#lightrion week

[fruitkingfrog]

[ID: A full page illustration of Lightray from DC Comics, redrawn from the Orion solo by Walt Simonson. A closeup of Lightray's eyes with furrowed brows, with a speech bubble saying "Unfortunately gentlemen, it was just close enough." Beneath is Lightray descending from a blast of light, saying "I am Lightray." A man is on each side of the image, one of them is saying "Huh? Who?". Beneath is Lightray raising his hands and charging a solar blast, his words are written inside the solar energy: "I would have heard Orion's cry from the other side of the galaxy. I intercepted your discharge.. and I have brought back his power." At the bottom is Lightray firing his solar blasts, burning the two men to death. Lightray's speech bubble says "Don't bother comitting my name to memory.", and is outlined by the flares from his attack. A sound effect reading "Skreachhtt!" extends over the bottom panel. End ID]

late 2021 Lightrion week day 5 - Favourite canon moment! From Orion #21 (2002)

Not specifically my favourite moment, but I do think its an important one for Lightray - how the events of the previous volumes have changed him, and how far he's willing to go for Orion, even after Orion betrays his trust. Lightray becomes capable of violence as Orion becomes capable of peace etc etc etc, and it's the last major Lightray scene until his death a few years later.

side by side with Simonson's original drawing:

[ID: Two pages side by side, the original comicbook page comprising of four panels, and my redraw on the right. End ID]

Since it was a redraw, I prioritized making a cool poster over it being a legible comic page... Original page written & pencilled by Walt Simonson, with inks colours and letters by Bob Wiacek, Tatjana Wood, and John Workman.

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[shadethechangingman]

i AM hoping to do a fourth world event sometime around june if anyone is interested and probably even if nobody is interested... im still working on some of the prompts though but i want it to b a four week event with a handful of optional prompts instead of crunching it down into a week bc theres a lot of fourth world characters

[kirbydots]

Fourth World asks! So many good ones, how do I choose? How about every one that ends with 5

Fourth World asks — link

5. Who’s an artist or writer you’d like to see tackle Fourth World?

Writing-wise I’m not sure, but I’d love to see Greg Smallwood and Jordie Bellaire tackle the art for a Fourth World run. Bellaire’s color work is always gorgeous, and Smallwood manages to capture so much personality in his artwork.

I’d love to see Peach Momoko do a cover or two for a Fourth World book, her style is breathtaking.

I’m pretty sure Christian Ward is the artist behind Aquaman: Andromeda, and based on what I’ve seen from that, I think he’d do stunning work on a Fourth World book as well.

15. What got you into reading Fourth World?

I’m not sure what in particular made me read it— I’d never encountered any Fourth World characters in adaptations or other comics before, even Darkseid. I guess I just decided to sit down and read it one day.

Now I drag all my friends by the heels into it! Discord friends, if you’re reading this, I am going to force you to read at least one Fourth World book if I haven’t already <3

25. Favorite fanart or fanfiction?

When it comes to fic, there’s basically nothing in the tags, and even less when it comes to fics that actually center them rather than just having them present.

Sunspots in Space is a particular favorite, and I find myself regularly re-reading Count On It. It’s such a sad read, but I adore it.

While I haven’t read all of their works, I really enjoy LadyOfTheShield’s entries for Lightrion Week.

When it comes to fanart, there’s so much, and it’s quite hard to narrow anything down. This piece by Ngoziu (and her work in general) is lovely, I love the line work and the designs she chose.

Fruitkingfrog and Iorkhran are some of my favorite Fourth World fanartists. This piece is one of the best works of art I’ve seen on tumblr, honestly.

Your fanart is amazing as well! I love how you draw Lightray! This one drawing you did of Lightray is so pretty, and the one you did of him and Wally has such lovely colors. The almost pink shading you sometimes use fits him really well!

