#dante hicks x leonardo leonardo

[redran6er]

Im probably the only one who ships these two lmao

[hardliquorrr]

Since I'm back (by zero demand) I now feel obligated to post everyday. Now I'm gonna just make a list(not in order) of all my favorite characters from movies and TV shows, for no reason

Jay and Silent bob (In every movie)

Banky Edward's (Chasing Amy)

Bethany (Dogma)

Alyssa (Chasing Amy)

Brody (Mallrats)

Hooper X (Chasing Amy)

Justice (Jay and Silent bob strike back)

Suzie the Orangutan (Jay and silent bob strike back)

Dante Hicks (Clerks the animated series)

Randal (clerks the animated series)

Leonardo Leonardo's Henchman, I don't remember his name (clerks the animated series)

Now for the non viewaskew related ones!

Wolverine (Every X-men media)

Storm (X-men 2000)

Mystique (X-men)

Rouge (X-men 2000, X2)

Toad (X-men 2000)

Nightcrawler (X2, X-men evolution and the prequel X-men movies)

Spike (X-men evolution)

Gambit (Wolverine X-men orgins 2009)

Wade Wilson (Wolverine X-men origins 2009)

Deadpool (Deadpool 1, 2 and 3)

Spider punk (Across the spider verse)

Miles Morales (Spider verse)

Spider-Man (Spider-Man 2002)

My favorites out of this list are Jay and silent bob and Nightcrawler

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High School Never Ends

Ship: Bear & Dante Hicks (platonic), Jay x Bear x Silent Bob [Celebrity AU]

Word Count: 925

Summary: Started writing this for my AU April event and only just finished it. After becoming a well-known model, author, and actor, Bear returns to Leonardo, New Jersey, for a high school reunion. They're disappointed by the way their fame makes others act around them, but at least their ex-flame Dante is just the same as he always was, for better or for worse. CWs for brief emeto mention.

Tag List: @canongf

Though Bear was laughing and following the conversation, he was far from comfortable. He wasn’t sure why he even came back for this high school reunion. He knew exactly what to expect, now that he was a renowned model and author with some small acting parts under his belt… every peer who had either bullied him or didn’t know he existed in the first place now wanted his utmost attention and approval.

It disgusted him, and yet, here he was. Luckily, he was accompanied by his bodyguards, the mysterious Silent Bob and the… eccentric Jay. Little did anyone know Bear was dating them, and he intended to keep that secret so that his beloved boys wouldn’t lose their livelihoods.

He made a subtle signal to Silent Bob, who in turn attempted to catch the attention of Jay, who had wandered off. He was currently wrapped in conversation with a woman clearly looking for an out. Annoyed with his partner, Silent Bob eventually approached him and dragged him over.

“Hey—!” Jay interjected before quickly sobering up as they got closer to Bear. “Alright, guys and dolls, time is money and Bear’s not makin’ any just standing here.”

“In other words, I’m sorry, but I must take my leave… there’s an extensive photoshoot in New York, tomorrow, so I best get my beauty sleep in,” Bear added, much to his fellow alumni’s audible disappointment. He said his goodbyes and let Jay and Silent Bob lead him away. His stomach growled and he realised he hadn’t eaten dinner. They were feet from the doors to the high school gym when a voice sounded behind them.

“Bear???”

Oh good God, if I have to sign another autograph… Bear turned and was immediately struck with recognition.

“Hey buddy, can’t you see we’re in a hurry?” Jay snapped.

“Dante??” Bear asked breathlessly. The man before him was as he remembered him, though emanating more confidence than he had as a teen… more tired, if possible, and his facial hair had filled out nicely. His features were soft and his expression was just as surprised as Bear’s, who now smiled.

“I had no idea…”

“Jay, Silent Bob, this is my high school ex, Dante Hicks,” Bear explained and the boys relaxed. “You’re still kicking around Leonardo, huh?”

He shrugged, his expression one of reserved embarrassment. “Yeah, I guess you could say that. Still working at the Quick Stop… but enough about me, what’ve you been up to?”

“Oh a little this, a little that. You want to take this conversation outside? I was trying to shake off the crowd…”

Dante nodded keenly and the four of them exited into the hall, casually striding toward the exit. “You’re famous now. Somehow I didn’t realize that until this moment.”

Bear smiled tightly. “Fame, shmame. I’m still the good ol’ Bear you made out with behind the bleachers during the homecoming game in senior year.” They playfully bumped their hip against his, earning them a blush.

“And I’m still… just plain old Dante. King of the losers, as Randal would put it.” He shrugged.

