#public domain avengers

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Public domain avengers type of story where a lot of famous literature characthers are actually a part of a mysterious vampire clan (and deeply belive their transformatiom has to have something to do with their literaly fame - with the exception of the couples Carmilla and her Laura and Jonathan and Mina Haker who just happen to exist in a vampite story).

Sherlock Holmes is not really their leader but is the only one still trying to investigate the turning conspiracy (with the help of vampire John Watson) while solving more general mysteries and everyone really respects him for it. They don't hate Connan Doyle (he was John's editor in this world and hated the books because he kept trying to make clear he was just an editor and read my real books and no one listened) but they deeply dislike the Doyle state.

Now they have the sexy, sweetheart of the group Dorian Gray. And while he is waay less of a dick than his literary persona, vampire Dorian Gray just makes so much sense no one really asks anything. I mean the story about a corrupted man that doesn't get old and how this leads him to his ruin? Very vampire coded. Except years and years later they are having a discussion about their "authors" and someone asks him why Wilde wrote him as such a dick and how they had met and he says he never met him and he actually is a trans guy from the 1920's that loved Wilde's work, had an emo/edgy phase and his surname happened to be Gray so it was all too perfect in his younger mind and he named himself after Dorian. He assumed everyone knew he was not actually the characther. Since he was in the clan for a long time and everyone liked him he remains in the group still as their only not actually a public domain characther.

They later discover that there is an actual vampire Dorian who just didn't want to join tbem before and so never crossed their path but he is a dick and they already have their Dorian quota so he isn't invited and he is very bitter over it. Might turn to whoever ends up beig the villain as revenge.

[skookworks]

Every nerd has a superhero universe swirling inside them. These are the protagonists of mine.

[publicdomaincharacters]

Here a public Domain superhero,The Avenger from Magazine Enterprises

[jensfreeheroes]

Marvel: Wasp

Public Domain: Tinker Bell

The fairy who's temper is as short as her size. She's helps Peter Pan on his adventures, but can also be a pain to deal with due to her quick jealousy of people around Peter. She's quick to judge people but she'll come around to them in time.

[thegeekerynj]

The Year In Review - 2022 The Cranky Old Man picks his Favorites of the Year

An Occasional Attempt to Read, Discuss and Review the Wonders of Comics By: John Rafferty, cranky old man, and Fan of All Things Comics

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As the Sun slowly finishes its trip around my waist, the time has come to look back at some of the truly amazing offerings that arrived during 2022.

Now, as with all things, these rankings are subjective. Since they are mine, they are also correct.

Now, get off my lawn, and please enjoy!

Top 5 Comics of 2022:

Number 1:

The Human Target (DC, 12 Issue Series) - Writer: Tom King  Artist: Greg Smallwood

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‘My name is Christopher Chance. My game is THE HUMAN TARGET. This is how it’s played.

You hire me to pretend to be you. So you can see who hates you enough to kill you. You live, I die. 

Everyone wins.’

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Leave it to Tom King to give us a story anchored by a character relegated to B-Stories, a noirish murder mystery, and the bumbling, lovable incarnation of the Justice League gifted to us by the maestros Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, Kevin Maguire, and Al Gordon, all wrapped up as a ‘50s style detective show, complete with booze, broads, bullets, and an angry Guy Gardner.

Oh, and Christopher Chance has 14 days to solve his own murder. 

Life is good.

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Number 2:

Nightwing (DC, ongoing) - Writer: Tom Taylor   Pencils/Inks: Bruno Redondo   Colors: Adriano Lucas

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‘Hey, Jon, guess what Batman keeps in his belt?

Some sensible people have pointed out he keeps his LOLLIPOPS dangerously close to the Smoke Bombs that are a similar shape and size, but he’s pretty stubborn.

Here you go. Want to see me juggle?’

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Yes, I know this run began in 2021, but it hit its stride in 2022… not that the first 11 issues weren’t incredible.

Mentoring Jon Kent, teaming with Wally West, ‘shipping with Barbara Gordon (in the neatest version of Batgirl since Gail Simone’s ‘Batgirl of Burnside’ run), battling Heartless and Blockbuster for the ‘heart’ of Bludhaven, Tom Taylor has given us the Dick Grayson fans have wanted for years.

