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[goodoldfashionedengineer]

Why do I have a hyperfixation/special interest on an incrediblely niche subfandom that almost nobody cares about which gets updated like three times a month

[purple-obsidian]

SIDS PRIVATE SHELF \\ VOL. 1 \\ DC COMICS [18+]

none of the linked fics are mine. i'm just in love with them. if you want me to break the @ or remove your fic from my list, send me a message and it will be done asap.

//FICS

⭓ dick grayson “under the influence” [@dollfacefantasy] ⭓ dick/jason/roy "triple threat" [@killakalx] ⭓ grim reaper!jason todd "til death" [@luvf4ngz] ⭓ jason todd "still wanna play?" [@mostly-imagines] ⭓ martian manhunter "unaccustomed to human" [@hanasnx]

//TAGS

[ak jason todd smut] [bruce wayne smut] [dick grayson smut]

[jason todd smut] [j'onn j'onzz smut] [roy harper smut]

[wally west smut]

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banners by me. pics are by dan mora.

[crimsonscloud]

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.

[avengerscompound]

The Tower - Birthday Treats

The Tower - Birthday Treats

Series Masterlist

Pairing:  Avengers x OFC, Bruce Banner x Bucky Barnes x Clint Barton x Wanda Maximoff x Steve Rogers x Natasha Romanoff x Tony Stark x Thor x Sam Wilson x OFC (Elly Cooper)

Word Count: 2888

Warnings:  smut (MMF Bisexual threesome, oral sex, anal sex, vaginal sex, exhibitionism, anal fingering, train)

Synopsis:  Bucky and Tony distract Elly before her special birthday breakfast and let her call all the shots.

Author’s Note: Requested by JanineBishop4 on Wattpad. You can send in your requests too.

Takes place after the Holiday Special

Birthday Treats

On the morning of my twenty-ninth birthday, I was woken by the sounds of Bucky whimpering in his sleep.  I opened my eyes a crack and when he came into focus, I frowned at the way he was twitching and flinching in his sleep as he lay on his stomach beside me.  Steve was gone and I knew that if Bucky had a violent nightmare right now, he’d be annoyed that he’d been left alone with me.

I didn’t take long to consider what to do.  I knew Bucky would rather just have me leave the room and for the nightmare to wake him naturally, but seeing him like that just kicked the protective part of me in and I knew I wouldn’t be able to just leave him like that.  I climbed onto him, lying on top of him like I was some kind of living, weighted blanket.  I wrapped my arms around his chest, holding him as tight as I could, and I started to stroke his hair.  “Shh… it’s okay.  You’re safe at home,” I soothed.

He made a soft sad sound and then stilled for a moment.  I kissed his temple and his eyes fluttered open just a crack.  “What’re you doing?” he said, his voice filled with a soft sleepy gravel.

“Cuddling you,” I mumbled into his neck.

“Why?” he asked.

“Because I love you,” I answered.

He turned his head a little and reached behind him, scratching his fingers over my scalp.  I moved into his touch, my eyes fluttering closed as he made my hair follicles tingle.  “I had a nightmare, didn’t I?”

I whined, not wanting to lie and not wanting to tell him the truth either.  “Goddamn it, Elise,” he cursed, dropping his hand and shaking me off his back. “You know I could have hurt you.”  He rolled out of bed and stood up, running his hands through his hair. “And where’s Steve?  Fuck… how many times do I have to tell him to stop leaving me asleep beside you?”

“Bucky?” I said, reaching out to take his hand.  “Don’t be mad.  You didn’t hurt me.  Nothing bad happened at all.  Besides, it’s my birthday and you’re not allowed to be mad.”

The corners of his mouth twitched.  “I’m not allowed to be?”

“Nope,” I said, tugging him toward me.  “In fact, you have to actively be nice.”

He laughed and let himself be pulled in, putting his hand on the bed beside me as he brought his lips to mine.  I wrapped my arms around his shoulders as I let him guide me back onto the bed, and pushed my hands in his hair.  He was just starting to climb up between my legs when there was a loud clatter from down the hall.

We both sat up suddenly and looked at the door. “What the hell was that?” Bucky said.

“It was probably just Steve,” I said. “He’s probably making me breakfast in bed, and he dropped something.”

Bucky shook his head and stalked toward the door.  He somehow looked both comical and sexy going into his protective mode wearing his boxer shorts and nothing else.  “It didn’t sound like Steve,” Bucky said.  “Besides, your special birthday breakfast plans don’t involve cooking in your kitchen.”

