#are you making a collection of all these random children superman has?

[elirium]

requesting Tommy from Superman #57

[dairy-farmer]

Please consider this ridiculously convoluted idea inspired by my favorite Norse myth:

Basically, there are a couple of parents whose son is being threatened by a monster (ogre / trolls/giant / whatevs) and they pray to Odin for help to protect their son. Odin says no because he's busy and/or he's not interested in helping these random humans. So next they try praying to Thor for help but get a similar answer, and start to despair. But Loki happens to hear about Odin and Thor turning down this couple and their son and shows up to intervene and defeat the monster (I suspect because of how many children Loki has lost in the mythology). The story ends with the three of them giving Loki a hug in thanks.

So what does this have to do with Tim and the bat family? Consider: Justice Lords situation and let's say because of the whole 'being okay with murder/be evil but thinking they are good' thing, the Justice Lords either have no beef with or are actively friendly with Ra's. Ra's has taken an interest in the son of a wealthy Gotham couple named Tim and has sent them a message informing them that he / his minions will be coming to collect Tim.

First, Jack and Janet try asking Superman for help to protect their son, but Superman is basically 'I'm far too busy taking care of the world to worry about one random kid' about the whole thing. So next they try petitioning Batman, but since Batman has a neutral, trending-towards-positive relationship with Ra's in this universe, he declines to interfere.

But Bruce has a son; Dick Grayson, AKA Nightwing AKA formerly Robin (and everyone knows that Robins, the first one at least, are rather mischievous. Thus the Loki role)! Dick hears about the situation and how both Superman and Batman have declined to help. And maybe, even if Ra's and his League aren't enemies in this universe, let's say Dick has some animosity towards Talia ( how dare she try to date his father: Baby!Dick to the rescue cockblock) and messing with Ra's is a roundabout way of messing with her.

So Nightwing shows up and sends the assassins (possibly even Ra's himself) packing, saving the day! Jack and Janet are so grateful, and bring out Tim from the panic room they had hidden him in to meet and thank Nightwing personally. And when Dick sees Tim for the first time, he falls in love instantly: Tim is a beautiful teenager, all smooth pale skin, strong yet delicate limbs, silky black hair and intelligent blue eyes. He blushes so prettily when he thanks Dick for keeping him away from Ra's (and from definitely becoming his new little wife).

Dick plays it cool, even while he drinks in every detail of Tim, already planning how to court this beautiful young man. Nightwing even cracks a joke about getting a kiss for saving the damsel in distress. He is pleasantly surprised when Tim blushes, looking down nervously, before placing a hand on Nightwing's shoulder and leaning up to press a sweet kiss to his cheek.

Dick wants to stay longer, but unfortunately he has to figure out how to clean up the mess/get the assassins back to Ra's before it becomes an issue. He promises before he leaves that he will come back to 'check in' on Tim and make sure he's doing all right.

(That's all I really have, aside from this somehow leading to a detailed and relentless (and enthusiastically welcomed) courtship that ends up with Tim revealing that he knows who Nightwing really is and them eventually getting married (and fucking nasty style, of course 😘)

Thank you for indulging me in this myth nerd silliness! 🦇

❤️❤️❤️❤️!! dick obviously being so unable to resist sweet little tim, he's tim's knight in shining armor afterall, his little damsel which tim is all too happy to be ❤️!

[thefruitanditsmysteries]

EDIT: Just posted it on AO3 under the same username and title given here! It's a bit more edited but still not technically beta read.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40132398

Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2 Spoilers

Mini Fix-it fic, feat. The "Byler" Scene and The Stack of Unsent Letters (tm)

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Title: When You're Different

Alternate Title: Queer-bait Me Again and I'll Adopt Your Children and Turn Them Gay Myself

by Me (TheFruitAndItsMysteries)

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The dialogue, up to a certain point is word-for-word from the show itself. And its not beta read.

At first, there was no sound but music playing, aside from the sounds of driving on the open desert road, of course. It was Reggae, the music; not bad, but not something Will would find himself listening to on his own accord. The atmosphere in the van was tense with everyone collectively worrying about Eleven, and Will worrying about something else too. He couldn't tell right now if this was awkward, or if he was awkward, but regardless he didn't like the silence.

That's when Argyle effectively broke the silence in the van after a chunky 30 minutes of Reggae and the sound of Jonathan lightly tapping himself to stay awake. Something about dominoes falling, but mostly something about Nevada! When did they get to Nevada? I mean, Will had been looking out the window sure, for no particular reason probably (or something like that), but he hadn't actually read the signs. He had been too focused on trying to, well, act 'normal'. As in, not thinking about how worried Mike probably was; or how Mike is so scared right now; or if he were to comfort Mike, how would would he be able to do so in a way that wouldn't seem- that wouldn't scare him away, or freak him out. or something.

But, thank God, he was able to use Argyle's observation as a jumping off point, "Well, how far is Nina from Vegas?" He turned a little to face Mike.

"From Vegas?" Mike also seemed eager for the break in possibly-awkward silence, "Um, as long as Suzie's coordinates are right, about another 90 miles. Why?" Mike stayed sitting the way he was, but turned his head towards Will.

"Well, once we save her, El, we should stop on the way back! El could make us, like, super Rick, and we'd never have to work." Will started smiling, showing excitement, he looked at Mike "We could just play D&D and and Nintendo for the rest of our lives."

"Yeah. Totally." Mike responded flatly. He didn't seem in the mood for joking around right now. Will immediately noticed, turning to face him a bit more.

"We're gonna make it, Mike. She's gonna be okay." He reassured, concerned.

"Yeah, I know. I... Know she is." Mike responded quickly, sounding confident in his words at first, then, "But..." he continued, "But what if after all this is over, she- she doesn't need me anymore?"

Ahh, so this is what he was worrying about. El's stup- *ahem* El's... important... feelings towards him. It is good to know that Mike has enough confidence in her ability to not worry about whether or not she'd be okay though; kinda sweet. almost. Either way, Will did what he thought best in the moment; well, what he does best too: help in the ways he can.

"No, o-of course she'll need you." He reassured Mike, trying to catch his eye contact, "She'll always need you, Mike."

"I keep telling myself that, but I..." He looked everywhere but Will, "I don't believe it." He finally looked at will... "I mean, she's special," He didn't hold eye contact for long -- or couldn't -- "She was born special.

"Maybe I was one of the first people to realize that. But the truth is, when I stumbled on her in the woods, she just needed someone." He was starting to talk faster now, spiralling: "It's not fate. It's... it's not destiny. It's just simple dumb luck. And one day she's gonna realize I'm just some random nerd that got lucky that Superman landed on his doorstep. I mean, at least Lois Lane is an ace reporter for the Daily Planet, right? But..." he scoffs, shifting in his seat. He was frustrated, with himself Will realized, which is absolutely absurd when he thinks about it because Mike is- well, Mike is the coolest, bravest, and most importantly, the kindest person he knows. He isn't just 'some random nerd' he's- he's Mike, the heart. Will's not sure how else to describe it, but... he knows it.

And Mike should know it too.

"Sorry-"

"No," He shouldn't be apologizing. Believe it or not, feelings dont stop just because it's the end of the world, and they're still important.

"No, I... it's so stupid, given everything that going on. Its just... I- I don't know, I just.. uh-"

"You're scared of losing her." Will finished for him [Tender, emotional music playing]. Even though he knew it, it still felt like a punch to the gut to say it. Mike looked at him, for the first time really since the start of this conversation... you know what, screw it, "Can I show you something?"

Will felt a bit unsure about what he was going to do. But, he had been preparing for this, mentally that is, and now felt like as good a time as any so he figured...

He picked up the rolled up artwork and,, hesitated. When he realized that he had already committed, he felt a surge of confidence as he handed the painting to Mike. He watched nervously as Mike unrolled it in his hands, glancing between Mike and the painting.

The painting was... well, for starters, some of his best work. He probably wouldn't have given it to Mike if it weren't honestly. And he made sure that there were no visible flaws before calling it the final product; by that I mean that you should see how many drafts and scrapped versions there have been. The painting was also a, uh, part of him per se. It's cheesy but, the painting was a part of his soul, or life, or-or being that was so important, and he needed to express that in a way that he just couldn't with anything other than what had become his passion.

He looked as Mike chuckled, "This is amazing! Did you paint this?"

Will was so relieved that his painting was recieved well. He let out a huff as he smiled while answering, "Yeah. Yeah. I mean..." still, he reminded himself that he shouldn't get his hopes up, it's still not... safe to do so. But he pressed on, "I mean.. I mean, El asked me to. She commissioned it, basically. I mean, she told me what to draw." He looked around as he talked, not quite sure how big the next step in conversation should be.

Then, Jonathan started to notice what was going on. With Will at least.

That's when Will realized it was time to say more words before they were back to awkward silence, "Anyway, my point is," He leaned a bit closer to see the painting while Mike was holding it, he started pointing to the various focal points of the piece, "see how you're leading us here? You're guiding the whole party, inspiring us. That... that's what you do. And see your coat of arms here?" He looked at Mike to gage his reaction before moving on, somewhat more cautiously, "It's a heart. And I know it's sort of on the nose, but that's what holds this party together. Heart."

Mike seemed to be listening intently to what he was saying, so he took that as a sign to continue explaining, "Because, I mean, without heart, we'd all fall apart." He looked into Mike's eyes and faltered for a split second, "Even El." He remembered that this isn't supposed to be about what he thinks of Mike, that's not- he doesn't think that's what'll help Mike right now. "Especially El." So he sticks to just focusing on El, because Mike won't get anything else.

