#Clark take notes

[ckducky]

Kara shows us how it's done.

Not me shamelessly cashing in on my most popular fan-comic

[frownyalfred]

“Why are you bullying Hal Jordan so much in this fic?” Because it’s funny. Because it’s funny and he’s not a real person.

[bonebrokebuddy]

I get that this is due to people not read comics but, if you want a fun lighthearted batfam dynamic, I cannot recommend enough putting your story and characters in the Silver Ages. I see so much fanon material that would fit in this setting perfectly and it pains me that it’s not more popular or well known.

If you don’t know what the silver age of comics is, I’d recommend checking out this article!

And here for the 1956 Comics Code Authority.

It might not be in continuity anymore but the silver ages were such a large era of comics that defined the characters. And the format & restrictions of the silver ages allows you to easily bypass several common issues folks have with plots. In modern comics, there’s constant interpersonal drama because there has to be, if you resolve all those issues then you can’t sell more comics & they lose a lot of tension.

But due to the Comic Code Authority that is no longer an issue!

Randomly ignoring a dark past that makes connection between characters difficult [the poor aging of Jason’s bag of heads making it difficult for him to reunite with the rest of the batfam, for example] because it doesn’t fit with the theme you want?:

Comics are episodic in this era. Think of it like a early 2000s TV show. Things that happened in past comics/episodes often won’t affect the current story at all as the setting resets to default at the start of every comic. Additionally, literally all gore, torture, or explicit descriptions of murder is banned due to CCA restrictions, so you can choose to have it simply never have happened!

Characters that don’t fit at all in a story but you want a crossover for?:

The Silver Ages had SO MANY crossovers of heroes solely bc it sold comics. How compatible they are doesn’t matter in the slightest. The thinnest of reasons why they met works perfectly. You can even just have the characters know each other already and go “I know who can help me with this case! [Insert character you want here]! I met them in my last trip to Antarctica!” You only need maybe one sentence, two if you’re feeling frisky, to explain why they met and then you’re free to run wild.

Want a character to randomly acquire a superpower or meet a long lost cousin they have for one comic and then it’s never mentioned again?

I cannot state how frequently this happens. Silver Age comics were pretty much written cover first. Meaning the cover was made and the story was written after with the philosophy of “if my comic cover is more bizzare and eye catching then kids will buy it!” Like, there are multiple comics where Superman’s head got turned into an ant and Batman gets powers practically every other World’s Finest issue. Like it’s not even an “au” to do these things. That’s just what the Silver Ages were like.

Comic science and comic physics run rampant as well as bizarre villains! You can have so much fun with this!! Heroes often play the straight-man in bizarre scenarios with over-the-top villains in this era, making that aspect shine brightly can make for an inherently funny plot. You could either keep it fun and light or turn it into a psychological horror as the characters realize they can’t disobey the CCA code and have to follow a specific plot.

Also the restrictions of the CCA at the time would also help create some fun and unique plots if you wanted to keep the plot time-period accurate.

There’s a lot of restrictions but there are still many ways to create conflict in your fic! Plenty can come from the CCA directly!

Canon or HC LGBT+ characters could be pressured to not come out or face tremendous backlash. Time accurate homophobia, essentially.

McCarthyism and paranoia ran wild. Oh no someone suspected your blorbo of being a communist/socialist and now it’s ruining their life!

Characters dealing with how the CCA’s restrictions/their reality is inherently bigoted and can’t be themselves. (See: comics on topics of racial & religious prejudice aren’t allowed, characters can’t speak in “slang” or “vulgar language” and “good grammar” is emphasized (often targeting minorities), and the sanctity of family must be respected (no divorce, no queer people).

Also! Crazy over-the-top villains with deadly stakes are played with a lighthearted tone. Play it straight and suddenly your comic changed genre into horror if you think about it for more than a second.

Characters that used to be antihero’s are just straight up villains now or suddenly wake up with massive gaps in their memory and no one else can tell them why. There is no grey with the CCA. Just good and evil. Because that would make the villains sympathetic and we can’t have that!

