#Nunzio DeFilippis

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DRAGON AGE: WRAITHS OF TEVINTER

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I might piss off the Academy X crowd with this one, but what exactly did they see in the character of Surge? I just don’t see the character’s appeal, especially considering how blatantly racist & Islamophobic she was towards her fellow teammate/roommate Dust in the series’ opening arc…

Also, can I just say that even without having read this series myself, I’ve personally always HATED the official title of the book, “New X-Men,” and instead just refer to it as “Academy X” since I personally associate New X-Men with Grant Morrison’s classic run. Seriously, Marvel needs to buy a FREAKING thesaurus for the titles of their books!

From New X-Men: Academy X (2004) #2 by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir & Randy Green.

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JSA 80-Page Giant 2010: Whispers

by Christina Weir; Nunzio DeFilippis;Jesse Delperdang;Jesus Merino; Alex Bleyaert and Steve Wands

DC

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New X-Men: Academy X Yearbook #1 (2005)

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New Mutants #1 & 2 (2003) by Marvel Comics

Written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, drawn by Keron Grant, cover by Josh Middleton.

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Am I a dork…yes…yes I am…lol

Because I am DYING to know…

What is Hellion’s star sign? (I’m guessing Aries ♈️…?)

We never put his birthday down in our notes. But we often picked birthdays for characters for one of two reasons - one, to link them up with real world birthdays of people we thought of when writing them; two, to link them with personality traits and that usually led to star signs.

So while we have no notes on the subject, we think you're right, and he's probably an Aries.

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today I've been reminded of detective comics annual 8, which is my favorite of ed's comic appearances, so I thought I'd ask you what's your favorite riddle guy comic and why?

god DC annual #8 makes me INSANE that's like. pure distilled Riddler sauce right there. absolute platonic ideal of the Riddler. he is perfect to me. somebody surgically wire that into Tom King's brain before they ever let him write the Riddler again I swear to god.

I'm still working on my New Earth read through so I'm finding new faves all the time, but as of this exact minute some faves:

I fucking hate to hand it to Chuck Dixon but Detective Comics #705-707 (Dixon, Graham Nolan, and David Roach, 1997) is so so good. like he's literally just trying to do a stupid baseball heist and blow up Cluemaster while he's at it. THAT is a Riddler story, babey. Echo and Query are even there!!!

Impulse #48 (Bill Messner-Loebs and Craig Rousseau, 1999) is just a spectacular one off Riddler appearance, namely because you get the strong impression that if left alone with Bart for like. two hours. Eddie would probably willingly kill himself. very fun watching his schtick absolutely crumble in the face of a speedster.

Batman Adventures Vol. 2 (worked on by like half a dozen different writers, 2003). honestly the BTAS version of the Riddler was never anything spectacular to me - he's fun, not a standout - but goddd he rules so hard in the sequel comics. he's (once again) retired and made legitimate money, so now he's so desperately bored he's harassing Batman with stupid non-crimes until Batman snaps and just starts using him as a private detective so he'll have something to do. mwah.

Batman Confidential #26-28 (Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, Kevin Nowlan, and José Luis García-López, 2009), which is collected as Batman: King Tut's Tomb. another banger story, it has everything I like. namely, the Riddler being so annoying that Batman lets him work a case with him and bitchy buddy comedy shenanigans ensue. and King Tut is there!

Dinner for Two (Ram V and Phil Hester) in Strange Love Adventures (2022) #1 is so... like they just went for it. they said fuck it the Riddler bisexual and spending his Valentine's Day making Batman hang out with him to complain about how he's lonely. make of that whatever you want.

Catwoman: Lonely City (Cliff Chiang, 2022). an older, widowed Riddleguy who's kicked his riddle habit (in addition to, apparently, a pretty brutal coke problem) and is settled in to running slightly more normal grifts with his adorable daughter Edelia. look at them. I have to show you this because I just like Chiang's art so so much, look at themmm

also obligatory shoutout to the Riddler appearance of all time, whichever issue of Bruce Wayne: Murderer?/Fugitive is the one where he's crashing at Stephanie Brown's house being a fucking menace and Black Canary kicks him out on his ass in five seconds flat while he's wearing a fluffy yellow bathrobe. and also kicks Cluemaster out of his own house for good measure.

