#Guy Delisle

[semper-legens]

108. Hostage, by Guy Delisle

Owned: No, library Page count: 432 My summary: Christophe André was at work yesterday. Now, he’s sleeping on the floor, chained to a radiator. He doesn’t understand - why has he been kidnapped? What do his captors want? When will he be freed? As the hours turn to days turn to weeks, his situation remains obscure, but there’s one thing he’s sure of. He’s going to get out of here. Whatever it takes. My rating: 4/5 My commentary:

This has been my white whale for a while, but not because I wanted to read it, necessarily. It went missing at my library, and I spent ages looking for it, only to find that it had somehow made its way to the basement without my noticing. So I decided to read it. Out of spite. And also because it looked interesting. The true life story of a man named Christophe André, who was working for Médecins Sans Frontières and was kidnapped in 1997. He was imprisoned for three months in various locations in the Causcaus region, before eventually escaping to freedom. It's an interesting story, and this graphic novel tells it really well, keeping the tension and isolation of a man getting increasingly desperate.

The art in this one is really effective. It's all monochrome blues, with the rooms André was kept in being rendered pretty much as just voids with him squashed against a corner. Time of day is indicated only by the lightness and darkness of the scene, which would have been the only way André could tell if it was night or day. Despite the limited locations and characters, I never felt that the art got samey; it wasn't showing the same few shots over and over again, there was a lot of variation, which I very much appreciated. Seeing André's appearance deteriorate over time was very effective, as his hair and beard grows out and he gets grubbier and grubbier.

But the most effective thing here was the tension. André doesn't know anything about what's going on - the first thing he thinks is that he's being robbed, then he hopes he'll be released soon, but the days go on and on. He speaks no Russian and his captors only have limited English, so there is virtually no communication. For the first month or so, he doesn't even know if there's anyone working on his release. The date of his sister's wedding comes and goes. He keeps himself oriented in time by reciting the date to himself every morning, but he can never be sure that he's completely correct. His resolve starts to crumble the longer he's stuck in captivity, and we see him panic and try and hold himself together as much as he can. It's a really tense sequence of events, the uncertainty and lack of information is hugely effective, even if you as the reader know that André must have survived and gotten out in order to tell this story in the first place. It's a good read!

Next up, back to the sea, for a very famous mutiny.

[panzerdrako]

100 all time greatest comics (2014)

[zahirevliyasi]

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[stairset]

I'm gonna be honest Azula and Darth Maul fall into the same category for me in that they're both among my favorite villains and I keep seeing people insist they should've had redemption arcs because of their sympathetic backstories and that them not being redeemed is bad writing and if you disagree you're a bad person or whatever. And I'm just like okay but the thing is though. Watching them get worse is what makes them fun. Sue me.

[death-rebirth-senshi]

No way

[mfelewzi]

Fancomic drawed by Ruftoon, I don't know if this author is in Tumblr, anyway here's the original link:

https://www.deviantart.com/rufftoon/art/Valentines-49042298

Please supporting original author.

And wait, It's my impression, or this author was an original storyboarder of the show?

I love this playing the shipping-matchmaking game and twisting everything around. And yes, Rufftoon never said Who is match ed with who.

But My theories are:

Aang/Azula (his expression says all)

Katara/Haru (impressed but not so much)

Sokka/Ozai (Sorry but I don't see other reasons to cause a stroke)

Toph/Aang (the Kyoshi Island's guy prove it)

Zuko/Zucest (Sorry for the Prophetess Grey DeLisle and her followers, but I can't see a different reaction by Canon Zuzu)

Iroh/Ty Lee (he's a good man After all, and clearly he will never approve a similar thing)

Ty Lee/Sokka (I remember this True. "CUTIEE!")

Mai/everyone Who isn't Zuko (Well, It's believable)

Azula/Haru (It could explain her embarassed and confused expression as "Who the hell is this guy?")

