#image comics

[simon-roy]

The hive-men of HALE-BOPP first showed up in print form back in 2016, for the cover of @imagecomics 's Island Magazine. I'm still keen on this piece - a dyson tree's crew receiving trade goods from a Euhumanist vessel, with the euhumanist security trooper eyeing his hive-equivalent suspiciously.

But the look and feel of the hive-men and their living space-suits were codified in sketches the preceding year, while i was still dreaming of an epic tale of hive-men colonizing mars (to be drawn by Matt Sheean).

This drawing in particular, from 2015, ended up getting snuck into last year's book, REFUGIUM, along with the Hale-Bopp Dyson Tree - EASTER EGGS FOR EVERYONE

If you'd like to read "HALE-BOPP" in it's entirety, you can find it on my patreon or on webtoon... and if you like sci-fi explorations of life in the hive without it being another cartoonishly evil stock villain, ruled by a single HIVE QUEEN/BRAIN BUG/etc, and more like a living eusocial community, you might enjoy the story I've got serializing on webtoon next week...

[soqueengardener]

Spawn

My Beloved babe

[kaontic]

Energon Universe Editors:

The Cobra Commander we’ve seen before:

Nah, let’s be real. He was lighter than air.

[radiomaru]

Snotgirl - Weekend II storyline

Part 1 (issue 18): out now

Part 2 (issue 19): March 12, 2025

Part 3 (issue 20): April 30, 2025

This material will also be collected in Snotgirl Volume 4: Make It Make Sense, out this July.

[crystallakec]

\S2來了噢噢噢噢噢/

[extraordinary-heroes]

Laundry Day by Gabriel Picolo

[sigeel]

yaaay preorders for punderworld volume 2 are out!

[madzzzz]

“Invincible, huh?”

[machetelanding]

Behind the scenes of Spawn (1997)

[superectojazzmage]

A big aspect of the Skybound Transformers - as I've observed before - is framing the Autobots and Decepticons as akin to dysfunctional families, and I really adore all the ways that manifest. But in particular I like how Starscream and Soundwave are depicted as basically abused siblings who each learn horrible things from abusive father figure Megatron, causing them to perpetuate the cycle of abuse in their own ways.

Starscream picked up - or rather, had it beat into him - Megatron's viciousness and general toxic-masculine meathead worldview. He spent his youth being essentially slapped up the head and told to act like a man or else he was a pussy and no son of Megatron's is gonna be a pussy. Thus you get his present day self as basically an insecure thug who's constantly bullying everyone around him and blows up at the slightest provocation because he thinks that if he shows any softness whatsoever than he'll be a failure of a man, and that to show weakness is to be hurt. He beats around the other Decepticons and threatens them into following his lead, repeating the exact kind of treatment Megatron subjected him to, and he does it just because that's what he's been taught a leader is like.

Soundwave picked up Megatron's holier-than-thou attitude, hypocrisy, and warped "family comes first" ethos. He genuinely wants to do what's right by his fellow Decepticons, but also cares about them over everything else and thinks nothing of violating his own morals for their sake. And as he commits awful crimes, he avoids reflecting on the implications of what he's doing by using "the cause" as a blanket justification for everything he does, convincing himself that he lacks agency. In his head, it's not HIS fault he kills people, he HAS to do it, his troops are counting on him and the new world that will be born from a Decepticon victory will make all the suffering mean something. And when the other Decepticons question it, he just berates and guilt trips them back in line to avoid having to question himself, becoming the exact kind of domineering jerk of a commander that he hates.

I might make another post about the other examples of this theme, but for now I'll just say, if you're not reading Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers, you NEED to be reading it, it's so damn good.

[browsethestacks]

Spawn

Art by Miguel Mercado

[kierongillen]

We've made a thing

This is The Power Fantasy Primer, a living document describing what the book is, why folks like it and giving you ways to how and get it. Lots of art, lots of everything. It's fun. It's also a living document, so we'll be updating it as things change - I just added a new preview page for 6 and 7 at the back, for example.

Basically, if you want to tell someone about TPF? Just send them the link.

Which is... https://bit.ly/thepowerfantasy

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Mark & Debbie in Invincible

[radiomaru]

Snotgirl #18 covers (textless)

Release date: February 5, 2025

Cover A: Leslie Hung

Cover B: Bryan Lee O'Malley

We went with a pink theme since the release date is close to Valentine's Day.

[crystallakec]

我花時間製作了這個! ´͈ ᗜ `͈

基本上就是照著官圖畫 中途畫開心了就自己發揮一下（？