The MAN Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth raised to be the best version of Richard Grayson.

Add to this the beautiful art and triptych covers of Bruno Redondo, and this becomes one of the don’t-miss series of the year.

Oh, and let’s not forget Bitewing and NiteMite (I. WANT. THIS. FUNKO. POP.)

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Number 3:

Public Domain (Image Comics) Creator: Chip Zdarsky (So appropriate)

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‘Let’s fight for what’s ours.’

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This one line says everything you need to know to understand the story Chip Zdarsky is telling. It’s the story of Kirby, Ditko, Wood, Toth, Wrightson, Morrow, and going back as far as Siegel and Schuster, those masters who created characters, and unwittingly, signed away their creations for pennies.

Zdarsky’s portrayal of Sy Dallas and his family trying to wade through the decision process comes down to one question - what is the value of everything you create?

I have been hanging on every page of every issue, waiting for a final answer. 

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Number 4:

Avengers - X-Men - Eternals: Judgement Day (Marvel SUPER-Event, 17 various issues)  - Writer: Kieron Gillen, Artists: Various

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‘We simply have to build a GOD. Help us. Help us build our God.’

‘This plan is pure hubris… but speaking broadly, I’m PRO HUBRIS.

But… How on EARTH do you think we are going to MAKE A GOD in a few hours?’

‘Look around you, Mr. Stark of the Avengers… WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED.’

Ajak of the Eternals and Tony Stark

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Druig of The Eternals has proclaimed the X-Men are X_Treme Deviants, and attacked them in ALL their seats of power, with help from an excommunicated Moira MacTaggart.

Sersi, Ajak, Makkari and others of the Eternals Society removed themselves from the society over ‘directional differences’. 

The Avengers, having monitored spikes in the expenditure of ‘Celestial’ energy, assume a pending attack against HUMANITY by the Eternals.

Mistakes are made. Lives are lost.

Hilarity ensues.

Kieron Gillen, of DIE fame, has undertaken the writing task for this Marvelverse-spanning enterprise, beautifully incorporating these three disparate groups, along with the Titan Starfox, Iron Fist, and human vessels… 

A story of destruction and zealotry, where blindly following a laid-out path without understanding the repercussions leads to reaction rather than thought.

Where the flawed are perfect in their understanding, principle is more important than purity, and those who stand against the unprincipled are the TRUE heroes.

And the only things that are eternal are love and shame.

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Number 5:

Joe Hill’s Rain (Szyzgy  Press / Image Comics) Author: Joe Hill, Adapted by: David M Booher, Art: Zoe Thorogood

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‘At least Yolanda and I had the kiss.

“OUCH!”

‘Can one kiss last a lifetime?

‘Count yourself lucky if you never have to find out.’

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Have you ever been in a rainstorm that felt like needles piercing your skin?

Now, picture those piercings being razor-sharp shards of ice impaling people with the misfortune of being caught in this first downfall…

Joe Hill’s apocalyptic story is beautifully and painstakingly translated to the comic page through the deft scripting of David Booker, and the hauntingly beautiful renderings of Zoe Thorogood.

The story, a mere 5-issues, is deserving of multiple reads, to fully absorb the various details in the artwork, and to thoroughly embrace the wonder and devastation of Honeysuckle Speck.

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Honorable Mentions:

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The Variants (Marvel Comics)  Writer: Gail Simone, Art: Phil Noto

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‘Killgrave is beyond being able to hurt anyone, Maria. I’ve seen him. I KNOW.

‘You think I’m begging you to help me, Ms. Jones-Cage. I’m not. I’m WARNING you.

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GAIL SIMONE!! 

JESSICA JONES!!

KILLGRAVE!!

A Multiverse of Jessicas, including a CAPTAIN F’N AMERICA!!

Well worth the read, #6 in a Top 10!

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Stray Dogs: Dog Days  (Image Comics)  Writer: Tony Fleecs  Art: Trish Forstner

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The beginnings and the fitting end for the Stray Dogs tale, showing how each of the Strays came to be in the Yard…

Fleecs and Forstner succeed once again in making this cranky old man sob!

