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reginaphalangelobster125 · 3 months ago

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I mainly write short one-shots and drabbles about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Doctor Who. I will occasionally post longer fics/series and some Buffy The Vampire Slayer content. Please be warned there is swearing in some posts.

I only write in the second person i.e. You said, they looked at you.

I also have a side blog @lobster-graphics where I make moodboards and dividers, requests there are open.

My blog supports everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community. Anyone who makes hurtful comments will be blocked and can fuck all the way off.

Requests are: OPEN

Requests Guidelines:

No Smut

Nothing Illegal

No Starker (romantic)

No Thorki (romantic)

No Buffy/Giles (romantic)

No Doctor/Donna (romantic)

Platonic or Romantic

Poly ships are workable but I'm not sure how good I'll be at writing them, I've only done one so far (that I posted)

Please be respectful when sending an ask/request

Anons welcome

Request/asks can be sent with a song, trope, prompt, full explanation or just character names

Age gaps are fine just as long as they are both over 18

All fics/drabbles will be x reader

Female or gender neutral reader only

AUs:

I'm not really into AUs unless it reverses a characters death

I'd love to hear your different ideas in asks/requests but there are a few I'm not going to write for:

Omegaverse

Soulmate AU

Anything where the characters aren't superheroes/slayers/vampires/gods/aliens/whatever you want to call The Doctor

I prefer the characters to stay basically themselves

Tropes:

I'm definitely open to your favourite tropes but here are a few of mine (although some may just be base plots but anyways):

Wearing each other's clothes (I wrote the first of I'm sure to be multiple fics based solely on this)

Mutual pining/idiots in love (especially when another character has to step in and tell them they're in love)

Comforting after a nightmare (both or character or reader, love it all)

One of them being a in their terms "awful person" because of murder or just letting people die and the other telling them they're perfect

Some kind of spell or technology going wrong and one or both of them falling in love (more)/telling the truth about their love

Killing for each other (you know, if they have too)

Forced proximity

One bed

I truly love receiving asks/requests, they always make my day.

Please don't feel nervous or shy when sending an ask/request, everyone is welcome. If you do feel nervous or shy that's what the anonymous button is for, please use it. Please specify if you want romantic or platonic if you care either way.

Current Ask Games

Valentine's Day

Marvel Song Fic

My Masterlists

Marvel

X-Men

Doctor Who Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Angel

Characters I Will Write For:

Marvel

Natasha Romanoff

Clint Barton

Bruce Banner

Tony Stark

Steve Rogers

Thor Odinson

Loki Laufeyson/Odinson/Friggason

Stephen Strange

Scott Lang

Peter Parker

Bucky Barnes

Yelena Belova

Kate Bishop

Wanda Maximoff

Sam Wilson

Pepper Potts

X-Men

Logan Howlett

Wade Wilson

Kurt Wagner

Doctor Who

10th Doctor

11th Doctor

12th Doctor

13th Doctor (possibly)

14th Doctor

15th Doctor

Captain Jack Harkness

Missy

Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Angel

Spike

Angel

Rupert Giles

Wesley Wyndam-Price

Buffy Summers (possibly)

Willow Rosenberg (possibly)

I am open to write for other characters within these fandoms (these are just the ones I know I'm comfortable writing), just send a request/ask and I'll give it a shot!

DISCLAIMER: I have only seen most of the Marvel/X-Men TV shows and movies and I have read none of the comics, so my writing will be based off of what I know.

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doesnotloveyou · 4 months ago

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The "Marvel Rivals" Hot Takes (that my irl friends don't want to hear)

The Basics

The target demographic is straight male players with extremely average intellect. Y'know, gamers

Heavily influenced by the Chinese devs. You will wonder who the hell Luna Snow is (K-Pop Dazzler), and why Moon Knight has a Chinese-style skin option (especially since Moon Night is an Egyptian deity's avatar, but Lunar New Year puns are whatever)

Including Psylocke and a Chinese Iron Fist (bye, Danny Rand) is cool, but surprising if you're expecting American Marvel decisions

Male Characters

most of the men are stereotypical top heavy beefcakes who would go down instantly in a slight breeze

exceptions: Spider-Man is lithe, Bruce Banner is a twig, we can't see Strange's physique under his cloak, and the two small creature characters of Rocket & Jeff

Iron Fist and Winter Soldier should be closer to Spider-Man on the Lithe-to-Beefcake spectrum,

Namor stands out as he apparently mistook this for a Mr. International costume contest, which is not OOC for our K’uk’ulkan, but unusual in the line-up of "straight male fantasy" body types

AND WHY IS NAMOR'S VOICE SPANIARD? WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?

most of the male characters have no butt whatsoever, just rippling biceps

Winter Soldier has one of the flattest backsides I have ever seen....but one of the most artistically shaded groins...

THE MOST interesting character designs for a game trying to pass as straight-coded are Venom and Groot. They got backsides to match the female characters, as in PRONOUNCED

unpack that how you will...

Female Characters

it's a dude game, our ladies are Barbie dolls with back problems *shakes fist at Rob Liefeld*

Black Widow's bubble-butt is halfway up her back for some reason. Maybe the devs thought she is genetically part spider?

Cloak and Dagger are an odd inclusion. Dagger in her skintight, butt-crack suit is who you see most often as she prances around the battlefield on her tippy toes like Tinkerbell; and Cloak, one of three black playable characters in the game, is almost never visible and seems to have one line of dialogue. Tandy does all the talking and most of the playing

Magick looks great, whoever designed her understood the assignment

Squirrel Girl is the token "chunky girl" even though her belly is flatter than mine and those thighs are made of steel.Other than an exposed midriff and shorts, she's not overtly sexualized

why is cutscene Shuri so light-skinned? Her skintone is close to Loki's

Storm and Shuri have faces molded to look more attractive to Asian audiences (that emaciated, triangular shape) than to resemble Afro features

Hela is a diva so her looks are completely defensible, and season zero she has perhaps the steamiest skin choice

with Emma Frost slated to release soon, they'll have new sexy skins to put on her so have fun, straight boys

Mantis, Scarlet Witch, and Psylocke aren't too different from their comic/film appearances in terms of design. Psylocke has always been cheeks-out and that is barely altered here, whereas Wanda is pretty covered up for Wanda

Final Thought(s)

In a game where headshots matter, it's so funny how many characters have heads smaller than one of their pecs/boobs

#marvel rivals #marvel #character design #winter soldier #kukulkan #namor #ororo munroe #moon knight

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snkts · 2 months ago

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✍ Favorite thing about writing the muse?

💡 What inspires you to write the muse?

😒 Is there anything canon about your muse that you ignore?

MUNDAY QUESTIONS || ACCEPTING

✍ Favorite thing about writing the muse?

How nuanced the character is. There's just so much to him, y'know? Like, yes, he is the superweapon, he is the unkillable indestructible rage monster. But he also helps comfort and ground the people he cares about when they have panic attacks. In a fight, he will butcher and brutalize anyone who gets in his way, but when SHIELD calls on him and says, hey, Hulk is destroying a city, go fight him, he replies, Hulk doesn't do that for no reason, what did you do, and then finds Bruce Banner after the fact to get his side of things. When the W*ndigo is on a rampage, Logan is the one to step between him and the rest of the X-Men and say, hey, this is just a scared kid, let me talk to him before anyone gets hurt, nobody has to fight here. He's offered help to Victor Creed/Sabertooth, he tried to forgive Dog Logan, and it took his entire student body being at risk to turn on Daken and it CRUSHED him to do so. He will verbally tear you apart and crush your insecurities without hesitation, knock you down with every insult in the book, but he also improvised a bedtime story for a scared little boy and told Elsie Dee that just because she was a robot that didn't mean she wasn't a person too, and called her sweetheart and darling and little lady and insisted she had just as much of a right to life and freedom as anyone else. He's a hardened, grizzled, jaded, traumatized asshole who classifies himself as a loner and often 'bails' for weeks at a time to go do god knows what on his own, but also suffered through years of the worst physical and emotional agony he could be through, in a demeaning civilian job he hated, just so that there would still be someone there to look after Charles because he couldn't abandon the only person to ever really give him a fresh start. He is so much and I just love him.