I got out of bed and moved to the door with him.  “There’s special birthday breakfast plans?”

He ignored my question.  “Stay here,” he said and began to creep down the hall toward my living room.  I ignored him and followed along.  Bucky just sighed and kept his arm out, so I couldn’t walk past him.

When he reached the living room, he visibly relaxed.  I poked my head around him and for a second, I couldn’t quite process what had become of my living room.

The ceiling was covered in helium balloons. And not just regular helium balloons, they were clear and covered in multicolored LEDs that ran down the strings that were dangling below them.  The coffee table was covered in red roses and my dining table had a huge hamper on it surrounded by sunflowers.  Tony was in the doorway struggling to pull what looked like a lifesize plush unicorn through.”

“Tony!” I squealed.  It was so overboard and so him.  It was all so over the top that my usual freak out about being bought didn’t even kick in.  Instead, I felt like a kid on Christmas.  I would never have picked any of these things for myself, but I loved that he’d just run with his feelings about what I should be faced with when I got up.  I ran to him and launched myself into his arms.

He barely managed to catch me, and when I collided with him he let out a soft grunt, and his arm automatically circled my waist.  “Hey,” he pouted.  “You were supposed to still be sleeping.”

I kissed him all over his face, which made him start laughing and he pushed me away from him. “Okay, okay, I take it, you're grateful.”

“This is the craziest thing I’ve ever woken up to, and let’s face it, that’s already a bonkers list of things,” I said.  “Thank you.”

I kissed him hard, pulling him in close and wrapping my leg around him.  He smiled into my lips and ran his hands up and down my back.  When I pulled back he took a sharp breath in and shook his head.  “And here I was worrying you’d get all weird about me buying you stuff.”

“Well if you’re gonna buy weird shit on my birthday, I’m all for it,” I said. “Come on, let's get Princess Sparkles inside and we can go up to breakfast.  Everyone must be waiting, right?”

“Mmm that’s not ready yet,” Tony said as he went back to trying to manhandle the unicorn through the door.  “Also the unicorn’s name is Jeremy. Not whatever it is you just called him.”

I burst out laughing and tried to pull him through too.  “Jeremy?” I asked.

“That’s what he said,” Tony said.

I nudged him with my arm and shook my head.  “You are such a huge dork.”

Bucky came over and muscled in between us and the unicorn and grabbed hold of it by the neck.  “Here let me.”

Tony and I stood back and watched as Bucky yanked the toy through the door, sending the nearby balloons bouncing across the ceiling, and then moved it to the corner of the room. “Kinda looks like a valentine's party for a nursery school in here,” Bucky said, and I broke down into laughter again.

“Okay, if I can’t eat yet, now what?” I asked, as my laughter subsided.

“You’re the birthday girl,” Tony said.  “Whatever you want.”

I looked between them and waggled my eyebrows.  “Whatever?”

“Yes,” Bucky deadpanned.  “Even that.”

“So if I was to say I wanted to watch you both make out…”

Bucky rolled his eyes and looked over at Tony.  “Don’t look too excited about it,” Tony said, taking a step toward the super-soldier.

Bucky’s hand moved to the back of Tony’s neck and pulled him into a hard kiss.  I’d never seen either of them fight for dominance like they were doing right now.  Tony would sometimes play a game of who was in control, but if you didn’t give it over to him quickly, he’d soon end up being completely submissive.  Bucky didn’t usually like power play at all.  If you went too hard at him, he’d back right off completely.  Here and now, neither was conceding.  Tony’s hands pushed into Bucky’s hair, fisting into it and pulling, trying to pull his head back.  Bucky’s fingers tightened on the back of Tony’s neck, and his prosthetic grabbed the front of Tony’s shirt, holding him in close.  Their tongues didn’t so much dance with each other as battle.  I was so turned on watching and yet I wondered if I needed to break them up again.

I approached them, taking their hands and tugging them apart.  “Bedroom, please,” I said.

“That was very polite for someone who seems to want to boss us around,” Tony said, as he followed along with me.

“There’s no reason you can’t be polite while you’re being dominant,” I teased.  “Now, you sit here.”

I pushed him down into the chair that faced my bed and he pouted up at me. “What?  Really?  I have to watch?”

“Behave yourself,” I said and turned to Bucky.  “Now you.  Come here.”

