#externals

[ourflagmeansworms]

I can't wait for Alice Dyer to endure the horrible trama that will come with her brother being some sort of murderous music external with spooky vibes that put grifters bone and that violin dude to shame.

[pageofqueens]

WINNER IS:

SELENE’S ROME ATTIRE!!

[o-soupnoodle-o]

First round of externals drawingssss(up next lady murbrey and [ERROR])

[blububbie]

I don't even care #bringbackladymowbray she was a girlboss and I want to see more of her

[braddocklegacy]

Captain Britain vs Saul

X-Men Unlimited #137

[catluniscia]

Selene Gallio The Black Pristess

Selene Gallio, formally the Black Queen of the inner circle, the sister hood of evil mutants, currently the Black Priestess, -tries to keep reading her wiki article- okay like she has done a lot and is like ancient, like born right after the sinking of Atlantis old...like I will be honest I am struggling explaining her, just read like the marvel wiki if you can on her, Cause it's a lot and I am gonna be honest, when I was researching  Madelyne Pryor because of Xmen 97, I found images of her with Selene and she was holding a skull and I was like...I wanna draw dark lady with skull...and now we are here...with my attempt at drawing her, Also that necklace was a pain to figure out how to do...now if you need me I will be napping for 1000 years...not really I have work to do.

[heckcareoxytwit]

Gideon the External has launched a cyberattack on X-Corps Island! Wiz Kid and Trinary go off to defend their base by fighting Gideon in the cyberspace in their own way.

X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #132, 2024

[strejdaking]

Happy X-July, or whatever! Trust me to be always too late for any celebration, I have decided, having finally seriously get into X-Men just in time for their 60th anniversarry, to share with you an obscure promotional comic from 1990s.

If you don't know, early 90s were not only the hight of X-Men's popularity, but a mythical time where people still not only read, but actually bought physical floppies of comics, to the point that in 1993, Toys R' Us could sell promotional comic NOT based on the hit cartoon, but taking place in the actual comics continuity, featuring X-Men's iconic adversary Gideon, surely the most significant character to debute in New Mutants #98,

This silly thing does actually have some historical significance for hardcore X-fans believe it or not, as it is not only the this the first time Deadpool has met any of the non-EXTREME X-Men (and only his second appearance outside of New Mutants/X-Force after Nomad #4-a very different time indeed), this is the only appearance of Karma of the New Mutants between Wolverine Volume 2 #9 in July 1989 and Beast #1 in May 1997, still searching for her siblings.

[momentsbeforemass]

The externals

“Never judge a book by its…”

It’s classic. It’s cliché. And it’s still needed.

Because one of the most common things that we stumble on is appearances, on how things look from the outside. The externals.

Whether it involves people, possessions, or events for most of us it is all too easy to focus on the externals.

Sometimes, we focus on them because we assume that they tell might us something about what’s going on inside.

Usually, we focus on the externals because we’ve mistaken them for the important part.

The point that Jesus is making with His unsettling responses in today’s Gospel (all leading up to this one - “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks back to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God”) is about seeing the externals for what they really are.

Sometimes the externals can point us in the right direction. Most of the time though, they don’t.

Most of the time, they’re not the important part. Most of the time, they’re just something extra. Something that keeps changing, something that passes away.

The point that Jesus is making is that once we understand what the externals really are, we’ll let them go.

We’ll put our time and attention where it needs to be – on the only thing that matters in the end, the only thing that stands firm.

Don’t focus on the external. Focus on the Eternal.

“While the world changes, the Cross stands firm.” – St. Bruno of Cologne

Today’s Readings

[wwprice1]

The best choice! Vote Cannonball in the X-Men Vote!

[marvelman901]

Gideon!

What do you think about this External?

1st - Jim Lee.

5th - Keith Pollard and Josef Rubinstein.

[doesephs]

win for traumatised individuals! local eldritch horror is here to rip it all out free of charge

[pageofqueens]

[marciaillust]

almost blown out bsky / twt / ig

[gaywineauntsstuff]

Sometimes I feel like us as the bat family fandom forget how starry eyed people get about Nightwing canonically.

Because with the exception of early era Tim most of the Batkids are like. lol that’s my loser older brother or some variation of yeah…he’s some guy I guess? He helps me with homework?

And Nightwing is the canonically a center of multiversal light.

When Heroes meet Nightwing they do the vigorous handshake and the “it’s an honor to meet you sir, I have heard so much about you oh my god”

There are so many character where they are literally shown giggling and kicking their feet whenever Nightwing talks to them.

Even the people who don’t have the celebrity level worship of him respect the hell out of him and call him as soon as they need help.

From raven to Starfire to Superman to Superboy to all or the flashes there is so much respect and awe given to this one dude.

And it is deserved

But imagine you are Damian Wayne and you’ve been working with what 90% of the people you’ve met (all bats) have been calling an embarrassment to your father’s legacy.

Your mother hates him and your Grandfather doesn’t feel that strongly about him.

The red hood calls him an embarrassment and a coward and he couldn’t even keep Red Robin from running away.

Your father tells him that he never should have been Batman

And you’ve worked with him and you know what you think everyone is full of shit about him and you and him the new Batman and Robin are the best no matter what anyone says.

And fuck it the fact he keeps going in a suit that everyone tells him he’s not good enough for is scratching something in your brain that you’re refusing to acknowledge because why would you feel that way? You are the circus freak have nothing in common (shut up)

And then you meet the justice league and all the extended teams.

And people are falling over themselves to listen to a word out of your brothers, your Batman’s mouth. They wait for a nod or headshake and dictate decades worth of planning on it.

Both Drake and Todd’s hero teams ask him for advice with or without their designated bats presence.

The man of steel asks for child rearing advice and wonder woman cracks a joke about a spar

Newer heroes whisper about him in the halls

He’s literally your favorite hero’s favorite hero

And it’s breaking Damian’s Brain

Because well… he kinda gets slapped around in Gotham. He’s the butt of half the jokes the other Batkids make and Dick just smiles and takes it.

The rogues have a bounty on nightwings ass and he gets leered at by goons, rogues, civilians and anti-hero’s alike and he doesn’t say anything.

He lets oracle crack jokes about a pretty face and having to do everything herself

Let’s Jason run the alley despite the fact that apparently he knows how to take it back

Apparently he’s had 12 people tailing Drake since Paris and despite being the man Ra’s Al Ghul calls detective has yet to notice. (Because you can’t tell me Dick was just magically at the right place to catch Tim falling to his death on coincidence)

And necessary to peace talks because he’s the best they have at deescalation

Like imagine you are a child who was raised to believe power is this obvious, all consuming thing. That the ones who control the board are visibly larger than life figures who fought their way to the top and cling to power by even the thinnest hangnail if they had to.

People who ignore simpler morals or an overall greater goal or good

And then you’re taken in by the man who whispers the correct answers into the larger than life figures ear.

Like I feel like that would have such an impact because Dick didn’t take power from anyone to reach his goals, it’s why his siblings don’t really defer to him unless in crisis.

Dick didn’t take power, no people just looked at him and decided he was the best option to give it to.

Everyone basically looked at this kid and went, yeah you’re the future of all heroism.

And if that dude can’t even get Bruce Wayne’s respect what chance does Damian Wayne have

[braddocklegacy]

“So that just leaves…”

X-Men Unlimited #138 (2024)