#noseless mini comic

[suekreandtheidiots]

Some time in early 2024, once these two had started officially dating. Hallie and Galahad bonding is so fun to me. She didn't see that happen. 😂

[birindale]

Journey to Mizar [2/2]

After saving a winged woman who fell from the sky, She-Ra must journey to the kingdom of Mizar to liberate its people from Catra’s siege. Following an assault by a flock of catbirds, Angella flies on ahead with Swift Wind, leaving Adora to find her own way.

[Part 1]

Transcript/Image ID below the cut

[Image Description: 7 comic pages from the She-Ra mini-comic, “Journey to Mizar”.

Page 1:

"How COULD you let yourself go so?” Adora demands, pointing sternly at the poor dragon. “But I can change all that if you are prepared to give ME something in return!"

"Will you trade the Map of Lights for a little BEAUTY MAGIC!" says Adora, with a sly little smirk.

"Well, I dunno..." says the dragon, blowing a smoke ring.

“I suppose I'll never use the old thing anyway! Can't make hide nor hair of it anyway!” says the dragon, passing Adora the Map of Lights.

"Yes! Yes! Keep it!" says the dragon, passing a thick red folder to Adora.

"Now make me bee-ohh-tee-ful!" she continues, batting exaggerated eyelashes like a green version of Dragon from Shrek.

Adora snaps her fingers, with "SNAP" and "POOF!" sound effects.

A huge, legless lepidopteran with a noseless human face materializes, evidently the result of Adora's beautification magic 'fixing' the dragon. "That's one LESS dreadful dragoness to deal with!" says Adora.

"Now for a look at this map and on to Mizar!" she says, tugging a piece of paper loose from the envelope.

End Page 1.

Page 2:

"According to the Map of Lights, my journey to Mizar must begin from this very spot! Why, LOOK! A water raft!" says Adora. A vivid orange canoe just so happens to be floating before her, carved to resemble a bird of prey. Ornamental wings sweep along its hulls, like a boat designed by someone who knows OF strakes, but not what they're for.

She gets in the boat, silhouetted as it drifts down a stream.

"C-c-caw! Caw! You shall not escape us this time, She-Ra! The Map of Lights is as good as ours!" says a catbird, as the flock descends once more upon her. "You shall be TRAPPED in the dark forest!" says another.

"OH NO YOU DON'T! How about a little hot foot, barbarian bird?!!!" yells She-Ra, clinging to the folder containing the map as a catbird clutches it with all four paws.

"Ahhhh! My feet! They're BURNING!" yells the catbird, three-fingered talons releasing the map in a cloud of sparkles. She-Ra clings gamely on.

"THE CRASHING ROCKS!" says She-Ra, attention returning to the water.

"No time to waste... must ride these rapids!" she says, pulling out the Sword of Protection and using it as an oar. The prow of the canoe, carved into a raptor, glowers forward.

"And hope to make it safely through in time!" says She-Ra, steering deftly through a gap in the rocks.

The catbirds careen into the cliff face, with huge "OOMPH!" and "WAUGHH!" sound effects.

End Page 2.

Page 3:

A yellow text box reads, "As her band of evil thugs attacks Mizar, Catra watches She-Ra's every move..."

"SO... you escaped my birds of prey! Well, She-Ra, I'm not through with you yet! Try THISSSSS!" says Catra, watching She-Ra through a crystal ball. A mountain rises in the background, wreathed in clouds and winged creatures, surrounded by water at its base.

"SSSSSSSSSSSS" says the water in Catra's crystal ball.

Three sea monsters rise out of the water around She-Ra's canoe, dripping menacingly.

"I'm tired of all this toil and trouble! I cast a spell... sea foam and bubble! Swallow up these fearful beasts! Make of them a scrumptious feast!" says She-Ra, lifting the Sword of Protection to the sky. "They'll make a tasty monster stew! I must be gone... there's much to do!" She then thinks to herself, "Hmmm ... that's not bad, even if I do say so myself!" which is both blatantly false and very unnecessary given that there's no dialogue in two panels in either direction.