You know, It's funny that nobody remember Lo and Li (the two old ladies at the bottom, Azula's counsellors), and I understand normal fans (they forget that Ty Lee was attracted to Sokka, and they prefer shipping them with Azula, a respectable choice but pratically prefer two crackships to a real Canon love interest, that It was one-sided but It happened, a thing that I will never understand), but had the same two principal authors forgotten their existence?

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

You're saying that zutara wasn't supported by the writers and shouldn't have been an endgame. That's a lie! and you can verify this, for example, by reading this post. Zutara has a huge support of writers and actors, she was supposed to become a canon! We were just robbed.

https://www.tumblr.com/crienselt/744143410729041920?source=share

I can show you lots of videos of Grey Delisle saying Azula and Zuko are totally fucking (including one she recorded for my birthday), and there's an infamous clip of Bryke proposing Azula and "The Blue Spirit" as a potential ship in a pannel. Somehow I don't think you'll take that as meaning my OTP is canon and was just robbed of it's endgame at the last second - but apparently tumblr posts are solid proof, therefore my argument is perfect and all you Zutara fans are now gonna have to accept that you ship Katara with a guy that canonically (by the standards YOU GUYS are trying to set at least) loves incest even more than Jaime and Cersei Lannister did. And oh, would you look at that! During one of the times Grey mentioned Zucest, Dante said "The Fire Nation are a bit like the Lannisters." See the links if you don't believe me. WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW?

The creators/showrunners, writers, and lead writer have all said a billion times "Kataang was always the heart of the show and by the time the first episode aired we were set on it being endgame. Some people in the crew liked BOTH Kataang and Zutara, but Zutara was NEVER seriously considered as a real possibility for endgame or even temporary romance. The only love triangle ever considered was Aang, Katara and MALE Toph."

It doesn't matter how many interviews yall fake, how many clips you take out of context, how many deleted scenes you claim existed without a shred of proof to back it up, how many times you go "but this actor whose job is ACTING not WRITTING says he likes Zutara" or "This writer that wrote tons of Kataang episodes said the word Zutara once when writting a scene between Zuko and Katara" - your ship is still fanon. That's not a dig at you or saying it's bad, it's just a fucking fact.

Write some fanfic if you like it so much, but don't turn the production of the series itself into your fanfic just so you can lie to yourself about how there was ever any chance of you getting what you wanted in the actual canon.

And for real, you're gonna try to use the LIVE ACTION as proof? The thing the creators disowned? Netflix's over-glorified cosplay session that everyone keeps saying "It's mid at best" is THE argument you go for? Have some goddamn standards, I'm begging you.

[memopmiff]

What are your favorite poison ivy series/movies/comics?

Oh I’ve been waiting for this! Buckle up, this is gonna be a long list!

Comics

Gotham city sirens (classic, bonus because harlivy peaked here)

Batman/Poison ivy: cast shadows

All star batman #7

Batman #41-43 (very cool seeing her control the world, including the justice league!)

Joker’s Asylum- Poison ivy

Detective Comics #823 (ivy’s crimes come back to bite her in the ass, scared of oranges at the end)

Harley & Ivy (the one by Paul Dini, so much cuteness and the dynamics between the two are just perfect)

Secret Origins #36

Poison Ivy: thorns

Injustice (she doesn’t appear much but the few times she does, I love it)

The one where she fights a creepy witch in a cabin to save her plant babies but I forgot the name😭 she has a nice leaf cloak at the beginning, art style is also really good

Poison ivy cycle of life and death (planning to read it to refresh my memory!)

A short story set around the holidays that I also forgot the name of. Ivy tries to be nice by using her powers in a villain’s bar to make them feel good, ends up killing a guy who’s overconfident

Dark knights of steel

Her own ongoing comic series, Poison Ivy, of course!

Bonus: not actual comic but any Ivy content by Stjepan Sejic

Animated

Batman the animated series!!! House and garden episode freaked me out then made me sad

Batman the long halloween part 2 (she’s gorgeous, one of my fav ivy designs)

Gotham girls (if you know this series I love you)

Batman assault on arkham (absolutely devoured her 30 seconds of screen time)

Batman hush

Dc super hero girls (she’s the most adorable thing, look at her!!!)

