#mitch iverson

[snazzy-specter]

i really don't think y'all need to be as worried as you think

vld is . . . a hot mess that i never finished because the pacing was driving me up the wall, but I really feel like you guys need to remember; everybody has black spots in their careers, especially in entertainment.

that aside, i did research on whose doing what and what they have done and, shock of shocks, one of the showrunners from vld is credited as director, Joaquim Dos Santos. He also worked as a director on Justice League: Unlimited, storyboard artist and director on Avatar: the Last Airbender, and has some other directing credits.

the other two credited directors are Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson. Powers doesn't have a huge fimography, he seems to only have film credits in 2012, but those credits include One Night in Miami, which he wrote the original play and the adapatation, and it kinda got him a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination. And if you're worried he has not animation experience, he also happened to be a writer and co-director on Pixar's Soul. and he has experience in franchise material, and is credited as writing 5 episodes of Star Trek: Discovery. I've heard kinda mixed things about Discovery, but again, no one has a perfect track record.

Thompson has more credits that include a fair amount of work in the Art Department of various shows and movies. and he also worked on the last Spiderverse film as a production designer.

also, the director of a film is not indicative of a projects final results. Santos was mainly a producer for vld. he has two directing credits, one art department credit for storyboarding, and two writing credits, one of which is one of IMDb's highest rated episode.

it's worth noting the guy with the most writing credits (not staff writer credits), Joshua Hamilton, has a, frankly, kind of middling career, and i don't feel like dwelling. check his IMDb if you feel like it

meanwhile, Phil Lord is back from the first movie and is joined by his frequent collaborator and guy he has to share a wikipedia page with, Christopher Miller, who was just a producer on the last film. for some reason, i get the feeling they don't need an introduction, but just in case, they also wrote and directed Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Lego Movie together. do with that information what you will.

personally, i'm more concerned about the other credited writer, David Callaham, as his credits include the screenplay for Doom (2005), Wonder Woman 1984, and Mortal Kombat (2021), which was beaten at the box office by Demon Slayer: Mugen Train in the second and third weekend of its release. that said, he is also credited as a co-writer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, so again, make of that what you will.

and for anyone who thinks i'm being too optimistic, let me pull out my oldest fandom card and bring up Danny Phantom, which Butch Hartman desperately wants you to think he was responsible for. yes, Hartman created the concept, but he's only credited for writing seven episodes, one of which being the series finale that fans have rather infamously hated for literal years (it's cooled down, but i saw that shit as recently as 2012). he also has one additional story credit for the episode Splitting Images, which, yeah i can see that.

meanwhile, the guy credited as the series developer in thirty-one episodes, Steve Marmel, has fourteen story credits and nine writing credits by my count, and one of those is the highest rated episode that also got a video game tie-in, The Ultimate Enemy.

even with that praise i've given Marmel, i'd still argue he's had a solidly OK career, which i would also say of Marty Isenberg, who has fourteen writing credits and Sib Ventress, who has nineteen writing credits.

the point i'm trying to make is that media like film and television is a collaborative medium. every participant has some black spots on their resume. looking at everyone's track records, i'd said Across the Spiderverse is in mostly good hands. and the one guy i'm worried about isn't the one who worked on vld, which frankly, i think is just kinda a show that started strong and fumbled that execution towards the end into mediocrity.

just remembered the v*ltron showrunners are directing the into the spiderverse sequels

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

RETURNED TO LIFE IN TRUE AND TERRIBLE FORM -- HE THAT DEALS IN DEATH!

PIC INFO: Resolution at 792x1202 -- Spotlight on textless Bill Sienkiewicz Incentive Variant cover art to "Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer" Vol. 1 #2. June, 2022. Opus Books.

MINI-OVERVIEW: "Frank Frazetta's legendary creation DEATH DEALER returns to life in collaboration with Frazetta Girls! Mitch Iverson ("DOTA: Dragon's Blood"), Stefano Martino ("Stranger Things") and Luis Antonio Delgado ("TMNT") continue the first salvo in a major launch of new, related titles featuring characters envisioned by the Master himself! Bear witness to the beginning of an entire multiverse of Frazetta's most famous creations!"

-- OPUS BOOKS (publisher)

Source: https://comichub.com/products/frank-frazetta-death-dealer-2-cover-e-20-copy-incentive-seinkiewicz-unbranded.

