#artemis requiem

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'You claim you were resurrected by God?'

'No. I did it myself!'

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Artemis in “normal clothes” Artemis: Requiem #4

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Since you’re a Ditemis fan, would you know if Artemis: Requiem is available at all in a trade paperback or hardcover? It’s just easier for me than reading it issue by issue or online. Also, don’t know if you knew but in Diana’s “perfect world” (some Dark Crisis shenanigans I think), she wanted to be embraced by Artemis? It looked like a tackle to the ground hug but we both know it’s because DC wouldn’t let them kiss (outside of Elseworlds.)

Chikibeibi, I'm probably the least appropriate person to ask for buying advices 😢 we barely receive comics in stores in my country, and buying online is extremely expensive in my coin. When I was 11 years old I printed all the six issues of Artemis Requiem on my own and it's still in my bookshelf. I have no idea where you can buy 90's comics nowadays.

And yeah I found out about that story and went to read it immediately! Their bickering is a classic, but Diana has always had this soft spot for Artemis that made me ship them from my childhood until now.

Diana literally said 'fuck the natural order of the universe I'm going to resurrect my emotional support Artemis'. And then Artemis is. Like. She has to decide whether to go back to life with Diana or not and she's like 'okay I have everything I ever wanted in this afterlife, food, hot water, a lot of violence and more food...' and she throws it all out the window to get back to Diana.

They can be extremely soft for each other when DC isn't rebooting their universe every few years. Can't wait for their next meeting.

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Artemis: Requiem

Got a re-draw of Ed Benes' Artemis: Requiem #1 cover! I hope to print it, so I drew it in CYMK and god I hate using that XD It better be worth it!

Below is a textless version, and also the original cover:

Design decisions:

Her pose is changed, because I wanted to focus on her physically pulling and pushing herself up

Her hair is less long

I put her in the outfit she died in, because in my mind it's just a snap-shot right after she was revived, so her being in her Requiem outfit already didn't make sense.

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KROMCH

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You know how while Wonder Woman Artemis never gets the chance to save a woman (or anyone but women are more thematically important in terms of Amazon philosophy and history here) in a way that wasn't just like a total farce with fake villains etc. and she never learned the truth about that before her death. But then the FIRST thing she does after being resurrected is save the life of the night watch(wo)man of the cemetery and then go on to not just save her, but advocate for her and her future? Yeah.

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Art Credit to Phil Cho

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✨ Wisdomverse x Smash ✨

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Masterpost

It’s time.

I finally get to talk about Smash and the Zeldas :).

How this wacky little fighting game series represents the LoZ gals and influences them in Wisdomverse— explained under the cut!

Exactly four Zeldas make an appearance as playable characters in the Smash Brothers franchise, spanning different games and decades.

[OoT] Lullaby: Melee (Zelda and Sheik), Smash4 (Sheik), Ultimate (Sheik)

[TP] Dusk: Brawl (Zelda and also Sheik somehow), Smash4

[ALttP/ALBW] Fable: Ultimate

[ST] Phantom (a special case): Smash4, Ultimate

Funnily enough, there have also been four Links in Smash, although they’re not quite from the same games as the Zeldas.

[OoT/MM] Time: SSB64 (Adult), Melee (Adult and Young), Brawl (Young), Ultimate (Young)

[TP] Twilight: Brawl, Smash4

[BotW/TotK] Wild: Ultimate

[WW/PH] Wind: Brawl, Smash4, Ultimate

Now, Smash is just about as non-canon a game as Hyrule Warriors— and we all accept Wars and Artemis. And some Zeldas arguably have more of a chance to display their skills in Smash than in their own games.

Therefore, I’ve peripherally incorporated Smash into Wisdomverse:

Characters who have met each other in Smash will sometimes recognize each other from there, as if they’ve met in a vague dream. They may also forget. Such is the ephemeral world of Smash to its players.

To keep things fair, Smash connections and story will not be relevant to the plot of Wisdomverse.