A "ROARR!" sound effect heralds a huge wave, which swallows the sea serpents and sweeps She-Ra towards the shore.

"LAND HO!" says She-Ra.

End Page 3.

Page 4:

"Enough of this meddlesome maiden!" says Catra, holding her mask and scowling as She-Ra paddles the canoe onto the beach with her sword.

"She sets one foot on this shore, and she is DOOMED!" says Catra, putting on her mask and transforming into... a little kitty cat! 

Like just a regular sized house cat. No armor or anything.

Adora (as she’s Adora again) beams up at Mizar, the folder containing the Map of Lights in one hand and her magic net in the other.

Mizar looms overhead, tall and purple and majestic.

"Purrr-fect! The Map of Lights is MINE!" says kitty-Catra, snatching the map from Adora's grasp, apparently possessing a four foot vertical leap, "AS MIZAR WILL BE!"

She transforms back into her human form, which raises the question of 'why become a house cat in the first place', and says "Even as we speak, the final seige begins!"

"She-Ra! You are too late! Hisssss!" says Catra, so I guess she knows Adora's identity. "I think not, cruel Catra! It's not over yet!" says Adora, "Swift Wind and I will see to that!"

Adora sticks her middle and index fingers into her mouth, which definitely isn't how you're supposed to whistle but I'm sure it's useful for, you know, other stuff, with a sound effect reading "TWEEEET!"

Swift Wind, still transformed, wheels overhead.

End Page 4.

Page 5:

Swift Wind lands in front of his rider, while Catra stands two feet away, not attacking. "To Mizar... and HURRY!" says She-Ra, as Swift Wind swoops away with her on his back. "CURSES! Foiled again! But mark my words, you... you TROUBLEMAKER!" says Catra, shaking her fist after them, "We shall meet again!"

A yellow text box reads, “At Mizar...” and we see our heroes fly next to its steep cliffs. "Perhaps the Seer's mysterious net will stop these vile villains in their tracks!" says She-Ra.

Cat creatures, humanoid with feline heads and long claws, are scaling the face of the cliffs.

"If it works, I have a plan to lay the evil beasts to rest... once and for all!" says She-Ra, casting the net over the nearest cat-people.

"WHOA! What's this? Stuff's tough as rubber..." says one of the cat-people, evidently fully sapient, if on Catra's side.

"CAN'T BREAK FREE..." yowls a second, as Angella and several other winged women look on from the walls of the city above.

End Page 5.

Page 6:

"On the great powers of Etheria I now do call... to turn these vile beasts into a fortress WALL!" says She-Ra.

She lifts her sword, casting a beam of magic on the living, speaking cat-people, who are at this point only guilty of trespassing kind of near the city.

"Their powerful evil ends with this charm... turned to stone, they will protect Mizar from HARM!" says She-Ra, literally turning them into stone. Their terrified faces and cowering, net-covered bodies barely stick out of the mountain, and honestly probably wouldn't do much to deter someone who's already climbed 90% of the way up. But cool spell I guess.

"Hoorah! She-Ra... it WORKED!" says Swift Wind, swooping around their petrified corpses victoriously.

"Kind SHE-RA! Noble SWIFT WIND! You have saved my people and our fair city from harm!" says Angella, approaching them as they land. Several winged figures lurk in the background, beaming. "We owe you many MORE thanks than we can ever repay!"

"Please stay and be out guests!" says Angella, "The key to our city...” She holds out her arms, wide and welcoming, “And our hearts.. is YOURS!"

"We most gratefully accept the key to Mizar!" says Adora, stroking Swift Wind's muzzle, "but I am afraid we cannot stay!"

In red text, she adds, "Angella, remember this moral. A friend in need is one indeed and we are happy to have served you!"

"Catra does not DARE return to harm you!" says Adora, allowing Angella to clasp her her hands gratefully. "The spell I cast will see to that! But there are others in Etheria who will need our help! We must take and hold your friendship in our hearts till we meet again!"

