#capeshit

[itriedimhighandreadytodie]

Starting a crack theory that Bob worked at Jones' BBQ & Foot Massage

[elsannej]

More Guy "teacher student" Gardner posting

He's having a fantastic time actually.

Shout-out to @glam-rock-space-wizard's inspired comment:

"Guy may have loved education as a teacher but guaranteed he was half asleep through classes & drawing General Glory with himself as Ernie instead of studying."

>*neuron activation*

Here's my other Teacher Student Gardner post (this is turning into a damn series at this rate)

[artbyblastweave]

"Iron-Age" has never really caught on as a descriptive period for superhero fiction the same way that Golden-age, silver-age and Bronze age have all caught on. But golly is it fun to say

[yiddish-american-princess]

sorry i will defend capeshit with my life because for me, nothing has connected me with my jewishness more than cape media

superhero stories are drenched in our experiences, our folklore, our pain, our joy, etc. the superhero as we know it was inspired by the golem. there is no superhero without jews

our history is told through these stories: magneto, ragman, moon knight, superman as an allegory for jewish immigrants pre shoah, supergirl as an allegory for jewish immigrants post shoah, captain america as a golem, the thing, etc. even subconsciously jewish writers put their experiences into these works (read early x-men books lmfao). to read superhero comics is to read our history, our folklore, and the way we interact with the world around us.

the superhero is inherently jewish and you cannot separate the superhero from its jewish roots. and i love it

[lostinthebigcity]

some random opinions about dc comics that i need to toss somewhere:

i preffer when Batman's parents deaths are 1. a mystery and 2. undeniably connected to one or more of the mafia bosses in Gotham. this sets up two things about Batman: he's a detective, and he's not just beating up random criminals, he's dismantling organized crime, fighting people sometimes richer than himself, people that use poor kids as cannon fodder, in contrast to Bruce, who sometimes takes those kids in and gives them a better life, or sometimes just convinces them not to continue on the path of crime. i really like that one Alex Ross sequence where Bruce talks down a child from shooting him.

second opinion: the killing joke and it's consequences have been a disaster to the Joker mythos. the Joker works as a foil for Batman because he's an irredemable force of chaos that, unlike Bruce, isn't defined by his past. giving him a backstory takes away both of these. also, him having a main philosophy of why he acts the way he acts, the whole "one bad day" thing sucks. he shouldn't have an agenda, he should be the only Batman rogue that is evil for the sake of it. while Batman might have the hope of redeeming Killer Croc, Mr. Freeze or Poison Ivy, Joker's redemption should be unatainable.

now some lighter ones: i like when Lex is a childhood friend of Clark. i have this au idea where they were raised together and i hope i get to do something with it someday.

jaime reyes is an insanely interesting character and i hope they keep blue beetle in the dcu. i thought his movie was decent.

jason todd should be completely socially inept since he was dead for his teenage years. for the same reason, and not because he was poor like some fans imply, he should also be a little dumb, or at least out of touch with some world events.

let tim graduate from robin for the love of god. even "drake" was better than this (no it wasn't but that's real world drake's fault)

i did not care for the new gods. did not care for them. they insist upon themselves.

the justice league needs to be more diverse, both in terms of characters and of gender/race. look at the avengers right now, the only two founding members are Thor and Iron Man, they have 4 characters of color (more than the number of white characters, which is huge). the trinity doesn't always need to be there! sometimes superman is out in space! sometimes gotham is too fucked up for Batman to come help! sometimes Wonder Woman has to deal with the god's bullshit!

(image of the werecapybara) as a brazilian, i think Fire plays a little too much into the "sexy person from an exotic culture" archetype, at least from what i've seem. i might read her new comic with Ice to see if it's still like that. also both of those superhero names are so lazy 😭😭😭

[87dvhnk]

[meatmanuel]

"THE 30-YEAR DECLINE OF THE EXPERTS OF LIBERTY"

hey. here is a little bit i wrote about some characters i have been working on. enjoy it okay.