"These past few months, she's been lost without you." He started looking out the window so that maybe Mike wouldn't notice that he was getting emotional, "It's just, she's so different from other people, and..." he swallowed, and hesitantly continued, "when you're... when you're different, sometimes... you feel like a mistake." Will felt more tears come to his eyes, refusing to let them fall just yet. He just needed to get to the end of this conversation, just needed to make Mike feel better, and needed to get this off his chest (one way or another).

He turned back to look at Mike, hoping that will stop him from crying. Mike was already looking at him, so he continued, trying to get everything out as fast as possible so he can go back to looking anywhere but him, "But, you make her feel like she's not a mistake at all. Like she's better for being different," El. This is about El. Not him. Right? "And that gives her the courage to fight on." El. "If she was mean to you," not Will; this isn't about you, he would understand, Will, "or it seemed like I-she was pushing you away," Just don't say anything stupid- "It's because I'm scared of losing-" shit. Don't say anything stupid like that, shit, shit, shit, "She, she's scared of losing you." He tried to go on, "L-like you're scared of losing her."

Mike was giving him a puzzled look now. Will tried to backtrack now, feeling uncomfortable under his best friend's gaze, "I mean, I'm scared of losing you too, we are best friends after all, but-" He exhaled a breath, "that... isn't what's important righ now," he said quieter. Mike was still looking at him though.

"Will..."

"No, what's important is that you know that El is gonna be okay, and that she does miss you. And everything will work out for you in the end, like it always does." He added a quick smile before he looked back out the window, feeling nothing but anxiety and dread.

"Will... you weren't talking about El, were you." It sounded more like a statement than a question. Mike reached out to put his hand on Will's arm, hesitating for a second before following through with the action.

Will could feel his tears start to fall, still looking out the window, "What?" He questioned as he turned to look at Mike.

"That whole speech, that wasn't about El," Mike looked down at his hand sitting on Will's arm. Will looked at it too, Mike's hand.

Before Will could respond, Mike started again, "You know," he swallowed, "Eleven and I, we had an argument before she left." Will didn't respond to this, so Mike decided to continue, "She... got mad at me because I wouldn't- I couldn't tell her that I loved her. And- but, that sounded ridiculous because I had remembered writing it thousands of times, yaknow, 'love, Mike' 'love, Mike' but..." he looked back up at Will, "I didn't send them. Because... they weren't for," He paused, "They weren't for El."

He started to pull back his hand on Will's arm, but faltered when Will asked quietly, his tears having stopped, "Who, uhm... who were they for?" He wasn't looking at Mike, although his head was still vaguely turned towards him. He didn't want to look; didn't want to see Mike see him like this; didn't want to... get his hopes up, or anything. Even after a small, "Look at me." He still didn't.

He watched his periphery as, in a single motion, Mike turned himself to look at him, and leaned his head near his, trying to catch his eye.

Mike kept talking, but at a more quiet level than before, "Will, I need to know." Mike was looking at his fidgeting hands that had made it back into his lap, "Were you talking about El?"

"No." He exhaled shakily; he finally moved his head to look into Mike's eyes, and as he did he felt soft pressure on his lips.

Mike was... kissing him. And Will kissed him back.

It was probably only for a second but, even so.

When they parted, Will kept his eyes closed and didn't move until Mike chuckled, "You can open your eyes now, man." He was blushing when Will looked at him.

"They were for you, by the way." Mike added, smiling.

"What were?" He asked, giggling a bit.

"The letters. That I signed with 'love, Mike'." Mike looked down nervously, but Will swiftly moved forward to hug him. A tight hug, too.

One that they had waited for;

That they craved;

That they needed.

[legends-live-in-memories]

First Friend

AYO im back with biodad!bruce wayne day 2! lets see how long i keep going

Maribat Masterlist  AO3  @maribat-bdbwm 

Day 1

Word count: 1.2k words

Summary:

“You’re rude.”

It was just two words. Two very simple, honest words but they were enough to send the blonde eleven year old girl into hysterics.

The story on how 11-year-old Marinette made her first friend

BD!Bruce Wayne Day 2- Family/Friends

without further ado:

“You’re rude.”

It was just two words. Two very simple, honest words but they were enough to send the blonde eleven year old girl into hysterics. She was going on some tirade about her father and how he would never allow Marinette to talk about her like that. It made little sense to her because her maman had always told her to speak about her feelings openly. Hiding how she felt about someone who she was not actively trying to deceive was a waste of energy, her maman had explained. Marinette wholeheartedly agreed. Just imagining trying to keep the blonde girl happy at all times added ten pounds of weight to her shoulders. Her heart went out to the little redhead trying to do just that. Was that what friends do?

Marinette’s never had friends before. She was the only child in her village. The Guardians, she had learned, lived longer than their peers so they chose to live in seclusion, away from anything that could corrupt their world view or challenge them. They recruited in secret, always older people, people who have seen the world and wished to correct it. Marinette, being born into the way of the Order of the Guardians, knew very little of society. The elders sought to correct that. First, she was introduced to her father—who she discovered was a bit of a recluse despite living and protecting a heavily populated city—then the elders decided that she would live in one of the cultural centers of the world. Paris, France; home to a little over two million people and a hot spot for tourists. No better place to learn about the world than somewhere that has entertained the rest of the world.

She had been enrolled in school and was introduced to almost a dozen children her age. She memorized their names and faces and whatever random information she gathered from observation. A short blonde girl named Rose loved to collect bugs but the boy named Max hated them. He liked something called video games, Marinette noted to ask her parents about that later. The other blonde girl in her class, a girl named Chloé, was the daughter of the mayor and she liked to make sure everyone remembered. Everyone. She was also a brat and loud and rude and Marinette was rather upfront when she told her such. Which led to her current situation.

“You’re rude,” she had said. She was standing in front of a shy girl with pretty locs, Mylène, blocking her from Chloé’s view.

“I’m not rude!” the blonde shrieked. “I was just telling her that her headband was ugly and it belonged in the trash where she found it!”

“It doesn’t matter where she got it,” Marinette didn’t think she found it in the trash but people were weird and she didn’t want to be wrong just in case. Regardless it was still a cute pink headband with flowers. “You don’t get to call people’s things ugly.”

“And who are you to tell me what I can and can’t do?” Chloé had crossed her arms and was pouting and not even looking at them anymore. Marinette felt hot frustration boil under her skin. She didn’t like how the girl wouldn’t even look at them. “My daddy’s the mayor and I can do whatever I want!”

Who cared who her father was? That didn’t mean she got to do whatever she wanted whenever she wanted. If that were the case then Marinette was untouchable. Her frustration grew and she had no control over herself anymore. Her small body could only hold so much anger and, despite her teachers’ best efforts, she inherited her papa’s quick temper. The words were out and Marinette regretted them before she could stop herself from saying them.

“Well, my dad is Batman!”

Silence.

No one spoke and Marinette was already beating herself up for the misstep. She shouldn’t have said that! That was classified information and she shouldn’t be using her family’s business to win petty arguments. That would make her no better than Chloé. How could she fix this? She had to fix this.

“Yeah and my dad’s Superman!” yelled a new voice. Kim, this tall kid from another class, had joined in the argument. He stood slightly off to the side, drowning in a big red hoodie with his chest puffed out and posing.

“My mom is Wonder Woman!”

“My uncle is the Flash!”

One by one more of her classmates started to shout out how they were ‘related’ to various members of the Justice League until all that could be heard was a cacophony of names and laughter.

“Ugh, whatever, Dupain-Cheng,” Chloé huffed and stomped in place but her voice could barely be heard over the other children. Marinette watched as she realised she was being ignored before grabbing the redheaded girl and pulling away from the crowd.

“Umm, thank you,” Marinette heard a voice directly behind her ear, as timid as a mouse. She turned to face the girl she was protecting, Mylène, and offered her her best attempt at a reassuring smile. “You didn’t have to stand up for me like that but I’m glad you did.”

“Of course, I really like your headband so I didn’t want what Chloé said to get to you.”

“You really like it?” Marinette watched as she slowly, almost afraid to touch it, reached for her headband. The wonder in her eyes made pride in Marinette’s tiny frame. She did the right thing standing up for her!

“Yes! I really do!”

“Thank you, do you,” the girl paused and squared her shoulders, looking Marinette intently with a furrow to her brows, “do you want to be friends with me?”

Friends? Marinette has never made a friend before. Is that what the Guardians wanted from her by sending her here? Friends meant trust but she was a Guardian in training. That meant she would have to keep secrets. Could she do that? Keep such secrets from a friend? Did she want friends? What would her father do? Did Batman have friends? Did she want to be like Batman? Before an answer to any of those questions could come to her, Mylène spoke out again.

“It’s okay if you don’t,” she tried to reassure Marinette but by the look in her eyes, the cloudiness and the slight red tint, Marinette knew that her lack of an answer deeply hurt the girl.

“No! I do want to be friends!” She was quick to quell the other girl’s worries, not wanting to form any misunderstandings. It appears they both could need a friend. Even though she had never accounted for them in the Guardians’ plans for her, Marinette believed friends were exactly what she needed. And the Justice League were Batman’s friends so it was obviously the right choice.

She would need to discuss with her mother going forward but she still did well today. She was honest, stood up for someone and even though she accidentally outed her father, nothing bad happened. She just needed to be more cautious next time, to be more level-headed. There was no harm, no foul.

Besides, having friends never hurt anybody, right?