[opencharacters]

Copyright Smuggling: The Amazing Digital Circus

Often i just like taking a thing and figuring out public domain equivalence. Mostly just for fun and to showcase more public domain characters like I've done with The Avengers and Doctor Who

Ragatha - Clearly inspired by Raggedy Ann who is public domain

[ID: Image of a light browing plush doll in a flowery dress holding flowers using her dress. her hair is noodle and rope like and red END ID]

Kinger - Chess pieces are not bound by any copyright.

Jax - Theres no shortage of public domain bunny characters but I'm gonna go with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

[ID: Image of a black and white cartoon rabbit END ID]

Gangle: Gangle is based on the Comedy and Tragedy masks from ancient greece, which are not copyrighted

Zooble: Equivalent would be Mr.Potatohead

The copyrights for the original Mr. Potato Head were not renewed in 1980 after they had expired. While still trademarked and later versions arent public domain the above version is, you can swap out their parts if you so like or rename them.

Pomni - The Joker playing card

Caine - Obviously Cain from the Bible but also just the concept of an artificial intelligence really doesn't belong to anyone

Bubble - Soap bubble with teeth, go nuts i guess just eh design it differently.

[mthofferings]

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[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Tumblr has a few really specific ideas of what should be the next Muppet movie (all good ones!) but I think we need to go further afield. Some Muppet adaptations I'd recommend:

James Bond - human villain

All For the Game - make the coach the only human

The OJ Simpson trial - human Judge Ito

The Avengers - keep Sam Jackson; Swedish Chef as Loki, bc Scandinavia is interchangeable

The Great Gatsby - Gonzo as Gatsby (I've posted this before I know)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - human cousin Charles

How has their not been a Muppet Sherlock Holmes with a patient Muppet Sherlock explaining Muppet logic to a human Watson (there was a comic tho). Especially now they respecting women is in the public domain

[werecreature-addicted]

I would like to recommend a monster lover film called "Lady Frankenstein". The main character is Dr. Tania Frankenstein, daughter of Baron Frankenstein. She is fascinated by her father's work. When the Baron's monster kills him and escapes, she works with her father's assistant, Dr. Marshall, to put Marshall's brain into a perfect body. That way she makes a creature that can avenge her father and satisfy her. This film seems to be in the public domain and is readily available on youtube. The 99 minute version is the best cut.

I will keep that in mind I really want to see it but I promised a friend i'd watch it with her so i am bound to that :3

[rjalker]

1942 public domain werewolf movie

A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.

Edit:

There's a few flashing lights in the final I think 3 minutes of the film.

Unlike with modern films, it's not on purpose. Lightning strikes the house and a room catches on fire. They seem to be using real fire, and the comparative brightness of it makes the camera have trouble focusing on the darker areas and causes some flashes, but not a lot.

Also, the subtitles here are wrong on at least 3 occasions. Also the audio in general is very bad and quiet:

I forgot the first time the subtitles were wrong but the other ones were:

subtitles, paraphrased: to whom do I owe the honor?

what he actually said, paraphrased: What's with all the armament?

subtitles, paraphrased: You've been a good daughter

what he actually said, paraphrased: You've been a great comfort (to me?).

[nervarts]

Lilyana (II)

Hey everyone! I'm back and feeling better! 💖 I am here to share a second drawing of Lilyana, singing. I think it's about time I share her backstory. Beware, this is going to be a long read. 📖☕

Lilyana Aretha Napoles is a character I made for a Sci-fi RP with @Mamsey . She was born in the capital city of Khose, from a small planet called Accilles— which is located three worlds away from the primary globe. She was raised as an only child in a family that reached the noble status shortly before her birth. Her father worked as a politician and her mother was a socialite. At the age of four, they moved to Ziherilia, the main planet and the Emperor's domain. Lilyana was raised in luxury and privilege. However, her parents were strict and educated her in politesse. From a young age, her singing talent manifested. She was taught and praised by her teachers for her voice. She seldom knew of hardships or what occurred beyond high society. That was, until Frederika disappeared.