I pulled him close and began to palm his cock through his boxers.  “I think we’d started something before we were interrupted.”

“I think you might be right,” he said, and leaned in, bringing his lips to mine.  I kissed him passionately, pushing him back onto the bed.  He looked up at me and ran his hands down my sides and up under the oversized shirt I was wearing.  I lowered myself to my knees and pulled his boxers down.

His cock sprung up hard against his stomach.  I wrapped my hand around it and pumped it up and down his shaft.  “No touching,” I said and dropped my head down.

I took him deep into my mouth, the head of his cock hitting the back of my throat, making me gag.  “Fuck,” Bucky swore.  “Doll… that’s…”

He never finished his thought, as I started to bob my head up and down on his shaft.  I was graphic and loud, putting on a show for both of them both.  My eyes never left Bucky, but he had trouble focusing on me.  His head fell back and his hands fisted in the sheets.  It wasn’t long until precome was leaking into my mouth.  Each time I lowered my head, I took him further and further back until my lips were almost touching his groin and my eyes were watering with the effort.

“Fuck that’s hot,” Tony groaned.  “Bet it feels great, huh, Freezer Burn.”

“Uh-huh,” was all Bucky could manage to get out. “Fuck… Elly…”

His hips jerked and his balls began to pull tight, so I released him and gasped for air.  Bucky let out a frustrated groan and flopped back onto the mattress.  I looked between the two men, trying to decide how I wanted them both next.  I knew I wanted to be the one in control, but I also knew I wanted at least one of them inside of me.

“What are you thinking about there, Elise?” Tony asked.

“I’m thinking about you riding Bucky’s dick while I ride yours,” I said.

Tony made a choked sound as Bucky sat up and played with my hair.  “That’s how you want us?” Bucky asked.  “Not both of us at once or one after the other?”

“I’ll take either of those if you guys aren’t into it, but that’s what I want,” I said.

“What do you say, Frosty Flakes?  Shall we give our girl a treat?” Tony said.

“Sounds like you’re the one in for a treat,” Bucky teased.

“Go sit where Tony is,” I said as I excitedly skipped to the bedside table.  I pulled out the lube and some wipes as Tony got up and Bucky went and took his place.  I moved to Tony and kissed him, backing him toward the bed.  He submitted to me completely, his hands moving to my hips, and hovering there, not willing to touch me without express permission.  As we kissed I unfastened his pants and pushed them down.  When we broke the kiss he pulled off his shirt and kicked his pants off his ankles.  “So what are we doing here?” Tony asked.

“Turn around,” I said.  “I’ll get you ready for him.”

He bent over and I spread his ass cheeks and squeezed some of the lube onto his asshole.  He flinched as the cold gel hit his skin and hissed. “Jesus.  Warn a guy first,” he teased.

“Oh come on,” I said.  “I know you can take it.”

I began to rub the gel into his asshole and I pushed my finger in up to the first knuckle.  He took it easily, but I didn’t want to rush him.  He moaned as I moved my finger in and out, pushing in deeper each time.  When I was to my second knuckle and my fingertip was hitting the smooth surface of his prostate, I added a second finger.

Tony was moaning and squirming against the bed.  He kept sliding his hand down to his cock and then quickly taking it away again.  It was leaking freely on my bedspread, creating a sticky wet patch under him.  I spread my fingers and curled them, looking back to Bucky.  “You think he’s ready.”

Bucky nodded.  “I think that should do it.  You stretched him out real good for me, darlin’.”

I wiped my hands clean and approached Bucky, kneeling in front of him and squeezing the lube on my hand.  “You boys spoil me,” I said as I began to stroke his cock.  “I have to take care of you both.”

He moaned and his head lolled to the side. “That’s it,” he moaned.  “Just like that.”

I leaned up and kissed him, my hand moving slowly and gently as I slicked his cocked.  His hand moved to my hip and he gripped it tight as he mewled into my lips.

When I broke the kiss I moved out of the way and gestured for Tony to come in.  Tony ran his hand through Bucky’s hair as he straddled his waist.  His back pressed against Bucky’s chest and as he lowered himself down, Bucky guided his cock into Tony’s ass.

“Fuck, you’re big,” Tony groaned as he fully seated himself on Bucky’s cock.

Bucky let out a soft huff as he rested his forehead against Tony’s shoulder.  His metal arm curled up under Tony’s armpit and gripped his shoulder, and his other hand gripped Tony’s hip.  “You seem to be taking it pretty well.”