💡 What inspires you to write the muse?

A few things - but other people are asking this, so you get one! It's my own martial arts training. I've been training in various styles for about 22 years now, and I teach at the local dojo. It's a lifelong hobby of mine, but I find it helps me connect to Logan as a muse really well. The teaching, too. I've taught some kids from their first class all the way to their black belts, and I consider myself privileged to have been a part of their lives. There's just something about being a teacher that you can't really understand unless you are one, you know? And the different martial philosophies, meditation styles, the histories and traditions and cultures... Logan didn't grow up in Japan, but he spent a lot of his life there, learning under different masters and discovering who he was and who he could be. A lot of what he picked up there is going to bleed into his character and how he sees the world, and as someone who HAS grown up with the tradition (for the majority of my life, at least), it's nice to get to use it properly.

😒 Is there anything canon about your muse that you ignore?

Oh boy. I'll give you one, because I'm going to go off. It's Jogan. I know, I know, I'm gonna get some hate, it's a popular ship, but I'm so sick of it and how it's written, Like-- Okay. I know it's a popular ship. I know a lot of people like it, and that's fine - this is just a comic book romance, if someone else likes it, we can still be friends, I don't care. I cannot stand the ship - especially with how much it gets shoved down our throats now.

In the early Claremont days, it wasn't horrible. They met when Logan came to the X-Men, Jean yelled at him, and Logan, seeing a strong, confident, self-assured, gorgeous woman, fell hard and fast. But here's the thing: He never acted on it, BECAUSE HE KNEW SHE WAS IN A RELATIONSHIP. He kept it to himself. Sure, he made goo-goo eyes and he would've shot himself in the foot if she asked him to, but he never made any advances, never flirted, nothing. It was to the point Jean was in hospital waking up from a coma, and Logan was going to bring her, his friend, flowers, until he saw her with Scott and thought hey maybe I'm overstepping a bit and threw the flowers out. He moved on, found love in Mariko, etc etc.

And that's FINE. I don't hate that. The problem is it didn't stop there. For some reason, writers keep coming back to it. And it's fucking weird. Because on one hand, why is Logan obsessing over his married-with-kids coworker like that? It goes completely against a lot of his characterization, often times it's dug up after he had no romantic interest in her for entire runs, and in my opinion, it cheapens all his other romances. Like, again, with Mariko. They were together for years, they had this beautiful relationship, they were engaged and WOULD have been married if not for some outside circumstances, he kept her gifts displayed in his room and she had their engagement photo on her home shrine, and she dies because women get fridged a lot in comics but it's still a very tragic moment, then whoops no Logan's still in love with Jean. Excuse me?? And it also leads to a lot of characters making weird comments, like 'Logan has a redhead fetish'. But he DOESN'T. None of his long-term canon relationships have red hair. Silver, Itsu, Herc, Mariko, and his more recent girlfriend whose name I can't fully remember (my mind is swiss cheese and I'm too lazy to google right now) all have dark hair. And if you consider Wolvertooth to be some degree of canon (which I do, and is in some multiverses, and according to Lavalle is in 616 too), that means he also dated a blond.

It also recontextualizes a lot of his other relationships in ways that are... frankly gross. I'll give you two examples so you can see what I mean.

The first is Rose O'Hara. She's Logan's childhood friend. He was really sickly as a kid, so his dad, John, adopted Rose so that James would have a friend. And they WERE best friends. She was also meant to help take care of James, which is where the writing gets weird, because they're often shown and written as being about the same age, but some people portray her as older-- Anyway. James/Logan and his half brother, Dog, both have crushes on her. Dog asks her out, she says no, he tries to force himself on her, which is the catalyst to the series of events that results in John and Elizabeth Howlett dying and James/Logan manifesting his powers early. Later on, James/Logan is planning on asking her out and finds out she likes someone else, and while he's initially heartbroken and upset, he gets over it and makes friends with her husband. (Her husband, Brendan, reportedly sees James as a son, which once again makes the ages weird, but I digress.) All well and good, right? Well, in a later issue, before Logan gets his memories back, it's the modern day and he meets Rose's ghost. He initially thinks she's Jean because for SOME REASON they're identical I GUESS, and she keeps calling him 'my love' and talking about how she always loved him and she waited over two hundred years for him and will keep waiting and doesn't reveal she's not Jean until the end, and just. WHAT. WHAT IS HAPPENING. She didn't 'always love him', unless it's a friend/familial thing, but that's not how they wrote it. She REJECETED him. They were JUST FRIENDS. And why did she wait when her husband wasn't there? Women and men can just have platonic relationships and James' and Rose's friendship was so sweet. It was also a good show of the difference between the brothers, and how Logan isn't his biological father, because Dog, when told no, did what their bio father would have done and forced himself on her. Logan, when told no, bowed out and respected her. BUT NOOOO NOW THEY'RE IN LOVE AND SHE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE JEAN.

The other one is Heather Hudson, James Hudson's wife from Alpha Flight. Alpha Flight is... A very fucked up part in Logan's life. Heather and James find Logan in the woods when he's still feral after Weapon X. They help him re-learn how to be a person, they introduce him to the team, they give him a job. Unfortunately, the things they ask him to do get too brutal, and he can't in good conscience keep working for them and quits, heads south to the States, and eventually joins the X-Men. In later issues, they write Logan as having been in love with Heather, because she's ALSO a redhead and looks similar to Jean. Ignoring how weird that is, there's a fucked up power dynamic in there already - she saved him, she taught him to be a person, he owes her. She's also MARRIED, and if you read thew older runs (and even some of the newer ones), Logan wouldn't fucking do that. But the real kicker is later on, Alpha Flight decides they're not happy with Logan having ditched them for another team and TRY TO KIDNAP HIM. In some versions of the story (I believe the original cartoon), they're eventually successful, and strap him down to a table to vivisect him over and over until he's so wiped out they worry they might have killed him. BUT SURE. HE LOVES HEATHER TOO. WHY NOT.

Neither of those were originally written as love stories (beyond James' brief, one sided crush on Rose), but they're redheads and they look like Jean, so they were reworked to fit that way.

I could also go on a rant about how it's 'canon in Krakoa'. but frankly, fuck Krakoa. Having it be a poly relationship, fine! I like Scogean because it doesn't shit on Scott's character. But when the poly relationships are all/almost all 'one woman and two men' and the tagline for it is 'make more mutants', it seems less like good poly rep, and more like a weird breeding thing. Jean deserves better.

But while I'm on the topic, poor fucking Scott. Scott Summers is a good man. He's not a perfect man, and later issues feel like they're dragging him through the mud, but he's a good guy. ... Until one of the writers thinks Jean and Logan should be together. It's a huge problem in the fandom, too. People think Logan should be the suave, slick-talking bad boy (which, btw, is NOT how he flirts - or at least not how he was originally written) and Scott is the boring stick in the mud holding Jean back. That's not his character. He's more logical, sure, more balanced, but he's not BORING and he and Jean are made to balance each other out. But as soon as the writers want Logan and Jean, Scott gets shoved aside and mischaracterized.

Which, by the way, is a bad fucking look for Jean. I'm not saying people can't grow and change and find they're no longer compatible. I'm not saying you can't leave a long term partner. My dad's a divorce attorney. It happens. But they don't write it that way. Most of the time, it's all happening behind Scott's back. They'll write it a lot of the time as Scott and Jean are having a rough patch, so Jean strings Logan along - or outright cheats with him - then pushes him away and rejects him when she wants to get back with Scott. Or, she and Scott are fine, and she strings Logan along anyway. ... That's not a good look for Jean. And again, if you look at her characterization in the early comics, SHE WOULDN'T DO THAT. If Logan made a move on her (which, as we discussed, he also wouldn't do), she would've thrown him through the fucking wall. I don't have as many thoughts on her and Scott, since they're not my muses, but god, it drags them down.