Frederika was Lilyana's childhood friend and the child of her mother's abigail. Despite their social differences, the two girls got along together and behaved like sisters. In their sixteen years, a conflict broke out in Yulea, her friend's home planet. Not long after, she and her mother vanished. When questioned about their whereabouts, the nobility had to take a vow of silence by order of the Bureau of Principal Legitimacy (which are more or less the equivalent of the Thought Police in 1984). No one could question, speak about the women, or the planet itself. Yet Lilyana became restless and tried to uncover the mystery of Frederika's disappearance. After furtive attempts and risky bypassing, the truth turned out to be much darker and disturbing than she could imagine.

An insurrection took place in Yulea against the Ziherilia, which was quickly and violently put to an end. The planet became a slave labor camp with a high mortality rate. All Yuleans royalty were imprisoned and potentially executed. The Bureau of Principal Legitimacy had changed the entirety of its history, erased any traces of a revolt occurring, and wiped out important names from the Counsel. It had been done throughout the Emperor's rule. Whenever there was opposition, the Bureau was there to intervene. No one was safe from its scrutiny. Discovering and unveiling secrets was considered traitorous and carried a severe penance.

From then on, Lilyana had sworn to avenge Frederika. She joined the revolutionary group behind closed doors— whose locations varied from planet to planet and its members belonged in different social statuses. A decision that would forever change her life. In the meantime, as the years went on, she cultivated her talent in a regime where music was restricted. She became favorable not only to the ruling class, but also to the common folk. As she gained attention from the Emperor, she was allowed to perform for the people. She carefully introduced herself to politics in order to work in favor with the public— thus cementing her status as a lady.

Currently, she is working covertly as both the intermediary and agent for the Rebellion while establishing her influence among the court and the Counsel. At the same time, she is a prominent singer. She tasks in growing her reputation and the forces of the other side while avoiding the jaws of the Bureau. Particularly its leader (which is @Mamsey 's character).

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Personality-wise: Refined and serene, Lilyana is described to be a cold jewel. Despite her congeniality, she maintains distance from people and avoids deeper relationships. As a result, there is an air of mystery around her persona. She would rather be addressed by her second name instead of her first. When it comes to diplomacy, she is silver-tongued and gracious. In truth, she holds passion for her beliefs and justice. She tries to resolve conflicts in her best judgment and help all those in need. However, because of her allegiance with the Rebellion, she is secretive and can be deceitful to anyone. Even those from her same class or higher. The young woman is aware of the consequences of her actions, yet she tries to remain as undaunted as possible.

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If you made it this far, thank you so much for reading! 🥹 Lilyana is my new favorite child to draw (I have no preferences, though). I have a couple of WIPs of her that I plan to post soon.

Also, I haven't done this in a while, but if you like my art and wish to see more, consider supporting me on Ko-fi! 🙏🏼💖

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I will never forget how a week or so ago I was looking for people's suggestions over how they would make their own League of Extraordinary Geentleman cause I love the idea of Public Domain Avengers even if not the way it was done.

And someone goes, well Dorian Gray, and like yeah, he is in the original and while I don't like how he is portrait it was a solid choice just like Mina. And I really liked what they changed about Dorian on their version compred to the LoEG Dorian.

But then when listing the villains for SOME REASON one of the tragic villains that is not the main villain but we think it is in the first arc is OSCAR WILDE. And he has no connection to Dorian. He also is like the only author involved. All the other villains and heros were public domain. I don't even remember if there was any other historical figure even. And I cannot stop thinking about it, is driving me insane.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Oracle of Nineveh

1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

2 A jealous and avenging God is Jehovah: an avenger is Jehovah, and full of fury: Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

3 Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear the guilty: Jehovah, his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is upheaved at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.

6 Who shall stand before his indignation? and who shall abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.

7 Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

8 But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

9 What do ye imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end: trouble shall not rise up the second time.

10 Though they be tangled together as thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.

11 Out of thee is gone forth one that imagineth evil against Jehovah, a wicked counsellor.

12 Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be complete in number, and many as they be, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall pass away; and though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

13 And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds asunder.

14 And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy god will I cut off the graven image, and the molten image: I will prepare thy grave; for thou art vile.

