#conway castle

[runawayandhide]

The fireplace at Conwy Castle.

[revolutionaryjackelving]

Re-Examining Spider-Man 11: Class Relations

"Will Success Spoil #SpiderMan?" Re-Ex-SM is Back on Thanksgiving 2024! Looking at the #JohnRomitaSr era and how it connects to the superhero class struggle for love and better housing. Is Peter Parker a gold digger? The answer might surprise you!

THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO STEVEN ATTEWELL, IN HOMAGE TO HIS SERIES: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE For as much as Spider-Man is described being a working-class superhero, class is rarely analyzed in these stories. On account of the demands of the genre, the mainstream superhero action-adventure, Peter Parker rarely expresses ‘class consciousness’ in any direct sense. The nature of the…

[smashedpages]

Today in 1973, the Punisher logged his first mission in Amazing Spider-Man #129, as Gerry Conway and Ross Andru introduced the world to Frank Castle.

[lehoodcollector]

The Theme is Vengeance!!! Punisher and La Muerte!

[nerds-yearbook]

The Darkhold first appeared in Marvel Spotlight 4#, cover date June, 1972. The issue also introduced Buck Cowan, Garth, Miles Blackgar, Marlene Blackgar, and Strug. They were created by Gerry Conway and Mike Ploog. ("Island of the Damned", Marvel Spotlight 4#, Marvel Comic, Event)

[cidraman]

The Punisher (Arcade). Capcom - 1993.

[wanderingmind867]

I have not read many (if any) of Gerry Conway's comics, but I hate a lot of his choices when he was at Marvel. He chose to kill off Gwen Stacy, a character who did not need to die. She just did not need to die. Her death was meaningless. Also, he introduced the Punisher, who is just a serial killer that's become the darling of the american far right. Also, he cut Karen Page from Daredevil and shifted the series to San Francisco, abandoning all the pre-existing characters. Put simply: I do not understand the man's writing decisions. He sounds atrocious.

[marvelousmrm]

Marvel Preview #2 (Conway/DeZuniga, Jan 1975). Frank Castle follows a conspiracy of marines and political assassins to Chicago.

[samasmith23]

Ooff… even in their early days as a couple after just graduating high school, Frank & Maria Castle’s relationship was already beginning to show cracks!

Not only was Frank engaging in murderous acts of vigilante justice behind Maria’s back like when he targeted his old classmates who got his friend Steadman Sternberger killed in a drunk driving accident, but Frank abandons Maria immediately after she tells him he’s pregnant by joining the marines as an outlet for his anger & bloodlust (which he similarly did with hockey back in school) and gives zero reaction to his wife’s news, and 8 months later after returning from boot camp Frank doesn’t even say goodbye to Maria when he’s deployed into active service.

Jason Aaron has honestly done a phenomenal job so far in this maxiseries at highlighting how even long before officially becoming the Punisher, Frank Castle was always a deeply unstable and emotionally disconnected individual who hungers for violence, always hiding behind the convenient excuse of “enacting justice against evil doers” (even long before his wife and two children were infamously gunned down in the park during a mob shoot-out). The far-right scumbags IRL who constantly glorify the Punisher as a “hero” and claim that Aaron “emasculated and ruined the Punisher” with this series seem to forget that Frank Castle was originally envisioned back in the 1970s by writer Gerry Conway as a cautionary tale about the dangers of toxic masculinity and vigilante justice, as well as the failures of a corrupt neoliberal capitalistic society which produces monsters like Castle. All Aaron did was bring those monstrous traits that the Punisher has ALWAYS represented boiling up to the surface.

From Punisher (2022) #3 & #5-6 by Jason Aaron, Jesús Saiz & Paul Azaceta.

[mrsnancywheeler]

Sorry for spamming do not feel inclined to respond to any of these but I need this thought to be shared with the world

“HE LOOKS UP UP GRINNING LIKE A DEVIL” but it’s Finnick Odair (the king of eating you out) after giving you a mind blowing orgasm.