"Good bye! Farewell!" says Angella, waving after them as they fly away. "Good bye, dear friends!" says Adora, waving back as Swift Wind takes to the sky.

End Page 6.

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[xavierfiles-blog]

How Did The Return Of Wolverine Get This Messed Up?

If you hadn’t heard, Wolverine is back. You know Wolverine, knives in his hands, can’t die, drinks beer, and says bub. He suffered from a bad case of getting covered in molten metal while his healing factor was down, but now he is roaming around like nobodies business. The problem is, we are over a year into Wolverine being alive and I have no idea what in the world is going on.

It doesn’t help that there is a seemingly conflicting narrative going on here. When Logan first returned in MAVEL LEGACY #1 there was some excitement. He was driving a beer truck, beating up frost giants, and chilling with an Infinity Stone. His metal tomb had been broken and he was set free. As far as teasers go, it was a pretty good one. It left the obvious question of “how is he alive”, while adding in ones like “how does he have an Infinity Stone”. It may not have been the most conventional approach, but it got people excited.

That’s when things went down hill.

Wolverine started popping up all over the place in the “Where is Wolverine?” promotion. He appeared on the last page of several Marvel books. These “post-credit scenes” were completely toothless, adding nothing to their the comic they were in, or the larger Wolverine story. They were tiny vignettes of Wolverine just missing the actual plot of the book. Even worse, they were telegraphed and promoted, ruining any of the surprise from the moments. It was like 2008’s Iron Man opening with a note that Nick Fury was going to show up and talk about the Avengers at the end. This completely deflating promotion only accomplished one thing, fatiguing fans of the canucklehead.

Fans thought Wolverine would be a massive player in Gerry Duggan’s INFINITY COUNTDOWN and INFINITY WARS events, but would be sorely disappointed. After using him in the promotional image for the book and featuring him on the cover of the first issue, Wolverine was promptly written out of the event. He hid his infinity stone in a toilet and left Black Widow instructions to find it. Fans looking forward to seeing a favorite after so long were left feeling manipulated. His return brought back memories of the 90s, with Wolverine appearing on the cover of comics to move copies, not to support the story.

Many fans started to see the return as a cash grab, bleeding readers dry $3.99 at a time. It only got worse with the announcement of THE HUNT FOR WOLVERINE. Charles Soule, the man who killed Wolverine in the first place, would return to spearhead an event about the Marvel Universe looking for Wolverine. Between a quartet of four issue minis and two book end issues all we learned was that a mysterious organization called Soteira lead by a woman named Persephone had captured Logan. And that is pretty much it. Eighteen issues and $73.82 later and we got two names that have no relevance to fans.

This all led to the current RETURN OF WOLVERINE series from Charles Soule. It promised two things, answers and hot claws. That’s right, Wolverine now has a new power. Sometimes, when he is deep in the heart of a battle, Wolverine’s claws, weapons that can already cut through anything, get red hot. Soule has said if he was going to bring Wolverine back, he wanted there to be an important change. Three issues in, the hot claws are anything but. They have been a superficial addition that does nothing to further the character. It feels closer to the feral, noseless Wolverine of the mid-nineties than anything else.

It hasn’t helped that the book has not provided anything close to answers about the return of Wolverine. We have an amnesiac Logan breaking out of a secret facility, meeting a generic woman in need, and getting into fights. It hasn’t been told in an engaging fashion, and with two issues left, it would be a herculean effort to wrap this up satisfactorily. Additionally, original artist Steve McNiven had to drop out of the middle three issues of the book, leaving Declan Shalvey to rush pages out far below his normal quality. Even with this change the book has been delayed.