15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that publisheth peace! Celebrate thy feasts, Judah, perform thy vows: for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. — Nahum 1 | Literal Emphasis Translation (LET) The Literal Emphasis Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Genesis 8:1; Exodus 19:16; Exodus 19:18; Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:6; Leviticus 23:2; Deuteronomy 7:10; 2 Samuel 23:6; 1 Kings 19:11; 2 Kings 19:36; Job 13:9; Job 18:17; Psalm 2:1; Psalm 107:14; Psalm 109:13; Psalm 118:12; Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 10:7; Isaiah 10:16; Isaiah 10:33; Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 28:22; Jeremiah 51:64; Ezekiel 7:5; Ezekiel 11:2; Matthew 8:26; John 10:14; Romans 10:15; 2 Timothy 2:19; Revelation 6:14; Revelation 6:17

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[theragamuffininitiative]

Hi! I’ve seen your tags but I don’t think I’ve seen a post about it, so may I ask what your cowboy story is about?

Hellooo!

I need to go fix a lot of my tags bc I couldn't remember what I have posted about it, but mostly I did a few posts during Yeehawgust and that was it. XD

Ok so.

Several years ago I was binging episodes of Bonanza (I was also depressed ok), and stumbled across one called "The Avenger" which introduced this soft-spoken, genteel drifter who shows up just in time to stop some of the main characters from being executed for a crime they didn't commit. When they finally ask him why he cared enough to endanger himself with the real criminals, he explains his father was wrongfully killed and he's seeking the men who did it - yet the episode shows him going out of his way to avoid killing, even when up against some of the men he is after and him being a deadly-excellent crack shot.

We aren't given the man's proper name in the story, but he's from a town called Lasater, Kansas, and so Lasater is what the townfolk call him.

The episode was intended to spin off its own series, about Lasater, and another show, Outlaws, featured an episode starring the same actor with loosely the same story. This man was given a name, but it was imho a silly name so I stuck with Lasater. (I think he was loosely inspired by the Zane Grey character Lasater, which is probably why they gave him another name later.) In any case, the spinoff never happened, and Lasater's story remained unfinished.

But I loved him. I have rewatched that episode multiple times since. The character is just so....??

He befriends and protects a young boy in town. (He has a real soft spot for kids in particular, and in the Outlaws episode he allows an older boy to become his partner after similarly protecting and befriending him.)

He spoils his horse.

He's a loner by mission but you can tell he really likes people and enjoys having company.

He wears his hat adorably back on his head like a little kid.

He's really concerned with cleanliness, it's noted in both episodes lol.

He's kind and refuses to be provoked by hotheaded men.

He is moved to empathy for but not swayed by the damsel in distress.

He has a sense of humor drier than the desert.

He's dangerous in a calm sort of way.

He defeats the bad guys by compassionately but firmly convincing a scared woman to tell the truth (and then of course there is a shootout but he actually has very little to do with it).

I loved the character and the hints of his story (his lawman father hanged by outlaws, his town burned, his mission to bring the villains to justice - that justice being a jail and a court trial) so entirely, that when I found out the episode had entered the public domain, I dug in to write the rest of his story.

In my continuation, Lasater and his new young friend Sonny are on the trail of the remaining outlaws (it would have made a good mini series, but not a long-standing one probably, so I can tie up all the loose ends in a novel lol), and the trail leads them to a small town that wants nothing to do with trouble, but where they must make their final stand against the murderous gang. I get to turn a few more tropes on their head (like what roles Lasater and Sonny play in the climax, and a love interest who is not a love interest) and... Yeah. Couple of cowboys came and stole my heart.

Ended up writing it for last year's NaNoWriMo project and I'm trying to get up the time and energy to begin rewrites.

For now, the story is still called Lasater, Kansas. It may get a proper name someday. 😂

Thanks for asking!

Please enjoy some low quality gifs I made of Lasater's tv appearances:

[maurofonseca]

Are you working on any personal projects? Any comics from you on the horizon?

Hopefully!