[transguygardner]

lightrion week day 3 double date!

based on a conversation i had with @shadethechangingman

after the fight orion asks guy why he hasn’t been throwing his weight around if he has five power rings to which guy replies with “kinda been busy raising my kids” orion decides that maybe guy isn’t so bad after all. especially after guy shows him the bracelets his daughters made

[movedthechangingman]

ahh fuckette I didn’t get to do it last year so I’ll make extra time…. DC character + a Halloween costume icon RQs go

[xuanelle]

Lightrion Week DAY 5: Favourite Canon Moment

[fruitkingfrog]

[ID: A full page drawing of Orion holding Lightray, Orion’s hands are under his legs and Lightray is playing with Orion’s hair, they are looking into eachothers eyes and smiling. Behind them is a rainbow Mother box inspired circuit pattern, with seventeen alternate universe versions of them in the various borders and fifteen much smaller alternate universe versions of them over the borders. The word "Multiverse" is framed in dots on the frame on the left. End ID]

late 2021 Lightrion week day 6 - Alternate Universe! &

New Gods November 2023 - Week 4, Day 4: Alternate Realities!

once upon a time it was said that only one version of the New Gods exist across all Earths, but its rarely reflected after that. Most of these AUs are canon, some after 1/2 canon (featuring only one of the duo), and some are my own ideas :D This december is going on three years since I got into New Gods!

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Closeups, detailed IDs under cut:

[ID: Box one: Orion and Lightray from DC, depicted as anthro cartoon dogs from the neck up. There is a purple background with black kirby krackle behind them.

Box two: Thorion and Bald’r with their foreheads pressed together, smiling and looking into eachothers eyes. Their hands are clasped in front of Bald’rs shoulder. Thorion has shoulderlength blond hair and wing-like ears on his helmet, which exposes his face. Bald’r has black hair, and wears a blue cape over his armour.

Box three: Lightray as a Blue Lantern holding off an attack from Orion as a Red Lantern. Orion is snarling, striking at Lightray with claws and spitting red acid. Lightray is smiling at him, reaching out one arm and holding Orion’s wrist in the other. Blue and Red kirby krackle surround each of them.

Box four: Two anthropomorphic dinosaurs, one is red, blue, and yellow with a spiky back and saber-teeth, he is wearing a helmet. The second is a white and yellow pterodactyl with a red and black symbol painted on his chest.

Box five: Two mech suits, Orion’s slightly in front of Lightray’s. Orion’s has his helmet, a pink face, blue collar, and red shoulders. Lightray’s behind him has his gold headpiece and flames coming from the top. Orion and Lightray sit side by side on the shoulder of Orion’s mech, faced away from viewer. Lightray is reaching over to Orion’s thigh and they are watching a sunset together.

Box six: Hunter and Neon Black, two men closely resembling Orion and Lightray, but with thicker armour and darker clothes. Hunter is turned away but looking over his shoulder, while Neon Black is pressed into his chest and smiling.

Box seven: Orion and Lightray based on the style of Mike Mignola, Lightray is thin and wearing a white top with a gold V mark, and long gold gloves that reach up his arms. Orion has a low cut red shirt and blue shoulderpads. He and Lightray are smiling at eachother.

Box eight: Future State Orion with a matching Lightray, their heads are pressed together and they're holding eachother's faces and smiling. Orion has pink skin and flaming hair, Lightray is similar, both have gold headpieces resembling their usual counterparts.

Box nine: The top of two mock-Simpsons style figures, one with a red/black bowlcut and one with orange hair and a silver headpiece with a "v" on it, meant to be Obrian and Flightrisk from Radioactive Man.

Box ten: Lightray faced away from the viewer, glaring at Orion, who is lacking a helmet and has long, wild hair. Orion has a darker outfit based on his Gods and Monsters uniform, with a silver harness. Barda is next to him in an outfit similar to her regular one, she looks concerned and is reaching to pull Orion back. Behind them are buildings from New Genesis.

Box eleven: Orion's death scene from Gods and Monsters, Lightray is holding Orion back while Highfather's staff kills him.

Box twelve: Orion standing with his hand by his hip, Lightray is flying by his side and smiling with his hands raised, drawn in a Jack Kirby inspired style.

