#Steve Gan

[the-gershomite]

The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #25 -December 1977-

cover art by Steve Gan & Dino Castrillo

[smashedpages]

On this day in 1975, Star-Lord, aka Peter Quill, made his first appearance in Marvel Preview #4 in a story by Steve Englehart and Steve Gan!

[downthetubes]

Gray Morrow’s gorgeous cover art for Marvel Preview #4, the first Starlord strip. The strip itself in that issue was drawn by Steve Gan

[marvelousmrm]

Marvel Preview #4 (Englehart/Gan, Jan 1976). The first appearance of Peter Jason Quill, Star-Lord! His origin is pretty shocking for how much the movie retained — Quill is a dick, alienated from others by his mother’s death. Instead of being abducted by aliens, he spends his life training to be an astronaut. He commits murder to ensure he’s chosen for making first contact, and is rewarded with flight, an elemental gun, and a cool helmet. It’s a wild tale informed by Englehart’s interest in astrology. Not sure when Quill links up with the Guardians of the Galaxy, who still have a largely unfamiliar roster.

[marcovaleyeah]

27.07.24

#Mira-Marathon | MCU

Film Name: Avengers: Endgame (2019); Production Studios: Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios; Director by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo; Screenwriter: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Steve Englehart, Steve Gan, Bill Mantlo, Keith Giffen, Jim Starlin, Larry Lieber; Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson; Genres: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Drama; Running Time: 3 hours 1 minutes;

"Avengers: Endgame" is an epic conclusion to an entire era in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, combining all the best: large-scale battles, emotional stories, charismatic characters and unexpected plot twists. Why the film deserves the highest rating:

- Emotional depth: Experiencing each moment with the characters.

- Completion of stories: Logical endings for each character.

- Nostalgia: References to previous parts.

- Scale: Impressive battles and detail.

- Unexpected twists: Suspense until the last second.

"Avengers: Endgame" is more than a movie, it is an event that will remain in the hearts of millions of viewers. Recommended for viewing on a large screen.

My rating:

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

[onlylonelylatino]

Ka-Zar by Steve Gan

[dirtyriver]

After this double page spread from Skull the Slayer #3, January 1976, by Steve Gan

This image best encapsulates the crazyness that was this comic. Folks, I absolutely loved it as a kid.

Titans #7, France, March 1977, Skull the Slayer painted cover by Jean Frisano 

[little-annie]

Eddie, holding thier baby in the air like Mufasta with Simba: "Say Demo-gor-gan, Sweetie. Demo-gor-gan."

Baby: (blows raspberry in Eddie face, covering him in spittle)

Eddie: "Demo-gor-gan."

Steve, affectionately: "You're not teaching our daughter to say Demogorgan, at least not for her first word. Here, give her to me."

Baby: (Squeals happy while being handed off to Steve.)

Steve: "Can you say Da-da, Sweet Pea? Da-da."

Eddie, watching fondly at Steve's side: "You can call him Ma-ma too, Baby."

Steve: "Eddie shut up, you're just about as annoying with that mother Steve shit as Dustin is."

Baby: (Babbling happily, legs kicking while she's still held in the air)

Baby: "Dust-bin!"

Steve and Eddie: (Every ounce shocked and in denial exchange a look of panic) "Demo-gor-gan, Sweetie" "Da-da, Elsie Baby, Da-da"

Baby: "Dust-bin!"

Steve: "We're not telling him. As far as any one knows she hasn't said her first word yet."

Eddie, under his breath: "Fucking Dustin."

Baby: "Fuck-in' Dust-bin!"

[challenge-ant]

a) that's cute! on the soft drinks 😭 and b) black comedy play starring steve co/gan .... it might be terrible but still. taste lmao

[olderthannetfic]

Just like a small question based on that one ask, but... might the lack of brown/black men in popular M/M ships have to do with people trying really hard not to be racist so they just... never feature black/brown men? Because I know several F/F ships with brown/black women, but I can't remember a single M/M or even M/F with a black/brown male love interest... well, maybe Link/Gan or Zelda/Gan? But besides that one... nothing rings a notable bell.

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There are more than that, anon, even if there aren't a lot.

If we're talking about AO3, Link/Gan has 785 works. Finnpoe has 8,636. Sam/Bucky has 10,591. Do you just not watch live action media?

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Part of it is "I don't know. I just don't find them hot for some reason..."-style racism. That can shift with time and exposure but there's no instant fix even if someone is interested in changing their own tastes.

Part of it is being instantly screamed at and held to higher standards. (And yes, no matter how much people want to whine and say this isn't true, it is true, and anyone who goes ahead and writes despite the haters will tell you so.)

Part of it is fear of messing up above and beyond fear of reactions. Personally, I think this is toxic white guilt-flavor time-wasting and it's better to try and fail than not try, but it's a massive factor in what some people choose to write.

