. End ID]
treat for FallofFall from the dcu-rarepair exchange. hank and sandy cuddling!
What a yearner.
sand after they blow up the brownstone again
For Sandy-Castle!
Dad and Son sharing hobbies (mysteriously appearing in sandstorms)
tbh I feel like almost all problems with "civilian girlfriend" superhero characters would be resolved by simply having the civilian girlfriend become an active part of the superhero's superheroing, ala Dian Belmont.
She's been an independent detective who's perspective on cases leads to their resolution as often as anybody else's, she's been Sandman's get-away driver and in-the-field assistant, she's been an informant using her access to places he can't reach ie. the district attorney's office, and she even uses Wesley's kit to investigate independently of him toward the end of Sandman Mystery Theatre.
Sandman Mystery Theatre #62
To be totally real with you, I dislike maybe 90% of fem superhero love interest stories (while liking most of these characters, let me be clear) pre-2005 or so, because they so often use women to present a conflict between the comfortable domestic life the male superhero could have, and the call to superheroism. But that conflict feels suuuper arbitrary to me when you remember that women can like
do stuff lol.
This is really apparent when you consider that the majority of m/m and f/f love interests that began appearing in the mid-2000s make both characters extremely active, with most m/m pairings usually being superhero/superhero, while f/f pairings usually feature a more active feminist play on pre-existing m/f or queered familiar friend dynamics. Kate Kane's girlfriends are a hardboiled cop (kind of a Jim Gordon, do you see the vision?) and The Question respectivey, so we have superhero / action archetype and superhero / superhero. I don't think this is a queerness thing so much as modern writers realizing that characters are more interesting when they do stuff, instead of complaining about the characters who are allowed to do stuff doing that stuff, and because queerness was basically illegal until 2005 or so writers were allowed to innovate and introduce new characters instead of sticking with the old.
But a lot of historied m/f relationships in comics have the baggage of a sexist history weighing them down, imo, in this weird repetition of "I can't let Woman know about my secret life..." concept. It's hard to really innovate on that formula when the formula by design usually doesn't allow women to be pro-active in these stories, they need to be kept separate from the action or imperiled by the action for the superhero to both rescue and maintain his secret life status quo. I think that's why the Batman love interests we remember and care about are the supervillain femme fatales like Catwoman and Talia al Ghul, and not like... Shondra Kinsolving or, as much as I love her for being the actual progressive who calls out Bruce to his face lol, Vicki Vale - the villainesses are by design characters who are allowed to engage in the action of the genre.
I think 100% of the reason Lois Lane is such an iconic character and why she immediately transcended this, is that she was often presented as an extremely pro-active badass. She was a careerist at a time when careerist women were not portrayed (even Girl Investigators were usually written as getting their one big scoop and retiring to marry some dickhead at the office), she was an open humanist who often wasn't written as weak or stupid for having feelings, and most importantly, she was always right there in the shit. Sure yes okay, she'd be distressed into damselry a lot, especially in the 1930s - 1960s, but y'know,
Fleischer's Superman, 1941, one of the best Loises.
she was allowed to do things like run toward danger and shoot at aggressors at a time when most women in comics were kinda not at all that.
I think, and I mean this super politely, that's kinda why PS5 Spider-Man's Mary Jane (one of my fav characters in the genre actually) is sooort of just Lois Lane but on a more down-to-earth Marvel "we need to pay the goddamn bills Peter" scale, while Ultimate Spider-Man or Reimi Spider-Man's Mary Janes are, well, not that really lol (I also really like Reimi MJ, her whole arc with her struggling acting career is top).
And you can't even pull that Mary Jane was a kid in Ultimate and therefore entitled to be boring because Peter was dating Kitty Pryde at one point, because Bendis has a problem and needs to be stopped. So, it's not like more pro-active fem love interests weren't around. Those stories just weren't being given to 90% of the women and girls in that run and he had to borrow a girl who by design is always doing intersting shit because she's already a superhero.
Y'know what I mean?
I don't really like modern comics all that much but I gotta admit that women being written as "part of the team" and not "the obstruction I need to dodge so I can do superhero shit" is one of the best things modern comics have going on.
Is that what he calls his dates with Alan?
If you're not aware DC just cancelled Red Hood completely and entirely because of Gretchen Felker-Martin's posts about you know who. They've basically wiped the solicitations for the first three issues out of existence.
And if you're in any way celebrating that, just know that this has set a very, very nasty precedent. They're not cancelling this book because you didn't like her or because you thought it was bad. They're cancelling it because she's a trans woman who's already managed to garner an unfavorable reputation among fans. And because the book is currently still being review bombed, they're going to just try to bury it. Genuinely ridiculous. I hope this permanently stains Jason's character moving forward. Lobdell wrote for Jason for seven fucking years after admitting to sexual misconduct. Fucking embarrassing.
I don't need you to worry for me, 'cause I'm alright
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life
Such a fun commission I got to make for @sandy-castle !! Genuinely still feel so lucky I got to draw this for you
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He's just neat to me
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