Box thirteen: Young Justice Orion looking back at Lightray, who is smiling at him.

Box fourteen: A sketchy drawing of Lightray and Orion, using unused New 52 designs. Lightay has goggles and red gloves, Orion's helmet has more pieces to it and his top is sleeveless.

Box fifteen: Highfather Orion from The Dark Side leaning into a kiss from Lightray, who is playing with his hair.

Box sixteen: Batman Beyond Lightray looking worried at Orion, who is faced away from the camera. Lightray has his eye injury and bandage, Orion is maskless.

Box seventeen: New 52 Orion and Lightray relaxing on the grass. Lightray is pressed into Orion's side with a knee over his stomach. They're smiling at eachother.

Final image: Several small figures, showing Lightray and Orion together as they appear in Scribblenauts, New 52, Source of Freedom, The Dark Side, Mike Mignola, Lantern corps, DC Mech, and Dark Multiverse. Lightray from Superman/Batman: Generations and Earth-51, and Orion as his 80's costume, Kenner Super Powers, two Lego forms, and his clone from The Great Darkness saga.

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1: Orihound and Lightstray from the New Dogs (Earth C-Minus). Inspired by the art in their first/only appearance Captain Carrot and the Final Ark #3, by Scott Shaw, Scott Koblish, Tom Luth, and Drew Moore.

2: Thorion and Bald’r the Lightbringer of the New Asgods (Amalgam Earth). Inspired by the art . 

3: Lightray and Orion as members of the Lantern corps, designed by me. In this universe, an Apokolips-raised Orion loses all sense of control when given the red ring and decimates the population of Apokolips, then turns on Atrocitus for manipulating his mind. Seeing a threat to all Lantern Corps, Lightray of New Genesis volunteers to defeat Orion and retrieve his ring. Lightray’s design is based on his formal wear from volume 3, Orion’s is based on his rebirth uniform. OK i dont know if they can work out in this one honestly i just thought it’d be cool, theoretically 

4. Lightraydactyl and Orionodon, designed by me. The JL fighting Darkseid instead of Orion is a pet peeve of mine, but Jurassic League didnt even leave room for the New Gods to exist. i love the dinosaurs comic though Lightray was pretty straightforward, Orion’s design took inspiration from Darklyoseid’s canon design by Juan Gedeon, a sabertooth tiger (for Tigra), and Orion’s main universe costume for the colours.

5. Orion and Lightray Mechs. DC Mech killed Orion off in issue one boooooo! but it did mean i didnt have to design my own for his (Lightray's is mine though). This was inspired by one of the covers for Pacific Rim, because I will be thinking about a pacrim AU for them forever now.

6. Hunter and Neon Black. These guys aren’t actually LR and Orion, just two random inmates disguised as evil versions of them iirc, but I liked Neon Black’s design.

7. Orion and Lightray, Mike Mignola’s scrapped 1990′s New Gods animated film designs.

8: Orion and Lightray from Future State: Green Lantern, Lightray was designed by me.

9: O’Brian and Flightrisk of the New Guards from Radioactive Man.

10. Orion and Lightray (and Barda) from a personal AU of mine, using designs inspired by the Gods and Monsters film.

11. Just the Gods and Monsters death scene, to break things up.

12. Orion and Lightray inspired by Jack Kirby’s art.

13. Young Justice.

14. Scrapped New 52 Lightray and Jim Lee’s unused Orion design.

15. DCAU/Batman Beyond

16. Superman: The Dark Side. I was going to make Lightray transparent at first, like ambiguously a hallucination or a ghost or something but i didnt like how it looked all that much.

17. New 52 - I sometimes like to imagine these guys are from like a Pocket dimension modeled after the Fourth World, where everyone is shallow and awful like n52 canon/fandom perception.