Tony let out a breathless laugh and started to bounce. “Yeah, yeah, I’m a huge slut.  That’s old news.”

As they were getting into position, I opened my closet door and angled the mirror so it would reflect us in the chair.  “Are you ready for me, Tony?” I asked when I was happy with the position.

Tony nodded, holding his hand out to me.  “Let’s do it.”

I pulled off my shirt and climbed up onto the arm of the air and straddled his lap with one foot on each arm as I faced away from him.  He grabbed my hips to keep me steady and I lowered myself down onto his cock with a soft moan.

It was an awkward position and I was glad that Tony had held me by my hips. I leaned back over his shoulder and braced my hands on the back of the chair and started to bounce.  As I moved up and down on Tony’s cock, Bucky snapped his hips under him, drilling into his ass.  All three of us were grunting and moaning, but no one was louder than Tony.

He was falling apart between us and I knew that Bucky wouldn’t be far behind after how close I got him to the edge earlier.  I wanted to get there with them so that the three of us would come as one.

“Tony,” I groaned.  “Rub my clit.”  I was trying to keep my tone commanding, but it came out closer to begging.  He let out a breathless laugh and his hand moved around my hip to rub my clit.  Bucky’s metal hand moved from Tony’s shoulder and gripped my breast.  The ache it sent through it traveled down and met the heat that had been spreading up from my cunt right in my middle.  I was getting close.  Pleasure coiled through me.  My legs were aching and trembling with effort as I bounced on Tony’s cock, but I was close.

I locked my eyes with our reflection in the mirror, watching Bucky thrusting up into Tony’s ass as I bounced on his cock.  Sweat slicked my skin and my muscles were all tensed.  It felt like too much, and all at once, I seized up and came, crying out loudly as my orgasm tore through me.

My orgasm brought Tony’s with it, and he thrust up hard, spilling inside me.

I was so spent, I practically fell off the chair, slithering off and collapsing on the floor breathing heavily.  Tony leaned back against Bucky as the super soldier picked up his pace, chasing his own orgasm.  It wasn’t too far behind.  He shoved up, his whole body shuddering as he released inside Tony.  “Fuck…” he grunted.

We just lay like that, breathing heavily as we came down from our orgasm highs. “You okay down there, El?” Bucky asked after a little while.  He patted Tony’s hip, and Tony whined and got up, easing off Bucky’s cock.

“Mmm… I think so,” I said.

“Okay, birthday girl,” Tony said, coming over and helping me up.  “Shower.  Then I think it’s time to start the official birthday festivities.”

I smiled and nodded, taking each of their hands.  “If the rest of the day is anything like the start, it’s going to be a great day,” I said.

~ END ~

[vorenado-m]

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...

[thealmightyemprex]

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

[lieutenant-mcmuffin]

I'm looking for a roleplay partner that's interested in casual ("illiterate") roleplay as well as longer, literate stuff. When I roleplay, I like to headcanon and then maybe go into some casual stuff that gradually gets longer/more involved. It's easier for me to get excited about something when there's no hard expectations for what it has to be. I have been roleplaying for 12 years.

ALSO: I'm 24, almost 25, and would prefer to roleplay with people over the age of 21.

I like a variety of stuff, like criminal minds, OFMD, dragon age, game of thrones, the witcher, etc etc (just ask!!!). I usually prefer m/m and f/f ships.

I love writing and it's a passionate hobby of mine, but my partner recently decided to stop and I'm just on the hunt for someone who is as interested in this hobby as I am.

Obviously, I want to be able to speak to my partner like a friend, be able to share HCs and such with them and so on (mainly looking for someone who doesn't dislike talking ooc).

A few things I like to write regardless of the fandom:

Hurt/comfort

Fluff

Slow burn/build up

Loss/no happy ending

Domestic bliss

Mpreg/all the tragedy that could come with it

omegaverse

Probably anything else! If you're interested in it, just lmk and we'll do it ❤️

Also some of my favorite characters I've roleplayed:

Spencer Reid (criminal minds)

Johnny Silverhand (cyberpunk 2077)

Anders (dragon age)

Scott Lang (marvel comics)

Bloodhound (apex legends)

Salim Othman (house of ashes)

Noriaki Kakyoin (jojo's bizarre adventure)

Lestat de Lioncourt (IWTV, any version)