[strangenessbooks]

The Bat-Man Recap #9

Welcome to Detective Comic issue 35, where we are reminded that Batman is indeed Bruce Wayne despite this being the 9th straight appearance of him. It's funny to think of a time where you would have to explain to a random eight-year-old who Batman was or that they would care that his birth name was Bruce Wayne...

We should explaining to them why Jim Gordon should be fired.

Anyway, James Gordon is talking to Bruce Wayne about how much he wants to catch that damn Batman. As we have talked about several times, The Batman does indeed have quite the death count and will be facing the death penalty if ever caught (okay, I wrote that on a whim and then looked it up to see if it was true, based on him probably doing this all in New York).

This is just a set up for the plot.

This is meant to be a Hindu god, looks like a Christian Devil, and not any of the Hindu gods I've seen. This was before Google, but libraries always existed. Also, maybe just don't use something from a religion you have no clue about. So this "Kila, god of destruction" according to this comic.

Okay, we have had threats of some unchecked Racism and it's finally here. Brown men kidnapping a white one. He's fucking thief who deserves it but these characters are shirtless. This comic is definitely racist towards Asian people, South and East. It's not mean but ignorance can still do damage. Batman is always going to be questionable, due to one of his big villains having an Arabic name and being the head of a terrorist group. If only they had made him Irish so we could make jokes about it now.

To the lighter side, random bits of lore being added that go no way.

Bruce Wayne is a writer?...A reporter. What nonsense is this? This has literally never been established. I thought Bruce was just insanely rich and therefore doing whatever he wants. Is this just them stealing from Superman? because this really goes no way. It would give him a reason to visit crime scenes, instead of it just appearing that Bruce is just down to relive his childhood trauma.

What a waste of tax player's money, protecting this guy's giant ruby, Not in a museum where British school children can gawk at them.

Now for a panel that I will be editing.

Batman hitting a cop is funny and I know he's hit cops after this but this was the first (at least where a whole panel was dedicated to it). As soon as I can think of something funny to edit the dialogue to.

I have commented on the red Batmobile several times and it's now a less striking colour. It's also a convertible. Not sure why he made that choice. At least it has the choice of roof unlike some other Batmobiles. Turns out Batman's pellets are more than just gas.

He cure Mustand Gas, if only he had been there for World I. You think Gas mask, which will become a staple of the unity belt but then we wouldn't get that beautiful smile. Maybe he's in heaven, but as we all know racism doesn't exist in heaven.

That's right, Yellow-face. Makes me wonder if the earlier part was Brown-face. It's not established as that.

This is a skippable comic. The only notable thing is how brutal the detail is in which Bruce's latest kill is shown.

Four panels were dedicated to this man's death. He was shooting at Batman so it's self-defence but still. One of the reasons, Batman stopped killing was because parents complained when a certain Boy Wonder appeared and so far I can kinda understand if these are being marketed at children. I still think comics encouraging violence is bullshit but I would still be like WTF is my six-year-old reading.

He was a murdering racist who did yellowface...but I don't think that was the moral they were trying to give to the reader. Adding it to the kill count I've been collecting and moving on.

Join us next time, because we will be getting lore that matters in the long run of Batman.

[delusionland]

random thought but i think there’s something beautiful about comics & disney blogs bc like. disney & comics as they stand today by their very nature derivative and their history has been so sanitized & complicated by censorship and conservatism that it’s like somehow when u take a character on and u decide to write for them and imbue them with all ur ideas & thoughts & feelings & experiences (especially as a person who is marginalized in some way) its somehow more wholesome & truthful to the idea of collective & connected storytelling mythos with an audience of a community than a corporation telling u what u can and cannot write.

it’s just nice, to get to the root of storytelling like this, to be able to bare your soul and what you feel and think about the world through a back-and-forth call and response of replies and memes and conversations.

even ignoring that comics as they stand currently always in the hands of a new writer & artist, and disney itself in its ‘adaption’ of every fairy tale----basically count as fanfiction. it’s nice envisioning two jewish kids from the midwest bantering back and forth  in a true creative partnership about the creation of the first iteration ‘superman’ (In a very similar way that we do!)--- and its even more fun picturing the eons of children talking with their parents or other children in their villages about the tall tales they’ve heard and making up their own similarly tweaked for their own interests, to insert themselves further in the story---to analyze, in their own way, if only for what they viewed as most scary / entertaining.

i’ve always liked games of telephone. what every person heard along the line---the people who purposefully made up words and changed them for ‘fun’ the people who simply misheard---it’s all so dreadfully fascinating. each person’s reaction to a message is their own---and when they choose to share it it’s nothing less than pure, beautiful joy!

[davidmann95]

Comics this week (3/10/2021)?

cheerfullynihilistic said: Comics this week (03/10/21)??

adudewholikescomicsandotherstuff said: This week’s comics?

Anonymous said: Comics?

Anonymous said: 3/10 NCBD?

Non-Stop Spider-Man #1: The lead story was fun, the backup was dopey, I’ll give it another issue or two to see where it goes.

The Immortal Hulk #44: While it was too late for this week I’ve taken Hulk off my pull list, so the store won’t order any copies specifically for me and therefore my future purchase of the book won’t support Joe Bennett’s presence, just the store. This issue is typical of some of the books’ weaker installments of the last year or so - feels like well-done regular superhero comics instead of Immortal Hulk - but those last couple pages bring it back around.

Daredevil #28: Holy cow, those King In Black issues actually mattered. God this book is still so fuckin’ good in so many ways, everything every dumbass street-level superhero ‘deconstruction’ wants to be when it grows up.

Children of the Atom #1: Sucks real bad! This weird combo of ‘hip new young Marvel heroes!’ trappings and soulless X-Men lifer comics execution that feels certain to appeal to neither group.

Eternals #3: Of the listed Deviants I imagine I’d relate most to Annoyed Veug.

Commanders in Crisis #6: While I remain without the ability to weigh in on this objectively, this is the issue that to date most feels like it lives up to the promises of the series premiere.

The Wrong Earth: Night & Day #3: Little disappointed personally with the reveal of what the third world is - I assumed it was going to be more of a straight take ‘modern’ version to the other two’s flavors of throwbacks - but this series still rules. And that ending.

Home Sick Pilots #4: Okay, I think I can follow what’s happening at this point, still enjoying it.

Proctor Valley Road #1: I review these books in the order I present them to my dad since he likes DC/Marvel/Other to each be lumped together, but make no mistake: this is the last of the three Morrison books to read this week, because this is what comes next for them. A return to their roots - 70s kids way into music and dealing with the weird, girls adventure stories of the kind they apparently grew up reading - this feels like a refinement of their mid/late-00s Vertigo work in the same way they’ve been iterating on their superhero material for decades. The horror is sold excellently, whether by their own efforts or thanks to cowriter Alex Child this is their most fluid, ‘real’-sounding dialogue perhaps ever, and Franquiz with Bonvillain are instantly among their all-time best collaborators, perfectly capturing the shifting tone and character acting necessary to best put Morrison’s big ideas over in a way a number of their collaborators haven’t lived up to over the years (and speaking of the visuals, Jim Campbell does the lord’s work with that lettering trick near the end). Ritesh Babu and Sean Dillon have a lot more to say about the book and how it already acts as a darker, more honest take on your Stranger Things and the like as a commentary on its times, but I’m already loving to see this particular return down to Earth for Morrison and company and I’m glad to hear this is selling really well compared to their previous indie work.

Dead Dog’s Bite #1: This actually came out last week, but Ritesh recommended it so I figured it might be worth a look. A so far intensely low-key missing persons mystery with a touch of surreality around its edges, this already looks to be the best “look! A nine-panel grid! Fancy!” comic since Mister Miracle, really lived-in and emotional for as little happens in this debut. Very curious where it’s going.

Rorschach #6: I continue to like it.

Batman: Urban Legends #1: Glory be, a good Jason Todd comic - at last, you noble stubborn weirdoes living off of like six nonconsecutive panels all these years, you may lay down your burden. Not all you’d necessarily hope from Zdarsky tackling Gotham after what he’s been doing with Daredevil but rock-solid work regardless; the Harley story is fine, Outsiders is a letdown after Thomas’s shockingly good showing for them in Future State but it’s still fine, and the Grifter stuff is fun.

The Joker #1: I thought the advertised ‘a Joker story from Gordon’s POV’ angle was an interesting one even if I was concerned this book would in practice be pure editorial mandate, but in reality? Tynion has managed to pull the wool over DC’s eyes and do a full-on Jim Gordon book (one predicated with him being off the force to make it reasonably comfortable read in 2021) with Joker as the barest of pretexts to get it out the door and selling for as long as he wants to continue it. He even said in interviews that when the book was first pitched to him that his response was that a Joker solo book was a dumb unworkable idea until he had an idea for a ‘different way to approach it’, he knows exactly what he’s doing and I salute him. And it’s a darn good Gordon book even if the Punchline backup is predictably tepid, I’m in the tank for Gotham’s perpetual whipping boy dealing with weird noir international crime with Joker sort of hanging around in the background menacingly to justify the nominal premise.