18. Minis - Scribblenauts, Lightray's older appearance in Superman/Batman: Generations (he has an earlier appearance similar to his main universe suit, but with a yellow tone), New 52, Source of Freedom Orion plus the miscoloured Lightray that appears twice, The Dark Side, Earth-51 Lightray, 1977 Orion, Mignola again, Kenner Super Powers Orion, Lantern Corps AU, Orion effigy from The Great Darkness Saga, both Lego Orions, original illustration colours, DC mech, and Dark Multiverse: Flashpoint.

a few months ago i got to finish with this very long term project :D thank you to everyone who encouraged me with kind words while working on this :D The final Lightrion week pic is finished and ready to post whenever i get around to it.

[fruitkingfrog]

[ID: Illustration of Lightray and Orion from DC Comics, Lightray is leaning back while Orion is shirtless and clinging to his hip, half of Orion's body is covered in scarring, his face half shifted to his true face. Around them are circuit patterns and three other closeups, Lightray crawling into Orion's lap, Lightray with his hand on Orion's shoulder, and Lightray leaning into Orion from behind with his hands on his shoulders. End ID]

late 2021 Lightrion week day 7 - FREE SPACE!

well this has been finished for over a year i just never felt like posting.... but i dont have time to draw myself a bday gift this year so posting this instead

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[shadethechangingman]

caring so much bout lightrion this week but 0 time to lightrion this month even

[shadethechangingman]

birthday bash lightrion secrets under the cut... the final pics from lightrion week 2021 that im still slogging thru but i want the next one done before i post the multiverse pic which is pretty much finished

[ID: A fullbody picture of Orion holding Lightray, Orion’s hands are under his legs and Lightray is playing with Orion’s hair, they are looking into eachothers eyes and smiling. Behind them is a rainbow motherbox-inspired circuit pattern, with seventeen alternate universe versions of them in the various borders and twelve much smaller alternate universe versions of them over the borders. End ID]

[ID: A redraw of a page from Orion’s 2000 solo by Walter Simonson. Lightray descends on two men, burning them to death for torturing Orion. Speech bubbles say, “Unfortunately gentlemen, I’m afraid it was just close enough. I am Lightray. I would have heard Orion’s cry from the other side of the galaxy. I intercepted your discharge... and I have brought back his power. Don’t bother committing my name to memory.” End ID]

[ID: Lightray holding himself up, leaning on the circuit border of the image. Orion’s head is in his lap, he is shirtless and clutching Lightray’s leg. Other pictures of them, a small one of Lightray crawling into Orion’s lap while they both smile, one of them from behind where Lightray’s hand on Orion’s shoulder, and a picture of Orion leaning back while Lightray holds his shoulders, pressing his cheek to Orion’s head. End ID]

[shadethechangingman]

ok i return. the weeklies

there was demons in my blood. doctor took a bunch and now i feel normal again but i cant stop smoking weed which is gonna make it happen again : (

BATMAN SCOOBY DOO TEAM UP IS AN ONGOING YEAHHH WE WON

starfire "i can deal with stressful situations caus nightwing is usually flirting iwth me during them" get her out of here!!!!!!!

i feel like the blue beetle cast thats being buiilt would be fun with like most any other author but i cant stand trujillo

this was last week but i hate that the flash artist is so obviously tracing 3d models and pics of Chris Evans but like always puts wallys teeth like all the way below his lips. like it all looks like total ass anyway but that particular thing is bothering me like thats your MAIN character

more notable than anything IN bop to me was kelly thompson shitting her diaper over someone posting a frowny face next to the new diana art like this is the third incident in the last month we gotta start embarrassing authors who respond to the lightest untagged critique as if theyre being shot

as for the in-comic content on top of the ugly art style itself like the art depictions zealot cutting ppl clean in half while her dialogue is about "you will heal" or telling harley not to kill people looked silly. but also megearnas dialogue i admit im not a big fan of the quirky eldergod thing just personally

tbh i think as a designer dan mora is VERY weak but he kinda killed it with those santa and krampus designs

after i finish my current project im gonna go back and edit the lightrion multiverse pic to replace the bottom panel with solios & fornax from Copra and also add the teen titans go! orion doll maybe caus its been bothering me

waiting on the next chris chaos issue to upload (its VERY bad) so im reading Hitman and watching alfred j kwak and stuff. i was supposed to start watching the boys but ive been puttin it off