Kanan Jarrus (SW rebels)

Bruce Banner (any version)

Jeff Johansen (dead by daylight)

And if you want to read any of my writing to get a feel for my style, you can check out @/alikesupreme and @/cautionedaction on Instagram 😁

[sivan325]

2024 New Fics

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Round Robin

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

[daydreamerdrew]

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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Astrological Predictions and Character Analysis for Individuals with a May 19th Birthday

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 Assuming your birthday is on May 19, your zodiac sign is Taurus May 19 - character and character character: pardoning, kind, independent, concerned, willing, pernicious; calling: financial analyst, innovator, architect; colors: blue-green, purple, green; stone: golden; creature: cheetah; plant: potato plant; fortunate numbers: 4,6,15,27,48,57 very fortunate number: 32 Occasions and observances - May 19 France Public Day of Brittany. Banner of Mexico.svg Mexico Advertiser's Day. May 19 VIP Birthday. Who was conceived that very day as you? 1906: Bruce Bennett, American entertainer (d. 2007). 1909: Nicholas Winton, English altruist (d. 2015). 1914: Max Perutz, English scholar of Austrian beginning, Nobel Prize in Science in 1962 (d. 2002). 1925 - Malcolm X, African-American enemy of bigoted pioneer; killed (f. 1965). 1925: Pol Pot, Cambodian military and legislator (d. 1998). 1928: Dolph Schayes, American b-ball player (d. 2015). 1928 - Colin Chapman, English car producer and architect (d. 1982). 1929: Estela Raval, Argentine vocalist (d. 2012). 1929: Jordi Vila Soler, Spanish footballer (d. 2011). 1930: Paulino Varas, Chilean law specialist and legislator. 1932: Paul Erdman, American author (d. 2007). 1932: Elena Poniatowska, Mexican author, extremist and columnist. 1932: Diego Jaramillo, Catholic cleric and Colombian TV moderator, leader of the Minuto de Dios enterprise. 1933: Josდ© Luis Abellდ¡n, Spanish instructor and author. 1933: Antდ³n Garcდ­a Abril, Spanish arranger. 1936: Ana Marდ­a Pდ©rez del Campo Noriega, women's activist extremist. 1939: James Fox, English entertainer. 1939: Francis Scobee, American space traveler (d. 1986); Challenger transport mishap. 1940: Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist. 1941: Nora Ephron, American screenwriter and movie producer (d. 2012). 1942: Gary Kildall, American software engineer (d. 1994). 1943: Marisol Ayuso, Spanish entertainer. 1944: Peter Mayhew, English entertainer. 1945: Pete Townshend, English lyricist and guitarist, of the band The Who. 1946: Andrდ© Roussimoff (Andrდ© the Goliath), French proficient grappler. 1947: David Helfgott, Australian piano player. 1948: Beauty Jones, Jamaican vocalist and entertainer. 1949: Dusty Slope, American performer, of the band ZZ Top. 1951: Joey Ramone, American vocalist, of the band Ramones (d. 2001). 1951: Harry Perry, American guitarist. 1954: Marდ­a Medina, Mexican vocalist. 1954: Phil Rudd, Australian drummer, of the band AC/DC. 1956: James Gosling, Canadian software engineer. 1956: Rafael Larreina, Spanish legislator. 1957: Bill Laimbeer, American b-ball player. 1962: Maitena, Argentine illustrator and realistic comedian. 1962: Marcos Witt, zealous minister and American vocalist. 1963: Ana Fernდ¡ndez, Spanish entertainer. 1965: Cecilia Bolocco, Chilean TV moderator, conservative lawmaker and model. 1966: Polly Walker, English entertainer. 1967: Alexia, Italian vocalist. 1971: Dionicio Castellanos, Mexican expert grappler. 1972: Jenny Berggren, Swedish vocalist, of the band Expert of Base. 1973: Dario Franchitti, English motorsport driver. 1975: Sebastiდ¡n Prieto, Argentine tennis player. 1976: Kevin Garnett, American b-ball player. 1977: Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer. 1977: Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan entertainer and vocalist. 1979: Diego Forlდ¡n, Uruguayan soccer player. 1979: Barbara Nedeljდ¡kovდ¡, Slovak entertainer. 1979: Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer. 1980: Drew Fuller, American entertainer. 1980: Christian Gდ¡lvez, Spanish entertainer and moderator. 1981: Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer. 1983: Eve Heavenly messenger, Hungarian entertainer. 1984: Emmanuel Orenday, Mexican entertainer. 1985: Jon Kortajarena, Spanish model and entertainer. 1988: Antonija Miვ¡ura, Croatian b-ball player. 1989: Yurika Kubo, model and Japanese voice entertainer. 1990: Vდ­ctor Ibarbo, Colombian soccer player. 1992: Sam Smith, English vocalist. 1992: Marshmello, American DJ. 1993: Josef Martდ­nez, Venezuelan soccer player. 1993: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Japanese entertainer.