Each mainline Smash Zelda also gets one of the three Golden Goddess skills from their Smash moveset to use in Wisdomverse, based on their personality and events from their actual games.

Charismatic, dramatic Fable gets to blow things up with Din’s Fire — like how Fable and the sages blast through Ganon’s barrier in ALttP

Steady, calculating Dusk gets to defend against attacks with Nayru’s Love — reminiscent of the twilight pyramid encasing her in Hyrule Castle in Twilight Princess

Quiet, stealthy Lullaby gets to teleport short distances with Farore’s Wind — like how Sheik (technically Requiem, not Lullaby) vanishes ninja-style in Ocarina of Time

And there you have it! Rebalancing the Zeldas, one skillset at a time :).

Extra:

For the truly dedicated folks, here’s a further analysis of interesting (and intentional on the part of the devs) Smash x Zelda facts:

Despite clearly looking like Dusk and not Lullaby, Brawl Zelda is able to turn into Sheik in both the plot of Subspace Emissary and in battle in Brawl. She loses this ability and goes back to normal in Smash4.

Despite clearly looking like Twilight, Brawl Link is shown with Navi in Subspace Emissary.

Wind is clearly Wind, and not Spirit, because he has the Wind Waker as a taunt in all three Smash games he shows up in.

Wind uses some of Legend’s attacks. And some of Time’s attacks. Wind is a dirty rotten move stealer (affectionate).

Phantom isn’t technically playable, but both Fable and Dusk summon a phantom to fight alongside them, and neither of them have seen a phantom in any of their games. Also, while their phantom summoning skill is recharging, they have a purple glow around their hand. Therefore, I’m inclined to believe they’re literally summoning Spirit Tracks Zelda (Phantom), like Robin summoning Chrom for his Final Smash, and you technically control her, so close enough.

In Melee, Young Link is clearly from MM, while Link is from OoT. This means Young Link is older than Link (just Time things).

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i've pretty much given up on the outlaws webtoon, buuut when Hank Jessup showed up i literally squealed (watch this flop bc she is such a minor character xd)

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very gal pals of them Artemis: Requiem #5

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It's immensely frustrating because the more we see of Absolute Wonder Woman, the less excited I am for it. It's a cool idea in theory (witch warrior raised in Hell becomes Wonder Woman), and the art looks fantastic. I just don't see how this is a story we should be seeing with Diana.

Absolute Superman and Absolute Batman are clearly working in conversation with their characters: Absolute Batman is "what if Bruce's parents were killed but he wasn't rich?" and Absolute Superman is yet another "mythos update for the modern era"+"what if Clark wasn't raised by the Kents?" AU. But unlike Bruce (who can reasonably still be recognizably both Bruce and Batman without his money), Clark (who still has Krypton and the experience of growing up as an alien on Earth regardless of where and who he's raised by), and every other Wonderfam character (where if you take away the Amazons, there's still something to build off of), Diana does not and cannot exist without the Amazons...so taking that away from her just makes this feel like a "Diana-in-name-only" story instead of an interesting exploration of what Diana might be like if she'd been raised differently than she was in canon.

It just seems weird that DC has chosen this particular story for the Absolute Universe's Diana when it seems like a story that would be better for, say, a world without Diana as Wonder Woman at all. After all, Absolute Flash is about a teenage Wally becoming Flash in a world without Barry. Absolute Green Lantern is a first contact story starring Jo Mullein. Why are we not getting that for the Wonderfam if DC is intent on talking about a "last Amazon" Wonder Woman who wasn't raised by them?

Why is Absolute Wonder Woman not a story about a world where the Anti-Monitor or Titans of Myth successfully kidnapped Donna and raised her in Hell for Dark Angel purposes, or a world where Circe and Ares let Lyta's Aunt Hecate raise her, or a world where Cassie didn't discover she was a demigoddess until the Amazons had been wiped out, or a world where Child!Yara survives the destruction of the Amazons by virtue of being raised in Idaho Hell, or even a world where Artemis became Queen of Hell long before Requiem? The premise here just doesn't feel like it suits Diana, even an Elseworlds Diana. Maybe I'll be proven wrong. But I'm getting increasingly skeptical the more information we get about it.