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DA Review Series: Blue Wraith

<<< Previous Review: Deception

I've been away for a hot minute while my spouse and I survived the flu. But, I've been reading some and watching Absolution on repeat, so I should have a few reviews out in rapid succession.

(Please do keep in mind I wrote some of these reviews whilst ill, so I apologize for any strangeness/errors lolol)

Title: Blue Wraith Author/Illustrator: Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir/ Fernando Heinz Furukawa Year Published: 2020 In-World Year: ~9:40-9:44 Dragon Verdict: While the narrative format isn't my favorite in this one (lots of jumping between groups AND time), there is A LOT that matters to the state of Thedas here. Plus, I mean... It's Fenris!

Blue Wraith picks up right after Deception, with all of our comic book friends finally together. Marius and Tessa have reconnected with Ser Aaron and Vaea, and they now have Calix Pryde, Francesca Invidus, and the Mabari, Autumn, in tow. (We also see flashes of what Fenris has been up to in the past few years, roaming Tevinter to kill blood mages/Venatori.)

This blissful union doesn't last long however. In the group's hunt for yet another insidious magical artifact, Francesca learns that her father may be in great danger from an infamous assassin — The Blue Wraith. So, Autumn and Vaea set off with her to see if they can rescue her father and just maybe recruit the assassin to their side.

Meanwhile, Ser Aaron tries to cheer up Calix, to no avail. The boy is increasingly aware that he's not built for the thrill of battle, as he freezes during a conflict with the Qunari. But, they survive the battle and find the caravan they were chasing. And there's a familiar foe traveling with it — the Orlesian Marquette that Vaea bested in Knight Errant.

Francesca and Vaea meet with Fenris, aka the Blue Wraith, on the road and things aren't quite friendly. Vaea has to lean on her association with Varric to get Fenris to team up with them, on the condition that he can't kill Francesca's father. Which... Doesn't go well.

Turns out her dad is a member of the Venatori and staunchly believes she is an embarrassment. That she should have died in Ventus, instead of her brother. And while Fenris upholds his end of the bargain, Magister Invidus cannot be made to see reason. Francesca ends up killing him to protect her friends, but not before he mentions the "sarcophagus".

This leads our two teams back together, because the Orlesian thief and the artifact our friends have been hunting is the restored sarcophagus that burned lyrium into Fenris's skin. We're shown that only elves can survive the sarcophagus's torture, and its head has a now very familiar crescent shape...

(This is the part where I wildly theorize that the sarcophagus was made by Ghilan'nain as one of her experiments.)

The artifact escapes, heading for Tenebris. Calix leaves the group, but offers to be a source of information in the future. He just can't handle the violence, which is fair. And then our remaining heroes set off to chase down this artifact and the Venatori.

While I'm always happy to spend time in Thedas (and see Fenris!) this volume of the comic series did suffer from trying to weave a few too many threads in too little space. The pacing felt off, and the jumps in time and focus were often jarring. Still, if you're reading the comics and prepping for Veilguard, this one's probably important.

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So here are some thoughts and ramblings on The Missing volume 1! But be warned, it got very, very friggin long, because I'm nuts and also a sleep deprived German, so please don't look too closely for grammar mistakes under the cut, thank you. 🙂💀

 - First of all, I think so far, the art style and character writing overall has been mostly fine. At first, I was a bit sad to hear that Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir (who did Blue Wraith) wouldn't be involved again, but I think, especially in this volume, the new art style with the heavy shadows really captures that ominous, eerie atmosphere of the Deep Roads, the pacing flows rather neatly and Varric and Harding don't feel out of character at all! Yes there are some minor, odd design choices with the characters' proportions, some stuff is downright copy and pasted in multiple panels? lol, Charter looks.. different and deepstalkers are apparently now velociraptor sized. lol But nothing to get riled up about imo. Overall, I enjoyed it and I’m excited for more!