Adding to the frustration is the fact that Wolverine seems to be all over the Marvel Universe, with no consistency between his appearances. Veteran writer Jason Aaron introduced a Phoenix powered future version of Wolverine in his THOR book, and had that character travel back to the past in his AVENGERS. A Wolverine has shown up in Dan Slott’s FANTASTIC FOUR, one who refuses to comment on who he is or why he isn’t dead. Wolverine promises to be a major character in Matthew Rosenberg’s UNCANNY X-MEN. Soule is following up his RETURN OF WOLVERINE with a decades spanning tale of Logan’s past in MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS. Greg Pak is dragging him into his Weapon H finale with HULKVERINES. Gerry Duggan has announced the mini-series WOLVERINE: INFINITY WATCH which promises to bridge the gap between Wolverine’s first appearance with the Infinity Stone and his exit from the INFINITY COUNTDOWN series. All of these convoluted and seemingly contradictory stories have left fans scratching their heads, and apathetic to the future of Wolverine.

And that’s the major problem with how this whole return has been handled, apathy. Fans no longer trust that they are going to get a satisfying story. Waiting over a year to get resolution without any sign that it is actually coming has gotten people to stop caring about the character or his return, and that is a big deal. This is Wolverine, arguably the most popular character in the Marvel Universe, his return should be a massive event. It should galvanize sales and fan engagement. Instead, its’ biggest contribution has been everyone on Twitter making jokes about #hotclaws. Is that the reaction Marvel wanted? I doubt it. Fans want to be excited about Wolverine, but Marvel has made that nearly impossible. They want this to make some sort of sense, but unfortunately, it seems as if Wolverine’s return will just be remembered as another in a long line of bungled events with the X-Men.

How Did The Return Of Wolverine Get This Messed Up? was originally published on Xavier Files

[jazzmandd]

0084 - Assorted Strips 1

I made a few mini comics and batched them together. Noseless freaks, Puzzles and cooking!

[twh-news]

THOR: RAGNAROK Minimates Release Movie-Style Hela, Bruce Banner, and More Figures (Exclusive) | Nerdist

The three action figures that Hasbro has so far revealed as part its Thor: Ragnarok wave are all comics-based; toys based on the specific movie designs have yet to really be seen… until now. If you want to be the first to own short-haired gladiator Thor, or a movie-styled Hela, you’re going to have to think small. As a matter of fact, you’re gonna have to think mini, mate.

Thanks to our friends at Diamond Select Toys, we’re pleased to premiere the first look at Thor: Ragnarok Minimates, featuring Bruce Banner, Thor, Hela, and Loki. While they’re not technically considered likenesses of the actors, the Minimates artists have a way of effectively conveying an impression of the relevant stars using only line drawings on a curved surface. It’s some kind of Viking magic, we assume. Or Slytherin magic, considering they’re all noseless like Voldemort.

Still, Tom Hiddleston sans nasal passages remains a handsome devil. Meanwhile, we have to ask (rhetorically), do they call Cate Blanchett‘s character Hela because she’s got hella spikes on her headpiece? (That’s a joke. The first reader to say “Well, actually, she’s a Norse mythological figure…” gets whatever the opposite of a gold star is.)

Obviously we are all hoping a Jeff Goldblum in funky facepaint comes next, or even Thor’s roommate Darryl, despite the fact that he’s apparently not in the movie as was once rumored. But the beauty of Minimates is that they’re cheap and easy to make, so there’s very little doubt that Diamond will provide more. And given the modular format, you can even rip them limb from limb in combat (which the Marvel movies would never allow) and mix and match parts. Ever wanted Mark Ruffalo to have longer, flowing locks? Give Loki’s hair to Banner.

Images: Diamond Select

[suekreandtheidiots]

I'm in my "visualise random and silly OC video call convos" era and I'm not even sorry. These two have so much stupid-potential (all while I'm writing them with a pretty serious undertone, actually), it's unreal lol.

