#comicbook writing

[greasydumbfuck]

also just for the record. no matter how much utterly stupid shit i say or draw about him, frank actually makes me so deeply sad. this old man should be picking up his grandkids but he cant. i think about him too much and im so sad

[zeroducks-2]

Why are DC fans like this.

Cassandra is not Bruce's favorite, his precious little princess or whatever the fuck fanon came up with, Bruce treats her LIKE SHIT. You want to write them as happy and loving in your fic go ahead but FUCKING DAMN IT IT'S NOT CANON.

Why do yall let Bruce get away with so much bullshit I can never understand. He abused the fuck out of Stephanie and outwardly used her to manipulate Tim, and the reason why Cass "made it" is solely because Oracle!Barbara took her under her wing, taught her and nurtured her while Bruce was busy ignoring her and treating her like an asset in the best cases. Bruce is a deeply flawed and damaged person and IT SHOWS in the way he treats those around him ESPECIALLY the kids he's taken in.

Again, write and draw whatever you want but before claiming something is canon READ THE FRICKIN COMICBOOKS ajsjahfidjwhfskfj

[cyrusking100]

TW: Gore and body horror

"You rebuilt me....lied to me...took away my agency."

"I don't even know who....or what I am anymore."

"Oh god...oh god, what the hell am I now?"

"Man or machine, robot or human being? Just a vessel for an endless cycle of rebirth, am I even human if I can't even die?"

Thoughts and flashbacks cycled through his head, looking at his reflection in the puddle of his own blood, flashes of the mechanical beast stabbed through his mind, like the sharp edge of a knife, leaving invisible scars in his memory behind. He looked in terror at his metal skin through his artificial eyes. Who was he? What was he?

Only he could decide.

[unnamed-atlas]

On the one hand I understand why so many depictions of helsknight lean towards more fleshed out 3 dimensional and sympathetic portrayals. It's an interesting character archetype to dig into! On the other hand. The realest and truest version of him living in my head will always be a completely 2 dimensional disney queer-coded evil-for-the-sake-of-evil villain.

That man should be a dark figure you encounter on the edge of the woods at night who tells you no one will believe you and you know he's right when he says it. He should be the emotional manipulation bastard. He gets you killed and then two days later you wake up and he's standing in your kitchen making breakfast and he waves the knife around in vaguely threatening ways while he cooks the sausage and gaslights you at the same time. Your house burns down 2 days later. He should be stealing people's comms and impersonating them. Wels should be getting mocking calls in the dead of night. He should be committing over the top public acts of terror in the shopping district. He should be crashing events he shouldn't have even been aware of and asking why everything got so quiet all of a sudden. He should be posing next to his own wanted posters. There should be at least one kidnapping.

Do you get what I'm saying. I want him mean and intimidating and manipulative and a little bit silly and sardonic and absolutely incapable of remorse.

[omorales81]

Hit me up on the #BlueSky machine, same handle everywhere. I was a top 10% early adopter! #MakingComics #WritingCommunity

[comicsmithy]

I’d almost completely forgotten I wrote this insane thing…

https://screenrant.com/thor-lived-throughout-history-marvel-comics

[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).

[marshmyers]

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[teatitty]

Title/Link: Lovestruck, Heart Stuck Rating: Gen Pairing: Remy & Logan, background Logan/Ororo and Remy/Rogue Additional Tags: Fluff and Feels, Drinking, Remy? Talking about his feelings? Will wonders never cease, the boys are in love and being dumb about it Word Count: 1.2K

Summary/Preview: Remy and Logan run into eachother at a bar and, uncharacteristically, Remy asks for some advice

A/N: This...actually wasn't at all what I was meant to write for these two but it happened anyway so we're going with it. Gotta start somewhere!

[nightheartcomics]

This is the ‘big board’ displaying all the scene cards, divided into a ‘three act structure’ (there’re four rows because the second act has two parts to it). Arranging it this way makes it easier for me to fix all my mistakes haha! 🤘🖤

[zeroducks-2]

I'm still hoping Deathstroke will appear in the Harley Quinn later seasons. That would be hilarious.

I'm afraid it would all be "divorced dad of 3" jokes and not much more. I don't think there'd be any Sladick hints, but who knows I might be wrong!

I generally tend to roll my eyes a lil bit when characters like Slade appear in the more funny and/or wholesome DC products, see what happened in My Adventures With Superman in which he looks like a bishonen pokemon trainer affiliated with Team Rocket. But at least it gives us all a good ol' giggle.

[neilkleid]

Here we go, friends. My first @kickstarter goes live THIS Tuesday, JULY 11TH. We're working with our pals at Outland Entertainment to finally collect @kingsandcanvas by me, @jakeallenesq and Frank Reynoso! "'Game of Thrones'' meets 'Rocky Balboa'"! Pirates! Boxing dragons! Adventure and fantasy!

PLEASE go to our launch page, and tap "notify me on launch" to get notified when the campaign goes live:

And PLEASE share this with friends! The book only gets made if we hit our funding goal. Thanks again!

[thygoddessouijathicc]

About Patchwork Heart

So, this is probably going to be my pinned post or some shit. So if you do not know, I’m currently working on a project by the name of Patchwork Heart.

Patchwork Heart is a story about a monster by the name of Sapphire Valiant, who has amnesia, and social issues. She is forced into interacting with other people, a group of monsters she meets via being kidnapped by a monster trafficking ring.

Alongside these monsters she has to figure out who she is, right and wrong, and defeat at least 9 villains at this point, although it’s still in development so the number may rise or drop.

Patchwork Heart is a very dark story with incredibly mature themes and content. It will contain gore, a lot of swearing, mentions of abuse, drug use, references to murder, at one point a depiction of an attempted suicide, and likely much more. If you do not like these things, I do not recommend you read Patchwork Heart.

