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From our stacks: Frontispiece illustration from First Experiences With Literature By Alice Dalgliesh. Introduction By Patty Smith Hill. Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.

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TWENTY YEARS TO MIDNIGHT

The Venture Brothers starts out as a show that makes fun of the past, but lasted long enough to be one that truly understands it.

So I rewatched The Venture Brothers in one big splurge over the course of two weeks, from Turtle Bay to Baboon Heart.

One of the most charming things about the show is a product of its lengthy creation process and the fact that it was written almost entirely by just two people. The story nearly has a tight continuity, so if you take it at its word then all the events of the story take place over a period of two and a half years, while the actual show was made over a period of twenty years.

The outcome of this curious time dilation is that we follow the Venture Brothers, Hank and Dean, through those difficult years between 16 and 18, but we also follow the writers, Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, through the difficult years between their twenties and their forties. The show begins irreverent, contrarian and cruel and changes, cell by cell, into something wiser and more profound.

The treatment of Rusty Venture, former boy adventurer and long-suffering heir to the poisonous Venture legacy, is a fascinating thread to follow. In the very first episode he steals his son's kidneys like a ghoul, and his various addictions and neuroses are firmly treated as quirky objects of pity. I don't know much about the personal lives of the writers, but I imagine a certain amount of tragedy would have found them over the course of twenty years. A certain empathy for Rusty's position kicks in around the second season and develops strongly throughout the years. By the time the writers have reached the age that Rusty is when he is introduced, there are delicate attempts to reach out to the poor man, to understand and maybe counteract some of his own personal tragedy, though careful not to smother the comedy that such a character brings to the table.

But the thread I enjoyed following the most was that trailing behind Action Johnny. If you have ever heard of The Venture Brothers, you already know that the show began as a parody and deconstruction of the 1960s Hanna Barbara cartoon Jonny Quest, which was itself an attempted relaunch of the Edisonade craze of the 1910s, riding on the coattails of the far more successful and popular Tintin and Uncle Scrooge comics.

Jonny Quest was the son of a world famous scientist and adventurer, Doctor Quest, who led an extraordinary jet setting life where he accompanied his father to exotic places to experience exciting, often racist, science-themed thrills instead of going to school. He was watched over by his lantern-jawed bodyguard, Race Bannon, and joined with his adopted brother, Hadji.

The Venture Brothers stole this set-up entirely, and Rusty's backstory is a carbon copy of Jonny's. We are first told that this is something more than a swipe early on in the first season of The Venture Brothers when Race Bannon appears, as himself, as a secret agent belonging to the same organisation as the Venture family bodyguard, Brock Samson. It's a clever shorthand for saying that boy adventurers are not singular in this world, they are a type, one which occupies a distinct social strata along with their bodyguards, enemies and other supporting cast members.

The way that we are told this fact, in the seventh episode of the first season, is peak 2004 adult swim: beloved cartoon character Rave Bannon drops out of the sky, lands in front of one of our characters, dies, then shits himself. This was vaguely subversive at the time, but twenty years of Robot Chicken and the like have rendered it a tired, hoary gag. Venture Brothers itself has proved that this moment is at least a wasted opportunity. There was undoubtedly more comedy and interest to be mined from having Race Bannon around as an older counterpart to Brock Samson. But there was fun to be had with squandering opportunities and biting the hand that feeds for writers in their twenties in 2004.

When Jonny Quest himself appears in 2006's season two episode, Twenty Years to Midnight, things aren't much different. Jonny is found haunting the bathyscaphe from the cartoon, injecting heroin, waving an antique pistol and ranting about his father. He has a teardrop tattoo and missing teeth. He is discovered by Rusty's brother, the overachieving but naïve Jonas Junior. It's a much better gag in execution than the Race Bannon one, despite being essentially the same beat, but there is some pathos thanks to Brendan Small's delivery. Jonny is left alive, unlike Race, but the capper to this scene is somehow more humilating and tragic than when Race's corpse shat himself: Jonny is brought on side by Jonas Junior who, pressed for time and not as accustomed to being threatened and menaced as Rusty is, is unable to apply superscience to this situation and simply offers Jonny a supply of heroin.

The entertainment industry's relationship to its back catalogue of intellectual property has changed a lot in the last two decades. Characters like Jonny and Race were embarrassing curios in Ted Turner's garage in 2006. Why not dust them off and kill them in a cartoon to make college kids giggle? Why not give them a crippling drug habit and have them collapse to their knees, bellowing, "I'm in real pain!" But within ten years the media behemoths realised they could spin their old straw into gold, and instead of selling sheink rays at a yard sale, so to speak, they were putting the Flintstones in ads for Halifax bank.

So the Venture Brothers show renamed their tragic, adult Jonny Quest to 'Action Johnny' and in doing so was forced to consider him as a character rather than a skit. And the colossal strength at the heart of the Venture Brothers is in taking ridiculous things like boy adventurers seriously. Jonny Quest was allowed to become a valuable (?) piece of IP, forever a child, forever innocent and marketable, while Action Johnny could live his life unfettered by the parent company's fears.

Action Johnny appears two years later in Season 3, sober but shaky, doing a favour to Rusty by running a seminar for his ill-fated summer camp. He undercuts the spirit of the event by warning the children of the long term effects of adventures on the psyche and unravels into rants about his father. It's a solid bit by itself, especially when contrasted with a neighbouring table from the Pirate Captain (who, despite being an important recurring character, the show refuses to give a name) about the joys of being part of the 'rubber mask set.' Though the world of the Venture Brothers is nominally organised through a bureaucracy of licenced 'protagonists' and 'antagonists,' the biggest tension on screen is between the characters who chose the life, like the Pirate Captain, and those who had the life forced upon them, like Action Johnny. It just so happens that the former tend to end up as tortured, resentful good guys and the latter wind up as joyful, carefree villains.

Bringing that point home in the same episode is the appearance of Doctor Z as the summer camp's headliner. Doctor Z is the final borrowed character Jonny Quest, and one who the writers clearly take the brightest shine to, probably because he has the funniest voice to imitate. Doctor Z also represents the goals of show's resplendent second half - having deconstructed the boy adventurer genre in the early seasons, the Venture Bros very carefully puts the pieces back together into something wholly new.