[stellacordis]

Years back, after I first wrote my post explaining military structure at the Garrison, I received a lovely ask requesting if I could elaborate on how military personnel advance through the ranks so I threw this post together to help explain it. As a reminder, the military structure I use for the Garrison is loosely inspired on that of the Navy based on the ranks we see in canon. I hope it’s helpful!

Advancement depends on several factors, to include the total time of military service, the amount of time serving in the current rank, the level of responsibility in any current and past assignments, high performance in the individual’s area of specialization, and physical fitness. Enlisted members must also take advancement exams and attend indoctrination classes and seminars. It’s worth noting that, even if an individual meets all of the requirements for promotion, they still need to be recommended by their commanding officer in order to actually achieve it.

OFFICER ADVANCEMENT REQUIREMENTS.

O-1: Ensign ( ENS ) – graduation from a military officer program in the Galaxy Alliance

O-2: Lieutenant Junior Grade ( LTJG ) – a total of 18 months of military service

O-3: Lieutenant ( LT ) – at least 2 years as O-2 and a total of 4 years of military service

Examples: Shiro at the time he was assigned to the Kerberos mission, James Griffin and Nadia Rizavi, the paladins upon their return to Earth

O-4: Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) – at least 3 years as O-3, a total between 9 and 11 years of military service

O-5: Commander (CDR) – at least 3 years as O-4, a total between 15 and 17 years of military service

Examples: Sam Holt, Mitch Iverson, Keith* (post-Galra war in his Healing Wounds verse)

O-6: Captain (CAPN) – at least 3 years as O-5, a total between 21 and 23 years of military service

Examples: Shiro* (after the Garrison mans the Atlas)

O-7 and above: Rear Admiral and above – O-6 must complete a full-term Joint Duty assignment (an assignment where they collaborate with members of two or more of Terra’s military services)

Examples: Ellen Sanda (Admiral, O-10)

* I put stars next to Shiro’s and Keith’s names because theirs were special promotions called battlefield promotions. Battlefield ( or field ) promotions are based on the extraordinary performance of duties while serving in combat and don’t require the officers to meet the time in service or time in rank requirements outlined above.

There are two types of field promotions: standard and jump-step. Standard field promotions are from the current rank to the next higher rank, while jump-step promotions are from the current rank to the rank above the next highest. As leaders of Voltron and the IGF Atlas, respectively, Keith and Shiro were promoted from lieutenants to commanders (and Shiro then to Captain) in the heat of battle against the Galra via jump-step promotions.

You can see the shock on Shiro’s face when he’s suddenly promoted to Captain. He’s probably the youngest Captain in Garrison history.

ENLISTED ADVANCEMENT REQUIREMENTS.

E-1: Airman Recruit – graduation from a military enlisted program in the Galaxy Garrison

E-2: Airman Apprentice – 9 months of military service

E-3: Airman – 9 to 10 months as an E-2 and successful completion of an advancement exam

E-4: [Rate]* Third Class – 6 months as E-3, an advancement exam, and an indoctrination course

E-5: [Rate]* Second Class – at least 12 months as E-4, an advancement exam, and a leadership training course

E-6: [Rate]* First Class – at least 3 years as E-5, an advancement exam, and an indoctrination course

E-7 and above: Chief [Rate]* and above – at least 3 years as E-6, an advancement exam, and selection by a Galaxy Alliance-wide board. Subsequent promotions can be accomplished only by Galaxy Alliance-wide promotion selection boards.

* As a reminder, [Rate] depends on the enlisted personnel’s job. For example, an E-4 engineer would be Engineer Third Class, an E-6 electronics technician would be Electronics Technician First Class, and so forth.

For more Garrison worldbuilding, check out my masterpost (coming soon)!

[voyager-into-the-unknown]

Another Plance moment we missed: Lance is always trying to keep Pidge safe from harm, and he often gets hurt while doing so. 💦🌱 He has a soft spot for the small one. 💙💚 The comics are canon. Voltron Legendary Defender Vol.3, Issue 1

[ptw30]

I don't know if you're still on board with the conspiracy theory (not that conspiracish by now i guess) about DW making another Voltron production but did you see Mitch Iverson's tweet from a week ago "celebrating something secret"? My guess: it's just the 4th comic volumen, my wild guess: they're really making another show. It's pretty ambiguous anyways but just wanted you to know

Still on board. Thanks for saying you’re still on board because regarding a belief in a sequel, this was me - 

(Well, not really. There’s about four other people I know who are on board still, but I liked the gif.)