On a completely different note, modern Finnick would be such a swiftie (slow dances to “lover” with you in the kitchen) and he would either dress up as karma (is my boyfriend) or as the heartbreak prince but only if you’re miss americana

-🔱

nsfw

yes 100% absolutely, he'd give you the most mind blowing orgasm, grin up at you like the devil himself, say he just wants one more taste and he's eating you out as long as he can.

okay yes yes yes and this made start thinking okay

finnick would love 1989 and lover so much, he would go from slow dancing to lover and then be singing new romantics at the top of his lungs, spatula in hand as a makeshift microphone.

specially lakes/river reader is a fearless and midnights girlie which might be a weird combo but I feel like it just makes sense. especially young reader ie forever & always, the way I loved you, you belong with me, love story, fifteen, today was a fairytale, fearless

and then like growing up so midnights coded, you're on your own kid, midnight rain, mastermind, anti-hero, snow on the beach, maroon, would've could've should've, bigger than the whole sky, the great war

and conway, he's a speak now and folklore girlie. but he and reader definitely listened to debut growing up together and he's got an attachment to it like you were supposed to be Mary's song, and he bawled to teardrops on my guitar.

anyways he's so speak now foolish one, when emma falls in love except emma is how he sees reader and the perspective of love rather than admiration, castles crumbling, innocent, the story of us, mine

folklore in the sense of the 1, exile, cardigan, august, my tears ricochet, mirrorball

and reader and conway are so say don't go coded

anyways that was the first thought I had

but modern!finnick would definitely surprise you with tickets to the eras tour, try to make the best friendship bracelets ever, and need to do costumes. he would absolutely love it and want to be miss americana and the heartbreak prince

[scooby-review]

The New Scooby Doo Movies S2 E5-8

5. The Exterminator 

This episode follows the gang aiding Don Adams to exterminate bugs inside the house of a famous director, however, they are soon met with a series of strange occurrences. 

I think this episode is positively okay! 

Don Adams as our guest works for this! Much like Tim Conway in the previous episode, these characters seemingly aren’t their celebrity counterparts, more so, played by their celebrities. Don plays a very persistent exterminator that I often found funny! 

From what I understand, this episode is heavily influenced by the juvenile detective novel, The Secret of Terror Castle, written by Robert Arthur, Jr. Besides that, the episode is also seemingly inspired by a series of other influences, mostly early movies fitting with the house owner's job as a silent film director. Even his name, Lin Chaney, is an allusion to Lon Chaney, maybe best known for the silent horror movies Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). 

Once again, we see an episode use a slew of villains, although I don’t mind it too much here! It fits into the idea of this character as a movie star. To quickly rattle through them, there’s a handful inspired by early horror movies, these being the Wolfman, Frankenstein’s Monster and Mr. Hyde. As we will come to see, the majority of these monsters are reused assets, or at least, very closely resemble old characters. All three of these appear like their earlier counterparts. 

The other monsters are the Cat Creature, Bird Creature, Sea Monster and Creepy Man. All of these characters resemble more basic monster ideas, the first three anthropomorphic animals, the final a creepy man. The Sea Monster is a recolour of a prop that appears in  The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair, the first Batman crossover episode, and the Creepy Man is a recolour of Swampy Pete from The Ghostly Creep from the Deep.

However, as far as I can tell, the Cat and Bird Creature are completely unique designs, and both end up being my favourites. The Bird Creature has a spiky design paired with an olive green palette, he resembles a knight in his clothing, although he sits as a bust on the wall. Meanwhile the Cat Creature is almost Yeti like in design, he has brown fur and a large body, but his unique appearance allows him to stand out amongst this flurry of recolours, some more egregious than others. 

Besides these main points, I did love all the bug shenanigans in this episode, particularly the soldier ants and squirt bug. Stuff like this always makes me giggle. 

6. Weird Winds of Winona

As my review of the previous four episodes of this season indicated, I am a big fan of episodes that use Hanna Barbera characters as the guest stars. Therefore, this episode, the final one to do so, already takes bonus points. 