So Kip will be in Australia for a few months, sometime after he finishes school (which he will in 2026), and his dad has to get used to being all by himself again. 😂 There's a chance I'll go back to this at some point but for now I'm leaving this here, unfinished, because that is what I do. Not finish things. 😂

[suekreandtheidiots]

When your dad visits you at your work place but your dad is Fozzy. (I promise that these two love each other madly… in their own ways. 😂)

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That's enough spam for today! I may put up some older doodley stuff soon, I have a bit of a noseless stuff backlog I think. 😅

[suekreandtheidiots]

The 2026 reunion is important to me for several reasons on the more serious side, but all these stupid thoughts keep creeping in that I want to draw noseless sequences of and I am LIVING for those, too. 😂

Kip is actually quite cute, something about Lancie probably just ticks him off?? 😂 He's a curious little fella and pretty easy to get along with, but he was also raised by his father which means he has no filter. 🤣 My Fozzy & Kip lore is getting bigger and bigger and I might end up sharing it all (because we all know how attached I get to side characters). Some is quite fun, some not so much.

Lore cut!

A not so fun fact is that both father and son almost died at some point in their lives. Kip has asthma and almost succumbed to a pretty bad attack as a small child (already mentioned that, I think), Fozzy himself almost k*lled himself with a cocktail of drugs. Entirely by accident, he got his hand on some really bad crap there and also underestimated the effect it would have, thinking that he's the king of partying and all. He was only 20, and it was when his parents really put their feet down for the first time and forced their son into detox/rehab. It made him reevaluate some things, but he didn't really get his shit together until he took in his own kid, but that's another story.

Fozzy's relationship with his parents is a good one nowadays. He eventually understood what he had put them through, and that they had always meant well with him. The Fosters would have loved to see their son settle down and find some peace, but they also like how he's taking Kip all over the world to see places. They especially love how he keeps coming back now, because he actually wants to, unlike his young self who had so desperately tried to get away from them. Some things turn out well in their very own way!

[suekreandtheidiots]

2026 - The Reunion: Lancie can't believe his own eyes when he sees his old friend dragging a carbon copy of himself along. 🤣

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Note: I know I'm mostly posting these out of context doodles these days. I'm exhausted and I'm facing some (mental) health problems, too, soooo I don't always have the energy to write full texts. 😅😂 I wanna brush this blog up at some point, though! I'm really into all the arcs I have going on, sooo... one day, full explanations will happen! 😅

[suekreandtheidiots]

Even in this dire mental health situation of mine, I'm still low key obsessed with my 2006 teenage gang. 😂

I drew this silly thing a while ago, because I really loved the idea of the entire class having to do drama group projects, and naturally my gang picked Lord Of The Rings. Hallie was the director and Lancie was Legolas (Legolance).

Fozzy and Cal were Frodo and Sam, btw, because who else could play hobbits better than two guys WAY over 6 ft tall? 😂

Bonus:

Lucy was Gandalf. 😂 (She and Fozzy were a different story to get into... let's just say they had an on-and-off-friends-with-benefits-or-maybe-more?!-thing going on during their later school years which blew up about halfway into their last year... and a raging Lucy really had a mind to strangle him. I LOVE Fozzy as a character but MAN, he's a shithead. 😬🤣)

(Please excuse the crazy format btw... I drew these for my IG stories.)

[suekreandtheidiots]

... and that, kids, is how Cal Fitzgibbons will save the day after the official class reunion in 2026. 😂

[suekreandtheidiots]

Some Kip! I loved this little doodle of him, so I coloured it. I like that this sweet boy has an edge to him, and it often makes me think about how Kip deals with being his father's son. He loves his dad madly, but he doesn't want to be like him. There are at least a few parallels he just can't deny, though.