The last point is, I can think of exactly two universes that are canon where they get together. In one, he has Jean, then Jean dies, and it makes Logan lose his shit so bad he turns into an agent of Apocalypse and is a blatant antagonist. In the other, they marry, and despite them being 'soulmates' (a quote) their relationship is hugely toxic. Logan gives up his powers to try to make her happy and love him again, she walks out anyway, and he spends the rest of his life aging and depressed.

I dunno.

I like them as friends and teammates, but god, the ship annoys me so much.

#smilingmxsk #out ;; jay says stuff #iiiii went on a rant im so sorry ckgbndfklgh

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crimsonscloud · 1 year ago

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you know what. it's missing norton!bruce hours (again) and i got some headcanons to share this time. below the cut because we might be here a while.

general / misc headcanons:

based on norton's screenplay for the incredible hulk, this bruce's full name is david bruce banner. (this is also how i mentally differentiate between norton and ruffalo's portrayals; to me, norton!bruce is david, ruffalo!bruce is robert.)

his mother used to call him "davey" as an affectionate nickname when he was little.

frankenstein is one of his favorite books because his mother read it to him. (this one is canon to the ih novelization)

he adores dogs and adopts a puppy between the avengers and age of ultron. (i don't have a name for the puppy yet.)

he likes studio ghibli films and finds the animation style relaxing.

learned russian while getting one of his phds, like in the comics.

inspired by this panel from the "super spy banner" arc in the comics: he likes james bond. and yes, he absolutely takes the chance to say "the name is banner. bruce banner" when he's doing an infiltration mission (probably with natasha and/or clint) or something. he and natasha probably watch the films together since her solo film had her quoting along to moonraker.

bruce. is. a. martial. artist. the films forget this and i'm salty about it.

cooking is relaxing for him so he tends to make a lot of food, and he knows a lot of dishes from different cultures because of how much he's traveled. no one on the team complains.

bruce's powers:

glowing eyes <3

inspired by the john turman hulk script, electricity behaves weird around bruce when he gets emotional. he has made lightbulbs and other things explode if he's standing too close to them. he learns how to isolate the effect once he understands more about his relationship with hulk. tony helps by giving him things he doesn't mind getting exploded, and for bruce it also works kind of like a trauma release. he can still accidentally blow something up if he gets distracted / agitated, but it happens less.

the electrical-interference power also manifests as him being able to hear electrical currents. different things have slightly different sounds / pitches and tony always asks him to describe them.

still has a pretty good healing factor as bruce, it's just slower. (in a ih deleted scene sparr says she's never seen someone recover from a tranquilizer as fast as he does). also can't get drunk, but he's never tested that for obvious reasons.

in the novel he's able to dodge a tranq dart "aimed and fired in one motion" so he probably also has faster reflexes.

immune to mind control as bruce and as hulk. both are pissed at wanda for trying it.

based on a scene in the immortal hulk comics, bruce uses automatic writing and drawing to communicate with hulk when hulk isn't out.

can see astral forms. they're clearer and even tangible when hulk is in control, but bruce can also see them.

also inspired by immortal hulk, he has a weird sixth sense for when people are lying to him. as bruce the "itch" he gets can be ignored most of the time, as hulk not so much.

relationship / dynamic headcanons:

no brutasha romance to be seen here they are friends 😌 (if that's your cup of tea that's fine it just isn't mine.)

stays. in. contact. with. betty. (i will forever fight the mcu over this. they are soulmates yall.)

steals tony's band shirts like a gremlin. also steals tony's snacks.

bruce🤝wanda: blurring the lines of science and mysticism. (later comics describe gamma radiation as having a mystical element, "like a magic spell... when viewed from another angle" which is the same reason bruce / hulk tend to have some extrasensory powers).

i just think we were robbed of a bruce and wanda friendship okay.

#marvel #mcu #crimson is bruceposting #norton!bruce meets the mcu #(new tags teehee)#bruce banner #my headcanons #some of these were also already posted on my old bruce rp blog but i don't use it much rn and figured the non rp folks would like them

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vorenado-m · 10 months ago

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I'm pretty sure it's the recent run of The Immortal Hulk that a friend of mine read and swears by as being really good as well as shining a light on Bruce's DID.

ask them for me 🥺i need to know. i will read comics for bruce banner. do not give a shit about those other bitches but bruce... ill make it happen for bruce...

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thealmightyemprex · 2 years ago

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Marvel Month :Hulk Gray

In this series Bruce Banner is talking to Doc Samson about the buried early days of the Hulk back when he was Grey not green,primarily focusing on Hulks relationship Betty Ross and her father Thunderbolt Ross

So the collaborations of Jeph Loeb and the late Tim Sale have become classics.Their probabbly best known for Batman the Long Halloween and Superman For All Seasons for DC ,but for a Marvel they did a thematic series :The Color books.Consisting of Daredevil Yellow,Spider-Man Blue,Hulk Grey and Captain America White ,each series takes a look at the early days of a Marvel superhero ,reminicing on the past as they remember a fallen loved one .IBefore this I have only read Daredevil Yellow which is pretty darn good ,but have heard good things bout both this and Spider-Man Blue (And Captain America White was SUPER delayed )

So I am so mixed on this book,cause when its great its great .....But I think,frankly, it made points that didnt feel were clear

I'll start with what I like

1.I like that there are no supervillains ,this is a character study and the villain is Thunderbolt Ross

2.This is less a superhero story and more a classic monster tale,which is fitting,as the initial idea for Hulk was based on the 1931 Frankenstein (Personal favorite of mine ) and even throw in a refrence to that film

3.Banner is an unreliable narrator ,we dont know how much of this is true and how much is his biases shaping the story .I dunno its an element I liked

4.Theres a lot of solid moments like Hulk in a cave with Betty (A scene later adapted into 2008's Incredible Hulk ), and a scene where Hulk pets but accidently kills a rabbit,I just really dug those scenes

5.There is a badass fight with Iron Man (Bulky gold suited Iron Man) and I just found that neat

6.Tim Sales artwork is gorgeous ,I reallly love the stylized look he brought to comics,and his Hulk is truly monstrus but sympathetic,also give me Karloff vibes

.....Ya know as I am typing I think I like it more thenI dislike it ...But I have three problems

1.Banner and Doc Samsons narration and analyzation got tedious real fast

2.The main focus of the book is Bruce is great in concept,the link of Hulk and Thunderbolt Ross and to qoute Clopain from Hunchback of Notre Dame "Whois the monster and who is the man " ....But also that Betty mightve fallen for Bruce for the wrong reasons,theat she saw the toxic elements of him similar to the toxic elements of her father,and tried to ficx him and...I dunno that just wasnt clear at all till near the end and just felt forced

3.Oh the ending sucks ,after a good final showdown with Ross ,Banners flashback ends with him being yelled at by Ross,then freaking out in Samsons office,leaping away and it just fell flat for me

Oh and a me thing.....I didnt relize this took place after Betty had died till a good way though (I didnt even know Betty had ever died in the comics )

I do reccomend this ,it is good ,but it did fizzle for me.Not Loebs strongest writing,though Tim Sales art make this reccomended

@ariel-seagull-wings @goodanswerfoxmonster@the-blue-fairie@themousefromfantasyland@theancientvaleofsoulmaking @filmcityworld1