Anonymous said: Hey, so I figure one random anon won’t change your mind, but like you I was disappointed by New Frontier’s immortal Wonder Woman, but I still got the new issue of Wonder Woman cause Wonder Woman at Valhalla still sounds great and I actually liked it! I think I’m gonna get at least the next issue, so there’s at least one recommendation for it

Wonder Woman #770: This combined with the store still putting it in my pile prompted me to give it a try after all, and whether because something here clicks better or if they’re simply not trying so hard without the pressure of doing a ‘final’ story for Diana, Cloonan and Conrad do in fact do substantially better on the main book than they did with Immortal Wonder Woman. Some fun, some fights, some mythology and intrigue, gorgeous landscapes and generous servings of beefcake from Travis Moore - this isn’t going to be sweeping the Eisners, but this is as enjoyable as a Wonder Woman comic has been in a good long time. My only concern is that the joyousness on display here might dissipate somewhat once Diana fully returns to herself, but in the meantime this was a very pleasant surprise (especially with the the Young Diana backup by Bellaire, Ganucheau, Goode, and Carey).

Superman #29: PKJ’s Superman thus far has been a story of overcoming initial worries of mine - in this case, my concern that he’d have a bad Scott Snyder-ey case of “if you’ve read the interviews you’ve pretty much already heard the dialogue of the comic verbatim”. In practice here most of what he’s had to say about these issues are distilled down really succinctly and poignantly in the midst of a fun little upper-atmosphere adventure portending something grimmer, and while I know it didn’t click with everyone I thought Phil Hester’s work here was a perfect accompaniment. The Tales of Metropolis backup wasn’t nearly as enjoyable, but hints at some interesting worldbuilding I’m hopeful will pay off in the main run.

The Green Lantern Season Two #12: The final Grant Morrison DC comic. One of two anyway, but if the next story I discuss is their broader final (non-Klaus, hopefully) statement on the superhero subgenre and a bridge to what they’re doing next, this is the one that’s about being The Final Grant Morrison DC Comic. A mélange of pretty much all their other DC finales into a shamelessly self-reflective meditation on the limits of what they can accomplish in shared universe storytelling where Green Lantern saves the universe through collective action and then fucks off to do his own thing elsewhere while the kids take over the ongoings. Weird and kinda perfect, and if nothing else this series took Liam Sharp from “really? This dude is drawing the last ever Morrison DC ongoing?” to “HOLY FUCKING SHIT LIAM SHARP”.

(The panel folks blew up over I think can be read multiple ways, but not in a ‘it’s open to interpretation!’ way so much as the storytelling/framing being unclear. I personally read it as ‘this is what neighbor versus neighbor looks like now’ rather than ‘calling someone a TERF or a Nazi is as bad as anything the other side does’, because oldster and out of touch though they may be I can’t see Morrison seriously saying that, especially after coming out.)

Wonder Woman Earth One Volume 3: At long last, after a hideous misfire kicking the series off and a second installment best described as ‘well, at least it wasn’t the first one’, this while not without elements I want to see femme and nonbinary critics discuss critically lives up to what you want to see out of ‘Grant Morrison’s Wonder Woman’. Big utopian fiction breaking the typical boundaries of superhero stories with aplomb in implicit conversation with a ton of their previous work, a bridge from what they’ve done to what they’re doing next, it’s an imperfect (especially with Paquette’s art, which while gorgeous and majestic in the way this story demands really doesn’t living up to the ‘acting’ necessary here in a way thrown into sharp contrast by Franquiz in PVR) but shockingly passionate statement of intent - if the last two volumes felt like Morrison struggling to have something to say with Wonder Woman in the same way they did with Superman and Batman, this feels at the close like them at last finding in her a way to do everything left with the cape and tights crowd they wanted to but couldn’t manage anywhere else under the Big Two umbrella. Odd and lovely, a fine sendoff.

[lhs3020b]

The Wooden Spaceships, by Bob Shaw

The Wooden Spaceships is the sequel to the first Land/Overland novel, The Ragged Astronauts. It's set about a generation after the ptertha-driven migration from Land; civilisation on Overland is at least stable now, if not entirely-comfortable. Unfortunately "comfortable" isn't what Toller Maraquine is looking for in his older years. Apaprently he hasn't learned any lessons about getting what you wished for, because bad news arrives on Overland in the form of an airship from Land! That's right, apparently there are survivors on Land, and they're not very happy with their neighbours.

My thoughts are under the cut...

TWS is a bit of an odd book. It's really two main stories, somewhat awkwardly joined together. There's the plot with the attempted invasion by the New Men - briefly, the children of people who proved to be unusually-resistant to pterthacosis, who apparently are either immune or are tolerant enough to the disease that they've managed to live to adulthood. The New Men, sadly, have learnt nothing from their parents' folly and may actually be worse people; their survival seems to have convinced them that they represent a sort of superman who are destined to rule the universe. I suppose a more-sympathetic interpretation might be that they're the products of a collectively-traumatised society, and are dealing with said trauma by projecting all their negative feelings onto imagined enemies on Overland. That said, regardless of interpretation, their actions are not sympathetic and King Rassamarden is clearly a psychotic nutjob.

Also, it's worth noting that they are the New _Men_. While presumably New Women must exist, we never see any. This was an interesting ellision given that TWS is generally a step up relative to TRA for gender stuff. TWS is still quite bad, don't get me wrong, but there has been some improvement. Berise is a plot-relevant female character who actually gets to do stuff, the Kolcorronian king's key adviser is actually his wife Queen Dasseene and there has been some progress on the social front. The Air Corps has been opened to female applicants and it's implied that society as a whole has got a bit more equal. (That said, let's not go too far with this - this is still a society where an aristocrat can have innocent people executed on a whim, as we see with the Sergeant Gnapperl subplot, so Overland has a long way to go before it could be described as a genuinely-civilised society. It may have got a bit more egalitarian one way, but it's still a monarchical despotism ruled by the threat and fear of absolute force.)

Toller, of course, ends up involving himself neck-deep in the war with the New Men. This has the effect of cratering his marriage to Gessalla. In what is genuinely a moment of awesome from her, she tells him that while she's glad he's still alive, she's had quite enough of spending every day wondering whether today is the day she's going to have to bury her idiot husband's corpse. It's stressful and unpleasant, she's lost quite enough in her life already (literally including her homeworld!) and if he can't settle down and sort himself out, then they're through.

Toller, of course, can't deal with this. His marriage thus collapses, and that leads us onto the second part of the novel.

Incidentally, before we get to that, allow me one small tangent. We're halfway through the trilogy, and Toller has entirely forgotten his previous wife. After she disappears halfway through TRA he just - forgets? un-persons? has selective amnesia? goes into denial? refuses to take any responsibility for his own actions? - her entire existence. Toller, you were MARRIED to this woman! Seriously, what a cad! We never find out anything about what happened to Fera at any point in the series. Even in the third novel when a return to Land happens and Shaw could have tied the plot-thread off, but we get nothing.

(Since we never find a body, I've decided to invoke headcanon. Like Toller's father, Fera was one of the rare people who are entirely-immune to pterthacosis. As such she actually survived the implosion of Ro-Atabri and the end of civilisation on Land. After some confusion she eventually moved into an abandoned princeling's palace and has been living out her days in comfortable luxury; she spends her time either walking by the river or reading books - a hobby she recently developed - and occasionally she has been known to take lunch with some of the more pro-social New Men, so she's not entirely without society either. She mostly keeps away from them, having made a reasonable judgement of their character, but that said the odd social do can be refreshing. All considered it's not the worst situation she could have ended up in, and she's certainly managed better than virtually everyone else in Kolcorron. When the Overland exiles' return to the planet happens in "The Fugitive Worlds", Fera - still alive, though an old woman by then - sees the balloons and discovers that she simply has nothing to say to the people who abandoned her to her fate 50 years earlier. As such she decides to avoid them during their visit. In the abstract she supposes that it's nice that society has survived over on Overland, but really, neo-Kolcorron's antics are just Not Her Problem Anymore, so why even bother?)

The second part of the novel concerns a group of Overlander colonists who have recently arrived in a remote area of the planet, newly-opened to settlement. (One oddity of the novel is that for a planet whose population still must be less than a quarter of a million, nonetheless people are spread quite widely across Overland.) The area they've arrived in is fertile, has a pleasant climate and even pre-existing houses, built then abandoned by the last group of prospective colonists. You see, unfortunately, it appears to be haunted.

Bartan Drumme, the semi-leader of the group, is mainly there because he's trying to court his would-be bride Sondeweere. Amusingly, Sondeweere has his number and is quite-blatantly stringing him along, mainly to annoy her domineering uncle. Bartan is of course entirely-blind to this - honestly, Land and Overlander men all seem to run at a permanent +10 to Oblivious - and the "romance" proceeds in exactly the dysfunctional manner that you might imagine. Unfortunately, what would have been an amusingly-cringy romantic dark comedy gets interrupted when the new arrivals in the Egg Basket region start falling ill. Bad dreams, disturbed moods, sleepwalking, full-on psychotic breakdowns - all is not well in the Egg Basket. It quickly becomes apparent that the region is being influenced by some sort of external force. The sensible people leave; the less sensible people cling on and meet with various misfortunes.

(If there is one moral to the Land/Overland trilogy, it seems to be "if you see any hints of trouble, pack your bags and leave NOW, because things will only get worse, and don't expect the government to do anything even minimally-useful".)

Anyway things go from bad to worse, the Egg Basket's mini-society essentially collapses, and then Sondeweere gets abducted by aliens.

Yes, you did read that right. A spaceship turns up and hoovers her up. In context it's not quite as random as it sounds, but it is still quite random.