A lot of it is simply the composition of the mega-franchises that tend to generate the ships with bajillions of works. If we're looking at AO3 circles, the biggest f/f ships are not that big. If you look at m/m ships of the same size, there are some with some guy who is not white and not a pale-skinned Asian.

Here's the AO3 f/f tag where you can directly see what's big in the sidebar.

Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor (20389)

Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan (15516)

Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s) (14062)

Clarke Griffin/Lexa (12661)

Minor or Background Relationship(s) (11492)

Adora/Catra (She-Ra) (10855)

Amity Blight/Luz Noceda (9751)

Sirius Black/Remus Lupin (7913)

Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long (7205)

Korra/Asami Sato (6866)

If we exclude nonspecific tags and misplaced dudes, we add:

Alex Danvers/Maggie Sawyer (6127)

Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler (6120)

Waverly Earp/Nicole Haught (5738)

Luz Noceda and Korra have darker skin. Lana Parrilla is Latina, but is Regina Mills? This isn't exactly some paradise for the diversity you're talking about.

Here's the M/M tag:

Castiel/Dean Winchester (107699)

Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski (68231)

Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (65757)

Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter (64761)

James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers (59546)

Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens) (48169)

Minor or Background Relationship(s) (47119)

Steve Rogers/Tony Stark (43665)

Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson (41631)

Sirius Black/Remus Lupin (40374)

Let's exclude some things and see what we get as we head towards the 5-20k range.

Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku (38445)

Jeon Jungkook/Kim Taehyung | V (36025)

Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn (35907)

Keith/Lance (Voltron) (31634)

Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester (30488)

Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood (29568)

Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) (28959)

Jeon Jungkook/Park Jimin (28191)

Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter (27775)

Bakugou Katsuki/Kirishima Eijirou (27193)

Well, we've got Lance. (*shudder*) He's one of the most distasteful and useless stock character types in episode one and is the reason I never bothered to touch Voltron again, but his fans are certainly loud enough about him being Latino.

Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov (26087)

Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs) (26058)

Clay | Dream/GeorgeNotFound (Video Blogging RPF) (21900)

Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson (21897)

Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV) (21296)

Original Male Character/Original Male Character (21035)

Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion (20224)

James T. Kirk/Spock (18810)

Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru (18703)

Min Yoongi | Suga/Park Jimin (18147)

Eddie Diaz is Latino.

Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel (17787)

Levi Ackerman/Eren Yeager (16950)

Dan Howell/Phil Lester (16818)

Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier (16229)

Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet (16193)

Harry Potter/Severus Snape (15551)

Ian Gallagher/Mickey Milkovich (15539)

Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki (14990)

Keith/Shiro (Voltron) (14816)

Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio (14780)

We've got the Taika Waititi thirsters in this cohort.

Eddie Kaspbrak/Richie Tozier (14413)

Rodney McKay/John Sheppard (14209)

Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto (13135)

Tartaglia | Childe/Zhongli (Genshin Impact) (13016)

Han Jisung | Han/Lee Minho | Lee Know (12962)

Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto (12878)

Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic (12817)

Loki/Thor (Marvel) (12767)

Armitage Hux/Kylo Ren (12391)

Frank Iero/Gerard Way (12146)

Steve McGarrett/Danny "Danno" Williams (12050)

Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou (12002)

Jung Hoseok | J-Hope/Min Yoongi | Suga (11898)

Jeon Jungkook/Min Yoongi | Suga (11352)

Kim Namjoon | RM/Kim Seokjin | Jin (11101)

Levi Ackerman/Erwin Smith (11088)

Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones (11083)

Loki/Tony Stark (10699)

Enjolras/Grantaire (Les Misérables) (10523)

Kim Taehyung | V/Park Jimin (10415)

Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield (10312)

Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard (10211)

Miya Atsumu/Sakusa Kiyoomi (9950)

Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne (9944)

Lee Donghyuck | Haechan/Mark Lee (9763)

Billy Hargrove/Steve Harrington (9686)

Getou Suguru/Gojo Satoru (9625)

Byun Baekhyun/Park Chanyeol (9471)

Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski (9367)

Clint Barton/Phil Coulson (9359)

Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist (9347)

Nico di Angelo/Will Solace (9317)

Roronoa Zoro/Vinsmoke Sanji (9186)

Wang Yi Bo/Xiao Zhan | Sean (8973)

Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg (8785)

Dabi | Todoroki Touya/Takami Keigo | Hawks (8710)

Alhaitham/Kaveh (Genshin Impact) (8657)

Peter Parker/Tony Stark (8607)

Bakugou Katsuki/Todoroki Shouto (8588)

James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson (8522)

Only here are we finally getting down to the range where a lot of the big f/f ships on AO3 hang out, and here's Sam/Bucky, which is frankly not a small pairing at all unless you only mean in comparison to Stucky.

I'll stop there for m/m since these numbers are getting pretty distorted by me filtering out everything higher up, but you get the idea. Even that wretched Old Guard fandom couldn't completely kill off its ship, though then we get into how you're defining your terms and how much actual skin tone matters.