Essentially, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes, and there’s a lot we’ll probably never know. But considering VAs won’t answer questions about the final season yet are continuing to attend cons, there are designers posting as per a content calendar, and…well, if you watched the SacAnime panel, one fan asked, “Will we see more of [blank],” and the answer was not, “The series is over, so no.” The VA’s response was, “I don’t write the show, so I can’t say.”

…the show is over. What is there to say?

In response to your ask - here’s the tweet for anyone who hasn’t seen it. 

This can be a mean a variety of different things. Mitch is helping to write a new volume of comics or the series sequel to VLD or he got the comics for F&F, or he found a taco in the writers’ room couch and he’s hiding it from the rest of the team. 

We really don’t know. I mean, it could mean anything and it could mean something - but right now, I just go, “Really, man? Come on. You know the VLD fandom is going to eat this up,” which…maybe was his point. XD 

EDIT: My guess - he heard he was being quoted here - The story behind anime localization. 

[vld-news]

Voltron Season 7 Episodes 5 & 6 Review & After Show w/ Mitch Iverson (via AterBuzz TV Animation)

[zillabean]

Because Mitch Iverson is amazing and wonderful and his DnD bunny archer is so cute! :D

[blueplanettrash]

What if Iverson is Lance's dad but didn't want to be apart of his life????

I just want to say right now; I went off track with this. But I loved the idea of Iverson being Lance’s dad. I wrote this quick, it’s bad, I’m sorry. I’m going to go write another story to make up for this now. I hope you enjoy anyway! ❤️

“I think that it’s time that we talked about some stuff,” Shiro said a short time after Sam departed back to Earth. They turned to him in question, it had been quiet after Sam left; the Holt’s didn’t exactly want to talk about much, Hunk was concerned with Lance and Lance himself was too emotionally drained from before Sam left.

“What about?” Pidge asked glumly. Matt stood beside her, gently rubbing her shoulder in comfort.

“It’s obvious that our lack of communication with our families is affecting us, I think that talking about them would help us bond further as a team and give us something to look forward to when we get back,” he suggested, eyes drifting over the team to gauge their reactions.

“I think that’s a wonderful idea, Shiro,” Allura said, breaking into their circle.

“I don’t know guys, wouldn’t it make us miss home more?” Hunk asked nervously.

“There’s no harm in trying, if it’s not beneficial to us we don’t have to try again,” Matt reassured them as the rest of them nodded in agreement.

“Excellent, I’ll get the mind meld ready,” Coran stated, twirling his moustache, ready to turn and set up the training room.

“No, no mind meld Coran, we’re going to do this the human way,” Shiro said. At that, the rest of the paladins relaxed, heaving out a relieved sigh.

“Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to use the mind meld? That way nobody would be able to hide anything from each other,” Allura asked in honest confusion.

“It’s not about keeping secrets from each other Princess, this is to help each other get our troubles off our chest, we’ll only share what we want to share,” Shiro explained as the paladins gathered around him closer. “Sometimes it’s better just to talk to people close to us to help with our feelings then let everyone just see what we’re thinking about,”

“Any complaints?” He asked the group. Nobody stepped up and Shiro nodded. “We’ll meet in the lounge in a few then,”

“Does anybody want to start?” Shiro asked looking around the circle. After a few moments of no one wanting to step forward, Lance silently raised his hand and scooted forward.

“Well, I have two brothers and two sisters, Mark and Maria are both older than me and Caleb and Sophie are younger than me, they’re also twins,”

“So you’re a middle child,” Pidge huffed with a smile. “It makes so much sense,”

“Shut up,” he pouted. “We live with my mom, grandpa and grandma and my dad stays at the Garrison,”

“Why is your dad at the Garrison?”

“He’s an instructor there,” he revealed somewhat hesitantly.

“Wait, really!? Did we ever have him?” Pidge asked, sitting up straighter. Lance sighed, rubbing the back of his neck anxiously.