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madam-banner · 1 month ago

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⚛︎ madam-banner — tag directory ⚛︎

my post — self explanatory

straight from the bitch’s mouth — whenever I say some shit on someone else’s post; in a reblog or whatever or I’m specifically speaking/giving an opinion of mines

b’s reading list — whenever I specifically post about comics I’ve read, plan on reading, or have opinions on as a reader (comic reviews & thoughts will also be under this tag)

writing••• — posts that have any writing in them but aren’t fics or imagines or comic panels

thoughts — short text post stuff (whether from me or from a reblog)

ima+fi — imagines, x readers, or fics (more specific fic tags will be found within the tags of the posts themselves)

fic recs — fanfiction recommendations

analysis — posts that infer greater insight into Bruce/Hulk’s (& co.’) characters or other comic/MCU/other marvel adaptations phenomena

meta — exactly what it sounds like, posts that dive into Bruce/Hulk (& co.) from a self-aware ‘outsider looking in’ perspective; just self-aware analysis idrfk

parallels — any comparisons being made to Hulk media and other media; also comparisons being made between Bruce/Hulk adaptations (ie: like comparing and contrasting Hulk (2003) with The Incredible Hulk (2008) or Hulk/Bruce’s appearances in Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes)

comics — comic stuff in general and also posts that directly apply comic concepts to the adaptations

panels••• — anything that’s a comic panel alone or a post that predominately features a comic panel

comic recs — comic recommendations

hc — headcanons; unofficial Bruce/Hulk (& co.) shit that I like

dive — deep dives into characterizations, story beats, and just story elements in general

baby bruce banner — posts referring to Bruce at 18 and under; young Bruce shit

college!aged!bruce — posts specifically referring to Bruce in college

competent!tony — Bruce Banner being competent and his skills being taken seriously and/or highlighted (posts under *insert hulk alter here* is not an idiot will also pop up)

fathers™️ — anything related to fatherhood; whether that be Bruce’s relationship to Brian or to his own kids or Betty’s relationship to Thaddeus, etc.

bruce banner protection squad — posts going to bat for my man; defending him or his intelligence (betty ross protection squad is also a tag I’ll use for similar Betty related purposes)

goddamnit bruce — self explanatory; posts focused on Bruce doing some fuck shit even I won’t defend

the hulk defense — posts that come to the defense of any of the Hulks (including the Hulk alters, A-Bomb, Red She-Hulk, She-Hulk, etc.)

🫶🏾 — instances of Bruce/Hulk (& co.) either being very pretty or very cute (also if they’re just being sexy; I don’t make the rules)

⚛︎ — I really loved something; I’m highlighting a post if you will

relationship tags: #bretty (which is apparently Bruce and Betty’s ship name) #bruce banner and rick jones, #science bros #science husbands

other tags: #bruce and his big ass ego, #cast + #bts #fic ideas #saving for later (need to go in and tag post properly later) #wit and wry (anytime bruce/hulk is just a shit w/ a good comeback) #✨betty✨

universe specifiers: #616 #mcu #earth’s mightiest heroes #avengers assemble #hulk and the agents of smash #hulk 2005 #ultimate comics #animation #video games

character tags: #bruce banner #hulk #savage hulk #devil hulk #gravage #green scar #grey hulk #joe fixit #professor hulk #betty ross #red she-hulk #red harpy #rick jones #a-bomb #jennifer walters #thaddeus ross #red hulk #black!reader #smart hulk (specifically referencing the mcu version)

CURRENTLY READING (pls note that I bounce timelines when I read): …

CURRENTLY WATCHING: Hulk (2003)

CURRENTLY RE-WATCHING: Planet Hulk (2010) + director’s commentary track

#tag directory•••

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011945 · 2 months ago

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important to note. i tend not to engage with the greater comic books fandom, so take that into consideration when engaging with me. i am open for interactions with anyone and everyone within reason. including the general marvel rp community. rules last updated (03/03/2025).

one. i am selective and private meaning that i will only interact with mutuals. this blog is also meant to be a plot centered blog, i run other blogs alongside this one and to keep my motivation up we must have some basis of a discussion ooc to know where we want to take a dynamic. i will not write with you if we do not plot.

two. this is my own portrayal of bucky based on the fact that i wanted to write him and i like his character, over time i might read up on more of his comics and appearances but the main focus it's for me to have fun and flesh my own version of him. it's important to note that most of the marvel potrayals i write are all interconnected in a specific canon merging mcu and comic books. basically this is a i do my own shit zone. accuracy when it comes to comic books or movie adaptation is not the goal here.

three. i ship chemistry, meaning that after a couple of interactions or ooc discussion if we both muns feel like the possibility of a romantic dynamic could occur then we can go for it. i love shipping but i do not want it to feel forced. in line with the made up canon, by default and if we aren't shipping bucky in a relationship with dru's bruce banner and ripley's natasha romanoff. and i am exclusive with those portrayals on this blog.

four. regarding stevebucky, truth be told i don't know if i'm all that interested in exploring it 100% i think it would require a lot of plotting and building on it with the idea that they won't end up together. i have a specific way i would like to explore said dynamic and if you are game just lmk.

five. this blog will feature triggering content at times. any triggers that apply to bucky's story/comics he's featured in may ocassionally be present in this blog. i will tag triggers as cw trigger.

six. although HYDRA is a part of bucky's backstory, i am not looking to interact with any characters that revolve around HYDRA or any na*zi adjacent characters besides using them as npcs or villians or offhandedly being mentioned.

seven. i am 21+ and i do not rp with minors, if you are a minor dni with this blog. smut is unlikely to happen in this blog. i only smut with close mutuals.

eight. if you character has committed r*ape do not follow me this is a big trigger of mine. i will hardblock as i see fit.

nine. i will not tolerate untagged drama and call out posts. i understand sometimes these are made with the safety of the rp community at times but i much rather be approached by asks or dms if i am interacting with someone who is an active threat to other's wellbeing.

ten. i created the graphics i use here and the psd is by supersources.

#rules.

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sophia1214 · 2 months ago

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Ok hey my bats this is my oc tour btw this is a long list so ya but you all asked for it so here it is btw I have Like a lot of editions because it’s the children of the movie characters so hope you like

oc tour marvel edition(I have 13 editions)

Btw half of these drawings aren’t mine I got them off Pinterest I just dont know the artist but If this is your art let me know

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Meet amethyst strange - daughter of doctor strange

age: 18

sibling: her sister Emma strange

lover: none

is bisexual (half my characters are)

lives: New York

she is a new avenger

facts: she is a witch she was homeschooled(like me) doctor strange raised her all her life

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Meet Emma strange - second daughter of doctor strange

age: 17

siblings: her older sister amethyst strange

lover: none

She is straight

lives: New York

She is soon to be a new avenger

facts: she’s a witch too she was not homeschooled(Dr strange regrets that) she always thinks she is the powerfull one (but she isn’t) since doctor strange let her go to school she wasn’t trained that well for magic

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Meet charlotte stark - daughter of Tony stark

age: 16

siblings: she younger sister Morgan stark

lover: none

She is lesbian

lives: New York

She is the captain of the new avengers

fact: she is in love with may parker jones she is always in the avengers tower she gets annoyed sometimes because tony keeps telling her about how he uses to be a avenger and his story’s she’s like “ok dad I do love stories but I’m trying to finish my suit you going to help or not”

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Meet ruby james - daughter of Rhodes james

age: 16

sibling: none

lover: none

She is bisexual

lives:New York

she is a new avenger

fact: she is the best friend of charlotte stark and the responsible one she helped Charlotte with the new avengers and yes she is supposed to be the next war machine

(yes this is a comic of his actual daughter I’ll change it later)

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meet Lyra banner( in hulk form) daughter of Bruce banner

age: 16

siblings: none

lover: none

she is a new avenger

she is bisexual

lives: New York

facts: her cousin is Jenny banner she is the hulk in the new avengers she acts like Bruce a lot she loves science and reading the things that fuck with her is crowds and Jenny fucking with her

(I’m getting tired let keep going I guess)

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Meet Jenny banner (in hulk form) - daughter of Jennifer banner/she hulk

age: 14

lover: nope

she is straight

lives: New York

she’s not a new avenger (she’s to young)

fact: (I have nothing to say)