Here's f/m on AO3:

Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug (32122)

Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy (26417)

Original Female Character(s)/Original Male Character(s) (23498)

Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren (23403)

Minor or Background Relationship(s) (18497)

James Potter/Lily Evans Potter (18142)

Kylo Ren/Rey (15915)

James "Bucky" Barnes/Reader (15200)

Pepper Potts/Tony Stark (14547)

Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley (13843)

Bellamy Blake/Clarke Griffin (13551)

Fox Mulder/Dana Scully (13145)

Oliver Queen/Felicity Smoak (11318)

Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Emma Swan (11031)

Castiel/Dean Winchester (10851)

Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth (9236)

Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski (9152)

Annabeth Chase/Percy Jackson (9141)

Other Relationship Tags to Be Added (9108)

Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper (9046)

Bellamy Blake's actor is Filipino, isn't he? I remember race wank.

I don't see anything particularly significant until we get further down the listings, but there are definitely smaller fandoms like Leverage where everybody loves and ships the black guy.

I mean, yes, clearly, media does have a bias against darker skin, and the darker the skin, the bigger the bias. This bias may be exacerbated by fandom, but in a lot of cases, it just seems to be replicated at about the same level.

That pattern notwithstanding, it seems like you just haven't heard of a lot of ships.

[nightvale-radio]

WTNV Fursonas

have you ever wondered what animal your favorite Night Vale character is? wonder no more!

a few notes: most of these will be region accurate, because the hometown vibe is a big part of the podcast. and for the purposes of keeping species fitting, I'm ignoring doubles.

Cecil is a black-tailed jackrabbit. vigilant and quick-thinking, this guy the inspiration for the jackalope, which fits the cryptid qualities of the radio host. the jackalope has antlers, which represents the ties to Huntokar.

Carlos is a North American river otter. credit to @fox-guardian for this idea, I had to go with it. clever and resourceful, this animal might seem out of place in the desert environment. fun fact though, river otters were actually reintroduced to the Verde river and now have a stable population in Arizona!

Steve is a black-tailed prairie dog. family oriented and highly dedicated to their community, this animal has been widely considered a pest in the past, but is now considered a keystone species of the southwest.

Lauren is a coyote. both extremely adaptable and efficient in finding a niche, coyotes are scavengers who are willing to do what it takes to survive in a cutthroat world.

Dana is a cliff chipmunk. they might look unassuming, but this animal is extremely agile and resourceful. they can also live for up to twelve years, and do so in very precarious situations.

Kareem is a beaver. a native of Michigan! (please pretend I'm pronouncing it as mitch-i-gan) they're hardworking and determined, able to create big things when they put their minds to it.

Kevin is a long-tailed weasel. they might look cute, but they're vicious predators who, and I quote, "have no conscious when they're hungry". they regularly threaten animals far bigger than themselves and their hunting methods are brutally efficient.

feel free to add on!

[the-gershomite]

The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #25 -December 1977-

Solomon Kane "The Cold Hands of Death"

featuring the hero create by Robert E. Howard

script by Don Glut

art by Steve Gan and Dino Castrillo

[smashedpages]

Today in 1975, Peter Quill the Star-Lord made his debut in Marvel Preview #4 by Steve Englehart and Steve Gan, and a cover by Gray Morrow!

[sb19alexx]

SB19 | Justin ✨

GAOC Christmas Gala 2024 What a wonderful celebration at the @gaocdental Christmas Gala! 🎄✨ Thank you Dr. Steve Mark Gan for inviting us, SB19 and 1Z, to be part of this special event. Wishing everyone at GAOC, Novodental, and GGC a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎅🎁 #SB19 #GGCChristmasGala2024

[marvelousmrm]

Skull the Slayer #3 (Wolfman/Gan, Jan 1976). All sorts of things have passed through the Bermuda Triangle and landed in this mysterious prehistoric land. Scully discovers robot dinosaurs and a tower where each floor is a portal to a different time period. I have no clue what this book’s trying to be. Ka-Zar meets Killraven by way of Fantastic Four? I don’t hate it.

[marcovaleyeah]

26.07.24

#Mira-Marathon | MCU

Film Name: Avengers: Infinity War (2018); Production Studios: Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios, Jason Roberts Productions, South Pictures; Director by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo; Screenwriter: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Joe Simon, Steve Englehart, Steve Gan, Bill Mantlo, Keith Giffen, Larry Lieber, Jim Starlin; Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson; Genres: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure; Running Time: 2 hours 29 minutes;

"Avengers: Infinity War" raised the superhero genre to a new level, combining large-scale battles, charismatic characters, unexpected twists and incredible special effects. Features of this movie: Epic battles, Deep character development, Unpredictable plot, Emotional depth, High quality visual effects. "Avengers: Infinity War" is an event that changed the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

My rating:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