Live action

Batman and Robin because Uma Thurman will forever be iconic!

Bridget Regan also played Ivy pretty well in Batwoman

Games

Lego batman the video game (2008) MY FAVORITEEEEE — I also just found out Grey DeLisle did her grunts and noises a few months ago. Even better!😭

Batman arkham asylum/city/knight (not counting ssktjl bc even tho kid ivy may be cute it’s just what the fuck)

Injustice 2 (probably obvious at this point but I main Ivy😼)

That’s it! I know there are many more lovable Poison ivy content, though they tend to be strongly focused on Harley Quinn. So in my list, I went for the ones where the center of attention is on Ivy!

If you’re asking for my favorite favorite overall, it’s gotta be Batman the animated series! That Ivy along with Diane Pershing as her voice will always have a special place in my heart.

Thanks for the ask! I tried to include as many of my favorites as I can. How about you guys?? Tell me your favorite Ivy!💚

[burningexeter]

[PITCH]

Where The Magic Happens

What is it —

A 25 episode limited series event that's both a second yet truer Ben 10 reboot and an action-animated series that's a combination of not just action but also sci-fi, horror and magic.

PREMISE:

Set in the fictional Bellwood, California, we follow Gwendolyn "Gwen" Frankenstein, a 10 year old girl who is incredibly intelligent and well read for her age but at the same time she's also a rude, mean, obnoxious, spoiled and stuck-up brat who rarely gets into any trouble due to her manipulation skills. Her summer break has been planned out by herself and herself only and Gwen seems perfectly fine and comfortable being the awful know-it-all who nobody likes. That is until the night that summer vacation starts when Gwen is forced to answer the front door since she's the only one home, she is kidnapped and bagged by three women — her mother's closest friend Sandra Tennyson, her school principal April Munroe who's revealed to be a green skin alien named Xylene and one of her neighbors Camille Mann who's revealed too to be a dark purple skin sludge alien — who proceed to bring her to a deadly, twisted, boisterous, vile and sadistic femme fatale teen witch named Charmcaster that is responsible for the disappearances of several spoiled girls and has her eyes set now on making Gwen her 100th victim to add to her body count.

However, things that have already taken an unexpected turn takes another turn equally unexpected when Charmcaster decides to let Gwen go once she senses that unlike the other girls, she has a magical aura which leads to her giving Gwen her dark purple lipstick as a way to contact and have her come by and visit.

In doing so, this ends up setting off a chain of events that not only brings Gwen into this almost-hidden world of witches, wizards, aliens, creatures and enhanced robots but also has Gwen, Charmcaster, Sandra, Xylene and Camille form together as an unlikely team in order to take down the main threats that affects them all in some way, shape or form with each of them changing for the better in too their very own ways.

NOTES/TRIVIA/DETAILS:

• While the limited series will be done in the same animation style and overall aesthetic as the original Ben 10 series, it won't be the only thing that the show will share with the OG. The series will have the same dark and intense edge in this case to show the high stakes and danger that the characters are in especially Gwen who is devoured whole by Charmcaster who blows her out of her stomach later, has her nose fall off, is split in half, her eye squeezed so hard her pupil pops out of it and is kissed by Charmcaster on the cheek only for her lips to stick to it.

• Meagan Smith, Kari Wahlgren, Tara Strong and Grey DeLisle will all reprise their roles as Gwen, Charmcaster, Sandra, Xylene and Camille but will be given new and interesting material to work with and be given new and fresh takes on their previous characters.

• A perfect example of the type of dark storytelling that the limited series will have is that in a middle episode, Charmcaster finds that she accidentally traveled into the future and she's arrested by a police force with ways to block and subdue magic. Here, she discovers that not only is she the captain of this police force but that also she's a good guy and married to Gwen. We delve into what this does to Charmcaster and her having to come to grips with who she'll be.