(Wow you still here then you really want to see my character wow let’s keep going)

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meet Sarah rogers daughter of Steve rogers

age: 15

siblings: none

lover: Becky Barnes

she is bisexual

lives: Brooklyn to New York

she is a new avenger

facts: she was created by HYDRA using Steve Rogers' DNA and peggys DNA and Fury nicknames her ms America and Nat, Clint, Maria, Fury and Coulson become her Uncles/Aunts until Steve finds out she's his daughter and he names her Sarah rogers Also the other Avengers become her Aunt's/Uncles as well

(Almost there btw i started this at 11:06 and now it’s 12:48)

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meet Kyra lang - daughter of Scott lang

age: 16

Siblings: Cassandra lang

lover: none

straight

lives: New York

is a new avenger

facts: she is the new ant man she loves ants and art

(yes this is cass in comics shut up it’s 1 in the fucking morning im trying to find a new pic)

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(fuck it I’m taking a break and going on character ai see you in the morning my bats)

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Meet may Parker jones - daughter of TH Peter Parker and Mj

age: 16

siblings: nope

Lover: charlotte stark

she is bisexual

lives: New York

Fact: she was named after Peter’s aunt may she did inherit his spider man powers she is in love with Charlotte

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I’m alive I fell asleep at 1:05 and woke up at 9:59 so I’m back at it again if your still here then wow thank you let’s continue

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Meet nova odinson daughter do Thor

age: 15

lover: none

She is bisexual

lives: Asgard to New York

fact: nova is very much like Thor when he was about to be king she likes war and fighting but Thor keeps her from that and takes her to New York where she meets the avengers the only reason she’s alive is because hel takes care of her and yes she can lift the hammer

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meet hel laufeyson - daughter of Loki

age: 16

siblings: yes her little sister Elliot

lover: Rory maximoff

she is bisexual

she is a new avenger

lives: Asgard to New York

facts: she is the goddess of chaos and she is super powerful and protective of Elliot and Charlotte calls her chaotic snake

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Meet Elliot laufeyson - second daughter of Loki

Name: Elliot laufeyson

age: 5-6

siblings: her older sister hel

lover: (she’s a fucking child)

she is straight

She is not a new avenger (again she is a child)

lives in Asgard to New York

fact: Elliot has no magic she is super clingy to hel and only hel she loves Christmas (she’s a child I don’t have much to say)

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Meet zarah Wilson - daughter of Sam Wilson

age: 17

sibling: none

lover: nope (girl power)

she is straight

she is a avenger

lives in New York

fact: she’s good friends with ruby she planned to be the next falcon she loves fish

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Meet Artemis Barton - daughter of Clint Barton

age: 16

siblings: Cooper, Lila, and Nathaniel

lover: Natalia Romanoff

she is lesbian

she is a new avenger

lives in the safe house in New York (I think tell me in the comments)

facts: Artemis is the oldest of her siblings and the only one that wanted to be the next Hawkeye she loves archery and is in love with Natalia her arrows are like Clint’s

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omg you guys are almost there just 4 more left yay good job

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meet Rory maximoff - daughter of Wanda

age: 15

siblings: Tommy and Billy

lover: hel laufeyson ( any questions about them dating say it)

she is bisexual

she is a new avenger

lives: New York

facts: she has Wanda’s powers and they call her the obsidian witch she once battles amethyst but in the end they ended up being friends because they had to they where both avengers she protective of her brothers Tommy and Billy

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btw the next drawing is one of my drawings that i actually drew btw

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meet Becky Barnes - daughter of Bucky barnes

Name: Becky Barnes

age: 16

siblings: nope (I don’t know if Bucky has children let me know)

lover: Sarah rogers

she is bisexual

she is a new avenger

lives: New York

facts: when she was 6 she was taken by hydra and red room and trained to be a widow and a winter soldier so I made her name the winter widow she lose her arm when she was 7 so she got a metal arm that looked like buckys she fell in love with Sarah when she meet her they where best friends since her dad and Steve were best friends in till one night (ya that happened) and next day they were dating

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Luna maximoff (not comic Luna) - daughter of pietro maximoff

Name: Luna maximoff

age: 16

siblings: none

lover: none

she is straight

she is a new avenger

live: New York

fact: she is the cousin to Rory maximoff and she is super protective of her she has her dads mutants she’s super fast

(btw this isn’t comic Luna she’s named Luna because I was watching Harry potter and she was inspired by Luna lovegood)

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meet Natalie romanoff - daughter of Natasha romanoff

age: 17

Siblings: none

lover: Artemis Barton

She is bisexual

she is a new avenger

lives: New York

facts: she was also taken to the red room by force (trust me Natasha didn’t want too she was force to do it) and she became the red widow then she meet charlotte then she became a new avenger so ya

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Omg you made it thank you guys if you read all of it I made these characters when I was 6 to 12 and I have 120 characters later I will be putting a one day poll to see with editon will be next but thank you

if you have any questions about my ocs then ask me in my in box this was a long ride it took me the week when I started the poll to the end of the poll to finish this now I’m going to show you what the editions are

marvel

x men

Umbrella academy

Once upon a time

Disney

Percy Jackson (Greek mythology included)

Mha

batfam

Harry Potter

Hasbin hotel and Helluva boss

Spider verse

Maze runner

thank you my bats bye and comment if you saw the whole thing

(Btw I’m a fucking dumbass i thought i posted this but it was in my drafts the whole day)

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sivan325 · 1 year ago

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2024 New Fics

Fandom Trumps Hate

The Nogitsune's House - Teen Wolf, Steter. 2522 words. T. Tags: Post-Nogitsune Stiles Stilinski, Stiles Stilinski is Pushed Out of Scott McCall's Pack, Suicide Attempt, Arson, Suicide Notes, Firefighter Peter Hale, Good Peter Hale, Paramedic Cora Hale, Pack Alpha Derek Hale, Family Feels, no beta we die like men, Gift Fic, Comatose Stiles Stilinski, Angst with a Happy Ending, Adult Stiles Stilinski, Canon-Typical Violence, Temporary Character Death Mine! - X-Men, Scogan. 1630 words. E. Tags: Dark Era comic, spoilers, temporary character death, telepath Scott Summers, Blind Scott Summers, omegaverse, alpha Logan, Omega Scott, possessive behavior/sex Treasure - Teen Wolf, Steter. 1645 words. E. Tags: Porno Star Peter Hale, Pornostar Peter Hale, Touch-Starved, Stiles Stilinski is a Little Shit, Frottage, Virgin Stiles Stilinski, Fluff and Humor, no beta we die like men, Gift Fic, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Tumblr: steter-stackson-bingo (Teen Wolf), teen wolf bingo 2024, Peter Hale is a Softie

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The Snow - Teen Wolf, Sterek. 1000 words, G. Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Pack Alpha Derek Hale, Light Angst, Meet-Ugly, Stiles Stilinski is a Little Shit, Alternate Universe - Werewolves Are Known, no beta we die like men, Pre-Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski

Round Robin

The Cabin: Scott Summers Bingo Round Robin-Dec 2023 - T. Bruce Banner/Scott Summers

#2024 #my fics

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Comics read this past week:

Marvel Comics:

Winter Soldier (2012) #15-19

These issues were published across February 2013 to June 2013, according to the Marvel Wiki. All were written by Jason Latour and drawn by Nic Klein.

I was a bit wary going into these issues. I didn’t have high expectations after the end of Ed Brubaker’s long run writing Bucky, both because Brubaker practically reinvented the character and I really got invested in Bucky through his particular portrayal of him and because I didn’t actually fully enjoy how Brubaker’s run ended off. But these issues written by Jason Latour required multiple readthroughs for me to understand the story and characterizations and I was motivated to go through that whole process because I was really compelled.

Captain America and Black Widow (2012) #636-640

These issues were published across September 2012 to December 2012, according to the Marvel Wiki. All were written by Cullen Bunn and drawn by Francesco Francavilla.