And so Doctor Zin, the generic yellow peril villain of Jonny Quest, becomes Doctor Z, the retired and contented former archfiend of the Venture Bros. Doctor Z is treated by the other characters as something like a national treasure, a beloved old star who made the game his own. The joke of Doctor Z is that he seems genuinely bemused that his lifetime of villainy seems to have had a lasting negative effect on people. When he appears at Rusty's summer camp, all theatre and terror, he is delighted to meet his old foe Action Johnny, while Johnny is thrown into a whirlwind of trauma at the sight of Z, one that will drag him down into further troubles.

Doctor Z will become more of a feature than Action Johnny over the following years as the show becomes more interested in its older cast members - the ones whose personalities shaped the world, and who have sunny memories of the days that were so painful to Rusty and Johnny. He is part of a larger rehabilitation arc on the meta level, where characters with reprehensible aspects to them are held up for the audience to inspect so that they may find some empathy with them. Sargent Hatred is the poster child of this era, who is a repentant paedophile who joins the main cast as the Venture Brothers' new bodyguard. He's a whole other topic, but Doctor Z has the same function as Hatred, but on a metatextual level. His ancestor, Doctor Zin, is a hideous racial stereotype of the sort that makes modern revivals of the adventure genre so unpalatable. In its first deconstructionist half, the Venture Brothers show would simply wave Doctor Z around as shock tactic - 'look how racist Jonny Quest was, and by extension the company that made it and, logically, its audience!' and then maybe give him a violent and undignified death to wash their hands of the whole matter. But the reconstructivist Venture Brothers show embraces Doctor Z, and takes him beyond his tawdry origins to become an integral part of its story.

In 2009, Action Johnny helps Rusty to articulate this in the episode 'Self-Medication' from Season 4. Johnny and Rusty are in the same therapy group for former boy adventurers, a premise that would later be stolen wholesale by the She-Hulk show. A trail of tenuous clues leads the group to Doctor Z's house in the middle of the night. Johnny forces a confrontation with Z, accusing him of murdering their therapist to perpetuate the spiral he has been in since he saw Z take the stage back at Rusty's day camp. Doctor Z immediately groks the situation and invites the former boy adventurers into his home for tea with his beloved wife, who proudly proclaims herself to be his beard. Doctor Z is proud of what he has done in life, and so has the ability to put the past behind him. Sat between Z and Johhny, who is unable to move on, Rusty realises that he has more in common with the antagonist in the room than the protagonist. Rusty has many such insights throughout the length of the show and they lead him to an interesting end point where he seizes the nettle and becomes a parental figure to the whole weird superscience community.

The final encounter between Action Johnny and Doctor Z takes place nine years (!) later in our timeline - 2018's 'The Terminus Mandate.' Doctor Z is retiring from active villany and, according to the ceremony-obsessed fraternity of organised supervillans, that means he must menace his archenemy one last time. Action Johnny's father is long gone, so Johnny inherits that dubious honour.

It's the first time that we see Doctor Z not being fully committed to the bit. Johnny is resident at a posh rehab clinic and Doctor Z is conflicted between genuinely wanting to see Johnny again but unsure of how to interact with him in a way that doesn't cause actual, lasting harm. Doctor Z even brings a prop from a Jonny Quest cartoon as a gift, in a sequence lovingly reanimated to translate Jonny Quest's vocabulary into the Venture Brothers' language. The sequence chosen is virulently racist, almost too racist to be believed: a mask of the god Anubis lands on top of Johnny's dog, and Doctor Z's Egyptian henchmen suddenly believe that the mask is a vengeful god come to punish them and so abandon the young Doctor, giving the advantage to Johnny's team. In the lobby of the rehab centre, in the late to evening, Doctor Z struggles to articulate why the Anubis mask means so much to him and Johnny cringes at the memory while enjoying the act of reminiscing. He offers to go and run and hide, so that Z can find him, and they both discover they are delighted by the idea.

It's a touching, uncomfortable and deeply weird scene that, to me, is the pinnacle of The Venture Brothers as a creative endeavour. Behind it is a group of people who have been mulling over the implications of Jonny Quest as a short-lived but impactful cultural phenomenon for most of their adult lives. They have been mining the absurdity, the legacy, the implications, the pathos and the bathos of those 26 half-hours of cartoon and found incredible treasures. It starts with finding a silly old thing in the attic that you want to ridicule and it ends, twenty years later, with you acknowledging the attachment one has formed to that silly old thing, and how it has informed your life, for better or worse, in ways you can't deny.

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1981: The Lesbian in Literature (3rd edition) by Barbara Grier

Grier Ratings: During the 1960s, while Grier worked at The Ladder, she was involved in the creation of a bibliography of lesbian literature, The Lesbian in Literature. She used the name Gene Damon for that bibliography, but her rating system for lesbian literature would come to be known as Grier Ratings. Grier rated lesbian literature on a letter scale for how prominent the lesbian subject was to the story and a range of 1 to 3 asterisks for the quality of the representation:

🅰️⭐⭐⭐ A rating of 'A***' had lesbian characters with very sympathetic portrayals.

🅰️ A rating of 'A' without an asterisk meant there was a major lesbian component but not sympathetically portrayed.

🅱️ / ©️ The B and C ratings were for works with lesbian subplots or suppressed/coded lesbian themes.

🚮 Books that contained voyeuristic and demeaning representations of lesbians were rated as 'T (Trash)'.

Barbara Grier (1933--2011) is credited for having built the lesbian book industry. After editing The Ladder magazine, published by the lesbian civil rights group Daughters of Bilitis, she co-founded a lesbian book-publishing company Naiad Press, which achieved publicity and became the world's largest publisher of lesbian books. She built a major collection of lesbian literature, catalogued with detailed indexing of topics.