“I really don’t want to talk about it guys,”

“Why? Do we hate him or something? Are you guys not close? Hunk rambled

“No we are, just, when he was working we didn’t seem close, you wouldn’t know that we’re father and son,” he admitted quickly.

“I don’t remember any McClains though,” Keith hummed in thought.

“I applied under my mom’s maiden name,”

“Aww man, that’s not fair, we can’t even try to figure it out now,” Hunk whined.

“Maybe I don’t want you to figure it out,” Lance growled, curling up on himself.

“Back off guys, clearly he doesn’t want to talk about it anymore so leave him be,” Shiro cut in sternly. They sat back, mumbling out apologizes in Lance’s direction but he wasn’t listening anymore.

He didn’t want anyone on board to know who his dad was; pretty much everyone on board was very vocal about their hate for Iverson; especially Keith. He couldn’t exactly blame them but he was completely different when he wasn’t teaching.

Before he attended the Garrison he told his dad that he wanted to keep it a secret. He really wanted to make friends that weren’t just nice to him because he was the Commander’s son.

Obviously, he couldn’t be biased towards Lance either, just because he was his kid. He had heard many stories of people getting away with hideous things just because their parent was a high ranking official in some way or another. He remembered the week or so before he left for the Garrison, talking to his dad on the phone.

“Just because I’m the Commander, don’t think that you can get away with things. I’m going to treat you just the same as any student during class. You’re going to address me as Sir, just like any other student during class, got it?”

“Yeah, I got it,”

“Good,” he paused for a few moments. “I’m glad that you’re coming out here, I don’t get to see you as much as I want to,”

“We miss you too dad,”

Sure sometimes he could get a little hurtful during an assessment, but let’s be real; they were being drilled for the military. Military space travel to be exact, if he can’t take a little heat for something as dumb as not being able to work as a team, how would he deal with taking someone else’s admonishments. He would admit that the little stunt of threading the needle when he should have been taking a safer route was a bit irresponsible.

It didn’t change the fact that the last conversation he had with his dad was him yelling about his failure in the simulator. Usually, he would call him back and talk him through his mistakes after they were done but he was called away on other business; which happened to be Shiro crash landing in the middle of the desert.

He didn’t know what happened to him; it’s not like he kept tabs on Lance all the time. What if he saw him on the bike heading towards Keith’s shack? What if he saw him in the tent rescuing Shiro? What if he thought it was his fault that Lance went missing?

Every question that he asked himself bounced around in his head. What if mom blamed him too? Oh God, he wanted to go home now.

“Lance?” He shook his head and looked over at Shiro who was sending him a concerned expression. “Are you okay?”

“Actually I think I’m going to head in for the night, I’m not feeling too hot,” he sighed, pushing himself up.

“Well, okay then,” Shiro trailed off as Lance walked to the doors.

“Feel better Lance,” Hunk called as he walked over the threshold. He waved back at them as the doors shut before letting out a long sigh and walking back to his room.

It was never easy thinking about home. He missed his house, he missed his family, he missed his friends. It was even harder trying to think about what they were doing. He couldn’t imagine that his dad was taking his disappearance too well; he didn’t think that any of his family would be but he couldn’t imagine the pressure of keeping his post while he was going to be mourning as well.

He tried to push away as many memories as he could to solely focus on finishing the war and getting back home. It seemed that everyone shared the sentiment and point their nose to the grind to help Lotor secure his throne so they could leave everything to him.

Lance was happy to say that he had been wrong about Lotor and when they finally asked if they could go home; Allura and Lotor smiled at each other and dismissed them from their duty.

They weren’t ashamed to say that they had burst into tears at the statement. They always knew that they weren’t prisoners but at the same time, they felt like they had a responsibility to protect the universe when it couldn’t protect itself.

Allura ended up relinquishing the ownership of the lions to their paladins. At first, they were surprised at the turn of the events but she only smiled and said that she doubted that they would let them off the ship without them. Thankfully, he was back in Blue since Keith returned to the team on his mother’s advice.

“What are we waiting for!?” He suddenly burst out in excitement. At that they all ran down to the hangers, suiting up and readying their lions. They shot out into space, hovering around the Castle as Allura prepared a wormhole for them.

“I’m sad to see you go, paladins,” she admitted in the silence of space.