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Massive comic bookbinding progress post.

Making a massive bookbinding post with my progress and what resources and steps I use. I do not claim to be an expert and recommend if you want to get into bookbinding yourself you look into any linked tutorials (or find some yourself), because they are made by people with much more experience.

So. When I just got into bookbinding, I was following an instructables tutorial for (link) most of the book. the sewing part, I was following this (link) tutorial. The cover tutorial (instructables) wasn't great for what I currently do, and I changed a lot looking back on it, but it had the bonus of suggesting cheap materials (Cardboard for covers, elmer's glue for spine, any spare fabric for bookcloth) that helped lower the barrier to entry and let me decide if I wanted to buy nicer stuff.

This is the first book I ever bound, using the instructables tutorial.

It's not the prettiest construction wise, but I can still hold it and read it which is at least successful for a first book (tho I did test on comics I didn't care as much about, in case I messed up).

I did a couple more books like this, one being Blue Beetle: Graduation Day (in Spanish) and the other being Artemis: Requiem, and another being Knight Terrors.

Artemis Requiem I think was the last

Next, I found and started using Dave the Designer's tutorial (link) and also got some materials actually targeted at bookbinding. I got bookbinding needles and thread (much thicker and stronger, it's easier to pull the threat through and it feels stronger) and davey board -- though since then I have tried chipboard which is muuuuuuuuuuuuch cheaper and works just as well unless you have a giant comic. Sometimes you have to lay weights on chipboard after gluing it to make sure it doesn't bend though, it likes bending when it is wet a lot.

I did a ton of books in this period. I was mostly interested in making books that had good construction and were good for protecting the comics I sewed together and felt structurally sound. I did not care at all about what the covers looked like, and just wrote titles on them with sharpie. I used mostly linen cloth, buckram cloth, or occasionally spent money on book cloth

After this, my friend linked me this (link) youtube tutorial. It does not get into sewing, because the goal of that person's tutorial is not how to sew but how to rebind paperbacks as hardbacks with fancy covers. The main focus for what I watched is on covers. They use a cricut, I got the cheapest I could find (Joy xtra, not maker or any of the big kinds). It still is expensive (like 150 dollars), and in the linked playlist the youtuber includes how you can decorate without a cricut, though that does leave less freedom for what you can choose... UNLESS you are an artist already!

Shortly before I got the cricut, I did Eric Luke's WW Run

This was when I was getting frustrated I couldn't make the books look pretty on the outside, so I drew a sketch in pencil and colored in with paint pens i had bought for action figure modding (tho im sure any type of sharpies would work).

Anyway, after that I started using the Cricuts for covers. This is the first one:

i messed up on the heat transfer vinyl stuff, so I had to repaint some parts with yellow paint. I haven't had these issues since I started using the bookcloth materials recommended by the cricut youtuber I linked earlier, which are also generally cheaper per unit than where I was getting bookcloth earlier (but shipping is expensive)

Now I do almost all my bookcovers with cricut because once you have the machine it's reasonably priced, the vinyl is pretty cheap, and it's easier on my spoons than hand drawing everything and lets you customize a lot

Lately, I've been trying to make my sewing/construction technique better, and I've been watching videos from DAS bookbinding (link). I tried to do my most recent Huntress comic with the rounded + backed spine with shoulders, not sure that I succeeded, but that's definitely on me because in the tutorial where he explains how to do it without the official material he's like "You should try this with proper equipment first, this is just for binders who took a course and could do the shouldering in a bookbinding course and want to try it on their own without having to buy the proper equipment" and. I have never done a real bookbinding course or used the proper equipment.

Hope this was informative/fun if you made it through!