Grier realized she was a lesbian at age twelve after researching the topic at the library. She told her mother that she was homosexual, and her mother replied, "No, because you're a woman, you're a lesbian. And since 12 years old is too young to make such a decision, let's wait six months before we tell the newspapers." Yet, Grier's mother was supportive. When Grier was fifteen, her mother gifted her a copy of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall and Of Lena Geyer (1936) by Marcia Davenport. This would be the start of Grier's collection of lesbian literature. She describes her collection of lesbian-themed books as Lesbiana, a collection that was fueled by a "love affair with lesbian publishing."

In 1957, Grier subscribed to The Ladder, a magazine edited by members of the Daughters of Bilitis. Grier began writing book reviews for The Ladder, using multiple pen names in her writings including Gene Damon, Marilyn Barrow, Gladys Casey, Terry Cook, Dorthy Lyle, Vern Niven, Lennox Strong, and Lee Stuart. The Ladder was the center of Grier's life in the 1950s and 60s. Some issues were completely written by her. Although it was primarily compiled by Grier, hundreds of women contributed information for this book.

In 1973, Grier co-founded Naiad Press along with Donna McBride, Anyda Marchant, and Muriel Crawford (Marchant's partner). They founded the venture with $2,000 pooled between them. Grier and McBride ran Naiad from Kansas City until 1980 when it relocated to Tallahassee, Florida. Both Grier and McBride continued to work other full-time jobs until 1982 when they dedicated all their time to the publishing company. Naiad Press went on to become the world's largest publisher of lesbian books.

Some complained that the books published by Naiad Press were always romances or mysteries with happy endings. But Grier said repeatedly that what she wanted was to reach the lesbians in Middle America who were in the closet and who deserved to have books about their lives, too.

Naiad's inventory included mysteries, romances, and science fiction novels. The press also reprinted classics of lesbian writing, including Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker series. Naiad also produced non-fiction books. Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan's Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence (1985) was among the most successful. Naiad Press' most controversial publication was Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence, a work of non-fiction that was banned in Boston and criticized by the Catholic Church. Grier paid ex-nuns Rosemary Kurb and Nancy Manahan a half million dollars for the book which landed Grier on numerous talk shows.

By 1994, the company had a staff of 8 and projected sales of $1.8 million US. In 1992, Grier and McBride donated Naiad's entire collection to the San Francisco Public Library, which consisted of a tractor trailer full of 14,000 books estimated at $400,000 US.

Grier and McBride retired in 2005. They gradually let their books go out of print before closing Naiad Press' doors. The heir to Naiad Press became Bella Books of Ferndale, Michigan. Bella Books was founded in 2001 by Kelly Smith, who spent eighteen months working for Naiad in the late 1990s. Grier was very supportive of Bella Books, and noted that almost all of the Naiad writers have signed on with Smith.

- Title: "The Lesbian in Literature: 3rd Edition"

- Author(s) / Editor(s): Barbara Grier

-Year 1st Published: 1981

- Year of Reprint My Copy Is (if applicable): N

- Publisher: Naiad Press

- Page Numbers: 168

- # in series: N/A

- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Reference, Guide

- Is It An Ex-library Copy (and from where?): N

- Author's signature (if applicable): N

- Have I Read It?: Y

- Is It On Loan (and to which friend?): N

- Is it on Internet Archive: Y

- Average Goodreads Rating, out of 5 Stars (as of 15/10/2023): 4.0

- Amount of Goodreads Ratings (as of 15/10/2023): 11 ratings

- Amount of Goodreads Reviews (as of 15/10/2023): 0 reviews

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003 - Lecture: How to Summon Demons for Real Girls

Welcome Back Students! In today's lecture, we take a deep dive into one of the most complicated characters in the story of the X-Men, Madelyne Pryor and her journey leading up to and through the classic story Inferno.

Topics in this episode include: Who is Madelyne Pryor and why should you care? How she both plays into and subverts tropes that have historically been used against women, how different writers interpret characters, what happens when girls want to stop being nice and summon demons, and putting Anne Hathaway in a red wig!

Content Warning: This episode includes discussions of the removal of bodily autonomy, mild discussions of body horror, and the death of children. There are also spoilers for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo near the end of the episode.

You can follow Mutant Studies 101 on Twitter @Mutant101Pod and on Instagram @MutantStudies101 and Morgan @beakerbarnes

Special Thanks to Ollie (@olliephresh) for providing our theme music and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for our graphic design work.

 Transcript:

Sources:

Bannon, Barbara M. “Double, Double: Toil And Trouble.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, 1985, pp. 56–65. JSTOR.

Chris Claremont, et al. Uncanny X-Men. Marvel Comics, 1963.

Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto. Dark Web: X-Men. Marvel Comics, 2023.

HOLLINGER, KAREN. “‘THE LOOK,’ NARRATIVITY, AND THE FEMALE SPECTATOR IN VERTIGO.” Journal of Film and Video, vol. 39, no. 4, 1987, pp. 18–27. JSTOR.

Louise Simonson and Walter Simonson. X-Factor. Marvel Comics, 1986.

Rafaela Bassili. “The Voice of a Generation: The Trope of the ‘Complex Female Character.’” Mubi, 20 Dec. 2022, https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/the-voice-of-a-generation-the-trope-of-the-complex-female-character.

Vertigo. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1958.

Vincent L. Barnett. “Dualling for Judy: The Concept of the Double in the Films of Kim Novak.” Film History: An International Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 2007, pp. 86–101. Project MUSE.