This episode follows the gang and Speed Buggy’s gang as they attempt to solve the mystery of powerful winds blowing in the titular Winona, which has driven everyone from it. 

The Speed Bugs (as I have just learnt their gang is called) consists of Speed Buggy, a yellow car, Debbie, Mark and Tinker. Of course, the stand out of this group is their “Scooby Doo”, Speed Buggy, the car is simply brimming with personality, he stands out against his inspiration where a character like Mark doesn’t. Also, his animation is weirdly gorgeous, like my God they drew this car in such a cool way, every movement accentuates his personality, his speech is perfect giving him the effect of a sputtering exhaust, oh my do I love him! Tinker is a fun character too, he acts almost as a Shaggy, which is a pattern for these shows that are inspired by Scooby Doo - most of the time, they include a Scooby and Shaggy. 

To delve into this formula a bit more clearly, the popularity of Scooby Doo led Hanna Barbera to use this show as a template. Roughly, they would take a group of teenagers and give them a “mascot”, they would usually solve mysteries, but this is not a requirement. Examples include The Funky Phantom, Clue Club, JabberJaw, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, Fangface and Josie and the Pusscats. This is only naming a few. I have a very specific interest in this era - most of the aforementioned cartoons didn’t last long, however, they are all so interesting to me. Frequently, they would also omit a Velma style character, blending her personality type into the other members of the gangs. 

Speed Buggy has become a fairly recurring character to appear in Scooby media - I think most Scooby fans will recognise him from Mystery Incorporated Episode Fourteen, where he appears alongside a handful of the other Scooby inspired shows characters. Although, he also has appeared elsewhere - he appeared in the Hanna Barbera Laff-a-Lympics on the Scoobie Doobies team, he also appears in the Scooby Doo! comic (issue 50) Big House Brouhaha (which is filled to the brim with cameos) and he also cameos in the most recent series Guess Who. This is not to mention that he also appears in the more recent show Jellystone!, which from what I understand, is a show that brings together a host of Hanna Barbera characters, I believe he is a fairly minor character. 

The interactions between the characters are what makes this episode enjoyable, the rest is somewhat whatever, but wow do these characters bounce off one another in a fun way! This episode is far from perfect, it suffers from the usual pitfalls of New Movies, yet, these bright lights are always appreciated. 

The villains, the Windmakers, sure do appear! They’re very bland “cult” members. Their designs are hooded men, they blend in my mind with the hooded man from The Dynamic Scooby Doo Affair, although I guess I’m happy they didn’t use a simple recolor here? 

When the episode fixates on just placing these two groups in a single desolate location, I’m loving it, but when the meandering and dull story takes over, I lose a lot of my interest. 

7. The Haunted Candy Factory

We follow the gang as they investigate a pair of green blobs that are terrorising a sweet factory. I actually love this location a lot, it feels like such a perfect eerie place to drop the gang, even if it puts Shaggy and Scooby in a series of very obvious gags - I enjoy them regardless!

Our guest for this episode is Cass Elliot, maybe best known for being in the band The Mama’s and Papa’s, although she also five very successful solo albums. Unfortunately, she passed away not long after this episode aired, partly because she partook in a lot of extreme diets that were popularised in the 70s (the grapefruit diet is mentioned by name) which gives a very tragic feeling to this episode given their frequent use of jokes about her weight. 

The villains of this episode are The Green Glob Ghosts, who are such boring designs, they’re dark green blobs, there’s not much more to them. However, they have a series of funny bubblegum and taffy shenanigans centred around them, which to me, only outlines how these blob creatures could have been even slightly more creative by using bubble gum or taffy as a more evident basis. I actually learnt that the Cotton Candy Glob from Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, which only furthers how much cooler this design could have been! The Cotton Candy Glob has so much personality, it oozes with style that accompanies the silly concept! 

I kind of have nothing to say about this episode, it’s incredibly dull! I’m sorry!