“Don’t worry Allura, I doubt this will be the last time that we meet,” Shiro said happily. The wormhole growing in front of the Castle.

“If you’re ever in our solar system, give us a call!” Lance cheered before ploughing into the wormhole. Just like the first time they went through, they appeared at the edge of Kerberos. Quickly Shiro patched into the Garrison frequencies and relayed their position and to not attack.

Unlike before, the Lions took their time getting back to Earth and the paladins watched in awe as they passed the planets. Being in their own solar system put everything they had just done in perspective. They never thought that they would be going anywhere near another solar system, they never thought that they would meet other intelligent life in their lifetime. They did so much more than that though, they became the figures that everyone depended on.

As the lions flew around each other, happily corkscrewing to the surface, they could see the instructors of the Garrison lined up outside the building. They didn’t have any weapons drawn, they just watched as they gently touched down to the ground. Even though they didn’t patch through, they expected maybe a tank or something to intimidate them or something.

“Is anyone else confused?” Keith asked as the lions crouched down, their maws opening to release their paladins.

“If they try anything, the Lions won’t allow it,” Shiro affirmed, stepping out of Black’s mouth, his helmet covering his head. The rest of them followed suit, lining up orderly in front of their lions.

Tears welled up in Lance’s eyes as he saw his father sternly looking down on them in assessment. It became too much and he swiftly pulled his helmet off and sprinted towards him with a cry.

“DAD!” He called, a faint wobble in his voice. It only took a split second for the realization to sink in and Iverson was bounding forward as well, his features slack in disbelief.

He crashed into the solid warm mass of his dad and clutched on for dear life.

“Lance? Is that really you?” He asked quietly, pulling back slightly to pat at his face as if someone were wearing a disguise to fool him.

“It’s really me, dad,” he confirmed with a small smile. His jaw clenched and his face scrunched up as he pulled Lance into a tighter hug. As Lance’s arms reached around to clutch at the familiar Garrison uniform, they dissolved into sobs. Their lost family had been returned to them and they couldn’t be more relieved.

“Where did you go?” Iverson asked, rocking the both of them gently as they tried to calm each other down. Lance sighed and snuggled further into the hug.

“It’s a long story dad,”

After he had calmed down and the paladins were given a place to rest, as expected the questions started. He didn’t think the first one would come from Keith though.

“I punched your dad?”

“You punched my dad,”

Stories Masterlist

[infinityandcyanide]

[scorpionyx9621]

Hi I made a relevant thing  (Credit of meme is Chris (Simpsons Artist) (2014) and Voltron: Legendary Defender (2016-) (Dreamworks) (Studio Mir) (Netflix) ) 

[graphicpolicy]

Exclusive: Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer #1 Gets a Second Printing after it sells out of almost 50,000 copies

Exclusive: Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer #1 Gets a Second Printing after it sells out of almost 50,000 copies #comics #comicbooks #frankfrazetta #deathdealer @IncendiumOnline @OpusPublishing

After an overwhelming response to their debut issue, Opus Comics has announced they’re going back to press for Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer #1. The issue will feature a rarely seen Death Dealer illustration by the man himself.. The initial first printing received almost 50,000 copies. The launch title for Opus Comics enjoyed strong initial orders and a variety of retailer exclusive covers, but…

[yuujinchos-remade-blog]

Reunion (2017) dir. Steve In Chang Ahn

[lioncunt]

Why Mitch Iverson is my favorite VLD writer

Episodes he wrote:

"Escape from Beta Traz"  aka “sharpshooter Lance”

"Tailing a Comet" aka “The Bedroom Scene”

"Reunion" aka “Matt and Pidge reunite”

[utteeemieliz-blog]

Lets just take the time to appreciate the Art, Animation, and Music this season becuase it took my breathe away and it was stunning and beautiful. The Voltron creators worked really hard this season and im not even gonna mention the writing becuase it was pretty much flawless. If I were a critic that had an artical to write and give a review i’d give this season an 8/10 becuase I fucking cant this show did so damn good round of applause everyone!!

[vld-news]

Twitter

[zillabean]

Bunny archer for Mitch Iverson! :D I don't know how accurate he is (I forgot to include his goggles) and whether or not he shoots energy arrows, but I hope you like him, Mitch! :D