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The Magic Within

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/KZR2QIs by NightwingAngeloftheMorning04 A take on the 2017 Justice League Dark movie with the Quest Team and the Bat Family in the mix. In the midst of all the seizures and supernatural mayhem, Alex Kenyon discovers he is Homo Magi and enlists Zatanna Zatarra for help, from there Batman joins and they join forces with John Constantine and a group of other supernatural heroes to save the world from a supernatural threat. Words: 1330, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 3 of The Quest Chronicles: Gotham Fandoms: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Justice League Dark (2017), Justice League Dark (Comics), Batman: The Animated Series, Batman - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: F/M, Gen Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Jonathan "Jonny" Quest, Jessie Bannon, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Chloe Quest, Alex Kenyon, Jezebel Jade, Jade Kenyon, Race Bannon, Duke Thomas, Kate Kane (DCU), Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Jason Todd, Zatanna Zatara, John Constantine, Boston Brand, Etrigan (DCU), Swamp Thing (DCU) Relationships: John Constantine/Zatanna Zatara read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/KZR2QIs

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5 Film da vedere se vi è piaciuto Offseason

5 Film da vedere se vi è piaciuto Offseason

Dagon escluso, perché è troppo facile e perché Offseason è quasi un remake in sala mumblegore del film di Gordon, e a noi qui gli accostamenti così scontati non piacciono. Però tenete presente che vedere Dagon è comunque una cosa buona e giusta, a prescindere. Ciò premesso, oramai sta diventando una specie di tradizione, ed è anche divertente da fare, soprattutto in chiusura di settimana, quando…

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As Trump Thunders About Last Election, Republicans Worry About the Next One

As Trump Thunders About Last Election, Republicans Worry About the Next One

Mr. Reed said that the former president’s comments about Republicans not voting “should warrant a sanction from the Republican National Committee.” He warned, “It will impact the 2022 midterms severely.” The tension between Mr. McConnell and Mr. Trump has escalated lately, as the former president has ratcheted up his attacks on the minority leader, accusing Mr. McConnell of “folding” to Democrats…

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Batman Characters in Live-Action

Here I list various core Batman characters and their live-action actors, and then determine who I think is objectively the best at embodying the essence of the character from the comics.

Bruce Wayne / Batman: Adam West Michael Keaton Val Kilmer George Clooney Christian Bale Ben Affleck Warren Christie David Mazouz Iain Glen Robert Pattinson

And the winner is....

OK, Michael Keaton had the best costume, and Christian Bale was excellent at embodying Bruce Wayne as he traditionally has been throughout the comics’ run while also being the biggest, most badass physical powerhouse of all the live-action Batmans. But Robert Pattinson’s Batman not only acts the closest to how I feel Batman is best suited toward acting in all regards (as a crime-fighter, as a detective, as an ally, as a hero, etc.) but it’s important to keep in mind that his Bruce is still young and still growing. Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson have both gone on the record to say the lack of Bruce Wayne as a public businessman / philanthropist / playboy figure is fully intentional, as this version of the character is still figuring himself out as both Bruce and Batman, and he makes significant progress in both identities by the end of his debut movie. Which means he will grow further into the Bruce / Batman we all know and love from the comics, and for that reason, he is the best live-action depiction.

Alfred Pennyworth: Alan Napier Michael Gough Ian Abercrombie Michael Caine Jeremy Irons Sean Pertwee Jack Bannon Douglas Hodge Andy Serkis

And the winner is...

I like most of the live-action Alfreds, but when I have to distill the essence of the character it all comes down to loyal, faithful service, practiced without hesitation or second thoughts. Alfred may not always agree with what Bruce is doing, but he will always stand by him regardless and be the best caretaker and father figure to him that he can be. And honestly, when the same actor sticks in the role even when “Master Bruce” goes through three different actors, and when his unflappable gentlemanly persona endures even as the tone of each movie he’s in changes wildly, it’s hard not to call that as anything but the ideal Alfred.

James Gordon: Neil Hamilton Pat Hingle Gary Oldman J.K. Simmons Ben McKenzie Jeffrey Wright

And the winner is...

While Jeffrey Wright clocks in at a close second, I still think Gary Oldman nailed Gordon in a way that’s almost impossible to measure up to. Every facet of his personality, the strengths and the weaknesses, as portrayed in the comics is on display in Oldman’s version, and he bears the most striking physical resemblance to the comic character out of all the actors.

Dick Grayson / Robin / Nightwing: Burt Ward Chris O'Donnell Joseph Gordon-Levitt Brenton Thwaites

And the winner is...

Holy obvious choice, Batman! But seriously, this remains the only live-action version of Robin we have that makes a convincing BOY Wonder, and not some guy in his late 20s or early 30s playing a “boy”. Also, I objectively kind of love his voice. It makes him really fun and likable. 

Barbara Gordon / Batgirl / Oracle: Yvonne Craig Alicia Silverstone Dina Meyer Savannah Welch Leslie Grace

And the winner is...

Birds of Prey was not a good series, at all. However, it struck gold with its casting of Barbara Gordon, since Dina Meyer perfectly embodies the journey her comic counterpart underwent - as a civilian, as Batgirl, and as Oracle. Small wonder she’s considered a sacred cow by fans.

Lucius Fox: Morgan Freeman Chris Chalk Domonique Adam Simon Manyonda

And the winner is...

It’s fucking Morgan Freeman, guys. Perfect casting is perfect.

The Joker: Cesar Romero Jack Nicholson Roger Stoneburner Heath Ledger Jared Leto Cameron Monaghan Joaquin Phoenix Nathan Dashwood Barry Keoghan

And the winner is...

The Joker is such a chaotic character who has undergone so many changes throughout the comics’ run that it’s incredibly hard to pin down the essence of the character. But this is exactly what Heath Ledger’s depiction managed to do. He’s funny yet terrifying, brilliant yet insane, loud and colorful yet sneaky and subtle, arrogant yet self-deprecating, being motivated solely to spread chaos yet also feeling the need to justify that chaos to the rest of the world, doesn’t like to fail yet also finds it hilarious if he does, hates Batman yet loves him, and has an unlimited amount of origin stories in his own head that he’ll always sincerely believe to be true whenever he recalls them. He’s simply....the Joker, plain and simple.

Selina Kyle / Catwoman: Julie Newmar Lee Meriwether Eartha Kitt Michelle Pfeiffer Anne Hathaway Camren Bicondova Lili Simmons Zoë Kravitz

And the winner is...

She may never be called “Catwoman” in the film, but Anne Hathaway’s Selina Kyle best represents her traditional depiction from the comics - a smart, skilled and seductive thief with a heart of...bronze, I guess, who provides a challenge, temptation and reflection to Batman. Many adaptations struggle at making Catwoman either just a villain or just an anti-hero, but this one managed to get both roles down over the course of just two and a half hours.

Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin: Burgess Meredith Danny DeVito Robin Lord Taylor Colin Farrell

And the winner is...

When you get down to it, the Penguin is a social outcast turned master criminal who reflects both the bitterness of being a social outcast and the desire to still be accepted into society. DeVito’s monstrous version of the character reflected no sincere desire to be part of society, and unless we learn more about him and his backstory in his spin-off series Farrell’s mafioso appears to be doing quite well for himself. This leaves Meredith and Taylor as the more faithful renditions of the character, and I feel Meredith is basically the same as where Taylor ends his run - the full-fledged Penguin - so he gets the nod. Plus, that amazing voice of his!

Edward Nygma / The Riddler: Frank Gorshin John Astin Jim Carrey Cory Michael Smith Paul Dano

And the winner is...

This is one winner that has no chance of being supplanted, ever. Why? Because Frank Gorshin virtually created the Riddler. Before he was cast in the role, the character was just a D-List foe who had appeared twice early in the comics’ run before vanishing and then ended up having the good luck of making a return appearance at the same time the TV show entered production. Gorshin is the one who elevated the Riddler to superstar status, and it’s not hard to see why - he might be the only villain on the show to be genuinely intimidating in addition to gleefully over-the-top campy; he sells being a mad genius like nobody’s business.

Harvey Dent / Two-Face: Billy Dee Williams Tommy Lee Jones Aaron Eckhart Nicholas D'Agosto

And the winner is...

Williams and D’Agosto never got to be Two-Face so there was a sense of pointlessness to their Harvey Dents. Tommy Lee Jones never got to be Harvey Dent and.....actually, come to think of it, he never got to be Two-Face either, I have no idea what the fuck that was but it certainly wasn’t Two-Face. And this, of course, means that Aaron Eckhart wins by default.

Jonathan Crane / The Scarecrow: Cillian Murphy Charlie Tahan David W. Thompson Vincent Kartheiser

And the winner is...

Sadly, we have yet to get a satisfactory Scarecrow in live-action, so Jonathan Crane is the only standard we have to go by. And in that regard, Cillian Murphy did the best job at portraying the smarmy psychopath who uses fear as a cover for his own inner cowardice.

Victor Fries / Mr. Freeze: George Sanders Otto Preminger Eli Wallach Arnold Schwarzenegger Nathan Darrow

And the winner is...

We also have yet to get a satisfactory live-action Mr. Freeze that lives up to the definitive redefining the character underwent in Batman the Animated Series, so George Sanders it is.

Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy: Uma Thurman Claire Foley Maggie Geha Peyton List Bridget Regan

And the winner is...

I’m disappointed we never got to see Peyton List get a full wardrobe change solidifying her transformation into Poison Ivy, because in terms of looks, writing and performance her take nails the essence of the comics character the most: a mentally ill environmental extremist who has lost most of her humanity to plants, and yet that humanity is never fully extinguished thus the hope it can be reclaimed remains. None of the other versions really come close.

Jervis Tetch / The Mad Hatter: David Wayne Benedict Samuel

And the winner is...

David Wayne was fun but not an accurate depiction of the Mad Hatter, who at his core is a small man who wants to feel big through controlling other people by force. Benedict Samuel’s version showed that perfectly with his disturbing sister complex, and how much further he spiraled out of control after losing her. I especially love how he starts out unshaven and with long hair, but by the end has shaved and cut his hair to look like the traditional Mad Hatter.

Lazlo Valentin / Professor Pyg: Michael Cerveris Rob Nagel

And the winner is...

No contest. Nagel’s take is forgettable, whereas Cerveris is both humorous and horrifying. That fleshy rubber mask of his is also much more appropriate than Nagel’s generic one.

Bane: Robert Swenson Tom Hardy Shane West

And the winner is...

Bane is supposed to be super smart in addition to being super strong, and to date Tom Hardy’s portrayal is the only one to grasp that. Yes, his voice is ridiculous, but it’s also memorable to the point of iconic status, which is already more than you can say about Swenson’s mindless brute or West’s try-hard edginess. Tom Hardy wins this one easily.

Ra's Al Ghul: Liam Neeson Matthew Nable Alexander Siddig

And the winner is...

Liam Neeson is great, but he has been one-upped hard. Not only is Alexander Siddig the only Ra’s to have remotely the correct nationality, but his appearance, voice and presence is just spot-on to how the immortal Demon’s Head has been depicted in the comics since his creation. He also does a better job at being the Greater Scope Villain than Neeson’s version, and both him and Neeson are leagues ahead of Nable’s lame-ass, inconsequential version. 

Talia Al Ghul: Marion Coitllard Lexa Doig

And the winner is...

Her father may have been a spectacular dud, but Arrow’s rendition of Talia does justice to the ever-conflicted character from the comics, certainly moreso than Marion Coitllard’s take.

Harley Quinn: Mia Sara Margot Robbie

And the winner is...

I dislike that Margot Robbie’s version takes after the modern trend in the comics to make Harley Quinn into DC’s own female version of Deadpool, but nobody can deny the energy, passion and humor that Robbie puts into her portrayal, which still hits closer to the mark compared to whatever the fuck Mia Sara’s “diabolical mastermind” version was doing.

Carmine Falcone: Tom Wilkinson John Doman John Turturro

And the winner is...

Now, I fucking love John Turturro’s version of the character. But in terms of fealty to the comics, then John Doman wins out for his menacing yet dignified and complicated portrayal.

Sal Maroni: Dennis Paladino Eric Roberts David Zayas

And the winner is...

I don’t find any of these Maronis particularly intimidating, but at least Robert’s got charisma.

Victor Zsasz: Tim Booth Anthony Carrigan Alex Morf Chris Messina

And the winner is...

What is going on with Zsasz in live-action adaptations? They’re all mob hitmen rather than deranged serial killers! Is Zsasz somehow too inappropriate to adapt correctly? Why is his villainy where the line is drawn? In any case, Carrigan’s version is the only one to form an actual character in place of what’s been excised, and an entertaining one at that, so he wins.

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Feb 2018

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) counted over 100 people killed or injured by alleged perpetrators influenced by the so-called "alt-right" — a movement that continues to access the mainstream and reach young recruits.