• All five of the protagonists will each have their own distinctive arcs where they both learn, face and see the consequences of their actions and how it affects others, especially Gwen whose main arc is turning into a better, kinder and more caring person.

• The influences for the limited series are the following: Return To Oz, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), The Incredibles, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Beware The Batman, in terms of the tone, dark edge and most of all style.

[hello-nichya-here]

Got a question for you.

When making NSFW fanart, why are some characters considered "loli characters" while others aren't, despite being in a similar age group?

Example: Toph Bei Fong is routinely seen as a loli character. There are a select few works that go out of their way to specifically depict her as an adult, but anything that tries to stay on model with the show is usually labeled as loli art. Some people are even hesitant to draw NSFW of her because of this.

Meanwhile, Azula is rarely ever viewed as a loli character, despite being only, like, two years older than Toph. Even if the art is on model, most people tend to see her as safe to make NSFW fanart for (other than terminally online antis, but they don't count).

Raven from Teen Titans is another character who has pretty much never been considered a loli character despite being obviously underage (as evidenced from the title of her show). I don't even think the early Zone animations were tagged as "loli" except maybe the Slade one.

What is the difference between a character like Toph and a character like Azula or Raven that causes this almost subconscious distinction in people's brains?

From what I've seen, especially in american fandoms, it's because of one (or more) of options bellow:

1 - Toph is shorter and short equals child. It's literally why you got people calling Rebecca from Edgerunners a loli, when she's clearly an adult.

2 - Toph is canonically the younger, and you can tell just by looking at her, therefore she's the undeniably "off limits" one by that weird double-standard of "Sexualizing underage characters it's fine, it's just fiction - except when I'm not into it, then it's creepy/pedophilia"

3 - Americans are weird about age, especially about at what point exactly someone stops being considered a child and becomes a teen - hence some zutarians pretending the age gap of their ship is not exactly the same as Kataangs just because both Zuko and Katara have "teen" in their age, but Aang doesn't, therefore he's a toddler while Katara and Zuko are adults since they MUST be more mature due to their age. What is splitting hairs for any reasonable person is VERY strong, clear distinction to them. Toph's age doesn't end in "teen", therefore she's off limits.

4 - Toph is disabled and therefore must be infantilized "for her own good". Ironic considering that was how her parents treated her and it pushed her to running away.

5 - Grey Delisle, Azula's voice actress and inspiration for her design, CONSTANTLY makes super nsfw jokes about her characters (including Azula fucking Zuko), and has been very open about having worked as narrator for porn promos, a stripper, and even a failed dominatrix that cried after making a guy bleed a little. She shared the story about the time her and a friend were paid by a rando to pee in a cup and pour it over him. Pretty much anyone that knows anything about Grey will take one look at Azula and go "Fair game"

6 - The fandom tends to misrepresent the characters. Katara gets reduced to just "mom friend", taking the adultification she goes through in the show at face vallue and not as something that is meant to be deconstructed, even though it happens on screen. Same about Azula being seen as this manipulative, immoral WOMAN (because a lot of people legit don't know she's younger than Zuko) that surely MUST be a natural seductress, even if she canonically cannot flirt to save her life. Or Ty Lee sleeping around with any guy for attention, when we literally see that she freaks out and runs when guys pursue her too aggressively, or are rude, or want to fight over her, or expect literally anything beyond just casual flirting, not sex. "Mother", "femme fatale" and "slut" are adult roles, "bratty, stubborn, loud and aggressive" (which is not all there is to Toph) are largely seen as signs of immaturity, particularly in girls (especially tomboy-ish ones). There's the assumption that they'll "grow out of it", so if they still act the same, that's immaturity, not just her personality.

7 - The show itself gave us lots of Azula and Ty Lee fanservice, and some for Katara as well. Both Mai was heavily implied to have had sex with Zuko, and the show didn't even try to be subtle about the fact that Suki and Sokka got it on. Toph didn't really get the same treatment, so a lot of the fandom just has that instinctive "It's okay to sexualize THESE characters, but not that one" response.