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I'm worried I'm gaslighting myself into disliking the Raimi Spider-Man trilogy. But I think the best way to look at them is like the Tim Burton Batman films & 1994 The Mask film. Which may sound very stupid.

It's merely just me reading/watching more comics that I feel like that people saying that Raimi trilogy is the "Definitive" take of the character seems to bother me.

To where I would prefer earlier stuff and later films. But the Raimi films are still good. They are their own take on Spidey.

I'm also beginning to realize why I had some sort of bias against Spider-Man 2. Especially with how it adapts "Spider-Man No More" and other things.

Yeah, making a "Tier list" of these films would be tricky. Or I'm just being weird.

Also yeah, this also means like...MAYBE I prefer CBS Spider-Man films over the Raimi ones. Which SOUNDS so stupid. But back in the late 70's. An accurate representation of the comic wasn't going to be perfect. But at least it doesn't adapt certain characters and...mess them up.

Am I literally preferring Nichalos Hammond over Tobey Maguire? That's preposterous!

Granted, I'm talking about live action takes on the character. Yet animated versions should count too.

I mean...if we're talking about preferring an adaptation over the original material. My opinion may be invalid.

But I seem to prefer the Kenneth Johnson's take on The Incredible Hulk.

Also, don't worry. I love more comic accurate Hulk stuff. I love the 2003 & 2008 Hulk films. And I'm bothered by Kenneth Johnson's dismissive attitude towards comics during the time.

There's even this want I have of seeing Lou Ferrigno's Hulk take on well, a low budget Abomination. And the possibility of this show adapting characters like Betty and Thunderbolt Ross. But I get it of why Johnson wanted to make it its own thing.

Besides, I never want to forsake & forget Bill Bixby's take on David Banner. Who to me, is my Bruce Banner. A beautiful take on the character. No wonder I got emotional or so over his final words to Daredevil before leaving. Knowing what David has been through.

"You take my secret with you."

"And I leave mine with you. I have a brother in the world now."

GeekGem:

tobey maguire crying - YouTube

Okay, I'll admit. I prefer the first Raimi film over the others. I should also say they are a strange mix of the 616 and 1610 canons. But they are their own thing.

And Elfman's emotional music in that scene is still good. Tobey's fine, okay, I'm sorry.

It also has Williem Dafoe as Green Goblin and I can't go wrong with that. The Raimi trilogy also has Dikovich and Ursula. And I'm sorry, Ursula should've been with Peter.

The plot is being somewhat lost with this.

Update edit since I made this reply on the thread of this on Twitter. Which I was making when making this.

Fuck, I still like Tobey. Especially looking back at No Way Home. He's technically a gentler version of Peter Parker and that's fine.

Honestly, I love that.

I just copied this from what I posted on Twitter.

As time goes on. Despite understanding adapting comics was still a tricky thing in the past. And with how much they changed the game.

I seem to dislike the Sam Raimi take of Spider-Man less as time goes on. Despite understanding their importance.

And I just remade the tweet and made a new one. Because I noticed I said like instead of dislike.

[movedto-mastcrmarksman]

New Clint appearance in a comic.

I am apprehensive (and reading now).

If they really are going this route, they better give me a damn good reason.

Spoilers in tags.

[sreppub]

De-aged Tony AU part 5 🤖

Steve is simultaneously the Avengers dad and baby brother ❤

Also, the return of secret dad Clint.

Tony gets turned into a child on an Avengers mission AU

[god-of-jotunn]

i dont understand the stereotype that comic books are for children - there is nothing, NOTHING, kid friendly about marvel comics!?!?

[forgetful-nerd]

Valkyrie: I told myself I should quit drinking.

Thor:

Loki:

Bruce:

Valkyrie: *chugging a bottle of vodka* But I’m not going to listen to a drunk that’s talking to herself.

[hyyyyydromatic]

Some MCU aesthetics