- Our man is getting a little grey around the edges. 👀 Throughout the volume I was actually actively looking for clues that could indicate when this story takes place. If fan speculations are true and DA4 is set some eight years after Trespasser (and this comic takes place right before the start of DA4), Varric would be around 50 now. I think you can also tell from his attitude that he's really getting tired of all the turmoil. lol I don't think there is a character with more appearances throughout the games, comics and books than Varric at this point. The man has been through so much.

It's kinda funny to me though how we're all like "Varric's getting so old and tired of all this, he needs a break!".. when, I mean, imagine what *8000 year old* Solas must flippin feel like. 😂 (I'm not saying this is a topic that I feel like isn't talked about enough, when there's SO much in Solas' dialogue and the way BioWare keeps emphasizing it in all kinds of ways, just HOW tired Solas actually is, but I digress. lol) Love me a story about tired old men chasing other tired old men.

But looking at the rest of this group in comparison, Varric really IS like that grandpa being out with the youngsters here. lol As for Harding, loving the new hairstyle! <3

- Evka and Antoine! <33 (Are they married yet?) What a great surprise, especially since these two were actually one of my favorites out of all the newly introduced characters in Tevinter Nights! So this comic marks their fourth appearance now, throughout books and DA Day short stories. Would love to see them show up in DA4 as well! Though I am curious, since the last we read about them, they were fighting off Darkspawn in an unknown place (while getting engaged lol), and in Tevinter Nights, they were heading towards Weisshaupt. In Inquisition, it seemed as though there was something suspicious going on over there, with the way it went radio silent on anyone outside the place and how no one was able to get a hold of the Wardens, so... did Antoine and Evka ever actually made it to Weisshaupt? Do they know what's going on over there? Or does all this take place before the story in TN?

- So I take it, Evka and Antoine were ordered to go there and investigate abductions and the disappearance of other Wardens after rumors of a "tall, dark figure emerging from the Deep Roads to drag the unwary to their doom". With the way this volume ended, it appears like the mystery about the abductions has already been solved now.. though wouldn't it be kinda odd to have the title be "The Missing", only for this mystery to be solved within the first volume? So I would think there is still more to it than just ogres and deepstalkers..?

The fact this all happened after "sewer excavations accidentally broke through the underhold" instantly rang a few bells in my head, reminding me of the chapter "Luck in the Gardens" in Tevinter Nights that was about an octopus-esque monster that lived in the sewers of Minrathous and killed countless people. It also reminds me of another chapter in TN about the Venatori trying to awaken a... thing lurking beneath Minrathous that was said to be "neither demon or spirit". Given the confirmed Venatori involvement at the end, could they be abducting people for some dirty rituals/red lyrium experiments?

Then there's *this* look.

So Varric and Harding exchange *a look*, suggesting that they do know more about those "rumors" than they let on. The two are actually on their own mission searching for Solas. While sadly the only reason we're given for why they're even going down there is just Harding saying she "got a lead", it raises the question if they were suspecting Solas to have something to do with those abductions? You know, while reading I had to chuckle at the prospect of Solas in Dread Wolf form dragging Grey Wardens into his “lair” just because, you know, he's bored and hates the Grey Wardens. lmao (Like, that has actually been his new hobby for the past ten years now to kidnap every Grey Warden in Thedas and gather them all in one place to lecture them about why they're so wrong about everything they're doing. lmaoo)

I'm sorry, but the way they're calling this place his "refuge" where "he could be hiding", did actually make me laugh out loud. I mean, who in their right mind would be crazy enough to actually use the Deep Roads as a "refuge" (if it ain't your last resort or something). lol Yes Varric, Solas has quite literally "come down in the world", it seems. Set up a cozy new home in the Deep Roads like it's just another free real estate (we'll get to *that room* in a second).