Anyway this leads Bartan to a decision that he wants to retrieve her from Farland, the third planet in the Land/Overland system. He teams up with Toller, who is now deep into the rebound stage following the implosion of his marriage. Along with Berise and some other acquaintances of Toller's, they construct a spacecraft capable of travelling outside of Land/Overland's mutual atmosphere and set off for Farland. Technically they're under commission from the King; honestly, I got the sense that the King and Queen have simply had enough of Toller's antics, and see this as a convenient way of getting rid of him.

Then reality ensues and they almost die, because nobody on the ship knows anything like as much about either outer space or basic Newtonian physics as they think they do. In fact it turns out no-one has any grasp about continuous acceleration, and they've been running a continuous halvell/pikon thruster-burn for entire days (somehow without running out of fuel, either - apparently the specific impulse on the pikon/halvell reaction is something insanely high?). By the time Sondeweere becomes aware of the ship's situation, it's running at over 100,000 miles per hour and is barely days away from reenacting the Chixculuub meteor on Farland.

Oh yes, I almost forgot to mention - Sondeweere was abducted because her nervous system had become host to an alien parasite (the same one that was causing mass psychosis in the Egg Basket) and she now has superhuman intelligence and telepathic powers. And also, a far better grasp of modern physics than anyone aboard the titular wooden spaceship from Overland. Fortunately, Sondeweere is able to take charge of the situation and arranges something close-ish to a soft landing on Farland - the crew don't enjoy the experience, but they get to walk away from it, and that's about as good as it gets in aerospace incidents!

Anyway my review here is a bit forced, but that's because the last 40% of the novel also feels a bit forced. The pacing is off and the narrative makes some rapid jumps. Honestly TWS's problem is that it's actually not one novel but rather two separate novellas that have been welded together in a particularly-awkward manner. A lot of things aren't really followed up or tied off properly. The fact that Farland is inhabitable and also inhabited turns up quite late in the book and is dealt with in what I felt to be a bit of an unsatisfactory manner. I was also intrigued to find out that all three planets orbit within 42 million miles of their sun. Apparently the star must be some sort of K dwarf, I guess - no, in fact it may well even be a brighter M dwarf, because this is roughly the orbital radius of Mercury! This is odd because the sunlight is never described as being pink-ish. The only thing I can think of is that maybe nuclear fusion also behaves differently in Land/Overland-verse? Perhaps not only is Pi equal to 3 but perhaps smaller stars are hotter and brighter than they would be here? Or maybe everyone's so used to the pink sunlight that no-one thinks to remark on it at any point?

(Canonically they do fuse - in fact Sondeweere actually has a go at explaining nuclear fusion to Bartan and the others at one point, which was thoughtful of her, though sadly the Overlander males remain as obtuse as ever so the effort may have been wasted.)

Anyway overall, I think this book suffers from a bad case of "mid-trilogy syndrome". I'm glad that female characters are handled better here, and I was cheering for Gessalla when she told Toller to fuck off. The extra expansions to the universe were interesting, and it was also interesting to see the gradual consolidation of colonial life on Overland. Madcap as it was, the interplanetary voyage to Farland did have some "big-picture" excitement too. That said, however, the books minuses were continued dropped plot-threads from the previous novel, unevenness in pacing and perhaps also just having too many ideas in a small package.

[cakesnothere]

Cake’s Super Sons: The Polarsheild Project Rant

Starting off, context... Polarshield Project focuses on Jon and Damian (read: ‘Ian’) during the Polar ice caps melting, Global warming, in the “Near future.” <(Exact quote from book). Scientist figure they can stop this by using special dust to coat the Earth “like an umbrella” to cool it down. This ‘dust’ can be found on an asteroid floating near Mars. Superman has to go to said asteroid.. and well y’all don’t care about logistics, let’s get into it...

(I edited the little info boxes in the back of the book so they could all fit. Read these to be a little caught up if you so desire.)

Anyways, as you can just see from a glance Damian, Jon, and Candace seem to be the main three in this story considering their bios are the longest. And you’d be right but this new girl ‘ Tilly” is part of the main squad and does practically nothing to keep her place. I guess this is more me nit-picking, but I can’t help but wonder if they just shoehorned some random female side character just to fill the quota for ‘important female characters’. Candace is fine, I don’t really have any issues with her since she’s practically has the personality of a cardboard box and is really only here to drive the plot forward. Again, maybe I’m nit-picking, but I couldn’t tell you much about her aside from she can predict the future (???) and is an “African Princess” (???). 

Tilly and Patience’s presence tick me off the most because they A- Didn’t need to be here or either B- Could’ve been replaced. Patience takes place of Alfred, whom of which is fucking dead. Or at least I heavily speculate with the sus sounding sentence from Patience herself that said “We all wish he (Alfred) was here.” Like y’all really fuckin killed off Alfred.... Y’all have no shame.

Ok so, let’s do a compliment sandwich. Some parts of this story actually made me laugh or smile. Like what the absolute hell is a “door knocker”? Well I’ll tell you, an idiot, the same kinda idiot that felt a thirteen year old knows what the fuck a ‘door knocker’ is and would physically use it in their vocabulary. I can’t tell if it was intentional to make Jon have that ‘I’m a county boy’ kinda speech, of the writers really felt someone at that age would just... speak like this. That being said, 98% of the things that made me laugh ultimately made me question if it was all intentional or if they really threw shit at the wall and it stuck. 

Now that that’s out of the way.... They completely ruined these characters. The first actual page of the book shows Jon leaning on Damian and Damian looking rather pissed as he tends to be. This gave me some glimmer of hope because that shows the the artist (or crew) went out of their way to demonstrate on a surface level what the two’s dynamic is. Its rather comical how backwards both Jon and Damian act that if you switched their dialogue and actions I’d almost let this entire book slid.

Jon is an aggressive war machine. He tosses people in board-fucking-daylight (no costume or nothing) over his head like they weigh nothing. During one part in particular he practically doesn’t trust the entire ‘team’ and thinks they’re all ‘un-loyal’. He almost beats the shit out of Damian more times then I can count, and back talks nearly everyone... including that girl Tilly, whom he kissed on the forehead after like five hours of meeting her.

Damian is just as bad, if not worse. Again, I can’t tell if they were aiming for Damian being his typical bratty self. He’s less of a know-it-all and more I-have-more-money-than-you kinda guy. During the teams one big infiltration scene, Jon was the first to figure out the hidden switch location. He was the first to collect any real evidence on the tainted food supply. He found out Damian was lying to him practically immediately. Jon also out smarted Damian’s attacks. Both mentally and physically. Jon had Damian pinned to a wall in seconds flat when they fought which... ok??? Superman is over-powered. Fine. I can handle little baby Damian Wayne not being able to beat the Son of Superman in a wrestling match, but he should at least be able to outsmart the man of steel’s son?! If Damian is one thing, he’s smart... too smart. Damian hasn’t been very hush-hush on the fact that he’s Batman’s son. Like “Batkid”, really?! He’s not even dressed like Batman. If he at least had a cape maybe I’d be a little less offended. 

Moving on... This comic is an absolute shit storm. It’s called Super Son’s but it mainly focuses on Candace’s past, and who she is supposed to be, and also Jon and how smart and strong he is. "Ian” is this weak annoying little shit that at times has something akin to the original Damian’s look and appeal, but it inevitably falls flat because his personality is so watered down and his appearance only really resembles Damian’s if you squint in the dark. 

This book gave me whiplash on all the clashing colors they tried to paint Damian’s skin. Some times he was almost as pale as Jon (only when Jon also wasn’t on the page) and other time’s he seemed just the right shade (the cover). I’m going to assume they made his hair brown so that you could easily differentiate Jon and Damian at just a glance... but this book is for tween’s, not fucking babies.

And Damian not having green eyes? I’m really not sure on that one. Maybe Jon’s blue eyes would be too close to Damian’s emerald ones? Regardless, its stupid as hell.

I just can’t help feel that Damian really got the short end on this one. His character comes second to Jon’s which is painfully obvious by the change in character design only to Damian, and the lack of defining characteristics that made Damian... Damian. 

Oh, and this? I have no idea why he want’s to be called ‘Ian’. It’s never touched upon ever again after this. He get’s called Ian the rest of the story and there is really no context to explain why he wants to? He practically idolizes his father in this book so I can’t see it being because he wants to separate himself for the man as much as possible. It’s just another thing that the writers added in that holds no weight in this story. It’s just kinda there to be there.

All in all this story was kinda hard to follow since there were so many opposing story lines and new characters, and just things that my brain couldn’t possibly follow all at once. As someone with a reading disability, reading the regular Super Sons comics were easier to follow and grasp then whatever this ‘childrens’ book was trying to do.

Not only did they kill off Alfred, but they killed my sons and I am upset :(

[brieannakeogh]

I’m Not Her- Ch 6

I’m Not Her- Bucky Barnes x Reader. Bucky can’t stop a girl getting killed in a robbery gone wrong, but what happens when he sees her all over the place.

Previous Chapter / Master List

Warnings: Trigger warning for anyone that has lost a loved one recently. 

Chapter 6

Steve hasn’t seen Bucky in a few days, which he figured he was busy with you, but when he doesn’t show up for the meeting that morning, ice runs through his veins. He gets through it as quickly as possible before he’s tearing out of the building and riding down the road to Bucky’s place.

There’s no answer at the door when he pounds on it, and dread forms in his stomach. Did Hydra find him? Somehow snatched him without a fight? He doesn’t see any broken points of entry. If that had been the case you surely would have come looking for him at the compound. The two of you had been practically inseparable. Steve pulls out his phone when another round of knocking fails to produce an answer. Scrolling down the list, he stops on your name. Bucky had given it to him ‘in case of emergency’, and right now this felt like an emergency.

