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comic book trend that honestly irks the fuck out of me is when an existing character comes out as gay and they invent a new character to be their partner. like theres nothing wrong with it per se its just that the new boyfriend/girlfriend character is always jarringly bland and uninteresting, especially when compared to the latent homosexual potential that definitely already existed in the story. like there’s something so deeply unsatisfying about introducing a new side character as a girlfriend for karma in new mutants 2019 when she’d been having dramatic hand-holding adventures with dani the whole time. it implies such a definite hesitancy to ever make characters gay For Each Other, and the result of that hesitancy is that you don’t get any of the long-term slow-burn relationships that heterosexual characters get (like between batman and catwoman or whatever). instead you get New Relatable Millennial Queer Partner that you have to fight tooth and nail to give a fuck about. nobody’s doing it like rictor and shatterstar anymore nobody’s doing coming out reveals that hit like that

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Venom (2023) & Spider-Man (2025) By Tradd Moore

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rip magneto you would have loved killing elon musk

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multi-limbed spider-man time

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Gwen Stacy sketch

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nah since marvel is trending again I’m going to say it again louder for the people in back — canon steve rogers would never have chosen an “idyllic 1950s white pickett fence life” because the only place that man belonged was a picket LINE. the whole point of his character was that his work was never done. there was always going to be another oppressor, another bully, another person who takes advantage of the underprivileged for him to stand up to. from the moment he gained consciousness he, a chronically ill son of a working class mother living below the poverty line, used his voice and his body to protect & fight for what he believed in. I’m not sure there was ever a time pre-super soldier serum where he didn’t have a black eye. he could put the shield down all he wanted but he could never retire from being steve rogers — someone who never once turned a blind eye, who never once wanted a “reward” for his work, who never once abandoned his friends. this isn’t up for debate. this is almost a century of comic book & film/animated precedent. he may have been a man out of time, but in his words “it’s tempting to want to live in the past. it’s familiar, it’s comfortable. but it’s where fossils come from”

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I'd love to say that this is the dumbest thing I've ever made, but we both know that's a lie

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he's hungry

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had this almost exact exchange with a kid in my homeroom today and was so enamoured by the fact that a student was ready to dunk on spider-man like he existed in real like that i inflicted it onto pete

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In 1987, when Spider-Man finally tied the knot and married Mary Jane, Stan Lee held a real-life wedding at Shea Stadium as a publicity stunt.

Stan Lee performed the ceremony and had other Marvel heroes in the audience cheering on.

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comic books are good to get into if you really like to complain about everything all of the time

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i think my favorite trope in comics is “superhero photographer and redheaded supermodel best friend”

honorary mention:

ko-fi | twitter | instagram | dc/marvel blog

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First off sorry about whatever happened to Gwen in any new comics. Secondly, what happened? Looking in the notes just gives off scorched earth vibes.

Our distressed mewling is about this still-upcoming limited title announcement:

It's not completely impossible to execute the threatened summary in a fun and competent way, but the first impression is definitely giving "this is going to be a middle finger to fans of absolutely every single involved component" which is somehow Gwen Stacy and Gwen Poole and also Gabrielle Kinney getting her claw moves stolen for some reason. It's exhausting just thinking about picking out every single red flag here because there's so many of them. Like even the artist on that cover is elaborately insulting I just cannot do this summary right now. Short version is the "and another finger on the monkey's paw curls" energy is enormous. The main universe spider titles have been mostly garbage for roughly a decade with no sign of land so the foundation of trust being worked with here is nonexistent. Even if this is forgotten immediately after it comes out there's going to be a huge asterisk appended to every gentle clarification that Gwenpool is actually not Gwen Stacy for the rest of time.

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Mayday 🖤

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Felicia Hardy/Black Cat by Farid Karami in Avengers Assemble #23

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i made this for twitter but i’m sharing it here too because if famously dead boys Bucky Barnes and Jason Todd can come back as vicious heavily-armed vigilantes with a ton of angst, then Gwen Stacy should also be allowed to do that

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i made this for twitter but i’m sharing it here too because if famously dead boys Bucky Barnes and Jason Todd can come back as vicious heavily-armed vigilantes with a ton of angst, then Gwen Stacy should also be allowed to do that