"Exactly Solas's style" lmao Yeah, I guess if you're able to petrify people and monsters of all kind with nothing but a mere thought now, you could actually find a nice quiet spot to even do some safe napping down there as well. 🥴

- Okay. Now let's talk about THIS part.

"Bold of you to assume I had a plan."

This made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe.

So, if you didn't see my comment talking about the published synopsis a few weeks back, let me tell you that I spent a considerable amount of time thinking about what could possibly be Varric and Harding's brilliant plan here, just in case they would actually manage to find Solas. So....

How bold of ME to assume you had a plan VARRIC aflfjgllhgjh

No! Who needs a plan?? After eight years of searching unsuccessfully for our guy that could literally end the world as we know it any second now, we're just going to straight up walk down the Deep Roads without any kind of plan or back-up whatsoever. And Harding just came along without ever questioning once what the hell they were even going to do in case they found Solas up until this point. I'm. in. tears.

I even ended up joking in my initial comment about how Varric might as well just tie him up and try talking him out of his endeavors. Joke's on me then. lol

Though, even without a plan, the way Varric is expressing so much confidence when saying "We stop him, what else?" has me wondering, what Varric even means by that. If he is implying to actually kill him, then why would he be so confident about it, when he knows exactly what Solas is now capable of?

Actually, the way in which Varric and Harding seem to conflict over how to approach Solas, Varric wanting to "stop him" while Harding suggests "talking to him", is apparently going to be a recurring theme throughout the story, if we're looking at this newly published synopsis covering the whole series:

Which could actually segue directly into DA4, seeing as this seems to somewhat mirror the final choice in Trespasser on whether to "stop him at all cost" or "to save him from himself". So maybe they're going for something like the different war table options in Inquisition for DA4, like depending on which "advisor" you choose, it will determine how you deal with Solas?

"It's too dangerous. For everyone. It's up to us, and *only* us, to find Solas."

I feel like this quote may be coming directly from the Inquisitor (note that it does say "find", so this could be said by any Inquisitor, regardless of their relationship). So they don't want to get anyone outside the Inquisition involved (which could become a problem when trying to, quote, “find people Solas doesn’t know”), but also begs the question, how much does the rest of the world even know about Solas at this point in time? So far, the only people who we know are actively trying to stop him are the Inquisition, anyone who didn't show up to that meeting at the end of Tevinter Nights (the Tevinter Siccari and the Ben-Hassrath) as well as the Executors and Rasaan and the Qunari.

- Flashback time with Charter in Kirkwall! Didn't expect HER to show up again.. let alone to see Kirkwall.. again (after Absolution, that is)! lol

So this line right here confirms, to me at least, that Charter in this scene basically serves as a stand-in for the Inquisitor, since obviously they couldn't make the Inquisitor show up personally in this comic.

Also, if this whole conversation takes place after Tevinter Nights and Charter's meeting with "the Bard", am I the only one who thinks it's hilarious how Charter doesn't even consider to be part of this search team as well, when she's like the only person who actually managed to talk to Solas personally after Trespasser?? 😂 Charter was like "Bruh, I just barely made it out of an encounter with the guy alive, here's all the info I got, my job here is DONE", then she drank up her ale and sneaked the hell out of there. lmao "Tag! Your problem now, Mr Tethras, BYE!"

So Charter tells Varric to build a team and, again, I'm a bit baffled that this conversation that could literally determine the fate of the world, takes place over a drink in a public tavern nearly a decade (presumably) after the Inquisitor had already announced that they would need to form a team of people that Solas doesn't know. And then they keep talking about Harding as if she hadn't been present in that last scene in Trespasser as well. lol

I mean.. What have they been doing for the past eight years? 😂 What did the Inquisitor, Leliana, Cassandra and Harding talk about when they all stood around that table in the last scene in Trespasser? Did they all just decide on "Leave it to Varric" and left the room to get lunch after the Inquisitor said "We need to find people Solas doesn't know"? 😂 I just have a hard time to believe that, what should be considered the Inquisition's highest priority, to figure out a plan on how to go against Solas, hasn't been thoroughly discussed at this point...