If you want to just have a fun, campy and lighthearted tone however, that’s the Silver Age’s bread and butter. While keeping the CCA’s code in mind is good to keep a Silver Age story feeling time accurate and Silver Age-y, it’s definitely not necessary to follow each and every rule.

Here’s some more links to free silver age comics and places you can go to find information on silver age comics if you want to learn more that aren’t fandom wikis but rather made by nerds with a passion to catalogue and share their interest to others.

Your local library has a decent chance of having an omnibus of 50s-70s comics or you can order one from a nearby library if your local one doesn’t carry them.

A local comic shop or bookstore. Silver age omnibuses & “50 year anniversary/best of” type collections are usually present and have a good variety of silver age comics.

Jenny Blake Isabella (the creator of Black Lightning) has delightful reviews of the Batman Silver Age Omnibus on her blog that add context, critiques, and overall are a delight to read

Takes some hunting but this Silver Age Comic blog has a bunch of single issue reviews of Silver Age Batman comics.

Want a specific issue to read? Here’s super brief summaries of soso many issues curtesy of The Comics Archives blog.

The Internet Archive also has a few:

Batman & Superman world's finest. The Silver Age. Volume one

Justice League of America, the Silver Ages volume 1

Batman: the dynamic duo archives. vol 2 (I cannot find volume 1)

A good tip to find legal and free comics decently intact is to search [comic run title/character hero name & issue number if you have it] + “blog” + “review”.

There are so many in-depth reviews of comics in blogs by comic fans out there that practically share most of the comic panels in the post while giving context to past issues while the poster adds personal insight and opinions on the comic. Is it going to give you the whole issue unfiltered? No. But it allows newbies to get insight from old fans and old fans to get a new perspective on a comic they’ve already read. Blog reviews are such an underrated way to get new fans into comics considering how great of a resource they are! Don’t know if you’ll like a comic run? Read a bunch of reviews on it from different blogs! It’s truly so underrated.

I see a lot of dc fans that don’t read the comics because they don’t like the violence and dark tone of modern comics or don’t know where to start. Simple solution: Why are you reading reading modern comics then? Give the Silver Ages a try! They’re utterly corny and campy & I love them dearly.

They fit all of those bills with the CCA. Plus, with the episodic stories of that era, you can just pick up an omnibus, open it at a random issue and start reading. Hell, you can toss a stack of silver age issues in the air 52-pickup style and read them that way and you’re still be fine. You rarely, if ever, need knowledge from previous comics as they’ll often directly explain what happened to you. If you really need previous context, just like modern comics, they’ll directly tell you which issue(s) to read first.

Lastly.

It’s good to keep in mind the “By it’s time. For its time. Of its time” rule of comic analysis when reading old runs. Comics are: relevant during their time of publishing, for its intended audience (in this era, young american boys with a non-nuanced worldview) & with little care of how it’ll age, just that it’ll sell.

How history ties itself to comics is fascinating but also it’s good to be a little “👀👀 uh zoinks scoob that was a bad narrative or character decision that didn’t age well” and not dismiss it because that poor interpretation does have historical value as how it shows the moral, social, and political conflicts of the time in a neat little bow. Even if that bow is like, puke green.

Writers of comics will follow the misogynistic and racist ideals along the historical & social conflicts and ideals during the time of the comic’s publishing date. It’s uh, just kinda something ya gotta deal with when reading a lot of old comics runs. Most collections of silver age Batman/best ofs don’t often have comics that aged super badly but if you end up encountering any, it’s good to keep this in mind.

If anyone is inspired to write something based off of this, please tag me so I can read it!

[sasswonfp]

the last post broke 15k so i figured i should really make that follow up joke idea i had lmao. This is canon. J'onn meditates by screaming. [alt desc. provided!]