“Hello?” He could hear the hoarseness of your voice and said your name to confirm he had the right number. “Yeah...wait, is this Steve?”

“I’m sorry to call you, but I’m looking for Bucky. He didn’t show up at the compound this morning and he’s not answering his door or his phone. Is he with you?”

“No, no he’s not and you can lose this number. I don’t plan on seeing him again.”

“What? What happened?” Steve’s brow furrows. It’s much worse than he thought. He hears the hurt in your voice, but knows that Bucky wouldn’t do anything deliberately unless he thought he was protecting you.

“I hate to break it to you but your friend is an asshole.” On some level you knew that you were speaking with Captain America, the pillar of truth, justice...blah, blah, blah, or maybe that was Superman. Either way you didn’t care. “He fucking used me, manipulated me, all to make himself feel better. Ease the fucking guilt.” You sniffle, trying to keep the tears you had cried all night, back. “I can’t believe I ever trusted him, thought for a second he actually liked me, for me. No it’s always my sister, the favorite, the only one that ever mattered and now she’s gone. It should have been me that died so the two of them could live happily ever after, but no he got stuck with me. A poor man’s substitute.” You were openly sobbing now, not caring if he heard. “Just fuck off Steve.” At that you hung up.

Steve brought the phone down, just staring at the device in his hand as a crack runs down the middle of the screen. He loosens his grip and pockets it again, slapping his palm on Bucky’s door in frustration. “What the fuck did you do?” He mutters to the empty hallway, not expecting an answer from inside the apartment.

“It’s my fault.” Bucky’s quiet muffled voice barely reaches Steve’s ears.

“Goddamn it Buck! Come open this door right now or I swear I will knock it down.”

The Bucky that finally answers the door is cold and stoic. A blank mask, that if Steve didn’t see the twinge of pink around his eyes would make him think that the Winter Soldier is back. Steve pushes past him and starts pacing in the living room, he stops when he sees the destruction around him. Bucky’s apartment was sparsely decorated and held little furniture, but what he did have was broken and ripped apart. Pillows with stuffing torn out, mugs and glasses shattered against the wall, laying in pieces on the floor.

“What the fuck happened here and what is your fault?” Steve crossed his arms, waiting for his friend to tell him what is going on. Bucky just shuffles to the kitchen, sitting on a bar stool by the counter.

“I could hear her on the phone yelling at you. Sorry about that.”

“What did she mean you used her? And she was talking about her sister? What does that have to do with you and her?” Steve had an inkling on what it was all about, but he couldn’t voice it. Believe it. Bucky wasn’t that kind of guy.

“It’s true. All of it. I used her to ease my own guilt about her sister, about what Hydra made me do, everything. It’s the only explanation.” The last bit he said quietly, mostly to himself as he stared at the island counter in front of him, not looking up at Steve as he drew nearer.

“Bucky, I’m only going to say this once. Tell me exactly what happened.”

So Bucky did. Laid it all out for him. From the beginning of the relationship to how he fucked it all up. Steve just stood quietly through the whole thing, only slightly flinching when he told him what he did to break you. Bucky hadn’t looked at him once the whole time he was talking, but after it was all said and done he couldn’t stand the silence. The moment their eyes met, Steve clocked him and sent him off the stool into the floor, broken glass and ceramic surrounding him.

Steve stood over him, seething. Hands clenching and unclenching into tight fists. Bucky just laid there, not defending himself and not making up any excuses. He had no idea why he did what he did, he wasn’t even thinking about anything but how good you felt and the sweet smell of your perfume. He had no excuse to give.

The fire in Steve’s eyes started to cool as he watched his friend lie there in despair. Reaching down, he offered a hand up to Bucky, pulling him from the mess he made of his kitchen. Steve’s nose wrinkled as he caught a whiff of the man in front of him.

Dragging Bucky to the bathroom and shoving him in the shower, Steve left to fix him something hot to eat. Scrambled eggs and toast was about all he could find to make from the mostly empty fridge. Watching Bucky carefully to make sure he finished it all, Steve shooed him to his room to sleep before he got to work cleaning up the mess he had made all over the place.

You hadn’t been fairing much better. The last few days didn’t feel real. The anger had turned to numbness as you went through your day mechanically. You went to work when you were supposed to, you ate when you were supposed to, you went home when you were supposed to, then spent the nights sitting in your bed crying. This couldn’t last, you told yourself. It wasn’t healthy, but you had never felt this gaping hole before. Breaking up with someone sucked, but it was never this. Somehow it felt as if you had lost your sister all over again.

Walking between the trees and headstones, you found yourself at her grave more and more. The first time you visited was right after you got back from France, it was one of your first stops. You knew that until you saw the marker, it just wouldn’t be real to you, and you hadn’t been back until that same afternoon that Bucky said the wrong name. Leaving his apartment you went straight to her graveside and raged. Telling her it was unfair that she still was better than you, that she still was the most important, than blaming her for leaving you all alone. One of the groundskeepers had found you curled up asleep, arms wrapped around the granite headstone. After that you found yourself there practically everyday. Feeling a little less alone sitting on the wet grass six feet above her.

The call from Steve broke you even more. The numbness not coming as easily. Somehow knowing that Bucky was having a hard time too made it worse. You wanted to get angry, like you had been on the call with Steve, but it just wouldn’t come. Visiting her gravesite wasn’t helping anymore either. It seemed you couldn’t find peace no matter where you went. That’s when you remembered about the storage unit. Maybe being around her things would help?

The key was making an indention in your palm from how tightly you gripped it. Stepping quickly to the door, you lifted it up and look at what was left of her. Honestly you should have gone through these items months ago. You could barely afford the space, but you couldn’t bring yourself to go through it until now. There were boxes stacked up on the sides from where the movers had packed everything, cheap Ikea furniture scattered about. You set about pulling out things that held no sentimental value and you didn’t need for your own home. They would need to be collected by the trash company or maybe goodwill would come pick them up for you.

Your mind went blank as you worked. Looking over some of the random things she kept. Most of the important things were small and in the boxes. You decided it would be best to take the boxes back to your apartment to go through slowly and in private, in case you started to cry again. The looks the other tenants had given you when you pulled out a piece of macaroni art from the 3rd grade already embarrassed you enough.

It took you days to go though just the big items, deciding what you would keep and what you would throw away or donate. Her tv was bigger and nicer than yours so that was definitely a keep, but most of the furniture wasn’t to your tastes, so it was donated. You now had a sizable collection of boxes taking up a large chunk of space in your apartment, but the unit was clean which was one less bill to pay.

Your sister was a lot more sentimental than you gave her credit for. She had kept a number of your school projects and toys from when you were children. The most surprising thing you found, were diaries. Somehow she had been keeping them since she was 12 and you had never seen any of them. So that’s what you spent most of your nights doing now when you got home from work. Reading her journals and learning so much you didn’t know before.

She wanted to be a writer and some of her notebooks were filled with short stories, but she knew the low chance she had at making a living off of it, so she went to school for practical things. The writing never stopped, it just got better as she got older. Apparently she took a few creative writing courses too.

The worst diary to get through was during the alien invasion on New York. You hadn’t been here at the time, but you knew she had. She told you that she had been near it, but not to worry she was safe. That was the extent of your talk with her about it, but she had lied. She hadn’t wanted you to worry, so she left out the part of being trapped in a building and almost getting hit by gun fire. That’s when she became a little obsessed with the Avengers. Steve had saved her life and she watched the rest of the team fight off the invasion. From then on there was some sort of information about the Avengers in her diary. Some mention about what the gossip channels said, or frustration on how they were portrayed in the media. You had no idea.

When she had found out that The Winter Soldier had been Steve’s best friend Bucky, she had gone into research mode. There were pages and pages of everything she could scrounge up. She refused to believe the narrative that Bucky had betrayed his best friend and country without an explanation. Eventually she found it, ‘Hydra’ scribbled everywhere in the margins.

She knew more of the details of what Bucky had gone through than you had. Reading some of the accounts of what she found was horrifying. The way she wrote about him made it all click. She had been in love with this man she never met. Wanting to protect him and give him peace. Of course she would step in front and take the hit. Her last words becoming clearer, “no...hurts” didn’t mean herself, but Bucky, she didn’t want him to hurt anymore.

You sobbed for your sister and for the man that still had a place in your heart. You had found one common ground with her and you knew what you had to do. Even if you could never forgive him, he needed to see this. He needed peace.

Next Chapter

I think going through a loved one’s items that has passed is probably one of the hardest things someone has to do. I didn’t spend a lot of time on it but hopefully at least a little of that emotion was captured here. 

Let me know what you think. Next chapter will be longer as well. 

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[second-hand-heaven]

I am absolutely in love with your superwonderbat fic's! I was wondering, do you have any H/C abt them with the kids? Like do they get along? Is it awkward?

thank you anon!(sorry for the delayed answer) i love the idea of Diana and Clark bonding with the batkids! i’ve touched on the idea in my fic ‘An Amazon, a Kryptonian and a Billionaire (and His Billion Children)’, but here are some headcanons!

Dick and Clark have gotten along ridiculously well since Dick’s days as Robin. ‘Uncle Clark’ dating Bruce had been kid Dick’s dream, and Diana added to the mix is like the icing on the cake. (I totally h/c baby dick trying to collect parents, which i talk a bit about in Finders Keepers). Dick definitely claims that he was instrumental in getting the trinity together (”finally”), but whether he did or didn’t help, he’s definitely their biggest advocate. Dick is the one to invite Diana and Clark over for brunch or movie night, and he helps his siblings come to terms with their father’s new relationship. 