- You know, isn’t it interesting how Varric keeps saying that Harding’s hesitation is gonna get her killed, yet he himself never straight up says that he’s going to kill Solas either, if it was unavoidable?

- Also, interesting choice of words here, Varric. "Broke the world" does kinda imply that undoing his actions would then somewhat "fix it" again, no? 👀 Just saying..

- So.. confirmation for an inevitably batrayal then? Lovely. Not like we were already on the lookout for any potential spy/traitor in the next companion line up for DA4 anyway. lol

- So after this and some neat monster action, we're getting another flashback and another pretty shot of Kirkwall. Varric has apparently done a fantastic job as Viscount at rebuilding the place... In fact, it looks SO good that I didn't even recognize our favorite shithole at first. lol

Speaking of Kirkwall, anyone else wondering when this story takes place in regards to the end of Absolution? Is "Merry the Mad” already secretly chilling down in the basement as an angry glowing mass of red lyrium at this point? Or did she take over right after Varric left? lol

- I love how Varric is like "But you've got so much to lose" to Harding, when he himself is talking as the flippin Viscount of Kirkwall, having an entire city to take care of. lol If there's "no guarantee to come back", surely Varric understands that he still has a lot of responsibility here.. (Also, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take that long for Solas to find out about the Viscount of Kirkwall having left the city?)

"Solas has made it clear he doesn't want us interfering."

Well, I don't know which Trespasser ending you got, Varric, but in MY ending, Solas all but seemed to *beg* for us to find a way to prove him wrong. lol

- So Harding "found a lead", and it's still the most frustrating thing in this volume to me (besides Harding missing her freckles of course :P) that they don't go into a little more detail about this...

I also couldn't even read any further beyond "He's been working out" on my first read, because I was laughing too hard at the images playing in my head of a Rocky Balboa training montage of Solas getting ripped in the Deep Roads aflldkefkj (Does anyone remember “Swolas”?). The man is obviously preparing himself for his one on one boxing match against Elgar'nan once the Veil is gone.

- Oh look, it's the same picture.

- So they actually manage to find "Solas' hideout" at 37564th Deep Road and whoever gave Harding that “lead” must’ve done an amazing job at describing how to get there.

- Alright. So, the ROOM.

Before we're getting into this, let me just point out that, despite Varric's dialogue, there's actually no real evidence here that proves Solas was ever at this place, right? I mean, if Solas truly didn’t want to be found, wouldn't a place like the Crossroads, where he alone has control over the mirrors and access to all kinds of secret locations, make much more sense then? So.. I’m not quite so sure about all this.

It's interesting though how both Varric and Harding note that they didn't expect him to be "so close to the Darkspawn", because it reminds me of banter between him and Varric, that revealed how Solas seemed genuinely confused about the matter of "endless Darkspawn". So, if he really stayed there in the Deep Roads, maybe it was the best place to study the Darkspawn and learn more about their origin, the Blight, etc.

......That being said, let's just assume that he actually was here, because that’s just so much more fun to think about. lmao

- So much for free real estate then. I expected Solas to be a minimalist in regards to interior design, but wow. There's more on the walls than there is on the floor. 😂 (Also, I could've sworn I've seen this flippin candelabra somewhere around Skyhold before.. The man didn't just take our armor (and hearts) when he left, apparently he also took our furniture.

- I know this joke has already been made, but looking at those walls, Solas has apparently now turned into this meme.

It's so strange to me though, how they don't even seem to look more into these papers on the walls, when those probably contain highly valuable information?? Or am I missing something here? All we seem to get in response to the walls is *this* line?