I really enjoyed these issues even though the execution of the concept didn’t quite work for me exactly. The villain of the story is the many versions of Kashmir Vennema, who make of a multidimensional criminal organization of just Kashmir Vennemas that steal weapons, which are oftentimes people, to sell to other people in other dimensions. In issue #637 Steve and Natasha bust a sale taking place on their world and, upon realizing that the merchandise was people, Natasha goes to free them right away, but Steve stops her, saying, “We don’t know what… who… we’re dealing with. For all we know, they could try to kill us.” Natasha tells him that he doesn’t understand, that, “You don’t know what it’s like… having everything that makes you who you are strip-mined so you can be… a good little slave.” I wasn’t quite convinced of this characterization. I wasn’t convinced that Natasha would be so incautious as to want to just set brainwashed versions of people like Wolverine and Bruce Banner free or of the positioning of Steve as improperly sympathetic to their plight.

Then in issue #638 there’s an argument between Natasha and another version of herself that’s been hunting and killing Kashmir Vennemas. Our Natasha says, “You remind me of someone who didn’t think for herself. A puppet. A marionette dancing at the pull of a string.” And the alternate Natasha says, “Nonsense. The Cold War is over… for both of us. Only… one of us grew fat and lazy during peacetime… and the other stayed sharp.” It does turn out in the end that the person this other Natasha was working for, a version of Kashmir Vennema that was supposedly against all of the others but really just wanted to be the Kashmir Vennema on top, was playing the alternate Natasha. However, that’s not revealed until the very end of this story, so at that time of that first argument I felt that that criticism of the alternate Natasha was unsubstantiated and was more based on personality than anything else.

Then in issue #640 the alternate Natasha kills a bunch of Kashmir Vennemas, which our Natasha was against. The alternate Natasha says, “I only did what you would have done in the same situation. I finished this,” and, “These women were murderers and slave traders. They used people… People like me. Like you!” And our Natasha says, “I understand you’ve been mistreated. Enslaved. But you’re still letting yourself be used. Either by your own rage. Or by some other puppet master.” At this point neither Natasha knows that the resistance Kashmir Vennema has self-serving motives, so this criticism again feels unsubstantiated. Particularly considering that in the end, after being told that the alternate Natasha is imprisoned and will stay imprisoned for a long time, our Natasha says, “She said those women… the inner council… deserved to die for what they did. And… I try to convince myself that I’m nothing like that woman… That my background has made me a different person… A better person… But I agreed with her. I’m glad they’re dead.” So it wasn’t even truly a disagreement about tactics in the end and I feel sorry for the alternate Natasha that she got imprisoned. Even though by killing Kashmir Vennemas she was leaving a power vacuum for the resistance Kashmir Vennema to take over, I’m not convinced that the alternative Natasha was necessarily going down the wrong path as the narrative is trying to frame it, because killing the Kashmir Vennemas completely aligns with her own goals and morals, it’s just that there’s one more Kashmir Vennema that she didn’t realize she needs to kill.

Also, the way that the various Kashmir Vennemas are portrayed is that in personality they were all just a little bit different and the first time they appear there’s additional narration to the scene which explains their upbringing, which were all completely unique. Conceptually and in execution this worked really well for me, and I also like this being paired with the conflict between the two Natashas about how their comparable, possibly identical, upbringings shaped them, even though their lives diverged into something completely different at a certain point.

Captain America and the First Thirteen (2011) #1

This issue was published in March 2011, according to the Marvel Wiki. It was written by Kathryn Immonen and drawn by Ramón Pérez.

I read this issue because I was genuinely interested in Steve and Peggy Carter’s wartime romance, but unfortunately the portrayal of how they interacted with each other wasn’t very interesting. Sharon Carter said, about their relationship in Captain America (2005) #25, “And briefly, they had fallen in love… the only way you can when there are bombs falling all around… with wild abandon.” I was surprised to learn just how brief that relationship was. Peggy never even knew Steve’s name or his face before he got frozen. In the beginning of the story she says, “In my heart I know there could be no disguising his bravery, his courage, his intelligence. And one of these days, we will meet without the mask, quite by accident, probably. And we will know each other face-to-face. And then there will be no disguising ourselves or our feelings.” But at the end of the story she says, “And then it was over. And I never saw him again. Not that I know of,” while Peggy is shown passing Steve as a regular serviceman, while herself in disguise as part of her work in the French resistance, and not recognizing him. And before that there’s a scene where Peggy asks Steve if he remembers their first meeting and he says it was “a beautiful sunny day,” referring to the first meeting of Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter, and she corrects him and says, “It was pouring rain and you know it,” referring to her later meeting of Captain America. I also thought it was unfortunate that Bucky happens to be elsewhere during this story because it would have been nice to see his dynamic with Peggy.

What was of the most interest to me in this issue is how casually Steve interacted with another female spy, a friend of Peggy’s named Anna, regarding her tactics. She’s introduced when Steve gets distracted by the sight of her while talking to Peggy. Anna then applies her lipstick while looking at herself in the reflection on Steve’s shield and Steve jokingly asks, “So… Is that the famous knockout lipstick me and the boys have heard so much about?” Anna says that it could be and offers him a demonstration, which makes Steve a little bit flustered, and then he turns to Peggy and asks what she thinks. Peggy says to go ahead, Steve and Anna lean in to kiss, and then Steve learns that the “knockout lipstick” is really just a knife or a gun pressed against the stomach while the soldier is distracted. Later, Steve and Anna are chatting and Anna takes something out of her bag and Steve teases her by asking if it’s water-activated poison, a radio transmitter, or a garrote holder. Anna admits that it is a garrote holder, but that it’s primarily just rouge, while Steve grins. I would have thought that Steve would be less smooth around women and in particular that in the 1940s he’d be less comfortable around seduction-based female spies.

Winter Soldier: The Bitter March (2014) #1-5

These issues were published across February 2014 to July 2014, according to the Marvel Wiki. All were written by Rick Remember and drawn by Roland Boschi.

The first issue of this miniseries, which takes place in 1966, did not give me high expectations for the rest of it. It seemed like a generic spy story with S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Ran Shen as the protagonist and the Winter Soldier as the mysterious villain. What brings everyone together is that various competing agencies have given their operatives the same orders, to capture two Nazi scientists, a couple, so that they can work for their agency or, if that proves impossible, to kill them so that they can’t work for someone else. In this first issue Shen treats the mission somewhat flippantly, making bets with Nick Fury about who’s strategy is better and splitting up. The first hint of something interesting was in issue #2 when Bucky is shocked with electricity by Shen and subsequently has a flashback of Captain America telling him to never shoot someone that’s running away, which messes him up in his pursuit of Shen. Meanwhile, Shen is becoming enamored with Mila Hitzig, one of the scientists, who isn’t the Nazi her husband is and is more of a dedicated communist that went down the wrong path, which didn’t really impress me. And then in issue #3, after experiencing yet another electricity attack, Bucky has a flashback of Steve telling him that they don’t kill foes that are already defeated and can’t fight back, which prevents him from killing Shen in a vulnerable moment.

Then Bucky has to fight Lord Drain, a vampire-like Hydra operative with the ability to drain people of their will to live and convince them to kill themself. There’s some really great lines during this fight. Lord Drain says, “Oh to see what they did to you. It would break your poor captain’s heart,” and then makes Bucky see a hallucination of Steve, who shames him for what happened to him, saying, “My partner, what have you let them do to you? A bloodthirsty pawn of the Soviets, a faded memory who was better off dead- You shouldn’t be here, sullying your legacy,” and then tells Bucky to “set things right” by killing himself. And in issue #4 Lord Drain says, “I’m telling you what your heart knows is true- he’d want you dead! Captain America would want this distortion ended,” and, “If only to preserve his legacy- kill yourself!” But Bucky recognizes that this isn’t true and the memories of all of the lessons that Steve taught him coming back to him gives him the strength to resist Lord Drain. Later Bucky saves Mila and Shen from Lord Drain and has a parallel moment to Steve having told him, “No matter what- we always stand up,” when he tells Shen to stand up after Shen has lost his will to live because of Lord Drain.

