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nooo guys help i mothered too close to the sun

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When someone accuses me of not reading comics because I get confused with the 74 different canons and timelines.

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this fucking guy 😭😭😭

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house full of cheaters

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"Ray"

Love & Rockets: New Stories #4 (July 2011)

Jaime Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books

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i do prefer marvel's sliding timescale so much more than whatever dc has going on btw. marvel will just be like "yeah 1963 was 12 years ago and it's 2023 now" and let things exist in the context they were written. dc is obsessed with rewriting the timeline and "modernising" characters over and over again to make everything "make sense" like they're not talking about comics, which are notoriously not supposed to make sense

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the joker does not have psychosis. he does not have psychosis, he does not meet any of diagnosis criteria for psychosis (especially that psychosis is not even a complete diagnosis on its own) and the fact that dc keeps calling random villains psychotic is a fucking disgrace. there's nothing behind it but conflation of psychosis (or mental illness in general) with evil and crime which is both inherently ableist and works wonders (derogatory) for their anti-abolitionist rehabilitationist copaganda. there is genuinely no excuse for how the arkham asylum and the 'criminally insane' focus has grown in the batman franchise throughout the years and how it is handled (somehow progressively worse may i add). and you're not immune to propaganda.

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comic book drama is so wild bc if somebody tells you they hate a writer it could be because they just don't like their writing and how they handled certain characters, or bc the writer said something distasteful during an interview/on twitter, or bc the writer may have been involved with war crimes committed during the American invasion and occupation of Iraq,

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do you guys ever like forget you're interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go "oh wait i'm like crazy crazy about this yeah"

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marvel comic writers always seem to forget comic lore when all they really have to do is hire an autistic person to just listen in on pitches for comics so they can go "oh that could work with this abandoned plot thread we can follow up on instead of leaving in the dust" and they should get paid a million dollar every daythank you

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he's just a little guy

The Boy Wonder #2 by Juni Ba

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Gerald Parel

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Daredevil (1964) #42 | Stan Lee & Gene Colan

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One thing that’s annoying about pit madness as a trope in fic is when people act like Jason killing people is the result of magic induced compulsion and not a fundamental philosophical difference between him and the other bats. Jason was already saying “well maybe she had a point” about a woman who killed a serial killer rapist when he was ROBIN

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fics that villainize Talia are obsessed with having Jason bad mouth her. I think Jason should be the #1 Talia apologist actually. To a toxic degree even. You tell Jason about the weird cloning shit and he’s like “well I’m sure she had her reasons 🤷🏻‍♂️”

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Jason does reach out to people it’s just that the reaching out often involves dramatic theatrical violence. The final confrontation in under the red hood was Jason’s version of reaching out to Bruce. It’s not like Bruce was ever going to be the one to be like “hey let’s sit and talk about your death and why you’re mad at me”. Yes it did involve kidnapping and possible murder suicide plans but hey at least he started the dialogue agshshshs

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What if “Jason would’ve died young on the streets had he not met Bruce” was something Jason tells himself as part of why he doesn’t blame Bruce for his death and why he doesn’t regret being adopted by Bruce. And then one day through comic book shenanigans Jason meets an alternate universe version of himself who didn’t meet Bruce and survived to adulthood and is doing fairly ok and suddenly has to come to terms with the fact that Bruce might’ve ruined his life for realsies