Well DUH, Captain Obvious, I wouldn't have guessed. 😂 You're pointing this out, yet you take the invitation letter immediately at face value and don't even question if there could be more to it or if it could've been placed there on purpose? lol

Don't break my heart like this, Varric…

- So Sherlock and Watson conclude that Solas must've been here until very recently before leaving in a hurry. In fact, he must've been in such a hurry that he didn't even have enough time to make his bed. lol (And this is just the most random little headcanon of mine, but looking at how he apparently took everything but this single letter with him, he must've something to stow his stuff in when he left, right? So I just want to believe that he still carries that flippin backpack from the beginning of DAI? lmao)

- And finally, the LETTER.

So.... are we all on the same page here that this has to be a red herring left there on purpose? 😂

I mean, WOW, you're telling me Solas.. just conveniently forgot about this single invitation, that, even more conveniently, just so happens to lead them to their next location now..? Riiiight.

The fact that Varric and Harding don't even seem to consider this though is quite worrying? lol The thing is, even if they acknowledged that the letter could be a potential trap, it would still be the only substantial lead they have right now. So either way, they would have to look into it.

I mean, if this doesn’t actually turn out to be a red herring.. Whatever, it's only a comic and we have to set up the plot *somehow* I guess, but oof, that would definitely put my suspension of disbelief to the test. lol

Anyway, about this invitation... I have a few questions.

- Was it actually addressed to Solas or did he intercept it? How did he get this invitation in the first place?

- If he did intercept it and it was meant for someone else, why is he interested in meeting this Lady Chrysanthemum (I know that's not her name, but I always think about the flower when I read it lol)?

- If it *was* actually addressed to him, what does this Lady Chrysanthus want from him? Does she actually know who he really is?

- Could it be a red herring by someone else entirely, who is trying to lead Varric and Harding on the wrong track? Maybe the Venatori we see at the end?

- Why the urgency?

- Anyway, Venatori apparently kill their targets with an X pattern now? Was that.. a thing? I can’t recall, but it makes me wonder if they wanted Varric and Harding to discover it? But why?

- So the Venatori are obviously scheming something here and I'm wondering if they're now stalking on Varric and Harding to get closer to Solas? And if Solas left this letter there on purpose, does he know about the Venatori AND Varric/Harding going after him? Who is trying to outsmart whom here? lol

- I must say, if our group is now parting ways and that was the last we saw of Evka and Antoine, they.. didn't really have much of a purpose? They had little to no relevance to the plot and I feel like the story would've turned out exactly the same without them? 😂 Which is too bad, because as I mentioned before, I actually really like their characters? :/ Let's hope they maybe turn out to be important in retrospective. lol

- I also want to mention that I've seen some people already suspecting Harding to be a traitor/agent of Fen'Harel? 😂 Now, THAT would be a plot twist! I can already picture it.. at the end of this, Harding will turn around facing Varric "I can't believe you were that gullible. You actually bought the whole thing with the placed letter, you FOOL." 😂

(- Also, this is just a super silly, wild speculation without any real foundation, but with the way this is all set up and how they keep saying how Harding's hesitation is gonna get her killed.. What if Harding and Varric will encounter Solas in DA4, then it will be exactly like Varric foretold, Harding almost gets killed and Varric has to save her, sacrificing himself (and that's how she gets Bianca) lol)

So that’s all I’ve got. I had a great time reading this, despite some odd moments, but that didn’t bother me at all. I’m looking forward to the next volume and hopefully, some answers, and if you like, tell me what you thought about it! 😁

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Hi there!!! What would you recommend as some of of your favorite minis/shorter runs/books (really anything under 50 issues) for either dc or marvel? I'm fairly new at getting into comics and have found myself getting worn out with the longer books I've been reading, so I'd love some ideas for (relatively) shorter comics to get my energy back up and showcase some of the bright points of the medium i may not have seen yet. I have a decent understanding of the events and players of the DC universe, but not as much so with Marvel (I've read like. 2.5 books and a mini there) so DC would likely be my preference, but I'm interested in hearing about your faves for both

Thank you for asking! I always love helping people out here. These are 5 amazing, sub-50 issue runs which are new reader friendly from each company.