As for Raven, while a lot of us were introduced to character by the 2003 show, there are many incarnations of her in literal decades of comics in which she's clearly drawn as an adult despite being a "teen" - and to tie in with point 6, in the show, she was the character constantly judging the others when they were acting immature or even just having fun at an inconvenient time, so she looks like one of the more "mature" people in the team, when she's just grumpy and literally can't get too invested in anything otherwise the world might fucking end. And much like Grey, the voice actress, Tara Strong, LOVES making dirty jokes about her characters.

[wanderingmind867]

I was bored, so I just decided to look up the actors who've played The Penguin, Catwoman and The Riddler. Using Wikipedia and YouTube as my metrics, I've decided I might as well make a post sharing my top five or six actors for each character. I'm excluding the joker for now, mostly because i know he's probably had way more actors than all the others.

My top four Penguin actors are Burgess Meredith, Danny DeVito, Paul Williams and Tom Kenny. All four of them are amazing actors, and they all pulled the role off amazingly. I remember all of them for their roles (and i know most of them for their other work too, which is usually always pretty good). If I had to add a fifth actor to this list, I might add the actor who did it for the Gotham tv show. I don't know much about him (since I never watched Gotham), but he seems like a decent actor (from the rare clips i saw).

My favourite Catwoman actors...well, there's probably six of them. She's had so many actors play her, it's nearly insane. But I narrowed it down to six. All three of the ones from the 60s show (Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether and Eartha Kitt), the actress who did it for the Brave and The Bold (Nika Futterman), and the two who did it for the arkham games and the telltale series (Grey Delisle and Laura Bailey, respectively). That's my top six, and i'm pretty sure all three of the sixties actresses lead the charts.

Finally, The Riddler actors. My top two are easy: Frank Gorshin and Wally Wingert. Frank Gorshin leads the charts, because who can beat that man in mania and entertainment? Nobody! He was a genius. Wally Wingert is pretty good for voice acting, though. I also enjoyed when Robert Englund did it, though (despite hating horror movies, i liked a lot of robert englund's work on animated shows in the 2000s). John Astin filled in for Frank Gorshin once, and I like him enough as Gomez Addams to give him a pass. John Michael Higgins apparently did it for the Brave and The Bold, and I'm predisposed to like him because I love him in all of his other comedy films and shows. And finally, i liked the guy who did it for the Telltale games (Robin Atkin Downes, I think wikipedia said?). But yeah, that's probably my top six. Frank Gorshin, Wally Wingert, Robert Englund, John Astin, John Michael Higgins and Robin Atkin Downes.

This post took nearly an hour to make. I wrote so much (and so slowly) that you can almost argue i wasted time on all of it. But I suppose it did kill time, which is all i was aiming to do when i came to make this post. So i guess in that respect, this was a success.

[kustas]

i'm going to be honest i am not versed in politics at all. i don't have the knowledge to back up why with solid arguments, but this article is pissing me off. this is gonna be my attempt to articulate it not via geopolitics but via my (also limited) knowledge on animation. discussion is welcome.

for context, here's a link to it, TLDR a hacker discovered animation files for US animated shows coming from NK internet.

outsourcing has been a thing in animation for a long time - the article says it right there: "unreasonably low-cost labor" is why. it's not a secret, studios can outright boast about the money they're saving by doing this in professional circles like festivals, and anyone who has contacts in countries notably in south asia knows about it if not knows people who have worked on outsourcing themselves. animation takes a lot of work and that's why the ending credits to animated films are so long. have you also noticed how international they are? that's outsourcing baby. if outsourcing is good or bad is another debate but here it's the way they talk about it in NK that pisses me off.

regime this and regime that, this article several times mentions animation, comic books and always ties it to propaganda. i know little about korean culture but if they've been "proeminent since the country's founding" i would assume it's not because big evil government wants the little cartoons to brainwash, but because they already liked cartoons there.