In issue #5 Bucky, Mila, and Shen are all united. I was by this point still not compelled by Mila and Shen’s relationship. However, the ending of this series landed incredibly well. Bucky tells Shen that he was a brainwashed American soldier, but not specifically that he’s Bucky, Captain America’s long-thought-dead partner. They end up working out a deal where Bucky will come in after he gets revenge on the people who brainwashed him, which Shen is apprehensive about because he feels that if Bucky gets recaptured and rebrainwashed then everything he does for the Soviets from then on out will be his fault. Mila doesn’t want to go to the Soviets or to S.H.I.E.L.D. so Shen agrees to get her away from everyone and then they’ll be together, but the only way to get her out alive is to have Bucky take her away in the Soviet’s helicopter while pretending to still be working for them while Shen keeps the Soviet soldiers on the ground occupied. There’s a moment where Shen is injured and dying, and, while he’s sad that he won’t get to live the life he wanted to with Mila, he’s watching the helicopter fly away satisfied that he traded his life for hers. And then, tragically, Nick Fury shows up and saves Shen and, following their original orders to capture or kill the scientists, he shoots down the helicopter while Shen is still too injured to stop him. Despite not caring for this character prior to this, the close-up on Shen’s horrified eyes as he helplessly watches this got to me. This action from Nick Fury kills Mila and dooms Bucky to being recaptured and rebrainwashed. Later, Shen is told that he performed admirably on the mission, and is given a new assignment that requires him to act as though he hates the U.S. and is a committed communist, which he accepts with an angry look in his eyes as it is now actually true. Meanwhile, Bucky is being rebrainwashed in a way as to ensure that the way his programming was broken in this story won’t happen again.

Timely Publications:

the Jimmy Jupiter stories in Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) #36-39

In this batch of Jimmy Jupiter stories I went from October 1942 to January 1943, according to the issue cover dates. All were signed as by Eddie Robbins, and according to his Who’s Who page he was only the artist for these stories. All of the stories were 7 pages.

The stories in issues #36-37 break the traditional Jimmy Jupiter mold as in neither of these does Jimmy end the story believing that his adventure was real, as he does with all his prior adventures. In the story in issue #36 Jimmy is sent to go to the dentist by his mother, but he gets scared in the waiting room and tries to run away and knocks himself out in the process. He initially believes that he just gets up from the fall down the stairs, and is then chased by the maniacal dentist, who is assisted by his mother at the end of the dream. Jimmy’s mother “administers the anasthesia,” which means hitting him on the head with a hammer, and the dentist pulls out Jimmy’s tooth, and then that scene dissolves into the real world as Jimmy wakes up at the bottom of the stairs. When Jimmy is told what happened, he says, “Gee whiz!… I suppose I’ll have to go back up and get that tooth out now!” But then he learns that the fall down the stairs knocked out the offending tooth and he’s in the clear. I liked the ending narration to this story, which reads: “The only thing that’ll keep Jimmy away from more sweets is sugar rationing!”

And in the story in issue #37 Jimmy is told to spend Halloween night at the cemetery to learn whether or not he can see ghosts. He does and he falls asleep, though he doesn’t realize that initially, and meets ghosts in his dream that turn out to be harmless. After his adventure Jimmy sits back down under the tree that he did at the beginning, and then he’s woken up and asked if he met any ghosts. Jimmy says, “I don’t know! Maybe I was just dreaming after all! But, anyway- even if I wasn’t- I sure will never be afraid of ghosts again!” This is also, unfortunately, the first Jimmy Jupiter story to contain racist caricatures.

The adventure that’s begun in the story in issue #38 is more like the traditional Jimmy Jupiter story. At the beginning Jimmy is once again sitting under a tree when he’s approached by a fairy to come with her to the land of fairies. Along the way they’re attacked by an evil wizard, who imprisons Jimmy in a cell with an animate marionette doll named Knobby. This reminded me of the Jimmy Jupiter story in issue #29, which began with Jimmy lying in a field and being whisked off by a bee, and then had him get captured by witches and imprisoned with a talking rabbit. In that story Jimmy defeats the witches by stabbing one with a hatpin, causing her to deflate and the other two to run away in fear. In this story Jimmy and Knobby are able to run away while the evil wizard is having a coughing fit, which was caused by Jimmy kicking salt into his face, but Jimmy feels bad leaving him like that so he goes back splashes water on his face to help him, which actually causes the wizard to shrink and lose his magic powers.

In the story in issue #39 Jimmy and Knobby are still trying to get to the palace of the king of fairies, which is where Jimmy was supposed to be going in the first place. Along the way they have to cross a steep river and, in a play on “The Scorpion and the Frog” fairy tale, they are offered a ride by a crocodile, who tries to eat them when they are halfway across. Jimmy defeats the crocodile by telling him to eat them in pieces and then feeding him Knobby’s leg at an angle where the crocodile can’t close his mouth, forcing the crocodile to take them to the other side of the river so that Jimmy will remove the wooden leg so that the crocodile won’t starve to death.

Then Jimmy and Knobby are interrupted in their traveling by three witches, who are a play on the Graeae from Greek mythology, three sisters who had to share one eye and one tooth between them. The witches all have terrible eyesight and only one pair of glasses, and they use their magic to freeze Jimmy and Knobby in place and intend to hold them for ransom to the king to get more glasses, but Jimmy is able to snatch the glasses out of one of their hands in the moment of trading, leaving all of them blind. Jimmy tells them they undo the spell that’s keeping him and Knobby frozen and they say they can’t without the glasses, which makes Jimmy realize that the magic is in the glasses themselves and he uses them to free himself and Knobby. In the end Jimmy keeps the glasses, but he tells the witches that once he reaches the king he’ll have him send them three pairs of glasses with no evil power.

DC Comics:

Superman (2023) #1-7 and Annual #1

These issues were published across February 2023 to October 2023. All were written by Joshua Williamson. Issues #1-3 and #5 were drawn by Jamal Campbell, while issue #4 was drawn by Jamal Campbell and Nick Dragotta. Issue #6 was drawn by Glen Melnikov. The Annual was 40 pages and was drawn by Mahmud Asrar, Edwin Galmon, Caitlin Yarsky, Max Raynor, and Jack Herbert. And issue #7 was a 40-page anniversary special and was drawn by Gleb Melnikov, Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund, and Edwin Galmon.

I enjoyed these issues well enough. I’m not really a Superman fan, and I’ve got nothing against how Superman or Lex Luthor were characterized in these issues, I just personally wasn’t particularly compelled by their portrayals either. I read these issues because of the surprise appearance of Lena Luthor, specifically the version that’s Lex Luthor’s daughter, in issue #7. I got invested in this character back in 2021. She appeared in the later half of the 90s and the very beginning of the 2000s, and then Lex Luthor’s backstory was changed so that rather than having a foster sibling named Lena that he fell in love with and that died and that he named his daughter after, he had a biological sister named Lena who was still alive, and before this series “Lena Luthor II” hadn’t been seen since. I haven’t read the comics with Lena Luthor, Lex’s sister, from the 2000s yet and what I have read with her from the 2010s didn’t appeal to me.

In the 90s Lena was a baby that other characters talked at, but I was able to get invested in her through the fact that what she brought out in Lex was so interesting to me. Then in the early 2000s, after having been traded to Brainiac 13 by her father, she reappeared as Brainiac 13’s right hand and was in a conflict with her father that I found interesting. In Superman #7 she’s a teenager with scars from Brainiac circles having been removed from her forehead, showing that some version of events of her having been taken by a Brainiac still occurred in this new modern continuity. She’s introduced when Lex’s mother comes to visit Lex at the hospital and Lena waits in the hall, which Leticia Luthor refers to as her being a “typical overdramatic teenager.” Lex complains, “I told you she could never come back here. It’s too dangerous. No one can know about her…” And then Lena says, “Thanks, Dad. You really know how to make a girl feel welcome.” She’s looking down at her phone, and is also wearing ripped-up jeans and a t-shirt for the band The Black Canaries. Apparently, this version of Lena had been half raised by/half imprisoned with her grandmother on a private island up until Lex gave his company to Superman when he was sent to prison.

