#comicbook fan

[bobwilliams-art]

Mine is Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana when I was growing up and was old enough to buy my own music I became a metal head pretty fast but as I’ve gotten older my musical tastes are pretty much all over the place

[mro16-art]

Beast

[raymondsalvador]

S V S X

Part 2

[trawlhisface-blog]

Dropping random fan art of cosplayer @cutiepiesensei as Starfire on the beach.🏖️

[jihef03]

One of my favorite part of being a Green Goblin fan is the Cosplay. He's not overly popular or marketed, Marvel doesnt sell fully made Goblin costumes, so people do it their own way.

Trying to figure out what they want to do and how they gonna do it, putting pieces of different clothing together, crafting their own mask and sometimes making the glider themselves. There's a lot of room for creativity and craf, It's really cool to watch.

Especially since Goblin has such a cornball design you *know* no big-budget movie will go for the green and purple ensemble so it's great to see people bringing it life by their own means.

[monalisamartian]

Sad Hellboy hours </3

[charlescake]

CAKE is super excited to announce our first fundraising event since 2019! Save the date: May 25th, 2024. This fundraiser will have everything! We’ll be auctioning off art from all of your favorite indie cartoonists, we’ll be raffling off tons of comic and art goodies, there will be live comic readings and beer! Hosted by Beth Hetland and Kyle O’Connell. This will be an event you won’t want to miss! Admission is free!

Revolution Brewing Kedzie Taproom

3340 N Kedzie

Chicago, IL 60618

Saturday, May 25th, 2024 7pm-10pm

Stay tuned for our readers' announcement next week!

Super rad poster artwork by Jose Garibaldi! @cluepac 

[drawnaghht]

Samurai Rabbit trivia refs (+ name reminder)

just short post to say: Usagi is meant as his given name.

We don't know the lore or backstory for why Yuichi was picked as a surname

update from 6.01.2024: Candie Langdale, one of the showrunners for SR, confirmed that it is indeed Yuichi Usagi [surname][given name] and that they asked about Yuichi as a surname from both their japanese consultant and Stan.

the backstory is that they wanted to name him Usagi, but wanted to differentiate him from Miyamoto Usagi as well. They also wanted to honor the guy working at the karaoke bar they had been frequenting the past 12 years. Yuichi was considered based on these as a surname.

(read the reply in this post post by Freakova here: https://www.tumblr.com/freakova/738803294989860864/the-writers-of-samurai-rabbit-have-confirmed-that)

the show follows the same naming conventions as the comic, so [surname][given name] as in real-world japan, Gen introduces himself as Murakami Gennosuke in ep 4.

However, it mostly drops honorifics in the EN language original (but the honorifics are back for some characters in the JP dub)

You can use/do whatever you want in your own fanfic/versions but it's just good to know where the show is coming from

You can also use them in the same way as Stan and the show's crew do - Usagi when it's just about him, Yuichi when they also bring Miyamoto Usagi into the convo, or "our Usagi"/Yuichi and "Stan's Usagi/Miyamoto when talking about them both.

Whether Yuichi is meant as a namesake, a title, or just a very rare surname, the show itself has all the younger/ally characters call each other by first name, while older/enemy characters get called by their title+surname (w/ the exception of Lady Fuwa and Chizu, bc of the story arc there)

his own aunt calls him Usagi

both names are probably meant to be used in general, but in-world, everyone who becomes friends with him starts calling him Usagi, which is the name he prefers to introduce himself (see episode 1)

(lol this next part is a lil debunked now after the news from 6.01.2024 haha)

I have a suspicion that maybe that's what the name was for, like a consideration for the old fans and new viewers. Maybe it was intentional because the showrunners were aware how naming is tricky for this franchise (re: that 1987 TMNT re-named Miyamoto Usagi "Usagi Yojimbo" and most 87 fans still know him as that? the showrunners are old enough to have been in that audience) so maybe they intentionally looked for something that would sound good as both surname and given name (just another thought)

Anyway, since there's still confusion by fans abt it, here's some good general sources also just for those interested in learning more random trivia abt the show. But these are the sources I've used to refute for myself what older posts/tags claim: that there was no research and no respect in the show for Stan's original work or for Japanese culture. From these it seems like the opposite is true.

"Samurai Rabbit Facts" - this is a "# facts" video but provides a lot of interesting trivia from both the show and crew, as well as about Stan's involvement in the show. Fun stuff in general, like how Usagi's sandal features Stan's signature as a fun easter egg to characters they wanted to include but didn't have time to.

The Comicbook Couples Councelling podcast with Stan and Samurai Rabbit crew (youtube vers) - This interview features Stan and art director Khang Le talking about the characters and the art, while showrunners Candie and Doug Langdale answer burning questions about the storylines and writing the show as well as learning new things during pre-production and research. Both sides talk a bit about the challenges of adapting something as prolific as Usagi Yojimbo for a younger audience.

The 2021 SDCC @Home panel with Stan, crew and cast - LOTS of fun visuals and very informative on how the crew worked on the show when the first COVID lockdown happened.

The POPverse interview with Stan Sakai - This is a great interview about many of these same things in the other interviews, if you prefer reading rather than listening to interviews.

I have my old post abt Usagi's names and the connection to Senso (one of the main inspirations for the series) and i'm writing a new one, but I thought this shorter post might be useful. Plus, while writing longer essay-like things can be fun for me personally, the ultimate goal there is to provide some food-for-thought for other fans while being informative abt the show itself. Hope this helps!

(update 16.01: both of these are now slightly disproven I suppose since we know the real reason from co-showrunner Candie Langdale now since january 6th haha xD but - still keeping these as the theory is still interesting).

[blackgirlsuperherorants]

So many bros viscerally angry about the mpreg storyline in the comics right now in which Zatanna curses Joker and he gets pregnant, and this is why dudebros don't deserve comics.

[lumisentertainment]

Get a first look teaser of Terry's Batsuit in our Batman Beyond live action fan film. In the style of the Battinson reveal.

There's just TWO DAYS LEFT left in our Kickstarter and we are so close to our goal! Please back the project if you can, share with friends and your neighbor down the street. We really need everyone's help to reach our goal.

[bobwilliams-art]

What’s your favorite zombie movie?

[mro16-art]

Jubilee

[raymondsalvador]

S V S X

Part 1

[kunstpause]

Idk, maybe it's me getting old, but making long "here's why you are wrong" lore posts in a preachy tone about something that was clearly done for the funnies alone feels unnecessarily petty and like someone's waving a "no fun allowed" shield around. The world will not end because people find a hypothetical situation in a fictional world that isn't 100% correct funny...

And if it's truly just about explaining the lore than a simple explanation on the post would have sufficed.

[hagaishi-sama]

[jihef03]

Asterix live-adaptions always reminding me that adapting a character’s clothing faithfully really does not mean it’s going to look good.