animation outsourcing to NK in france predates the digital era. there is a rather famous comic here called "pyongyang" by canadian artist guy delisle who details his everyday life as an animation supervisor in the capital. it mentions by name at least two productions, one of which i've actually seen. it's strange for me to see this article acting like it's an offense until they dropped the big one - apparently, the US forbids contracts with NK, woopsie!

so we have the US, a country with immense international soft power and the world's biggest movie industry, notable for their own comics and cartoons, who's taking a stance against outsourcing not because of the nature of the practice but because it's done in NK, a country who's only interests in animation would be for propaganda reasons apparently, nevermind outsourcing working due to exchange rates and how poor compared to the outsourcers the workers from these countries are

ironically the first example they state is a superhero show, a genre born in USA and famously apolitical. what the fuck man

[fountainpenguin]

Riddle watches New Wish - Post #6

Department of Magical Violations, here we go!

"With a pair quite strange!" Got it, got it.

Ooh, this title card implies Jorgen~!

SLKDJF, did Wanda become a seahorse immediately after they were complaining they spent so long as fish last episode?

Whoa, we're already 100 wishes forward in the future? That leaves a lot of wiggle room. Show me the moon phase; you know you want to...

Yep, she likes the fish guy from the theme. His name is Kennueth.

That cat photo is driving me up the wall. Is it Mittens, who hangs around Dinkleberg? I really feel like I've seen this cat...

Oh, Jorgen's gotten older! As he should have, I suppose, though you wouldn't think this would have been such a significant time jump for him. I'm not sure I love it.

sdfklj, I'm glad we're sticking with "Jorgen is in charge of godparents." Like... that man has no legal rights to Fairy World. He's over godparents and that has always kinda been his thing.

His braces are too big...

I'm glad SOMEONE here is yelling at them for not filing godparent paperwork. You sniped someone else's godkid assignment, you dummies!!

Wish Inspection! It's back! THE DMV! It's also back?? ... With fewer flying cars this time, but... wow. Didn't expect that one.

"Tedious structure and drab settings is my happy place" - Hazel, I know a race of magical beings you would love to hang out with.

I'm glad "I wish he had a trampoline instead" [of a parachute] turned out exactly the way I envisioned.

Jorgen has not changed at all, and he still loves dancing with bright lights around. I support him. I feel like they've not emphasized his sliced-off wings to new viewers, though.

Cookie: I know what you want. Hazel, who did not want a car:

I see where this is going.

Cosmo's cute pocket <3

Teacher's Pal

Nottttt sure it was a great idea to make one character's whole personality saying "Football," but let's see where it's going.

Aw, I like that Hazel's school has squirrels as a mascot since Timmy had the Squirrely Scouts.

... huh? was that Timmy?

Cosmo: Does she not know how a door works?

Tough talk for Fairies who like poofing doors away.

She likes mushrooms and anime... What a combo.

Having Dimmy as a nickname for the Dimmadomes is really gonna throw me off (Sounds like "Timmy").

Oof, did she wish for all the teachers to like her? And does that make the lady who doesn't like her... the principal? (Yes)

Wow, we are on a streak of brown and orange eyes. Who knew they were all hiding in Dimmadelphia?

... Is that Grey DeLisle / Grey Griffin voicing the principal? (It is!)

His shades are too big...

This is an attack against me specifically.

OKAY I thought I was going crazy during the quick glances earlier, but YES, that IS Timmy as the mascot! Oh, RIP...

He haunts history even when he's gone, as he should.

Bigfoot Club sounds like something Hazel's dad would want her to sign up for.

Okay, so it's end of 5th grade, so she's 10-turning-11?

OH, Wanda just called Hazel "squirt..." It's so similar to "sport." That's cute.

???

Where is Dev? Where is he?

Forget Dev- What is up with this kid?