Jason is a big fan of Wonder Woman, lets be real, so he’d be a little starstruck to begin with, especially if this is during his Robin days. But even after his return, I think Jay would definitely have a soft spot for her, regardless of his feelings toward his father. Clark is… Clark. Sometimes he is more set in his ways than Bruce when it comes to right or wrong, and that understandably grates on Jay. There’s a lot of posturing that goes on, but eventually it settles into an okay relationship. Diana’s lasso would be an excellent tool in aiding Bruce and Jay to talk, actually talk, about their issues. It won’t fix anything, of course, but it helps them to see from the other’s perspective, and opens up an avenue for starting to make things better. 

Tim and Diana get along quite well, and she’s definitely taken it upon herself to try and get the kid a decent sleep schedule. Considering Diana grew up on an island of like, 700-something sister/mother figures, she tries to make an effort to be there for Tim, to remind him that someone will always have time for him. Tim and Clark are tense to begin with, considering Tim’s friendship with Kon and they way Clark has treated his son/clone in the past. But Clark puts in the effort with both Tim and Kon, and over time they mend old relationships and build better ones. I really like the thought of Clark helping Tim with his photography, perhaps flying Tim to certain places or heights to get the perfect shot. 

Cass knows, before Bruce, about how Clark and Diana feel about Bruce, and in turn how Bruce feels about them, it’s written so clearly in their body language. The poor woman has to deal with wayyyyy too much UST before the trinity finally get their act together and get together. Diana is one of Cass’ favourite sparring partners, both serving to challenge each other well. Clark is good too, but Cass hasn’t lost to him yet. I love the idea of Clark and Diana attending Cass’ ballet recitals with the rest of the bats, being embarrassingly supportive and Cass loves it. 

Steph loves them right away because neither Diana or Clark will put up with Bruce’s bullshit. I like the idea of Clark and Diana needing to eat a lot to fuel themselves (”snackholes” as Barry would put it) and it’s not uncommon to find Steph, Clark, and Diana eating a big pile of waffles together at really random times. It’s an invite only waffle party, and no, Batman is not invited, don’t make them call security. 

Damian is tricky. He’s gradually gotten over the idea of his parents getting back together, and them being a happy family, but it’s hard for him to accept his father having new partners in his life. That being said, once Damian begins to realise how much his father cares about Diana and Clark, and how much they are willing to sacrifice to keep his father safe, he respects them a whole lot more and begrudgingly welcomes them to the family. It also goes a lot smoother once Clark introduces Damian to Krypto. Not to mention Diana’s ability to speak to animals. Damian does not cry when Diana tells him how much BatCow says she loves him, it’s just some dust in his eyes. 

Duke is a little hesitant at first, not because he dislikes Diana or Clark, rather the opposite. He’s still kind of new to all this, and they are Superman and Wonder Woman for god’s sake! Once he gets past those first moments of ‘what’, he gets on really well with both of them, Diana especially. She and Duke definitely have weekly meetings of “you won’t believe what X bat did” and they suffer together for this ridiculous family they’ve both become a part of. I’m pretty sure Duke’s actually pretty interested in writing, and I like to think that Clark is always happy to proof-read, suggest ideas and help! 

Bonus: Clark offered to help with the dishes at the Manor and Alfred nearly cried. Someone please give that man a vacation.

[firebunnylover]

LoSH SU AU/Shards AU - Part 1

I’m thinking of calling this SU AU “Shards AU”, just because it sounds cool and that shattered gems come into play a lot. Not fully decided on that yet tho.

This is meant to be a collection of the current ideas for the AU based on conversations i’ve had with others and things I came up with at random. This isn’t all the ideas and can - and in honestly probably will - change.

Rebecca Sugar and crew, please don’t make me revise these ideas on a massive scale anymore. I’m on my hands and knees here.

... Just kidding.

To clarify on the names, I imagined that some gems have a hard time remembering each facet and cut, especially if there’s more than one of a single type of gem, and thus give each other/themselves names to help. As for the superhero names, the humans called the gems different things and those names were the ones that stuck. As for when they are used, i imagine interchangeably.

As for the ideas on gem siblings, the terms would be used by gems that were made with the same compound injected into the earth by the same injector. Think the Famehtysts, only being more alike in their gem make-up.

If there is anything you have questions on or are confused by, feel free to ask ^^

Second Part is here.

Pink Diamond’s involvement and Zhay, aka Cham’s mom:

In this AU, Pink Diamond is essentially still the same, except instead of Pearl, Zhay - a Jasper and Cham’s mom, appointed to her court as soon as she popped out of the Earth’s crust, is the one who encouraged her to go down to see Earth for herself. And like Pearl, Zhay developed romantic feelings and Rose returned them, not on the same level though.

As for where in-show Crystal Gem Pearl was during Era 1, she hadn’t been given to Pink after the first Pink Pearl was… removed. So she never joined the rebels. She’s still at homeworld.

However, as the war dragged on, Zhay and Rose began having different views on how to handle enemies, and Zhay was seeing Pink/Rose’s flaws. Causing a lot of fighting between the two. Towards the end, Rose was hit by a Homeworld chemical weapon that basically breaks down gems gradually, with no way to stop it.

Rose/Pink decided if she was to die soon, she wanted it to be one last stand for the Crystal Gems, and asked Zhay to shatter her, shapeshifted as Rose.

Upon being actually shattered, there was a huge explosion as a result, causing her shards to be implanted into several gems - Zhay, Kell and Superman, the latter two entering the area and was unaware of Rose’s real identity, and both being poofed from the actual explosion.

Kell and Superman found out when their gems were being examined to make sure they were alright. The powers of the diamond shards automatically healed the crack that resulted of them being implanted. But it also affected their powers. Zhay kept quiet on her shard out of guilt.

The shards are the only reason why the remaining gems weren’t all corrupted from the diamond’s final attack on earth, as Kell and Superman protected them fused as Garnet. Zhay however was partially corrupted as she didn’t get her shield out on time, and she anywhere near the other gems.

Due to the combined trauma and guilt of mercy-killing her lover and the end result of the war being the corruption of the majority of those she fought along with, she left the remaining Crystal Gems, who renamed themselves the Crystal Legion. She tried keeping interactions to a minimum, but the Legion kept finding her when they needed help with something they couldn’t take care themselves.

About 5000 years after the war’s end, she was hiding in a remote mountain range when she found a human named RJ Brande who had injured his leg while climbing. Not wanting to leave him to die, she took him in and helped him return back down the mountain. During which, they found themselves becoming fond of each other, and she began traveling with him elsewhere, before they finally decided to be together, followed by Zhay having children.

The corruption would be passed onto her children, Reep/Cham and Liggt, and having twins resulted with splitting her gem in half. But Cham got the half of Zhay’s gem that had Pink’s shard, providing some immunity to the full effects of corruption. So Pink/Rose is kind of like an organ donor to Cham, without him realizing it.

As for the Diamonds… Yellow and Blue took the death of Pink way harder than in Steven Universe, so they end up shattering out of grief, so they have been replaced by new Diamonds, because that’s a thing in this AU i’ve mentioned before. As for White… i’m honestly not sure. Especially with the newer episodes. The diamonds’ pearls are OK tho.

And as for how the Diamond Authority Works (I don’t care if cannon busts this idea this is staying in the AU) - there used to be more, but after periodic squabbles and coups led by some of them, White Diamond determined that there were to many at the time, so she culled the numbers - Pink had just joined a few centuries before White finalized this decision. 

But the thing is, Diamonds aren’t as strong as everyone things. Sure, they have a hardness on the Moh scale of ten, but they do have cleavage, so if hit in the right place they will break, plus given they’re made from carbon they can be set on fire. So to safeguard against going too low, the Diamond Authority has several successors for the diamonds, called Rough Diamonds, that are made with cultivated gems of different types and the shards of the fallen Diamonds, as I have discussed before.

Did they need to replace Diamonds before Pink got her Colony? A few times. But Diamonds having to be shattered happen faster than they could be replaced, eventually dragging the number down to 4 for the longest period of time.

[nevinslibrary]

My Very Very Favorites

On this momentous occasion of 1000 Books Recommended to all you gentle readers/viewers/listeners/etc. I give you six of my very very favorite books that I’ve recommended here.

Mystery/Thriller Monday

There is a reason why I chose this to be my very first recommended book (and first Mystery/Thriller Monday). There are only 20 books in the Deborah Knott series that this novel kicks off, but, I loved every one of them, including this one. Great characters, so much interesting info about North Carolina, always fun mysteries, and a relationship that spans all 20 books in such a satisfying way.

Totally Random Non-Fiction Tuesday

I’m a sucker for archeology/anthropology sort of texts like this. And so, a lot of what you’ll find for recommendations on Totally Random Non-Fiction Tuesday is maybe not as random as it should be. (An honorary mention here goes to Ian Tattersal’s Masters of the Planet too).

Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

This novel isn’t just one of the great Star Trek Novels, but, in my opinion, it’s a very very very good Science Fiction novel in general. It concerns different dimensions, and characters who are at once the same and different, and it has Q. Q is an omnipresent, omnipotent (he claims) being who exists to give Captain Jean-Luc Picard grief. And then when an almost Q like character from the orignal Star Trek series appears too. It’s a book that makes your eyes go cross eyed (or even just roll up into the back of your head), but only in the best way.