On December 7, 2017, a 21-year-old white male posing as a student entered Aztec High School in rural New Mexico and began firing a handgun, killing two students before taking his own life. At the time, the news of the shooting went largely ignored, but the online activity of the alleged killer, William Edward Atchison, bore all the hallmarks of the “alt-right”—the now infamous subculture and political movement consisting of vicious trolls, racist activists, and bitter misogynists.

But Atchison wasn’t the first to fit the profile of alt-right killer—that morbid milestone belongs to Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old who in 2014 killed seven in Isla Vista, California, after uploading a sprawling manifesto filled with hatred of young women and interracial couples (Atchison went by “Elliot Rodger” in one of his many online personas and lauded the “supreme gentleman,” a title Rodger gave himself and has since become a meme on the alt-right).

Including Rodger’s murderous rampage there have been at least 13 alt-right related fatal episodes, leaving 43 dead and more than 60 injured (see list). Nine of the 12 incidents counted here occurred in 2017 alone, making last year the most violent year for the movement.

Like Atchison and Rodger, these perpetrators were all male and, with the exception of three men, all under the age of 30 at the time they are alleged to have killed. The average age of the alt-right killers is 26. The youngest was 17. One, Alexandre Bissonnette, is Canadian, but the rest are American. 

The “alternative right” was coined in part by white nationalist leader Richard Bertrand Spencer in 2008, but the movement as it’s known today can largely be traced back to 2012 and 2013 when two major events occurred: the killing of the black teenager Trayvon Martin and the so-called Gamergate controversy where female game developers and journalists were systematically threatened with rape and death. Both were formative moments for a young generation of far-right activists raised on the internet and who found community on chaotic forums like 4chan and Reddit where the classic tenets of white nationalism — most notably the belief that white identity is under attack by multiculturalism and political correctness — flourish under dizzying layers of toxic irony.

The Killings Started in California

The timeline for alt-right killers began on May 23, 2014.

On that day, college sophomore Elliot Rodger stabbed his three roommates to death before driving to a sorority house at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and shooting several women. He then killed or injured several pedestrians with both gunfire and his vehicle before exchanging fire with police and eventually taking his own life. He ultimately killed seven and wounded 14.

Rodger left behind a sprawling 107,000-word manifesto titled, “My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger,” which contained passages lamenting his inability to find a girlfriend, expressing extreme misogyny and various racist positions including disgust for interracial couples (despite the fact that he was multi-racial himself (half-Chinese)).

“How could an inferior, ugly black boy be able to get a white girl and not me? I am beautiful, and I am half white myself,” Rodger wrote. “I am descended from British aristocracy. He is descended from slaves.”

Rodger frequented PUAhate, a deeply misogynistic forum populated by failed “pick up artists” dedicated to revealing, “the scams, deception, and misleading marketing techniques used by dating gurus and the seduction community to deceive men and profit from them.” Discussions about women on the forum are at best objectifying and at worst, violent.

The term, “white sharia,” allegedly coined by Sacco Vandal of the popular alt-right site Vandal Void, is a radical response to Patrick Buchanan’s argument in Death of the West: that the increase in immigration and decline of white birthrates is leading to the end of Western civilization. Rodger’s celebration at the 504um, one of the premier alt-right forums, is the rule rather than the exception, and locates misogyny at the core of the alt-right.

Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer’s founder and chief propagandist, has his own troubling history of vicious misogyny, tracking all the way back to high school.

In the aftermath of Rodger’s killing spree, a user at 4chan/b/ posted a photo from Rodger’s Facebook page with the note, “Elliot Rodger, the supreme gentleman, was part of /b/. Discuss.” This sentiment was echoed by other /b/ users who found similarities between his lexicon and that of the noxious board, including the term “beta,” used by men online to describe themselves as lacking the physicality, charisma and confidence associated with alpha males.... The term resurfaced on 4chan/r9k/ in the wake of a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, by Chris Harper-Mercer, who killed nine and wounded at least seven others at the college on October 1, 2015. “This is only the beginning. The Beta Rebellion has begun,” one anonymous user wrote. “Soon, more of our brothers will take up arms to become martyrs to this revolution.”

Although never proven, it is widely speculated that Harper-Mercer was a user on the board as warnings against attending school the following day that circulated on the eve of the shooting. Authorities believe Harper-Mercer, who like Rodger was multi-racial, was also motivated by white supremacist ideas. The Government Accountability Office categorized the Roseburg killings as “white supremacist” in an April 2017 report.

2017: A Year of Alt-Right Violence

The first killing in 2017 that can be tied to the alt-right occurred on January 29 in Canada. A 27-year-old university student named Alexandre Bissonnette allegedly brought a semiautomatic rifle into the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City and shot and killed six worshippers while injuring 19—two critically.

On May 20, 2017, Sean Urbanski, a 22-year-old University of Maryland student, allegedly stabbed and killed newly commissioned Lt. Richard Collins, III. Authorities described the attack as “totally unprovoked.” Urbanski approached Collins, who was black, and two friends at 3 a.m., seemingly intoxicated, and said, “Step left, step left if you know what’s best for you.” When Collins refused, Urbanski stabbed him. Urbanski, however, was a member of a Facebook group called “Alt Reich: Nation”.

Less than a week later, Jeremy Christian, a 35-year-old Portland resident, allegedly stabbed and killed two people and severely wounded another passenger on a train while they were defending two young women from his anti-Muslim and racist remarks. Christian, who identified as a white nationalist and had a history of violence and mental illness, had a Facebook page filled with racist and bizarre political content. Witnesses at an alt-right free speech rally in the month preceding the stabbing saw Christian wearing an American flag cape, yelling racial slurs and making Nazi salutes. 

Two months later, on July 14, 2017, Lane Maurice Davis, 33, allegedly stabbed his father, Charles Davis, to death at the family home in Skagit County, Washington, after accusing his father of pedophilia. Davis, a conspiracy theory obsessive who went by the name ‘Seattle4Truth’ online and accused his father, not based on his own experience, but instead on his belief that liberals around the world are participating in secret pedophilia rings. Davis was reportedly a researcher for Milo Yiannopoulos and claimed to have ghost written pieces on Breitbart News for the former tech editor. 