Dev is running around somewhere, unsupervised. He just dipped out halfway through the episode. There were no teachers to make him stay and he's rich. I expect no less.

A little less upbeat and dramatic than the debut episode, but that's not a surprise. I'd say it fits the theme of the old show really well. I look forward to more, though I do think Jorgen's appearance wasn't pushed as far as it could've been. On the other hand, it's perfectly in character that he doesn't want to spook Hazel as much as he wants to spook Cosmo and Wanda.

Got through a bit faster than expected, so maybe a little more watching.

[seantaeanewgenie]

Shantae: A New Genie Fancast

These are the voices I imagined for the characters in my Shantae fanfic. This includes characters created for the fanfic (like Esmeralda).

Shantae - Cristina Vee (Original Voice)

Mia (NPC) - Tara Strong (Bubbles; The Powerpuff Girls)

The Mayor (Scuttlebutt) - Dan Russell (Richard Waterson; The Amazing World of Gumball)

Mimic - J. K. Simmons (Tenzin; The Legend of Korra)

Risky Boots - Cristina Vee (Original Voice)

Jack / The Pirate Master - Steve Blum (Vilgax; Ben 10 Original Series)

Bolo - Jack DeSana (Sokka; Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Harmony - Kiana Madeira (Kara Zor-El / Supergirl; My Adventures with Superman)

Aaron (Harmony's father) - Mathew Mercer (Jotaro Kujo; JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Emma (Chef Girl) - Eden Sher (Star Butterfly; Star vs. the Forces of Evil)

Serena (Harmony's mother) - Grey Delisle (Rebecca Holiday; Generator Rex)

Ana (Shantae's Mother) - Janet Varney (Korra; The Legend of Korra)

Karnov (Shantae's Father) - Fred Tatasciore (Buff Frog; Star vs the Forces of Evil)

Holly Lingerbean - Kari Wahlgren (Charmcaster; Ben 10: Alien Force)

Sky - Ashley Johnson (Gwen Tennyson; Ben 10: Alien Force)

Rottytops - Brittany Lauda (Foo Fighters; JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Iris / Empress Siren - Nancy Linari (Aunt May; Marvel's Spider-Man (2018))

Vera - Laura Stahl (Bea; Pokémon: Twilight Wings)

Agnes / Angler Fish Siren - Tara Strong (Truffles; Chowder)

Molly / Coral Siren - Shelby Rabara (Peridot; Steven Universe)

Nora / Lobster Siren - Kira Buckland (Kyoko; River City Girls)

Aja (Vera's mother) - Tiana Camacho (Ermes Costello; JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Squid Baron - Tom Kenny (Ice King; Adventure Time)

Young Jack - Steve Blum (Spike Spiegal; Cowboy Bebop)

Cherami - Wendie Malick (Eda; The Owl House)

Ignatius / Techno Baron - Tom Kenny (Doctor Octopus; Ultimate Spider-Man)

Genie Queen Esmeralda - Patti LuPone (Yellow Diamond; Steven Universe)

Cristina Vee is too iconic as Shantae and Risky, so I kept her in the role. With Vera, it's pretty funny because it's actually the same actress as before, but I just preferred her Bea voice from Pokemon: Twilight Wings.

I had wanted to go for a creepy feel for Techno Baron, so that's why he's got Ultimate Doc Ock's voice. With the Pirate Master, I wanted to pick an actor who could do a normal guy's voice (before he became the Pirate Master) and an almost demonic sounding voice. So that's why I picked Steve Blum for both versions of him.

[ethancrossmedia]

From 2 days ago, my first photo together with Grey DeLisle and an autograph from Roger Craig Smith, the current voice of Sonic the Hedgehog since 2010. My special thanks to you guys spending time seeing them for my first time in person.

@greydelislegriffin

[optimistpax]

For comic recs:

Senator Shockwave (IDW1)

Senator Shockwave

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle

A comic about a Canadian Cartoonist’s experience working in North Korea and his observations about the culture and politics.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The OG character with a science-induced evil alter ego