Patchwork Heart however despite the dark themes will not wallow excessively in darkness, it will be more under the surface (except for the gore, I’m warning you here, one of my OCs is literally a decomposing corpse full of bugs with his organs falling out). It plays more as a dark comedy about a group of bad people doing bad things and EVENTUALLY getting better.

I prioritize storytelling over comedy and edginess personally, in fact, my motto in writing is plot first. Patchwork Heart will be very heavily narrative based although it will have filler for the purposes of character exploration and of course one of my guilty pleasures, extreme anime fights.

So what is this post about?

I have said all of this, and much more in the past, so what am I getting at here? Well, this post is here to explain the project’s formatting, when it will exist, and my release schedule.

Although all of this may be subject to change, I have made a pretty solid plan for all of these things.

Patchwork Heart will be in a tv show format. And by that I mean it will have seasons and episodes. Each season will consist of about 24 episodes, and one main conflict, usually a villain, although the first season will not have one. These episodes will vary in length, but I promise they won’t be like 3 panels of nothing and that’s the end of the episode, I hate that.

Patchwork Heart is a passion project, and I am not going to get paid for it, at least not at this point in development. I may at some point open up a patreon, but I’m not going to lock this story behind a paywall. What’s the point of passion if you’re just going to monetize it?

No hate campaigns against people who don’t like my content, on the off chance I do get an audience I want to make one thing clear. I see the difference between hate, and a genuine criticism. Patchwork Heart contains many gay characters, and if someone dislikes the story, that doesn’t make them a homophobe unless they dislike the stories for homophobic reasons. People who criticize stuff like HGS and get accused by the creators of just being homophobic or transphobic deserve to have their opinions heard. In fact, if you have a criticism of Patchwork Heart and can offer advice on how to fix the issue, I might take up your advice if I find it to be reasonable. So don’t be afraid that I’ll be one of those creators who sends a rabid doxx crazy fan base after anyone who DARES slander my utterly perfect image with their gasp, actual criticism. I do not support these kinds of actions, in fact, I don’t support the mob mentality at all. Leave critics alone, opinions are opinions, and if they are right, I’ll listen.

There will never be a public discord. I do not see the point of one, I would never have time for one, and discord mods have a history of being really really bad people who abuse power and groom minors, of which I am one. Honestly, the website itself gives me the creeps, as do the people on it. So no, sorry, I refuse to make one. Very much in part by my not wanting to make a platform for people to groom people on, even if I would try to prevent it however possible the idea of it even happening to one person on a discord I made creeps me out because that would be my fault, and I’d feel like shit for letting it happen.

No Pedophiles, Proshippers, General Bigots, Doxxers, or otherwise terrible people. Regardless of what you call yourself, a pedo is a pedo, I don’t care if you identify as a “MAP”, you still wanna have sex with kids. Listen, I started in the Undertale fandom, aka, Proshipper paradise, containing Fontcest, Sanscest, Chariel, and Frans, and for years those shitty proshipper fantasies were hardly even seen as problems to me. Then one day I woke up and realized that incest, selfcest, incest again, and pedophilla, and none of it is ok, I was a kid, it pulled me in, and now I realized it for what it actually was, and that my initial skepticism that I had for the ships was founded. So basically, no I don’t respect proshippers, every fandom has an incest ship, an abusive ship, a pedophilla ship, and sometimes all of the above, but just because other fandoms are doing it does not make it any less of a problem. I wouldn’t send death threats because holy fuck who does that, I just don’t want any proshippers here, go back to vandalizing the works of Toby Fox or writing a concerning amount of Dipper x Mabel for Gravity Falls. I don’t accept bigotry in general, and I don’t want my fandom full of bigots, so leave. I don’t care why you do it, wether you just hate the person you’re doxxing or you genuinely believe that you’re somehow doing something good, I don’t care if you’re with me or against me, doxxing is unacceptable. You should never doxx anyone for any reason. And people who do, even for good causes, are just as bad if not worse than the person they doxx.

Patchwork Heart will not be out soon. This is one thing I am entirely confident on. Patchwork Heart will take YEARS. I don’t have the artistic skill to make it, it’s in early development and I don’t wanna pull a security breach and shove it out the door less than half finished. I have announced the project yes, and I will continue to supply updates right up until and even after the release of the first season.

Finally, my release schedule. I plan that once I start putting things out, it will be released in a bundle of 6 episodes dropped whenever they are ready similarly to Helluva Boss. There will be breaks in between seasons. But as I have said, I’m not leaving you high and dry, and you will be receiving constant updates and art.

Quickly before I go I’d like to say something more about the production. I am an indie author, I am working entirely alone on this project. Which I’ll admit might be part of why it’ll take so fucking long. If you are a writer and this project interests you feel free to contact me. But keep in mind, at this point I’m not getting paid for this at all, and have almost no audience. So I can’t pay you either sadly.

If you are interested in the project, and you’re a writer that would like to help, please contact me. Currently 100% of all art and writing comes from me, and that is terribly inefficient. Adding more members to the team would possibly cut down the time this takes by maybe even half.

Even if you aren’t interested in joining the project and you’re an artist or writer, still contact me, I’d love to chat with other creative people on this platform. Really it’s why I’m here.

Link to the patreon: Currently nonexistent.

Please repost this to spread it.

Cyanran

[newpioneers]

[comicsmithy]

How great is this!? A professional Kickstarter campaign for a comic proudly written by a girl in fifth grade!? And it looks great!

Put a few dollars into this and skip one of the endless corporate comics you are buying but not really enjoying this week!

[youtwitinmyface]