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So cute, I had to pick it up. This one’s getting framed 💜

Ranma 1/2 part 4 #5

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Here’s another example. Promethea #19 vs Storm #4. Promethea meets the storm deities from every pantheon in the blue realm of Chesed before meeting her late father there. In Storm #4, storm is killed, meets her father in an unspecified heavenly blue realm before being resurrected by a blue patriarchal deity as his Eternal Storm.

There’s so many more examples too. I don’t think Promethea created these tropes but it does conveniently catalog them!

I’ve stated many times in the past that New X-Men #132 shares a lot of similar imagery with Promethea #16, in which the protagonists encounter a sea of emotions. The color Green is also a common focus between the two. Somehow, X-Men ‘97’s adaptation was even MORE in line with Promethea.

This is your sign to read Promethea

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The more I reread Promethea the more I recognize it, or rather its Kabbalist qualities, in other works. Continuing with #16 and Netzach, episode 9 of Dandadan forces the two protagonists to express their feelings and reconcile their misunderstandings in order to fight the monsters in a pool of green water

I’ve stated many times in the past that New X-Men #132 shares a lot of similar imagery with Promethea #16, in which the protagonists encounter a sea of emotions. The color Green is also a common focus between the two. Somehow, X-Men ‘97’s adaptation was even MORE in line with Promethea.

This is your sign to read Promethea

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Calvin & Hobbes are the Fool

I try to avoid assuming stuff as the result of the collective unconscious, but I have a hard time imagining an intentional connection here. Nerveless, I find the visual and thematic symbolism of the Fool archetype is impossible to ignore here lol. Calvin is a curious blond youth flavored with a slight trickster edge and Hobbes fulfills the role of the white dog (spirit guide (imaginary friend)) while sporting the Thoth Tarot’s Fool’s tiger imagery. They’re even named after philosophers to highlight their innocent and foolish nature. Honestly, if he were wearing green I’d totally just assume the homage was intentional, but it’s the parts that don’t align that make the aspects that do all the more suspicious.

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X-Men ‘97 ep 5

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One Piece and Promethea really are just the same story at this point. An ancient sun deity with the power of imagination who possess a young person in effort to fundamentally change the world into a nearly unrecognizable state of awakening. They even dress the same! Well the Margaret incarnation of Promethea does, at least. With her flowing fabric, staff and shield.

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Finished rewatching Fishman Island the other day and this single arc is hands down some of the WORST racial politics I’ve EVER watched. And yet, fans praise it as the most progressive thing they’ve ever seen. The core moral of the story is to forgive your oppressors, because “reverse racism” is the true enemy of society. It’s actually quit insulting to every real world civil rights movement.

The humans have done NOTHING but hurt, traffic and kill the citizens of Fishman Island, but the real threat is internally found in a Fishman race baiter? Yawn. The humans are never held responsible because they aren’t even present in the conflict despite being catalysts. The story features drugs being planted into their minority, segregated society, but rather than being supplied by the CIA or an equivalent governing body to sabotage them, it’s something they obtain themselves. Still ends up sabotaging them, but this time it’s just their fault.

I absolutely hate how the conflict is internal (in most arcs, the threat is usually an external and/or invading force) but still racially divided. The beautiful, HUMAN PASSING Merfolk royalty vs the Fishmen, who have monstrous appearances, including sharp fangs who can never pass. The series tries to frame them as equals, with unnamed civilians of both groups on both sides. But the conflict revolves around the anti-human New Fishmen Pirates and the human forgiving, human passing Royal Family. Additionally, the Fishmen are socially segregated to the Fishmen District, which is implied to be a little intimidating (the ghetto) and are never given any representation in their own government. The Mermaids are clearly considered a higher social class than the Fishmen.

Politics aside, I do think this is a fun and well written storyline. But the way fans frame is as the end all be all of race politics is truly insane and incredibly concerning.

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I’ve stated many times in the past that New X-Men #132 shares a lot of similar imagery with Promethea #16, in which the protagonists encounter a sea of emotions. The color Green is also a common focus between the two. Somehow, X-Men ‘97’s adaptation was even MORE in line with Promethea.

This is your sign to read Promethea

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Gun Honey continues to blows my mind. It displays mastery over the medium and knows how to deliver standard pulp in a really exciting way. But it’s so embarrassing too lmao. I love comics so much 😭😂😂

Gun Honey: Collision Course #2

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Join our discord chat. Everyone is welcome (+18) talk about whatever you want, just don’t be awful lol. Hope to see you there 💖

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I really like the symmetry in these pages of Boruto: Two Blue Vortex #6

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I saw @omolara-oolong reposting about Agatha All Along over on TikTok and started looking through my own posts when I realized I never posted this one. Or at least I can’t find it in my tags. This isn’t a complete analysis, but I couldn’t help but think of Gerd Ziegler’s entry for the Thoth Tarot’s Queen of Disks in Mirror of the Soul while watching the episode of Agatha’s origin story and the life and death of her son. Like the witch’s road, Ziegler’s take also speak of a long and difficult journey of self actualization.

Don’t forget to check my tags for more Agatha All Along posts! And follow my friend too!!

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Tokyo Babylon

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The White Queen ~ Mercury, associated with the mind ~ psychic powers = Emma Frost aka the White Queen

The Red King ~ Sulfur ~ explosives, artillery = Tony Stark aka Iron Man

The union of Red king and White Queen is often called the chemical marriage. In illustrations, it is depicted as courtship and sex. Sometimes they are garbed, as if they have just been brought together, offering each other flowers. Sometimes they are naked, preparing to consummate their marriage that will eventually lead to an allegorical offspring, the Rebis.

Descriptions of alchemical processes often describe the reactions of sulfur and mercury. The Red King is sulfur -- the active, volatile and fiery principle -- while the White Queen is mercury -- the material, passive, fixed principle. Mercury has substance, but it has no definitive form on its own. It needs an active principle to shape it.

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