Such as the tendency to make poor choices at times. I kinda hate to say what I am about to say, because this wee shite kinda embodies the hope and belief I put into the next generation. He has a good grasp on certain subjects, he's kind at heart, he stands up for others, believes in social justice and in creating a better world and wants everyone to be happy. However, he's also human. Even "worse" - he's a flawed and a still-inexperienced-in-so-many-ways teenager who makes mistakes based on poor judgement and I'm afraid that him doing something stupid will be the cause for him and his current girlfriend Anna breaking up. :')

I shared that on my Discord earlier this weekend and then my friend Teo was like "Ooooh, not Kip getting close to officially acquiring his Idiot Certificate." and that just SENT me, so the noseless sequence of Kip getting his Idiot Certificate was born.🤣

[suekreandtheidiots]

Some Lowell (and Kip 😆), starting with a noseless two-parter of the young dad and his son being very wary of each other. 🤣 (Don't worry, Kip, he's a lot more scared of you than you are of him.) This is just a silly noseless sequence, of course, but it was essentially this for a while. I really want to get into the 'Fozzy and Kip growing on each other' phase more, though. Hopefully soon!

A silly redraw of a post I saw on IG and that screamed "Fozzy", at the time a two-year-old boy (that looked suspiciously like him) was dropped on his figurative doorstep. 🤣

He's watching Kip play and he's not hating it! 😂

I scribbled a little "Fozzy/Lowell through the years" kinda thing to wind down. I have zero business loving this trash man the way I do but here I am. 😅😂

Some more lore bits under the cut:

I really love how some things just stuck around, such as the black nail polish! The notable weight loss kinda gets to me, there was more behind that than just losing some baby fat, as we all know. Post-rehab-Lowell put on some weight again, sure, and he was never actually skinny anyway, but still. Things really went downhill for him in his late teenage years and I'm really just happy that he didn't accidentally kill himself. 😅

Lowell has a bad knee that still acts up here and there nowadays. He fell down the last few steps of a staircase (at 16 or 17; drunk) and hurt himself real bad. Unfortunately the injury didn't get treated properly due to a myriad of reasons, so on top of experimenting with drugs from an early age on, he also developed an addiction to painkillers. Lowell had surgery on his knee some time after rehab, there were at least some things that could be fixed.

Lowell suffered from hallucinations, paranoia and occasional panic attacks during his worst phase of addiction. That lingered around for a while, even during recovery.

Still, a part of him would absolutely do it all again. The fun parts, that is. The sex/parties/rock'n'roll-combo. Even the drugs, but only the absolute highs that come with using. Not the withdrawals, those weren't fun enough to be relived. 🙃

Lowell never relapsed, but occasional temptation and desire lingered around. There are still some moments nowadays that bring it all back, and it's not just awful memories after all. Not at all. He loved the those times for what they were. However, his self-preservation drive kicked back in during rehab, and that's good, he wouldn't want it any other way. Lowell was never unhappy or even suicidal after all, quite the opposite. He's a hedonist, he always wanted the most from his life. And despite how fun those times were, he has long understood what he has done to himself and also to the people close to him. The temporary loss of his own humanity was scary in hindsight, he would not want to bring that back either.

[suekreandtheidiots]

Hallie and Galahad are bonding. 🥹💖✨

[suekreandtheidiots]

Mark's mystery girlfriend gave me feels. 😂 (I'm still trying to decide on a name for her - I'm torn between Aimee and Morrigan! )

She is someone Mark has known all his life, back in England (where he was born and grew up). I don't think they were close childhood friends or anything, they just knew and liked each other. And I think one Summer they just hit it off, when he visited his grandparents back home. They dated long distance for a while, with weekend and school break visits and all, and they are obnoxiously fond of each other. Mark moved back to England after school, so that's when they had the chance and time to grow even closer. They did. I think they are each other's The Only One.

It's what I love about Mark... he's such a whimsical little creature, doing questionable things, but he has got MORALS and never felt any pressure to be an idiot, like others in the age range *cough*. He respects other people, he was a feminist before the discourse even picked up speed again, and he just wants others to vibe and be well.

I think some of the gang mocked him a little ("We never see her, therefore she can't be real?!"), and this is why I drew this. Drew it late last night, so I stopped randomly, but I may pick it up again. 😂

[suekreandtheidiots]

Z O O M I E S.

Hallie is still getting used to being with a very devoted cat dad.