DC:

1. Kelley Puckett's Batgirl (37 issues + 1 Annual)

2. Mark Waid's Impulse (27 Issues)

3. New Super-Man (24 issues)

4. Humphries' Green Lanterns (31 issues + 1 Annual)

5. Devin Grayson's The Titans (20 issues)

MARVEL:

1. The Unbelievable Gwenpool (25 issues)

2. Unstoppable Wasp (18 issues across two volumes)

3. Eve Ewing's Ironheart (12 issues)

4. Brian K Vaughan's Runaways (48 issues spread across two volumes)

5. Christina Weir and Nunzio DeFilippis' New Mutants (12 issues, read this if you'd like to begin going down the endless rabbit hole that are X-Men comics)

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Valentines X-Set for some of the Writers, Artists, and Authors who have helped make the X-Men the X-Men!!

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DRAGON AGE: WRAITHS OF TEVINTER

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NUNZIO DEFILIPPIS AND CHRISTINA WEIR BRING TREATS!

[I.D. - White text on a purple background reading "NUNZIO DEFILIPPIS AND CHRISTINA WEIR BRING TREATS! The comic writers return, along with Autumn the Mabari, to support TEP! Items include signed copies of: WRAITHS OF TEVINTER (Hardcover Omnibus), DARK FORTRESS (Hardcover), Issues of KNIGHT ERRANT, Issues of DECEPTION, Issues of BLUE WRAITH, plus several Batman and X-Men comics! Some comics will include an AUTUMN THE MABARI PAW PRINT card! Famous with Thedosian fans for their Dragon Age Dark Horse comics (Knight Errant, Deception, Blue Wraith, and Dark Fortress), the talented Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir have worked in comics, TV, film and videogames, and they're joining Dragon Age Day to support Trans Empowerment Project with some signed copies! They've written an array of comic book genres including Skinwalker, Maria's Wedding, and Play Ball for Oni Press, and collaborated with Rashida Jones to create Frenemy of the State. In superhero comics, their credits include New Mutants, New X-Men, Adventures of Superman, and Batman Confidential. They've created numerous manga series including Destiny's Hand, Amazing Agent Luna, and Amazing Agent Jennifer. They've written on the TV shows Kim Possible and HBO's Arliss, and have two new novels in progress." Above and centered is the Dragon Age Day logo in purple. To the left is a portrait of Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir with Autumn the dog. To the right of the portrait is a sample Autumn the Mabari paw print card, with a paw print and "one of six" written on the card. To the right are the covers for the Blue Wraith and Wraiths of Tevinter. "Dragon Age Day is a holiday made by fans for fans and is not associated with BioWare."]

If Autumn the Mabari isn't enough to tempt you, we don't know what will. Get your signed copies from @ndefilippis and @CWWeir on Tiltify!

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#op did you know they had plans for velanna to appear in comics as the villain but then scrapped it 💔💔#It's mentioned on her wiki somewhere at the bottom in trivia section lol (via @iceta)

I’ve seen it!! And they say they scrapped it because they didn’t want to turn her into a full blown villain, but it’s not like she was a well liked character in the first place and I think having a canon redemption arc could have done her good 😭

Text from the wiki:

Writers Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir once considered a very different direction for Dragon Age: Blue Wraith. In these preliminary plans, the plot involved the group tracking down someone who was replicating Fenris' origins to recreate elven immortality, as Fenris himself hadn't aged a day since getting his markings. It would be revealed that the tests were being done by Velanna, with the assistance of her lover Sigrun, whose Calling had come and was trying to avoid death. Velanna would eventually see the error of her ways and go into the Deep Roads to die, while Sigrun would join the group until her Calling came.

I was overcame by a vision: Velanna + the Awakening crew as the protagonists of all Dragon Age games

(She speedruns everyone’s quests and then joins Solas [she finds him insufferable though])

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Skinwalker 4 Issue Complete Set (2002) by Oni Press

Written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, drawn by Brian Hurtt and Arthur Dela Cruz, cover by Durwin Talon.