8. The Haunted Carnival

The final episode of this iteration! It follows the gang aiding Dick van Dyke after he opens an amusement park but receives no customers. 

Dick is best known for his roles in Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but he’s been in a slew of movies! Despite his position of owning the carnival in this episode, he still is the celebrity, unlike a character like Don Knotts (I think? Still sometimes unsure of what they were going for there). He’s fine in this episode! 

I wish I had any thoughts on this episode. It is maybe the most whatever I’ve felt about an episode - nothing stands out, not the villain, a ghostly strongman who is overshadowed by episode fours sportsman, not the guest and not the setting, which is overshadowed by Where are You’s Foul Play in Funland (S1E8).

The only note of worth I made about this episode was that I liked the caterpillar ride. Therefore, I won’t drag this out! 

That concludes The New Scooby Doo Movies! I’ll post my overall villain and episode ranking in the following weeks where I’ll include a final overview of the series as a whole. Thank you for reading :) 

Episode Ranking:

Weird Winds of Winona

The Exterminator

The Haunted Candy Factory

The Haunted Carnival

Villain Ranking:

Cat Creature

Bird Creature

Sea Monster

Mr Hyde

Ghostly Strongman

Hooded Men

Green Globs

Frankenstein's Monster

Creepy Man

Wolfman

Next Review: The New Scooby Doo Movies Villain Ranking

Previous Review: The New Scooby Doo Movies S2 E1-4

[runawayandhide]

[scarletsxnss]

open to women!

characters: victor "conway" reed , 55 , he / him , & bruce laurant , 33 , he / him 

plot: fantasy au ! lowkey just started reading a court of thorns and roses and want a plot based on that ( but make it poly ) . doesn't have to be exact , but victor captures ym and takes them to his mansion/castle . for any reason u choose , she's now fated to live out her days in this new place but is given a home by victor and bruce . i'm just gonna say they're demons so i'm not completely ripping off the book lol up to u if u wanna go full fantasy but im also down for ym to be from the modern era.

food was spread out on the table. with a wild display of wealth and abundance, victor opted to have the servants cook food from every corner of the earth—unsure of what type of food this particular human would want. his stoicism shines against the bright warmth of the nearby hearth. one by one, servants pour in bringing golden plates and goblets. victor's eyes barely look at his captive, since the journey from the land of the humans has caused him fatigue. his clothes were still clean, despite a long journey through the eye of the universe. his clean grey tunic sat beneath demonic steel armor—the only armor that can keep him safe from the fatality of human wepons. "eat." his voice nothing more than a low growl. "you haven't eaten in days."

the large table is set for three, though the third guest doesn't enter until he's fashionably late. servants begin shuffling out of the room and leave the two in silence. the quiet doesn't last for long before the doors swing open and the pompous arrogance can be smelled off the royal that enters. bruce dons a luxurious leaver outfit, lined with the nicest of white threads to accent the rough warrior clothing. "conway." the prince speaks, calling victor by his nickname. "i heard the pet is here. how is she—" his tall figure pauses when he sees the girl. "oh." a dissaproving tone mixed with a judemental look. "victor... you didn't... dress her? did you?" he finally takes his seat across victor and observes the woman. "when i heard we were finally recieving a guest, i honestly imagined her prettier. though i bet if you'd wear a nicer dress than you'd look lovely, sweetheart."

[smashedpages]

Today in 1973, the Punisher opened fire for the first time! Amazing Spider-Man #129 by Gerry Conway and Ross Andru introduced Frank Castle to the Marvel Universe. Iconic cover by Gil Kane and John Romita.

[redladydeath]

"You, you said that I tricked ya Cause I, I didn't look like my profile picture Too, too bad I don't agree So I'm gonna hang it up for everyone to see And you can't stop me cause I'm the queen of the castle Get down you dirty rascal Get down!"

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[joeinct]

Conway Castle and Suspension Bridge, Photo by Francis Bedford, c. 1864