In the months leading up to Unite the Right, members of the alt-right colonized and organized themselves on the gaming chat platform Discord. This includes Auernheimer who was a frequent participant in the Daily Stormer’s server, “Thunderdome,” where he regularly interacted with site readers and put out calls for action.

Young, White, Angry, Male

According to Dr. Eric Madfis, author of a 2014 paper on the intersectional identities of American Mass Murderers, young, white, middle class, heterosexual males commit mass murder at a disproportionately high rate relative to their population size in the United States.

The rate of mass murders spiked in the 1970s and 1990s. Between 1966 and 1999, there were 95 cases of mass public shootings. Between 1976 and 2008, mass murders occurred roughly twice per month, claiming an average of 125 deaths each month. A more recent study published by Mother Jones identifies 95 mass shootings in the United States since 1982. Of those, 55 (59%) were committed by white men.

FBI crime data suggests that ages 16 to 24 are peak time for violent crime. According to Dr. Pete Simi, Director of the Earl Babbie Research Center at Chapman University, "This is a period of substantial transition in an individual's life, when they're less likely to have significant attachments in their life that deter them from criminal violence."

Madfis’s 2014 paper from the University of Washington investigates the role of intersectional identities in mass murder incidents and argues that young, white males' unique downward social mobility, relative to his expectations, accounts for their overrepresentation as perpetrators of mass murder.

Only one in five mass murderers are “likely psychotic or delusional,” however, according to Dr. Michael Stone, a forensic psychiatrist at Columbia University.

A 2001 study conducted by Meloy examining 34 adolescent perpetrators of mass murder found that 59% were the direct result of a triggering event. That rate jumped to 90% among adult mass murders. 

Dr. Elliott Leyton, an expert on serial homicide, argues that contemporary mass murderers often target the perceived source of lost financial stability or class prestige. The alt-right, which couches its mission in terms of surviving literal extinction, routinely laments so-called reverse racism and affirmative action as well as immigration in all its forms.

The grievances collected by those motivated by the white nationalist ideology at the heart of the alt-right often do not begin with racist propaganda, but rather in the toxic communities of the men's rights movement... The age-old racist argument - that black men are 'taking our women' — is made regularly. Racist slurs are chucked around casually. There seems to be a significant overlap with organised white supremacy." 

Andrew Anglin once wrote “[o]ur target audience [for the neo-nazi website Daily Stormer] is white males between the ages of 10 and 30.”

Wiring Young Neurons

“Our target audience is white males between the ages of 10 and 30,” Anglin wrote in his “PSA: When the Alt-Right Hits the Street, You Wanna be Ready.” “I include children as young a ten, because an element of this is that we want to look like superheroes. We want to be something that boys fantasize about being a part of. That is a core element to this. I don’t include men over the age of 30, because after that point, you are largely fixed in your thinking. We will certainly reach some older men, but they should not be a focus.”

[Richard] Spencer told Mother Jones in December of 2016 before a contentious speaking engagement at Texas A&M University. “I think you do need to get them while they are young. I think rewiring the neurons of someone over 50 is effectively impossible.”

Undeniably, their efforts have had success. Mainstay racist conferences, like the annual gatherings of American Renaissance and the National Policy Institute, are attracting larger audiences, no longer dominated by their once singular demographic of middle-aged white men.

On a panel at Harvard University in October, Derek Black, son of longtime white supremacist Don Black, who once represented the future of the movement until he renounced racism during college, described his surprise at seeing so many young participants in Charlottesville:

I can say for sure my entire life in white nationalism I went to conferences many times a year. I spoke at them. I tried to organize them. I organized online through my dad's site [Stormfront] through organizations whether Jared [Taylor]'s AmRen or David [Duke]'s EURO or Council of Conservative Citizens … Everybody at these things is gray-haired. Me and two other people would be under 40. That was it. Which is partly why I took this impression that this is not gonna last. And a lot of that is because young people have a lot to lose … Young people who show up to a rally like that are going to get their identities exposed online and then it's gonna be hard for them to get jobs … I cannot actually explain what changed. The one striking thing about Charlottesville…was there's a ton of young kids like college-age or actual college students who got on buses and went to this who I don't think had been to an event like that before. 

Alt-right groups such as Identity Evropa and Vanguard America are marketing themselves exclusively to college and high school-aged individuals.

Then, on October 19, barely two months after the chaos of Charlottesville, the University of Florida was forced to host a Spencer speaking engagement under threat of a lawsuit........................ Hours later, three of his supporters were arrested for attempted murder after an alleged confrontation with protestors in which Spencer’s supporters threw stiff-armed salutes and one fired a shot at the urging of his accomplices. 

Not Even 21

James Alex Fields was only 20 years-old when he drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of attendees and protestors during August’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, injuring 19 and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. Fields stood with members of Vanguard America during the rally and carried a shield with the militaristic, alt-right group’s insignia on it.

According to police records, Fields also had a troubling history of childhood domestic violence — which experts see in about 1 in 6 mass killers. In 2010, Field’s mother called 911 after he attacked her for telling him to stop playing a video game. Other records reveal that he brandished a 12-inch knife at her on a separate occasion. His disabled mother uses a wheelchair.

Just three months prior to Unite the Right, another young, white man with a history in the alt-right, 18-year-old Devon Arthurs, allegedly killed two of his roommates... in Florida. Arthurs, who was taken into custody by authorities after holding employees of a tobacco shop hostage, had converted to Salafism, an ultraconservative form of Sunni Islam, and begun defending ISIS online a year prior. He was previously a leader of a National Socialist group known as the Atomwaffen (“Atomic Weapon”) Division which formed on the fascist forum Iron March. 

In the year leading up to the shooting, Arthurs appeared to be blending his alt-right beliefs with his newfound adherence to extremist forms of Islam. His username changed from Weissewolfe to Kekman Al-Amriki, a combination of the trollish god of “meme magic” common to 4chan and the name of an American member of al-Shabab, an Islamic militant organization. According to VICE, Arthurs also spoke of “white sharia,” a concept exemplifying the brutal, misogynistic core attitudes of the alt-right and those it has inspired to violence.