During the 90s Lex had Lena’s mother, the Contessa Erica Alexandra Del Portenza, placed in a medically-induced coma as soon as Lena was born so that he wouldn’t have to compete with her for Lena’s love. The Contessa herself was an interesting character, a mostly immortal being who ultimately decided to allow Lex to keep Lena with the intention of just waiting him out, planning on destroying Lex’s company after Lena inherited it and then coming into her daughter’s life as her savior after Lex died, not foreseeing him trading their daughter away to an alien. Lex was obsessed with his baby and repeatedly stated how important it was to him that his child not suffer as he did in his early life and that everything he did was for her future benefit, which made it all the more shocking when he lost everything except Lena and then traded her to get back on top in Action Comics (1938) #763. In that interaction Brainiac 13 told Lex, “I will make you a god… in exchange for this bit of meat.” In Lena’s later appearances that dismissal of humans is present in Lena referring to herself as becoming something superior to humans or that she’s trying to overcome her human heritage, but she ultimately betrays Brainiac 13 for her father and says, in Action Comics (1938) #782, “You’d be s-surprised what meat is capable of… when the heart is involved.”

I am concerned that Lena’s portrayal in the upcoming issues of Superman (2023) will just be as a generic angsty teenager. I hope that the specifics of her previous portrayal that I listed here- her father’s obsession with her and then betrayal of her and the idea of humans being just meat, which she overcame- influences the writing. I don’t expect the Contessa to be a character in this story, but I hope that it’s not revealed that this version of Lena has another mother. Also, at the end of Superman #7 Brainiac is shown to be creating a woman and he says, “For centuries I have destroyed and hoarded. But soon… I will have the power to create life.” I hope that wherever this is going is directly connected to Lena.

the Dr. Fate stories in More Fun Comics (1935) #62-69

In this batch of Dr. Fate stories I went from December 1940 to July 1941, according to the issue cover dates. All were written by Gardner Fox and drawn by Howard Sherman. The stories in issues #62-67 were 6 pages and the stories in issues #68-69 were 10 pages.

In the story in issue #64 Inza is placed under the spell of “the sleep of evil dreams.” The villain tells Dr. Fate, “I control you- because if you fight me- Inza dies!” Dr. Fate’s response is, “Then die she must- to save the world!” The villain is surprised by this and get scared and tries to surrender, but Dr. Fate refuses him because, “You shall always be evil- and so you must die!” After defeating the villain, Dr. Fate is able to wake Inza up. Apparently, because the villain had been imprisoned for thousands of years, his magic had weakened, which Dr. Fate knew all along.

In the story in issue #66 Inza attempts to contact Dr. Fate to ask him to help a friend of hers, but nothing happens, which makes her say, “It’s no use! I can’t summon him! Perhaps my mind isn’t attuned to his yet-” But then Inza is attacked, and she cries out to Dr. Fate for help, and that he hears from his tower in Salem and says, “I seem to hear Inza calling me from a great distance! She is in danger!” The standard opening to the Dr. Fate stories up to this point has been Inza being attacked by something weird and Dr. Fate hearing her cry for help from his tower.

At the end of the story in issue #66 Inza remarks, “Young love! I wish-” to which Dr. Fate responds, “You wish you knew someone besides and eerie old sorcerer like me, eh? Well take a look,” and removes his helmet in her presence for the first time, which is also the first time the readers have seen his face. Inza is shocked, and the unmasked Dr. Fate tells her, “It’s a long story, how I became what I am. Someday I’ll tell it to you! Meanwhile, I’m a human with remarkable powers!” The reveal of Dr. Fate’s origin story ends up being the beginning of the story in issue #67, and then that story depicts Inza and Kent Nelson spending time together casually for the first time before the start of the adventure that requires him to take on the role of Dr. Fate. Following this, the Dr. Fate stories begin with Inza and Kent Nelson already being together when the weird thing that requires Dr. Fate happens.

Since Dr. Fate’s powers and background hadn’t been explained yet before the story in issue #67, the narration was doing the heavy lifting of explaining the character. For example, in the story in issue #65 another character says, “Wonder who he really is? And where he gets that awful power from?” The next panel is just narration and reads, “An answer to the officer’s query- Doctor Fate is a man possessing the knowledge of the Chaldeans, Egyptians, and those races that dwelt before our written history begins- Atlantis the lost- Mu the sunken- magic and the lost arts, the secrets of nature and the universe are his! He uses them to combat secret evils abroad in the world!”

Also, I believe that the story in issue #68 is the first time Dr. Fate was been shown to be able to hypnotize people.

Fawcett Comics:

the Captain Marvel stories in Whiz Comics (1940) #81 and Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #68 and The Marvel Family (1945) #7

In this batch of 7 stories I read through the Captain Marvel appearances in December 1946, according to the issue cover dates. These stories ranged from 7 to 11 pages.

The story “Captain Marvel and the Ghostly Ghostwriter” (written by Bill Woolfolk; possibly drawn by Pete Constanza) in Captain Marvel Adventures #68 has Billy assigned to take over Station Whiz’s popular “Ghost Tales” program because the previous writer was hired by another station and “Billy’s programs are always popular!” But Billy, coming from a news background, struggles to write the ghost stories. Captain Marvel investigates various supposed haunted houses in order to find inspiration for Billy, but they all turn out to be phonies. In the end Station Whiz is able to rehire the old writer, who turns out to actually be a real ghost, which is why his ghost stories were all so great.

The story “Captain Marvel and the Missing Red Suit” (written by Otto Binder; penciled by C.C. Beck; inked by Pete Constanza) in Captain Marvel Adventures #68 had a similar premise to the story “Captain Marvel’s Most Embarrassing Moment” (writer unknown; drawn by C.C. Beck) in Whiz Comics #50. In that story Captain Marvel’s suit is stolen while he was skinny-dipping and Billy Batson, unable to get clothes in an adult man’s size, has to run around trying to get it back while only transforming when there’s something available for Captain Marvel to cover himself with. For example, jumping into a bush before transforming. In this story Billy has to get Captain Marvel’s suit dry-cleaned after a crook throws a bottle of ink at him, but the dry-cleaning place accidentally sends him someone else’s masquerade costume instead. Captain Marvel has to wear the costume because he has nothing else to wear, and meanwhile the man who was supposed to get the masquerade costume and got the Captain Marvel suit instead looks remarkably like Captain Marvel and is able to impersonate him. Nobody takes Captain Marvel seriously when he’s in the silly costume.

The story “The Marvel Family Reaches Eternity” (written by Otto Binder; penciled by C.C. Beck; inked by Pete Constanza) in The Marvel Family #7 featured the first appearance of the Three Faces of Evil. In this story they escape from the Rock of Eternity and each of the three main Marvels is needed to recapture them. Later, in “The Captain Marvel of 7,000 B.C.” (written by E. Nelson Bridwell; penciled by Don Newton; inked by Dave Hunt) in World’s Finest Comics (1941) #262, which was published by DC Comics in 1980, it is revealed that the Wizard Shazam created the Rock of Eternity to imprison the Three Faces of Evil back when he was the champion Vlarem. This was maintained in the Post-Crisis continuity as this same backstory of the creation of the Rock of Eternity was portrayed in a flashback in The Power of Shazam! (1995) #10 (written by Jerry Ordway; penciled by Peter Krause; inked by Mike Manley), which was published by DC Comics in 1995, though the event occurs differently.

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