#modern age comics

[smychkamayakovsky]

Zatanna is a badass.

[damadisangue]

Selina had known Bruce through his skin and his mouth, words sometimes shouted, sometimes unsaid. They had met in the shadow of Gotham and under it they had grown and loved each other - bites that always asked for more and scratches that sanctioned an absolute and unquestionable possession. They had overcome a thousand ages and none together, forever crystallized in two symbols that would never fall - but they did; Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle did, because they were only flesh and muscle. They had fought and bled and cried and devoured each other in a never-ending cycle. They had done too many things to be remembered all, but Selina would have been able to tell them one by one, until her last breath. Selina gritted her teeth, bowing her head; what a shitty holiday Valentine's Day is.

Art from Jim Lee, from the comic "Hush"

[allflooby]

Emerald City Comic Con purchase: Valkyrie 1-3. Covers by Brent Anderson.

[wabn]

Wish they had more than just a cameo

Unlimited Access || #2 || 1998

[momachan]

The DC Encyclopedia, New Edition 2021 [Newly Revised Edition]: This New Edition Of DC's most Comprehensive A-to-Z.

[cinder-no]

Captain Marvel Vol. 1 #34 (1974) and Captain Marvel: Dark Tempest Vol. 1 #2 (2023) variant cover by Ron Lim. Dark Tempest Vol. 1 #2 made its release on August 9th with 8 variant covers- including this homage to Nitro's first appearance issue cover, only 49 years, 1 month, and 22 days apart!

[laysean87]

Comic Books I've Read Recently

Here are a few comics I've been reading recently that I've rented from hoopla digital app. Update: Well, last month, actually.

Marvel Masterworks - Uncanny X-Men (Volume 6)

By now, I've read the first 5 volumes of the Uncanny-X-Men Masterworks - to brush up on the Chris Claremont/John Byrne era of X-Men stories, from the Giant Size X-Men all the way through to the Dark Phoenix Saga. Now I'm getting into reading (or re-reading when it comes to some like God Loves, Man Kills and Wolverine - both in 1982) some of the memorable stories from the early '80's I've heard about, some of which I think were adapted in the X-Men: TAS (Ms. Marvel vs. Rogue, the addition of Rogue to the X-Men, Storm and the Morlocks story, for example)

I wish I could go into further detail into my favorite 'new' characters they had introduced to the team (like Wolverine and Storm) or the various stories Let's just say I've enjoyed them all and then some, and leave it at that.

Teen Titans - The Judas Contract (1984)

The Judas Contract - the famous TT storyline centered around Terra being a spy for Deathstroke sent to infiltrate the Teen Titans. It was the adaptation for the 2003 cartoon series Teen Titans that got me to change my initial thoughts for that show when I was a teen. In turn, the show's popularity was what ultimately lead me to read the various TPB's almost a decade later for the Marv Wolfman/George Perez run in the late 80's. By my last count, I read the first 5 volumes for this run, and I might consider looking into the Silver Age Omnibus, as well.

As for the story itself? I found it intriguing when I first read it, and I find it no less intriguing when I revisited it. Both Wolfman and Perez's work in writing and illustration speaks for itself and I won't go too deep into analysis there. Besides, this list is not really meant to be a deep analytical dive.

The main reason I've decided to read it again is to brush up on Deathstroke (Slade Wilson): his backstory, his personality, his family (his wife Adeline, his two sons Grant and Joseph (I know he ends up having a daughter Rose later on)), the whole nine.

Deathstroke The Terminator (1991-1996)

Look above - brushing up on Deathstroke the Terminator.

Just finished reading the first volume (issues #1-9 and the New Titans #70). The two story arcs (the first - "Full Circle" - a four-part story arc, and the second - "City of Assassins" - a story involving him, Batman, and a female police detective who looks to clear her name when they suspect her being dodgy with them) are the highlight of the first volume surrounding Slade Wilson. Especially the fight scene in issue #7, where Deathstroke owned Batman.

Nightwing - Vol. 1 (1996-2009 run)

How to sum up what I've read so far: it's Nightwing. It's Dick Grayson. It's solo run after he had stepped out of Bruce Wayne's shadow - more or less - and being the protector of his own city: Bludhaven. I'll leave it at that for now. Just finished reading the first volume, loved it. Moving on to Vol. 2!

Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year One

I'd played the video game series, and I liked it (though, personally, I can't help but imagine if the gameplay had been like the Arkham series rather than a Mortal Kombat fighting game, I would've liked it even better). I've seen the 2021 animated movie, and admit that while there were certain parts that I liked better than what I've seen so far in the comics (ex: Wonder Woman was so... eager to be Superman's sloppy seconds and his enabler), the opposite is true as well. (Like how Wonder Woman was able to see how just off the deep end Superman had gone near the end of the movie). I only wished that the movie could've been done as the first installment of like, 5 or 6 stories, just to show how Superman had truly fallen as a hero and become that which he fought against.

As for this tie-in comic series, I've already rented this earlier this year, and I am in the middle of revisiting it. IIRC, my favorite involved this scene in the Batcave at the very end of Year One, specifically the part with Alfred and Superman:

I won't say I took pleasure in seeing Superman getting beat up by Bruce's butler, but... given what happened earlier in the tie-in comic... not to mention in the game - when Superman basically killed Billy Batson when he stood up to him - I'll just say that there was some form of catharsis, when it came to this universe's Superman.

[sabertoothwalrus]

accidentally drew tallmen au again

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

What a lovely family portrait👨🏻‍👨🏻‍👦🏻🖼️

Enhanced image of A-Yuan's first sword flight.

[thimblings]

based on a true story

[onlylonelylatino]

Wonder Woman by Stuart Immonen

[hood-ex]

Reading older comics like I love this, this is so dumb 😭 and reading modern comics like I hate this, this is so dumb 😒.

[damadisangue]

"We let them both down." The Bat is silent, he studies Victor out of the corner of his eye. "The women we love, I mean." he points out, and puts his thumb and forefinger together, pacing the cell. "We've never saved them from anything, not even ourselves." It dances a ballerina in the silence of a bubble of water and snow, behind her Nora's smile, her skin warm and alive with her - a memory so warm under her hands that it kills him every time. "They suffered for us, with us."

[manic-maddie]

Just how long have you been wanting to do that?

Longer than I'd care to admit

[jay-doubleyou]

[superman-the-secret-third-thing]

Martian Manhunter and Superman

I always thought they should be close friends- there's a deep empathy shared between the two, a sorrow that really only they understand- be even still, J'onn has seen his demons first-hand.

Source: Martian Manhunter #0 "Pilgrimage" (1998) by writer John Ostrander and artist Tom Mandrake