#Gerry Woods

[pat1dee]

2000AD Annual 1978

Fleetway

Cover by Gerry Woods

[bonanana]

I need someone who looks at me the way Gerry Woods looks at Ed Wells.

[potato-lord-but-not]

doodles baby !!

[killyourdeadpoet]

lets go asexuals lets go

[evilhorse]

Doctor Fate will not live through the night!

(All-Star Comics #62)

[theglowingeyeballz]

To the tma fan I met in the archeology museum in Greece I’m still thinking about you. Pip if you’re somehow reading this I had a dream abt u tonight

[prince-rat]

markers pencils pens colors colors colors!

[cowprintsillies]

Everytime I see Will Wood my brain says “ah yes, spiral avatar Gerard Keay”

[sciencefictiongallery]

Gerry Wood

[kryptonbabe]

The absence of the superego psychological structure in JSA bronze age comics, an observation

One thing that makes reading the JSA revival run from 1976 such an interesting experience is just how much of their inner thoughts they are willing to share with each other. The members of this team will express the most intense feelings of despair, anger and every other emotion without thinking twice, it makes for a very intense reading experience. These people are on the edge and they will let you know about their intrusive thoughts, deep feelings and desires, the drama is always through the roof, and I didn't even include Power Girl's exchanges with Superman and Wildcat (I'm saving these for another post)

In Freudian psychology we have:

(...) the id is the impulsive part of your personality that is driven by pleasure and repulsed by pain, the superego is the judgmental and morally correct part of your personality, and the ego is the conscious part of your personality that mediates between the id and the superego and makes decisions.

And I can only think of the challenge the JSA team of this time would present for these definitions, because they seem unburdened by the superego aspect of their mind, just saying what their id demands, particularly when it comes to sharing their feelings. And that is not to say these characters don't have interesting inner lives, it's just that they're very transparent about their feelings and it's absolutely appealing to witness such a dynamic

This particular style of writing reminds me of what Chris Claremont was also doing with the Uncanny X-Men at Marvel (All-Star Comics revival and Claremont's X-Men were published only 6 months apart), which might just be an example of how the writing trends of superhero comic books were changing with the times. The difference is: the X-men heroes were younger and less experienced while the JSA characters are jaded, they share a common history of decades with each other and their foes, this leaves a lot of room for drama and conflict (not to put these books against each other they're just different and I love both). Honestly I'm a melodrama fan, I have an appreciation for this soap opera style of comic book narrative and I'm glad there's so much good material to get into. There's a reason why the JSA characters are still popular to this day

From All-Star Comics (1976 revival), collected in Only legends live forever TPB (2019). Written by: Gerry Conway & Paul Levitz. Art by Keith Giffen & Wally Wood

[gunpowdertimsleftgun]

okay so for tomorrow

[eye-catching-tma-headcanons]

1: Jon is genderqueer and their pronouns are: he/she/they

2: Annabelle runs a small store that sells knitted accessories called "Yarn-Wear"

3: Gerry is agender and his pronouns are he/him

4: Oliver wears white fishnet gloves when he wants to feel fancy

5: Both Jon and Martin know how to sew clothes

1: Jon dabbles in so much gender-fuckery and I aspire to be just like them

2: The mech is 70% spiders web and the softest most durable crap you’ve ever seen and felt

3: Much like Jon, I aspire to be more like Gerry

4: Oliver is so dapper no wonder he invokes such jealousy

5: They become the honorary grandparents of Somewhere Else, no matter their actual ages

[charlies-tma-blog]

this week’s episode. holy shit i am screaming and giggling kicking my feet twirling my hair. it was SO fun. starts with a hilarious dedication. sam is doing more and more paperwork coming out of who knows where, about intrusive questions related to fears and death and blood and existentialism. celia mentions vaguely the institute and a statement (a proper magnus statement!!) about a magnus institute artefact starts playing seemingly on its own with jon’s voice. dnd mentioned. evil dice. statement giver slowly losing their sense of self and enjoying dispensing luck to others in and of itself (fate avatar becoming??). “we both stare at the table and the dice stare back”. i immediately go oh this one was written by jonny wasn’t it. it’s confirmed by the ridiculously gruesome description of gary’s death. [Transcription ends due to interruption. Statement giver declared dead by paramedics at-scene.] cuts to gwen and lena shenanigans. teddy (!!) returns. new info about alice/sam’s background together. layers revealed about alice maybe being jealous of celia?? sam asks alice to go to the magnus ruins with him. “well, we used to be.” [sigh] “when do we leave?”

[cantsayidont]

September/October 1976. The 1970s revival of ALL-STAR COMICS briefly saw Keith Giffen in august company: providing breakdowns to be finished by the legendary Wally Wood. Here, they provide a stirring reintroduction for the Golden Age Clark Kent, now the middle-aged editor of the Metropolis Daily Star, but not yet too old to declare:

[evilhorse]

You’re the fastest man alive, remember? Or is that just a sexist myth?

(All-Star Comics #60)