Leaderless Resistance

In 2014, after longtime Klansman Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. killed three at a Jewish community center and a retirement home in Overland Park, Kansas, Brad Griffin of Occidental Dissent published an article on the topic of “self detonating lone wolf vanguardists.” According to Griffin, “a ‘self detonating lone wolf vanguardist’ is someone who is radically alienated from society and who has given up on persuasion, a fanatacist who is inclined toward violent methods of bringing about eschatological political change, who usually acts alone or with an accomplice in the name of a movement without the support of assistance of any group, and who typically explodes, lashes out, or ‘self detonates’ without warning in rampage shootings, murder-suicides, and bombing campaigns.”

In its just over four years of operation, the Daily Stormer’s audience included at least three readers who were either convicted or indicted for murder. 

"An Age of Ultraviolence"

On June 17, 2015, Dylann Storm Roof killed nine African-American worshipers and wounded one while attending a Bible study class at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof, then 21, told his victims, including Reverend and State Senator Clementa Pickney, that, “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country, and you have to go.”

In a manifesto posted to his website, lastrhodesian.com, Roof cited the Trayvon Martin case as his inspiration for searching on Google for “black on White crime.” According to Roof, “I have never been the same since that day. The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief.”

On March 22, 2017, another Daily Stormer reader, James Harris Jackson, was arrested after stabbing 66-year-old black man Timothy Caughman with a sword in Manhattan. Jackson, an army veteran, was 28 at the time of the alleged stabbing. He travelled to New York from Baltimore, Maryland, to conduct a “practice run” for what was intended to deter white women from race-mixing. He told a media source after his arrest that, “the white race is being eroded.” 

On Friday, December 27, a 17-year-old white male, reported to be Nicholas Giampa, allegedly shot and killed the parents of his ex-girlfriend in Reston, Virginia, before turning the gun on himself. According to reports, the parents had facilitated the break-up after learning that Giampa held neo-Nazi beliefs.

Giampa’s account also attempted to engage with those of alt-right leaders and organizations like Mike Peinovich, VDARE, the Traditionalist Worker Party, Identity Evropa, as well as Vanguard America, the neo-Nazi group that James Fields was photographed with in Charlottesville. One of Giampa’s main obsessions, however, was the hardcore neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen.

2018 is already off to a disturbing start. On January 2, Blaze Bernstein, a college student who was gay and Jewish went missing and was later found murdered. Friends of the accused murderer, Samuel Woodward, told ProPublica that Woodward was a committed neo-Nazi and member of Atomwaffen which may have as chapters in as many as eight states.

This former Atomwaffen member also said that the events in Charlottesville had a major impact on the group. Its membership doubled.  

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“Non sono abituata a fare la cheerleader dei leader stranieri, e mi dispiace vedere questo provincialismo della sinistra italiana che si disinteressa dell’interesse della nazione che guida e sta lì a sventolare i pompon per i leader stranieri che vincono o perdono nelle altre nazioni.” Lo ha detto ieri sera Giorgia Meloni su Canale 5. Lo ha detto davvero. Un qualunque normale giornalista, dopo un’affermazione del genere, le avrebbe ricordato che: 1. L’unico “cheerleader” politico riconosciuto in Italia (copyright “The Independent”) è il suo fedele collega di coalizione in 20 regioni su 20 e in un numero incalcolabile di comuni. E no, non tifava Biden ma Trump 2. Non risulta che alcun leader della sinistra italiana abbia mai sventolato bandiere, intonato cori o indossato mascherine inneggianti a Biden, a differenza di noti “capitani mascherati” leghisti. 3. Nessuna delegazione dem si è recata a Washington a sostenere la campagna elettorale di Biden, mentre nello stesso periodo Giorgia Meloni volava gioiosamente negli States per partecipare a comizi ultraconservatori insieme a Trump. 4. Non risultano tracce di finanziamenti del Partito Democratico americano a Pd o a qualsiasi partito della sinistra italiana, mentre esistono molteplici prove dei legami politici e amicali (se non finanziari) di Meloni e i suoi con l’ex ideologo della campagna di Trump Steve Bannon (quello arrestato per truffa e riciclaggio di denaro sporco e che voleva decapitare Fauci) e con il mondo dell’ultradestra. 5. Infine: congratularsi con il nuovo Presidente eletto di un grande Paese alleato non è solo un dovere istituzionale minimo di un governo ma significa anche, prima di tutto, fare gli interessi dell’Italia che con l’amministrazione di quel Paese dovrà trattare, rapportarsi e dialogare di qui ai prossimi quattro anni, mentre l’opposizione sovranista viene allegramente sbertucciata dalla stampa internazionale. Solo che a intervistarla, ieri sera, mentre Giorgia Meloni diceva e mimava tutto questo, non c’era un qualunque normale giornalista e neppure un giornalista. C’era Barbara D’Urso. E, alla fine, tutto torna. Drammaticamente. Sempre. Lorenzo Tosa

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The Quest Chronicles: Gotham

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/hGfl9TA by NightwingAngeloftheMorning04 Shortly after the Quest Team move to Gotham, they find themselves joining forces with the Bat Family and both teams find themselves in a series of new adventures along with family drama and personal issues that could lead to possible life altering moments. Words: 1965, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of The Quest Chronicles: Gotham Fandoms: The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Batman - All Media Types, Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League - All Media Types, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Birds of Prey (Comic), Teen Titans (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, Gen Characters: Jonathan "Jonny" Quest, Jessie Bannon, Hadji Singh, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Alex Kenyon, Chloe Quest, Benton Quest, Race Bannon, Jezebel Jade, Jade Kenyon, Estella Velasquez, Bandit (Jonny Quest), Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Alfred Pennyworth, Barbara Gordon, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Duke Thomas, Luke Fox, Kate Kane (DCU) Relationships: Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson, Jessie Bannon/Jonathan "Jonny" Quest read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/hGfl9TA