#Dean Hale

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“Tales of the Titans” Series to Explore Backstories of Starfire, Raven, Donna Troy, and Beast Boy

After the events of DC Comics’ Dark Crisis, the Titans are now the DCU’s premier superhero team. Tales of the Titans is a new series of spotlight issues that will explore the backstories of members Starfire, Raven, Donna Troy, and Beast Boy. 

Tales of the Titans #1, from writers Shannon Hale and Dean Hale and artist Javier Rodríguez, will feature Starfire. “When a spaceship bearing Tamaranean markings crash-lands on Earth, Starfire goes on a solo mission to uncover its origins. But what awaits her on that journey will bring her back to the earliest days of her youth, to memories of two sisters eternally at war...and perhaps the chance to keep history from repeating itself.” (DC Comics)

Tales of the Titans #1 goes on sale on July 18, 2023. All four comics in the series will features a main cover by Nicola Scott. Tales of the Titans #1 also features an open-to-order variant by Stanley “Artgerm��� Lau, a 1:25 variant by Javier Rodríguez, a 1:50 variant by Fatima Wajid, and a Titans special foil variant by Chirs Samnee.

Tales  of the Titans #2, from writer Tini Howard and artist Eleonara Carlini, and will feature Raven. The comic, goes on sale on August 15, 2023.

Tales of the Titans #3, from writer Steve Orlando and artist Kath Lobo, features Donna Troy. The comic goes on sale on September 26, 2023.

Tales of the Titans #4, from writer Andrew Constant and artists Brandt & Stein, features Beast Boy. The comic goes on sale on October 24, 2023.

(Images via DC Comics - Nicola Scott’s Covers for Tales of the Titans #1-4)

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The faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home (Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor) "Serious spoiler warnings for this one." (See below cut)

Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High (Shannon & Dean Hale) "Now, Ever After High itself is very Web. The children of famous fairytales being destiny-bound to relive their stories or go 'poof' is the driving force behind all the books' conflicts.

However, Shadow High takes it to another level. The narrators, who were present throughout the series, are more influential within the story. Even the straight-laced narrator parents who believe only in observing stories leave 'plop devices' to coerce characters in or out of making decisions. The titular Shadow High is a school for narrators run by antagonist Ms. Direction after a narrator schism between those who observe stories and those who control them. Ms. Direction uses 'unmaking lava' that turns characters and props into the words that compose them, destroying them so that they can be made again in her vision. She also uses narration to compel characters into doing her bidding. The narrator of the book, Brooke Page, is the daughter of the other books' narrators and has frequent arguments with her parents between chapters about why she can't intervene in the story to help the characters. Brooke ultimately does this in the book's climax by climbing the Fourth Wall and asking the reader for help, turning the book into a choose-your-own-adventure and having the reader write in how Ms. Direction is ultimately defeated.

Also, it's a crossover with Monster High so Frankie Stein and Draculaura are there."

It's framed like a biography that the Faceleed Old Woman is telling Craig, the descendant of the man who killed her. After she dies, as a sort of ghost, she haunts and attempts to kill her murderer, but she fails. She then spends the rest of time manipulating and killing all of his descendants. She is constantly doing things that they don't notice to get them to have kids, etc, and then when they get old enough, causes an accident so the first born son always dies. The villain, and TFOW murderer is also a manipulator. He gets her on a wild goose chase for years to find out who killed her father, and managed to trick her into a situation where he could kill her.

[iherring]

Something new is on its way from Abrams Books & Marvel! For the last little bit, I've been colouring a graphic novel and it's just been announced : D I'll share more later but you can check it out here, a light-hearted take of Ironman vs. Dr. Strange in a showdown between Technology & Magic!

(Plus a few fun cameos along the way!)

https://www.marvel.com/articles/culture-lifestyle/iron-man-something-strange-a-mighty-marvel-team-up

Hope you check it out when it's released in June 2025, it was a ton of fun to work with!

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Oh sister, the possibilities...

Dean Hale and Shannon Hale, from Diana and Nubia: Princesses of the Amazons

[randommultifandomrants]

Being a girl is: wanting to go to bed early but deciding to just get on tumblr/wattpad/Ao3 for a little bit and then end up finding a fic series that you really like and read until well past your usual bedtime then keeping on because it’s already past your bedtime. Then being mad when you wake up in the morning because you overslept your timer.

[flow33didontsmoke]

when y/n does something so bad/embarrassing you have to facepalm and close your eyes for a minute

[readtilyoudie]

AMETHYST

[bethsvrse]

pov: I find a good smut fic but it includes a daddy kink

[cruel-seduction]

It’s like a full-blown addiction, but instead of drugs or booze, it’s this fictional guy who’s got her wrapped around his finger. She knows it’s fucked up—knows she’s out here daydreaming about someone who’s not even real—but who cares? This guy? He’s everything. He’s charming in the worst ways, flawed in every possible sense, but there’s just something about him that has her hooked. He doesn’t even know she exists, but she’s ready to fight anyone who says a word against him. Seriously, she’ll defend his honor like it’s a fucking life-or-death mission.