[feelsforsterek]

[yourlocalzombiewriter]

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[stardustinthesky]

Clark + kissing Lois's hand

[bookwyrminspiration]

piranesi. piranesi I think those are your journal scraps bud. I think that angry unhappy person who’s imprisoned and enslaved and losing their mind and wants to kill is you

[martyrbat]

just when you think you've hit rock bottom you want to fuck a man that has blue eyes :/

[jizzlords]

stolitz shippers are sitting in a room of fire, their muses screaming at each other, the chaos unfolding, relationships crashing and burning, madness and catastrophe.

meanwhile im about to write the softest shit with my lil fizzarozzie ship(s), bro. clarke and i w balloon horses as our muses and they're Kissing. wholesome barbie play. y'all stay safe.

[isfjmel-phleg]

Kon uses multiple names and it's confusing so here's a canonical overview of the names that he has used for himself and how they work.

Code name: Superboy

Purpose: Heroic identity

He initially calls himself Superman, since that's how the implanted knowledge Cadmus programmed him with taught him to think of himself--their replacement Superman. After the actual Superman returns to life, he takes back his old name and gives the boy permission to call himself Superboy, which is the only name that he will have for a long time. This has remained Kon's code name consistently to this day.

Kryptonian name: Kon-El

Purpose: Identity as an adopted member of Superman's family, tying him to the Kryptonian people

More than a year into Kon's life, Superman as a gesture of acceptance and trust brings Superboy to the Fortress of Solitude, shares his Kryptonian heritage with him (including telling him his Kryptonian name, Kal-El), and bestows upon him the name Kon-El after an adopted member of the House of El. For the first time, Kon has a personal name, not just a code name, but a name that identifies him with a family and a people that aren't his by blood (at that point the canon was that Kon was cloned from Cadmus director Paul Westfield) but by adoption.

Male Kryptonian names consist of the personal name hyphenated with the name of their house (functioning as basically a surname). So "Kon-El" is to be understood as a full name, first and last.

Human name: Conner Kent

Purpose: Civilian identity, tying him to the Kent family

When Clark brings Kon to live with the Kents, Kon is expected to take on something that he has never consistently had before: a secret civilian identity. Since he is posing as a relative of the Kents, he takes on their surname, and he adopts a human name that is as similar as possible to Kon-El: Conner. Note the spelling: Conner with an e, not a second o, echoing the spelling of Kon-El. Unlike the civilian identities of most heroes, this is not his original given name but a role that he has to learn to incorporate into who he is.

The names are also associated with different eras for him. In his earliest days and during his time in Hawaii, he is always Superboy or S.B. or Kid. Shortly after he starts working for Cadmus and during his time with Young Justice, he is Kon-El or simply Kon, but only to those closest to him. After he moves to Smallville and joins the Titans, he is primarily Conner Kent in his personal life.

So, three names for the three distinct roles that Kon inhabits, and while they are all part of him, they do not overlap, just as Clark's three names don't. The Kent surname is not attached to his Kryptonian name any more than he would call himself Conner-Kent-El. He has never used the surname Luthor (or Westfield!); there is never any indication that that is how he would want to identify himself.

(Then there's his recurring alias Carl Krummet, but that's a part he sometimes plays, not an authentic identity for him.)

[aroaessidhe]

The Feast Makers, H.A. Clarke

[elliotts-personal-property]

After who knows how long I finally had a Leppard themed dream! It was about Steve, which I was pleasantly surprised by.

Anyways I was looking through some old family pictures and found a polaroid of Steve and I and then it turned into a flashback of when I met him. The context was it was after a show and Steve was at the store buying all sorts of groceries for a party. Long story short I saw him and talked to him for a minute before he gave me a hug and took the picture together🥹💗

[cranberry-cocktail]

The offical cranberry-cocktail auck and fuck fortnite skin list (I just choose the skins I thought were of utmost importance) Ignore the last two I had to preserve my genuine reaction like mosquitos in ancient jurassic amber

[elizabetharzanisketchbook]

Takming Chaung 'slow dry' notes, 2024