#comic book issues

[ultra-phthalo]

Transformers Skybound

I've finally been given my comic packages! You guys know what I'm going to be doing for the next hour or so. The front cover colours are so pretty.

[greenbookreclaim]

I'm sorry but. *Orders a comic book issue* *Orders a take out that has a discount code the same price as the comic issue* I love coincidences.

[babygirl-but-a-boy]

DC PAY FOR MY FUCKING Therspy bill istg

[shyjusticewarrior]

The fact that Tim and Jason's very first interaction in Knight Terrors Robin is literally:

Tim: Hey, lunkhead, are you still alive?

Jason: Unfortunately.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

oh noooo or whatever

bonus aka The Real Motive Behind This:

SURPRISE double bonus. textless ver of the first pic under the cut

[welcometogrouchland]

Disgustingly messy and crusty sketch dump but I couldn't get my own terrible theory out of my head and ended up making a bunch of sketches about it. Also at the end a bonus dickbats and Damian doodle bc I was reading an issue of their Batman and Robin run (IDs in Alt)

[comic-covers]

(1982)

[myriam-draws]

everyone read impulse 1995 for The Guy

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

Why The Ending Sucks

Ok I figured it out. Hear me out:

The entire comic has a running theme best summed up as "who is controlling the narrative, and why are we listening to them?"

Hussie plays a caricaturized version of himself that he describes as "buffoonish" and "oafish". Caricature!Hussie is well-meaning, but a dumb idiot who's incredibly biased in favor of certain characters and in disfavor of others (the most obvious example being his "love" of Vriska, but there's also the way he constantly disparages Eridan). As a result, you have to be VERY SKEPTICAL and VERY CAREFUL when approaching Homestuck's narration, because even when the "best" narrator is at the helm, he's not 100% trustworthy and incapable of giving the readers an unbiased view of the story.

I say "best" because, importantly, Hussie isn't the story's only narrator. He and Doc Scratch explicitly fight over control of the story - Doc Scratch, the child abusing predator who engineered Alternia's fascist murder society, whose shaping of its history is explicitly described by character!Hussie as "fanfic". He is then killed by Lord English, who is described by Hussie as embodying the "toxically masculine" and by extension, the patriarchy, and Caliborn explicitly takes control of the story. John even grapples with Caliborn's version of events, calling out how sexist and misogynistic and shitty it is.

So if we're keeping score: control over the narrative is LITERALLY wrested away from Hussie (who was already struggling to be unbiased) by fascists, abusers, and the patriarchy. It's stressed multiple times that Caliborn/LE are responsible for literally everything that ever happens; the reason the Game Over timeline ends the way that it does is because the alpha timeline is, in essence, the narrative LE is telling: the forces of fascism get to claim the new universe, thereby propogating itself, while friendship dies and all hope is lost.

Who's in control of the narrative, and why are we listening to them?

There are other minor examples of this, too: Aranea is an exposition fairy, and she's biased as fuck and wrong ALL THE TIME about her own teammates. Karkat's explanations and rationalizations are constantly tinged with his own self-loathing and self-blame. Sollux and Meulin are both prophets as per their Mage class, but are both so bogged down by their own emotional issues that the futures they pick out are actively harmful. So on and so on. At nearly every turn, you have to interrogate who's telling the story, what their motivations are, and what they're overlooking or deliberately obfuscating.

So given that this theme is so prevalent, and so thoroughly weighted toward "well, actually, maybe you shouldn't take narration at face value and should interrogate it and come to your own conclusions," it would be Really Weird for the story to go "actually, you can totally trust the narrative now because everyone gets a happy ending".

So, I know that it makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist, but here's my genuine take on Homestuck's ending:

The ending is shitty on purpose because the viewer is intended to take it as a dare to refute the narration and make something better.

Why are we letting character!Hussie tell the story? He's a biased idiot. Why are we letting the various avatars of LE and Caliborn tell the story? They're fascist, misogynistic, predatory assholes.

And - because Homestuck is a story about life - why are we letting idiots, assholes, abusers, and creeps dictate the story of real life? The world is full of forces that would try to take control of the story and make everyone else play along, represented in microcosm within the text of Homestuck. We cannot let those forces win.

So please go out and do something kind and hopeful and loving in the world today. Thanks for reading.

[fantastic-nonsense]

someone needs to do an issue tag fic to that one New Teen Titans issue where Dick gets tortured by Brother Blood for hours and then promptly turns around and still manages to be coherent and determined enough to save the Titans from certain death via cave monster the second they throw him back in the hole with the rest of his friends

[birdsbats-madness]

this is such a superman reply to someone threatening to kill him. you just know that he (clark kent) has had press training.

[hijinxinprogress]

Billy definitely thinks about random things during fights and decides the internet needs to know immediately

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Why would you—That's not—I just wanted to ask for help, why did you have to go and make it awkward???

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[mamawasatesttube]

wonder woman (1987) #161

this is so beautiful to me. the plot is "clayface discovers wonder woman is made of magical clay and Wants That Special Clay so he steals part of her body and now they have to figure out how to separate clayface clay from wonder woman clay" and the solution is a giant mystical centrifuge in the sky because the clays have two different densities. i love you absolutely batshit bonkers comic book plots i love you so much im healing im rejuvenated

[dailydccomics]

Bruce Wayne by Dan Mora

[shyjusticewarrior]

Tim 🤝 Steph

Calling Jason a dumbass