[shadethechangingman]

OH WAIT BTW I FINISHED LIGHTRION WEEK LAST NIGHT LIKE FOR REAL i got the final panel done on the multiverse thing now i just have to remember to post them ever

[shadethechangingman]

🌹!

its tempting to share more WIPs from the lightrion week pics but have this instead.....i like them

[Image ID: A purple sketch page with three drawings of Orion and Lightray. The first drawing has partial lineart, Orion is wearing his 80s tshirt and Lightray is wearing a tank top and headband. The second drawing is smaller, and has them laying together with their faces obcured. The third is Orion sitting on Lightray's lap, faced away from the viewer. A Motherbox-inspired border is around them all.]

[shadethechangingman]

A, C, F, D, H, and I for the asks?

ty for the ask !

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed. everyone knows my otp lol but heres what ive been thinking of this week

lightrion (lightray & orion from new gods) (romantic/platonic)

hanktemis(?idk not good naming options) (artemis of bana-mighdall and hank jessup from artemis: wanted) (romantic/platonic)

buddyrocket (animal man & rocket red from JLE) (romantic/platonic)

plasteel? idk steel & plastic man from JLA (romantic/platonic)

kong kenan and the jlc (platonic)

[ID: Chibi drawing of Steel and Plastic Man from DC Comics. Steel is holding Plastic Man, who is shaped like a Hammer, over his shoulder. They’re both smiling.]

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will. hi lol i did this on the other one so ummmmmmmm euuuuuuuum i dont get bbr4e even tho iwas a TT2003cartoon fan i have no nostalgia for it and in comics shes been just destroyed as a character and de-aged for the sake of being his angry goth GF...... D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t. i try really hard to suppoert dc's el gee bee tee heroes but j0njay is so... whatever boring bc tommy T is just not good at writing things but i Do like the version of that exists in one of my AUs. one day i may even share F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? loved superheroes as a kid plus ive dipped in and out of dc fandom since 2012 thou i think combined time ACTIVELY into dc as my main fandom would be like 5 1/2 years......... H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)? i love comics even though they arent always super easy for me to read depending on the day.... shows are always up to ilke pacing and stuff like ive been reading dragonball and a single panel of goku jumping was a full 3 minute segment in the anime. comics i can like car_penis_drive.png

[fruitkingfrog]

late 2021 Lightrion week day 4 - Stars/Galaxy!

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[Image ID: orion and lightray from dc kissing while in flight. orion is flying on his astroharness without his helmet. lightray is floating upside down, holding orion’s helmet to his chest and his other hand holding orion’s cheek. they are in front of a a neon coloured jack kirby-inspired space background. the words “stars” and “galaxy” are imposed over two planets in the background.]

[fruitkingfrog]

2021 Lightrion week day 3 / Beatora week day 5 - Double Date!

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[Image ID: A full page illustration of Lightray, Orion, Fire, and Ice from DC Comics. The center of the page, they are sitting on colourful chairs around a purple and red table with drinks on it, Lightray and Orion are facing towards the viewer while Fire and Ice have their backs to the screen. Lightray is smiling and has his hand raised, and looking at Beatriz in conversation. His other hand is holding Orion’s on top of the table. Orion is looking stern, wearing sunglasses and sitting scrunched. Fire has her hand raised and bent, laughing while faced towards Lightray. Ice sits next to her smiling awkwardly. All four are wearing casual clothing. Behind them is a purple box that says Double Date in rainbow text, with Orion’s helmet sun, Lightray’s symbol, shards of ice, and green fire float on the corners around it. These same symbols are on the corners of the full image. At the top of the page, a border shows Lightray with smiling eyes looking at Orion, who’s grinning behind his glass of water. At the bottom, within the border is Tora laughing while watching Beatriz laughing. Every part of the image has rainbow swirled backgrounds, some with offset rainbow dots. A white border surrounds the outside of the picture, frames the top and bottom borders, and frames the inner picture of them at the table.]