[mindless-cinematic-trash]

[jordanstuff]

A Machine filled with HATE

A Man filled with LOVE

[pollackpatrol]

[ID: A fake screenshot of a news show, showing a picture of J. Jonah Jameson. Text reads, "J Jonah Jameson reports," and, "'This isn't because you're trans, Spider-Man' Daily Bugle editor shouts." End ID.]

[experimentego]

Captain America: Brave New World (dir. by Julius Onah, 2025)

I saw Captain America: Brave New World. It’s not good enough to be worth recommending, and it’s not terrible enough to make for a laugh watch. That's unfortunate for a movie with two armored birdmen and an angry red guy who tears up some of Washington D.C.'s most treasured scenery.

Brave New World desperately wants the reverence accorded to 2014’s Captain America: Winter Soldier by MCU die hards. There’s an abandoned military shed filled with evil stuff, an old friend turned brainwashed assassin. But it devolves into oddly paced busywork for its heroes.

The best stuff comes, unsurprisingly, from Harrison Ford, who plays Thaddeus Ross. The late William Hurt originated the character as a kind of ornery political tugboat, but in Brave New World he's a sweaty, mercurial mess – desperate to prove he can be a force for change and unity.

I’ve long warmed up to the idea that spoilers aren’t such a bad thing, but Brave New World’s problem is that the best spoiled reveals aren’t made better by the telling. There’s no texture or nuance to the Red Hulk, returning characters don’t complicate or twist its intended themes. Already there’s buzz among nerds about how this is effectively a sequel to 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, sans an actual appearance from THE Hulk. And while it’s great to finally see some dormant plot threads resurface, Brave New World doesn’t do anything with them. They’re just pretext.

Regarding Ruth Bat Seraph, the Israeli character who, in the comics, is an agent of the Mossad: She’s paper thin, an inconsequential non-entity who exists so that Cap has someone to talk to other than Joaquin. Her background is retooled for Brave New World, but there’s no reason for viewers to care.

But the worst thing about Brave New World is it still does nothing to lock Sam Wilson for everyone to accept as the new Captain America. I’m not crazy about Anthony Mackie as an actor, but it’s not his fault that the MCU continuously fails to make a compelling argument for him. 2021’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier sat on its hands over the same issue, one inflicted upon the character by the disprivilege of being Black in a mostly white milieu and fighting an uphill battle against the worst elements of pop culture fandom.

But Brave New World refuses to properly thread the needle when it comes to the legacy of the Captain’s mantle and Sam’s own impostor syndrome, by refusing to let those insecurities be fully explored or reckon with the full mythopoetic implications of a Black man wearing the stars and stripes.

The MCU is a bunch of cartoons featuring people who fly, punch and fire death beams while holding forth on global security and uncertainty in a multiversal cosmos. I eat that capeshit slop up, for sure, and never expect more. But that doesn’t mean Brave New World has to meet me at the basement.

[enthusiastofshit]

[elsannej]

[artbyblastweave]

What is this "Capeshit" term that I keep hering about. I stopped looking at superhero media on a constant basis some 10 years ago and now I'm just a casual fan.

semi-derogatory term for the perpetual extrusions of Big-two comics and MCU properties, which has morphed into a semi-legible catch-all term for all superhero fiction, used by individuals who want to discuss their enjoyment thereof, or seething hatred thereof, from behind a protective aegis of detached irony. Like all punchy, detachedly ironic terms I'm 90 percent sure it originated on 4Chan and eventually filtered into general parlance because there was a niche in the lexicon for it to fill. Certainly I've never heard anyone speak the term out loud

[indie-ttrpg-of-the-week]

really wish my stupid standards considered Masks an indie game because it'd be like. the one time i get to nerd out about comics in this lololol

[87dvhnk]

please i am sick of them. everywhere you look they are hanging off of each other. i can't screenshot them all, but if they are on the page together even bug small in the corner half hidden behind a pillar where's waldo style they are entwined like twizzlers.