Bear groaned softly. “I imagine he hasn’t changed much, either?”

“Nope.”

They were quiet for a moment. “It’s both comforting and depressing to know at least some things never change.”

They stepped into the night and Bear led Dante to the limousine before promptly sitting on the hood. He patted the space beside him and Dante winced.

“Geez, are you sure? That thing probably costs more than my rent…”

“Hey, I’ll pay personally to buff out the ass grease. Now sit down and tell me all about what’s happened to this dumpy little town while I was living the high life.”

Dante blushed again and awkwardly sat beside his old flame. Jay and Silent Bob professionally stood to the side with their arms crossed, silently daring someone to come and interrupt the moment. It was nothing exciting, really. Same old odd group of people, same old friends, same old hockey.

“If you want the drama, Randal’s got more of a handle on the pulse of those things. I could care less about who’s had a baby and who broke up and who threw up in whose car. He could, too, but he always knows, somehow,” Dante finished, shrugging. They looked up at the sky. It was almost clear, giving them a decent view of the stars. “It’s a beautiful night, at least.”

“Less light pollution out here. Though not by much, isn’t like Leonardo’s in the sticks or anything. But it’s nice.” Bear rested his head on his shoulder. “You forget what the sky looks like in New York and L.A.”

Dante’s heart fluttered. “Do you still think about us, Bear?”

They lifted their head. “Would it break your heart if I said ‘no?’”

Dante scooted a minuscule amount away from them, answering quickly. “No, not at all.”

Bear gave him a look, then smiled softly. “You yourself have crossed my mind… but not romantically. Sorry, I can’t help you out of here…”

“It’s okay. I get it.” His hand still fell on top of theirs.

“Here,” they kissed him briefly. “For luck.” They stood, rubbing Silent Bob’s arm and talking over their shoulder, “Well. Goodbye, Dante.”

He stood. “Bye, Bear.” He watched them and their body guards climb into the limousine and drive off, sighing heavily as he ran a hand through his hair. Always with the shit luck…

“Who was that?” Randal had appeared, making Dante jump.

“Oh, an old friend. It’s nothing.” But they really are something.

[aethucyn]

All the Comics 2019

Series I read as they came out:

Archie Assassin Nation Batman Universe Black Panther By Night Catwoman Die Exorsisters Ghosted in L.A. Ghostspider Giant Days Gwenpool Strikes Back Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy Invisible Kingdom Laguardia Last Stop on the Red Line Lazarus: Risen Lois Lane The Magnificent Ms. Marvel Man-Eaters Monstress Ms. Marvel Once & Future King Paper Girls Pretty Deadly: The Rat Redlands Sabrina the Teenage Witch Sleepless Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider Spider-man and Venom: Double Trouble Steeple Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl The Unstoppable Wasp West Coast Avengers The White Trees The Wicked + the Divine

Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

The Life of Captain Marvel Margaret Stohl Carlos Pacheco Batgirl Vol. 4: Strange Loop Hope Larson Sami Basri Jessica Jones: Blind Spot Kelly Thompson Mattia De Iulis Doom Patrol Vol 2: Nada Gerard Way Nick Derington Kim Reaper: Grim Beginnings Sarah Graley Batman Vol. 8: Cold Days Tom King Lee Weeks Hilda and the Troll Luke Pearson Batwoman Vol. 3: Fall of the House of Kane Marguerite Bennett Fernando Blanco X-23: Family Album Mariko Tamaki Juann Cabal Andre the Giant: Life and Legend Box Brown How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less Sarah Glidden Get Your War On David Rees March Book One John Lewis & Andrew Aydin Nate Powell Barbarous Vol 1 Ananth Hirsh Yuko Ota Barbarous Vol 2 Ananth Hirsh Yuko Ota March Book Two John Lewis & Andrew Aydin Nate Powell March Book Three John Lewis & Andrew Aydin Nate Powell The Real Folk Blues: A Cowboy Bebop Fanbook Anthology ed. Zainab Akhtar Batman Detective Comics Vol 2 The Victim Syndicate James Tynion IV Alvaro Martinez Off Season James Sturm Kiss Number 8 Colleen AF Venable Ellen T. Crenshaw Cleopatra in Space: Fallen Empires Mike Maihack Batman Detective Comics Vol 3: League of Shadows James Tynion IV Marcio Takara The Hero Business Season Two Bill Walko When I Arrived at the Castle Emily Carroll The Weather Man Jody LeHeup Nathan Fox The Girl Who Married a Skull & Other African Stories ed. C. Spike Trotman ed. Kate Ashwin ed. Kel McDonald ed. Taneka Stotts F*ck Off Squad Nicole Goux Dave Baker The Breakaways Cathy G. Johnson Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me Mariko Tamaki Rosemary Valero-O'Connell Batman Vol. 9 The Tyrant Wing Tom King Tom Taylor Mech Cadet Yu Volume Two Grek Pak Takeshi Miyazawa Sincerely, Harriet Sarah W. Searle The Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire Part One Michael Dante DiMartino Michelle Wong Avatar The Last Airbender: Imbalance Book Two Faith Erin Hicks Peter Wartman Snotgirl: vol 2: California Screaming Bryan Lee O'Malley Leslie Hung Skyward: Vol 1 Joe Henderson Lee Garbett Shuri: Vol 1: The Search for Black Panther Nnedi Okorafor Leonardo Romero Crowded: Vol 1: Soft Apocalypse Chrisopher Sebela Ro Stein Ted Brandt I Hate Fairyland: Vol 1: Madly Ever After Skottie Young I Hate Fairyland: Vol 2: Fluff My Life Skottie Young I Hate Fairyland: Vol 3: Good Girl Skottie Young I Hate Fairyland: Vol 4:  Sadly Never After Skottie Young California Dreamin' Penelope Bagieu Runaways: Best Friends Forever Rainbow Rowell Kris Anka Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles Mark Russell Mike Feehan My Brother's Husband Gengorah Tagame Rice Boy Evan Dahm FTL Y'all ed. C. Spike Trotman ed. Amanda Lafrenais Gothic Tales of Haunted Love ed. Hope Nicholson ed. S.M.Beiko The Immortal Hulk: Or is he both? Al Ewing Joe Bennett X-23: X-Assassin Mariko Tamaki Diego Olortegui Ant-Man and the Wasp: Lost and Found Mark Waid Javier Garron Power Man and Iron Fist: The Boys Are Back in Town David Walker Sanford Greene Iceman: Thawing Out Sina Grace Alessandro Vitti Iceman: Absolute Zero Sina Grace Robert Gill Song of Aglaia Anne Simon Batman Detective Comics: Vol 4 Deus Ex Machina James Tynion IV Alvaro Martinez Harley Quinn: Broken Glass Mariko Tamaki Steve Pugh The Immortal Hulk: The Green Door Al Ewing Joe Bennett Power Man and Iron Fist: Civil War David F. Walker Flaviano Cosplayers Dash Shaw Bad Machinery: The Case of the Modern Men John Allison Is This How You See Me? Jaime Hernandez a city inside Tillie Walden The Immotal Hulk: Hulk in Hell Al Ewing Joe Bennett Slowly but Shirley Catalina Rufin Stage Dreams Melanie Gillman Homunculus Joe Sparrow Verse Book One Sam Beck Laid Waste Julia Gfrorer Gorgeous Cathy G. Johnson Cosmoknights Hannah Templer The Hard Tomorrow Eleanor Davis Pumpkin Heads Rainbow Rowell Faith Erin Hicks Funky Town Mathilde Van Gheluwe Pleading with Stars Kurt Ankeny Avatar The Last Airbender: Imbalance Book Three Faith Erin Hicks Peter Wartman The Love Bunglers Jaime Hernandez Spider-man Life Story Chip Zdarsky Mark Bagley Are You Listening? Tillie Walden November Matt Fraction Elsa Charretier Rusty Brown Chris Ware Dangerously Chloe Volume 3 David Lumsdon Jason Waltrip The Astonishing Ant-Man: Small-Time Criminal Nick Spencer Ramon Rosanas Doctor Aphra: Aphra Kieron Gillen Kev Walker Moonstruck Grace Ellis Shae Beagle

Minis

Maids no. 1 Katie Skelly Frontier #18 Tiffany Ford Two of Us Jessi Zabarsky Visiting Alivia Horsley Sobek James Stokoe Resort on Caelum Wren McDonald Boogsy Michelle Kwan Frontier #19 Hannah Waldron Maids no. 2 Katie Skelly Frontier #20 Anatola Howard Minotaar Lissa Treiman Pass the Baton Hana Chatani Cry Wolf Girl Ariel Ries At the Edge of the Stream at Dusk Jen Lee Cavity Michelle Theodore Hsthete Melanie Gillman David, I Love You Eileen Marie The Cutest Curse Laura Terry Churn Amelia Onorato An Eye for an Eye Kimberly Wang Women on Paper: 3 Stories Anna Christine Liminal State Maria Photinakis Melusine, The Collector and the Gift of the Pearls Edie Voges Infinite Wheat Paste Issue 3 Pidge Anew Dillon Gilbertson Anastasia Longoria Big Wally James McGarry Sam Bennett Frontier #21 Derek Yu Frontier #22 Tunde Adebimpe