Youthful Thursday

I liked it as a kid, I like it now. I mean, honestly, there could be so many different favorite ‘Youthful’ tomes that I’ve read since it covers both children’s books as well as middle readers, middle grade, and young adult books. But, King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub and he won’t get out is my favorite picture book repeating phrase. Go Page!!!

Not A Book Friday

This should probably be something like Metropolis, or To Kill a Mockingbird, or even something like the original Superman movie. But, alas, nothing quite so highfalutin’ here. Instead it has all the good parts of an amazing movie, some actually pretty amazing special effects (dude, that sand head, yikes), hilarious characters (the jokesters and the straight men), oh, and, did I mention, the most awesomest librarian ever, Evelyn Carnahan (even if watching that first scene in the museum’s stacks is quite painful. Those poor books).

Comic Book Saturday

I’ve liked everything that Jeremy Whitely has written, so, that I liked this crazy adventure of an ‘all-girl pirate crew’. Isn’t surprising. And, if pirates aren’t your speed, and mutants are. There’s always the Two (plus more coming) Trades that collect Whitely writing about the New Wasp in the pages of Marvel Comics. Or, I think that he even wrote

Okay. Now I’m going to go sleep for 2 Weeks!

(Hey, 1000 book blurbs is a lot......)

[chadnevett]

Random Thoughts! (November 14, 2017)

Another one of those random updates where it eventually just fizzles into "I did/read/listened/watch this and... I have nothing to say...?"

* Real life update: work is busy, Ryan turned four, Michelle and I have been married for five years... From that, you'd think I were a proper adult or something. Like most 'proper adults,' I usually feel like a younger version of myself who is faking his way through every single day, afraid that someone will eventually notice that I'm a fraud... Still just faking it until I make it. Some people say that you never feel like you make it.

* My bank account will soon be taking a hit with Christmas and a few personal purchases. Some new albums, the first Dan Jurgens Thor omnibus (I'd briefly deleted my Amazon order until I saw the price dropped by fifty bucks...), that Robert Rodi Thor collection, the Wildstorm 25th anniversary hardcover... It's taking a lot of willpower to not buy the Thor vs. Hulk collection, too...

* Comics I'm enjoying: Mister Miracle is all atmosphere and works quite well at that (listen to new issues with MASS:LIGHT by Murray Lightburn on -- perfect album for that comic thus far). As always, Thor is nice. I'm looking forward to Kieron Gillen's Star Wars run. Jason Aaron's run had kind of begun to spiral into "Oh yeah, I read that comic still, I guess..." territory. I'm surprised at how much I dig the new Darth Vader series. Stray Bullets: Sunshine and Roses is brilliant. The latest issue was one of the weirder ones... The Wild Storm and its spin-off Michael Cray are both quite good (surprise surprise).

* From the Thorsday Thoughts where I discussed Marvel Legacy #1:

So much of this comic is "Look at this concept! Won't that be cool when we tell an actual fucking story about it?" Stone Age Avengers! Diseased Celestial! Ghost Rider fighting Starbrand! A bunch of one-page teasers! Something something Fantastic Four something! Wolverine has the Mind Gem Stone (fuck you, Kevin Feige, you fucking asshole) and is back from the dead even though Old Man Wolverine has been around since pretty much when Less Old Man Wolverine died! You know how much I got from the comic that I didn't get from interviews and summaries and post-release interviews?

Dick all.

Thorsday Thoughts continues to be a weekly newsletter that I write about Thor comics every Thursday. Well, I guess not just comics soon as I have the next three weeks mapped out: Mighty Thor #700, Thor in the MCU thus far, and, then, Thor: Ragnorak, written once I get home from seeing the movie on the Thursday night it premieres... So, sign up and enjoy. Lately, I've been writing "MANGOG IS COMING" a lot. And, as you can see above, I've got some new Thor books coming in, so lots of comics to use as material. The one on Rangorak will be the first one of year two of the newsletter. It's a thing I continue to do.

* I recently read The Force by Don Winslow and Difficult Men by Brett Matin. The former was like all of The Shield crammed into a single novel and not as good. But, enjoyable. The latter is a book about TV from The Sopranos up through Breaking Bad. It was interesting and well worth the $1.25 I paid for it at Dollar Tree.

* Michelle and I have been rewatching (or, eventually in some cases, watching for the first time) some Marvel movies. She wanted to, because they're dumb and fun and enjoyable. I wanted to rewatch the four with Thor in them for Thorsday Thoughts. I'll talk about Thor more there, but this was the first time I watched it beginning to end since seeing it in theatres and it was better than I remember. The Loki stuff was better.

* That recent Joe Casey collection Annual was really great. Just my sort of thing, of course. I like how his sons each did a strip that he inked. That was a surprise. Otherwise, it collected a bunch of stuff that I didn't have already (along with a couple of text bits from issues of Sex that I do have). It's a nice contrast to his work on the Catalyst Prime books (he's got a third one starting soon...), which... well, let's see where they go. Currently, they're in that "Joe Casey obsessive/expert" territory of reading where I do it for the children. Because, some day, someone will remember me and that I'm the Joe Casey guy and ask if those books are any good and I'll feel like I should provide an answer longer than two words. I think the third one is about a Superman analogue. That could be fun. After all, Casey (co-)wrote the best Superman analogue and, then, did the most interesting year on Superman since he died.

* Related: once a year or so, I'll look on my bookshelf, see the Poptopia trade and I'll read the first issue of Casey's Uncanny X-Men run again. Someday, I'll figure that issue out and see exactly what he was going for. I haven't yet.

* Taking a break from wrestling right now... not enough time... not enough quality... Not a hard and fast rule or anything. I just haven't been making an effort to watch anything lately.

* Jim Starlin is doing more Thanos graphic novels -- with Alan Davis on art. That's both good and bad. Good for obvious reasons; bad only in the sense that, of their two books together thus far, I didn't find them to be a good match. It felt off. I love both of their work, but something about them together just doesn't work for me like it should. Not that that will stop me from buying anything and everything they do together. Maybe I'll figure it out.

* I've been wondering lately like why Coke doesn't bring New Coke back as a thing. I've never tried New Coke. I'm curious what it was like. I get that it failed and everyone hated it -- but that was as a replacement, not as an alternative version. I think it would do well in a 3-month release or something. Failing that, just give me fucking raspberry coke in bottles.

* Finally saw Machete Kills. It started as a swerve to a James Bond flick, except with Danny Trejo as Bond (which we should all be up for) and, then, it became something else, eventually ending terribly. I caught the end of the first one on TV a couple of weeks back and, man, that is the movie for 2017 if there is one. Go back and watch Machete and see how it was made for now.

* They're making a Teen Titans Go! movie. Can my son and I buy tickets yet?

That's it. I need to go wake up my wife, because she always falls asleep when she puts Ryan to bed.

[pipbabi]

Comic Con

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DC Comics New Line of Titles Going Strong - Now, Bring Back the Justice Society of America! It may have not been planned but many of this week's comics happen to take care of fathers and sons. That might not sound strange but if you consider classic comics there aren't many prominent father figures. Some of the most prominent super heroes don't possess dads. Superman's father is dead, ditto for Batman, Uncle Ben will be the closest thing to a dad Peter Parker had and now we truly realize what went down to him. I'm not even going to go near Silk Spectre's daddy issues. Is there a fundamental reasons why most superheroes will also be orphans?

I have already noted in a very previous article for the blog that the Men In Black will return in a third installment starring of course Will Smith in the role as 'J' as well as a younger version of Tommy Lee Jones by means of Josh Brolin obtaining the role as agent 'K'. The concept for Men in Black was originally pitched as a comic strip series to Malibu Comics fro which Columbia Pictures chose to option and the rest is history.

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The last option will seem obvious for some, and not so obvious to others, which is a thrift store. They are also generally known as second-hand stores, plus they will have a wealth of comics at around a few cents each. In fact, a lot of people have discovered hundred dollars comic books for a couple of bucks, and also have gone to sell big around the resell market. Superhero comics have become a fundamental portion of modern pop culture, as well as their popularity shows no signs and symptoms of fading in the near future. As more and more people understand these characters from other appearances in blockbuster movies, the demand for comic books featuring these heroes has risen. With these affordable reprint volumes, everyone can easily catch up on years of their best hero's adventures.

[kaliiwashere]

Marvel Movies

Need to purchase X-Men t-shirts online? Whether or not you could have a love for The Avengers, Incredible 4, Thor, or X-Men there are lots or t-shirts and other merchandise to own. My childhood included a love for 60s and 70s Marvel and DC comics, and my ability to draw originates partly from finding out the tales I learn in those days. We worked for a year together on the piece to plan and draw it. Toy corporations like Hasbro and Kenner used to supply hundreds of Batman motion figure than is launched yearly with some variation in it. Transformers 2, the science-fiction film is the latest sensation, and is probably the most awaited film of the year. Let's take the movie Avatar for instance. From time to time I went back to the sport to take a couple of extra screenshots to increase a plot. Inside a few minutes, I started making comedian strips. Unlike his other comic strips, in Battling Boy, the hero is a child, who is on a mission to save lots of town.

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Immediately after newspaper comic strips like Mutt and Jeff was reprinted as books and the publishers did start to experiment with periodic books, which were sold for 10 cents with the newsstands. The pre-superhero comic strips was mainly pulp stories of detectives, adventure, criminals and exotic travel. The very first costumed hero ended up The Phantom, which became available in 1936 wearing black mask plus a purple costume.

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