He’s a goddamn trainwreck, but he’s her trainwreck. She’ll put up with all his baggage, his emotional scars, his dark sides, because somehow, that brokenness makes him feel more real to her than any real guy could. He’s messed up, but she’ll fix him in her head every single time. Maybe it’s that thrill of knowing he’s dangerous and untouchable that makes him even more irresistible. He might break her heart in a hundred ways, but it’s the kind of heartbreak that makes her feel alive, even if it hurts like hell.

And it’s never gonna happen, right? She knows that. He’s not gonna waltz into her life and sweep her off her feet. But it doesn’t matter. Because she gets to have him on her terms—no messy reality, no awkward first dates, no risking her heart for real. He’s always there when she needs him, in that perfect little bubble of fantasy she’s built for herself. And maybe she’s a little crazy for it, but at least with him, she’s never disappointed. Every time she replays his scenes, reads the fanfics, imagines their future together—it's like a high she can never quite shake. She knows it's all just a mindfuck, but she’s never felt more alive.

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Preview: Tales of the Titans #1 (of 4)

Tales of the Titans #1 preview. An all-new series of spotlight issues in the spirit of the beloved 1980s classic Tales of the New Teen Titans! #comics #comicbooks #teentitans

[smashpages]

Out this week: Tales of the Titans: Starfire #1 (DC, $4.99):

Each issue of this four-issue miniseries will feature a solo story starring one of the Titans who isn’t currently featured in their own title, starting here with Starfire. Shannon Hale and Dean Hale write this first issue, with Javier Rodríguez on art. “When a spaceship bearing Tamaranean markings crash-lands on Earth, Starfire goes on a solo mission to uncover its origins.”

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

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Abrams Books' Mighty Marvel Team-Up Series Kicks Off with "Iron Man: Something Strange!"

The first title in Abrams Books' new Mighty Marvel Team-Up series of original graphic novels is Iron Man: Something Strange! from writer Dean Hale and artist Douglas Holgate.

The communications system has gone down at Avengers Tower. Tony Stark's hope for an easy solution is thwarted when he learns that the "root of the problem is the arrival of the otherworldly creature Gargantos and it’s missing children that are loose across New York City, Iron Man quickly finds that he’s out of his depth. Luckily for him, mystical expert Doctor Strange arrives to team up with Iron Man and save the day!" Strange and Stark have one hour to find Gargantos's missing toddlers before Gargantos returns to take out the city.

Iron Man: Something Strange! A Mighty Marvel Team-Up goes on sale on June 3, 2025.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Cover of Iron Man: Something Strange! A Mighty Marvel Team-Up)

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Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High (Shannon & Dean Hale) "Now, Ever After High itself is very Web. The children of famous fairytales being destiny-bound to relive their stories or go 'poof' is the driving force behind all the books' conflicts.

However, Shadow High takes it to another level. The narrators, who were present throughout the series, are more influential within the story. Even the straight-laced narrator parents who believe only in observing stories leave 'plop devices' to coerce characters in or out of making decisions. The titular Shadow High is a school for narrators run by antagonist Ms. Direction after a narrator schism between those who observe stories and those who control them. Ms. Direction uses 'unmaking lava' that turns characters and props into the words that compose them, destroying them so that they can be made again in her vision. She also uses narration to compel characters into doing her bidding. The narrator of the book, Brooke Page, is the daughter of the other books' narrators and has frequent arguments with her parents between chapters about why she can't intervene in the story to help the characters. Brooke ultimately does this in the book's climax by climbing the Fourth Wall and asking the reader for help, turning the book into a choose-your-own-adventure and having the reader write in how Ms. Direction is ultimately defeated.

Also, it's a crossover with Monster High so Frankie Stein and Draculaura are there."

The Taking of Jake Livingston (Ryan Douglass) "Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake. Suddenly, everything Jake knows about ghosts and the rules to life itself go out the window as Sawyer begins haunting him and bodies turn up in his neighborhood. High school soon becomes a survival game–one Jake is not sure he’s going to win."

[gynnnicsworld]

Bi Buck is justice for all those characters who ARE bisexual, but who weren't allowed to be openly so.

This is for you Stiles, Derek, Dean Winchester, Arthur Pendragon*, etc.

Congratulations to the 911 fandom, you're halfway there for buddie canon.

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It's not too bad a home for a kid like me.

Shannon Hale & Dean Hale, from Diana: Princess of the Amazons

[randommultifandomrants]

Being a girl is pt.2: deciding you’ve read enough fics for the moment and swiping out of the app just to re-open tumblr or open wattpad/ao3