Graphic novel is a stupid term that often encompasses things that are not novels, but I used it as a blanket term for anything comics I read that were bound rather than stapled. Minis are shorter works, stapled, and generally self-published by the artist, or done by a small press like Shortbox or Youth in Decline. I was totally lazy about crediting creators on series because my actual list for that is a grid, keeping track of each issue. Similarly, when listing creators on trades, I tended to only list writer and artist which is enough for some books, but sometimes there are many more, inkers, and colorists and letterers, and maybe I’ll do better next year.

Support your local library, your local comic shop (especially Hub Comics if you’re in the Boston area), and indie comic shows like MICE. 

[mrmichaelchadler]

The Movie “Clerks” Proves The Innovators Are The Ones With Great Careers

We’ve said it in this space before. Follow along from home or the office:

–Great performers/talent see the world differently than others…

–Exceeds performance should be reserved for the game changers…

–Innovators do unexpected things others think are crazy…

I know, you’ve heard it before. If you’re a top performer, it doesn’t matter what you do for a living – accountant, fireman, sales professional, etc. If you’re really a player, odds are you are figuring out different ways to do things in addition to simply doing your job at a high level.

Thinking about “what’s next” is a common DNA characteristic of the great ones, as is creating new stuff from scratch.

Turns out, you can go to a run downtown in America, and even the best slackers/dropouts are actively thinking about new things to do, new ways to create opportunity.

Enter the Gen X film classic “Clerks”. If you’re not in the know, here’s a description of Clerks:

Clerks is a 1994 American independent comedy film written, directed, and co-produced by Kevin Smith. Starring Brian O’Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances. Shot entirely in black-and-white, Clerks is the first of Smith’s View Askewniverse films, and introduces several recurring characters, notably Jay and Silent Bob, the latter played by Smith himself. The structure of the movie contains nine scene breaks, signifying the nine rings of hell as in Dante Alighieri‘s Divine Comedy, from which the main character, Dante, gets his name.

I got referred to “Making of Clerks” over the weekend and lost an hour of my life watching how Clerks got made. See the video below (email subscribers click through if you don’t see the video) and I’ll give you some facts about how Kevin Smith, the writer, director, and producer, got the inspiration and got the film made.

Ready for some facts about Clerks? Ready to see an example of true innovation from Gen X slackerville? Here you go.

Clerks was shot for $27,575 upon its theatrical release, but the film grossed over $3 million in theaters, launching Smith’s career. Smith maxed out credit cards to make the film.

Upon graduating from high school, Smith worked a series of low-wage jobs near his hometown of Highlands, New Jersey. One of his longest stints was as a cashier at the Quick Stop in Leonardo. That’s where they made the film – at a combo quick stop/video store.

Smith cast mostly friends and family as characters in the movie. Couldn’t afford anything else.

The movie was filmed overnight. You know, when the store was closed.

No one showed up to the premiere. Smith secured a place for Clerks at the 1993 Independent Feature Film Market, an event held at New York City’s Angelika Film Center. On the Clerks X featurette, Smith said he was “crestfallen” that the Sunday night screening attracted few viewers beyond cast and crew.

One guy was there, and that turned out to be key to Smith’s future success. One of the moviegoers was Bob Hawk, an independent film consultant who served on the advisory selection committee of the Sundance Film Festival. Hawk touted the film to friends in the indie cinema world and helped land it a place at Sundance.

The soundtrack cost more than the film. Once it was picked up by Miramax, Clerks got an alt-rock soundtrack featuring Bad Religion, Stabbing Westward, and Soul Asylum. Licensing the songs cost more than producing the film (which included post-production costs that dwarfed what Smith originally spent).

Clerks. If you’re like me, you loved the movie as a Gen X kid trying to get a career started in the 1990s and early 2000s. The real strength of the movie was its replay on movie channels, and yes – via rentals at the now extinct video store.

Watching “The Making of Clerks,” I was struck by how Kevin Smith created something valuable out of nothing and went deep about what he knew best.

I was also struck by how the movie would have died – if not for one connected critic who decided to be one of 5 people to watch the film at the end of a film festival on Sunday night.

Sometimes all it takes is one person – to recognize genius and launch a career.

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Made an edit of Dante Hicks x Leonardo Leonardo

[circusgoth-dotcom]

Quick Stop Grocery

Ship: Jay x Bear x Silent Bob

Word Count: 762

Summary: Set before the events of Clerks, Dante (and technically also Randal) gets acquainted with Bear, the most recent addition to whatever Jay and Silent Bob have going on.

Content Warnings: Canon-typical mentions of drugs (mainly weed) and sexuality, 90s cis understanding of gender.

Tag List: @canongf @futurewife @rexscanonwife @groovyships @void-selfships

It was appearing to be an average eleven o’clock on a Sunday in Leonardo, New Jersey, at the Quick Stop grocery and its joint video store. Dante Hicks worked the register at the Quick Stop, while his good friend Randal Graves worked in the video store. Most of the time, Dante had no trouble with customers. They came in, gathered their shit, perhaps bought a pack of cigarettes, and got out.

He’d get the occasional friendly visit from his girlfriend Veronica to make the slow hours go by faster as well. And of course, as always, there were the relatively- in the grand scheme of things -harmless drug dealers that hung around the front of the store. He’d considered shooing them off when they first started loitering, but for once he agreed with Randal: not his store (not like he owned the property, anyway), not his sidewalk to shoo drug dealers off of. Besides, they didn’t seem to be affecting the flow of traffic to the Quick Stop, so why the Hell should he care?

Today was slightly abnormal however, because while there were normally two of these relatively harmless drug dealers, today there were three. Well, maybe the third one wasn’t dealing drugs, but they were certainly with the drug dealers. Despite the generally nice spring weather, the drug dealers’ friend wore several layers: a beanie, a scarf, a sweater, a thick coat, baggy pants, beat up knock-off converse shoes, and fingerless gloves. They glossed the aisles for a short while and soon brought a bottle of Faygo cola, a bag of sour gummy worms, and a Milky Way bar up to the counter.

“That’ll be $7.94,” Dante spoke boredly as he scanned each item. The drug dealers then entered the store. Jay, the thin blond one, eagerly swept around the corner and threw his arm over the stranger’s shoulders.

“Dante, meet my favourite girlboy dudelady, Bear. Bear, this is Dante, I think he’s pretty chill,” Jay grinned.

“Er, nice to meet you, Bear,” Dante finally looked up as Bear handed him the money. Bear nodded in recognition. “About as talkative as the other one, I take it?”

“Hey man, don’t disrespect Silent Bob like that, he has a name, y’know!”

“Sorry.”

“I talk,” Bear spoke up from within his cocoon. “I guess you could say I’m a good balance, but Jay does enough talking for both of us.” He shared a fond look with Silent Bob, the large brunet one, who had taken up the space beside him.

“Damn straight.”

“I’m not sure that’s a compliment…” Dante breathed, “anything else I can help you with?”

Bear shook his head. “No. Nice finally getting acquainted with you, though.” He held up his fist and Dante awkwardly accepted the invitation to a fist bump.

“Silent Bob wants an Icee, actually,” Jay piped up as SB drifted off to the machine.

“I’m going over to the video store, then,” Bear turned and briefly kissed Jay before floating out of the store.

“Boygirl dudelady??” Dante had to ask.

“Well, yeah, I don’t really understand it but I’m trying my best. Bear was born a chick but now he says he’s a man, but he’s still got tits and a pussy, so,” Jay shrugged. “I’ve only heard of people like him in porn.”

“And you’re dating him?”

“Kind of? He likes to kiss his friends, and shit, pussy is pussy, my dude. Me and Silent Bob share him between ourselves because we’re cool like that.”

Silent Bob came to pay for his Icee, a swirl of cherry and blue raspberry.

“I usually just see the two of you, how’d it come to be a trio??”

“We met at a super tight club. Bear bought weed off us and took us back to his apartment, we didn’t do anything sexual with him but we still found we had a really cool connection. Bear didn’t have any real friends so I said shit, we’re you’re friends now, motherfucker! The rest is history.”

“Good for you.”

“Thank you, man. I better go make sure your friend’s not being a fuckin’ pair of numbnuts to him, though, Bear’s a total movie whore and when you get him going…” Jay whistled and made a wide gesture with his hand. “Bye, Dante!”

And with that, the two drug dealers left. When they entered the video store, they found Bear having a heated discussion over recent horror movies with Randal, though it seemed fairly contained compared to the kinds of arguments Jay and Silent Bob had seen him go off on.