I've got a main idea of comics I want to do, but I'm gonna take longer talking about it, so I'll first mention a couple others-

I've in the past drawn a lot of like, online meme characters. Not this exactly, but stuff like "Earth-chan". Lately been thinking about revisiting that, making them my own characters, changing designs and names, and working from that for small slice-of-life things.

I've got a friend I collab with on ideas, and I asked him ideas for short stories. Planning to draw a couple of his ideas, both for portfolio and because he does good stuff.

However, the main thing, of course, is my ideas involving my characters Lalla Shepherd, Jackie Pollard, Lily Rock, etc etc.

Gonna go on at length about it now, so putting it under a read more.

I've got a setting of characters etc I've nurtured for a few years now. It's a setting of cartoon animal people, adventure, fighting, etc. Very much trying to replicate the Disney comics I grew up on, stuff like Barks, Cavazzano, Gottfredson, but also stuff like Tintin, Indiana Jones, Sonic the Comic. It's set in a fantasy version of Earth circa the 1960s, by which I mean it's just Earth, but everything's been renamed for denial purposes, a layer of distance. If I want "London" to be the 60s but "Lisbon" to be the 80s, I get to do so, because it's not really London or Lisbon, it's Fumdon and St. Vincent, right? If I want there to be a war in the backstory, it can be WW1, WW2, Korean War, and Vietnam War all at once, because it's not really any of those, it's a fantasy one. Kinda what Pokémon does with its regions.

The idea is to do multiple stories, small stories, short stories, in this setting. Again, like the comics I grew up on- adventure stories of 10 pages, rather than epics of 1000.

You can read an early first go at an introduction to it here. It's kind of outdated, in aesthetics at least, but it's still overall matching what I plan.

The starting point is, there's these three characters- Lalla Shepherd, a racer and former soldier dealing with what happened to her during the War, Jackie Pollard, a girl with a mysterious past who appears in Fumdon looking for a job and with an amazing aim; and Lily Rock, a supremely confident fighter who's travelled the world and is sent to Fumdon to cover the upcoming Tournament. Said Tournament is going to be a combat tournament held in Fumdon but part of the culture of a separate small nation-estate, as a diplomatic move between countries. This is attracting weirdos and people with ill intent, so our three main characters get made into a team of sheriffs to deal with it in the months leading to the event proper.

The tournament is primarily just a plot excuse though- it'll be happening "soon" for as long as needed. It's a near-future event that excuses why any character would be appearing now and making their entrance in the public stage, no matter how weird they might be.

It's also about a bootlegging criminal in another country, whose wares get stolen by a wannabe gentleman thief, and how that drags a lot of other characters into that story.

Open and obvious about it, it's primarily made of me seeing characters and ideas in other stuff, and going "I want to make my own version". Very Alan Moore League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in that sense- "I want to make fanfiction where James Bond fights The Avengers (the british spy team) and Mina Murray (from Dracula), but I don't have the rights for them, so I'll switch names around etc." Very cape comic books in that sense too- "we want to tell a story about Superman, but we're Marvel, so we make a Superman pastiche called Hyperion".

Part of it was influenced by the upcoming wave of public domain stuff in the US. As you can see by my drawings, it was planning to use specific characters like Mickey Mouse, but then I got confirmation that that's really really not gonna work internationally. Ah well.

Some of you might've been here long enough to recognise a lot of these ideas and characters were part of an abandoned webcomic I was doing before, 4QC. Well yeah, this is me trying to make that one work and avoid the pitfalls that killed it lol.

Dunno, hope that's enough context. I'm hoping I can get a new story of this, a remake of the old one I did maybe, out before the end of the year; and then to do a lot more next year, using the money I'm saving from Sonic work this year.

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People really be out here having opinions on the avengers fighting each other film and meanwhile I'm like 'there was MCU after winter soldier?!' Truly unprecedented levels of wilful ignorance from my corner of the interwebs lol I refuse to remember anything that happened after til the end of the line

and then they lived happily ever after. the end<3

tbh what was i thinking adding this gif to my answer. now im looking at it and losing my mind all over again. man broke out of 70 years' worth of brainwashing because his bestie uttered their wedding vows. fucking insane. this (and ok, many other reasons), is why captain america: the winter soldier belongs in the public domain. movie of all time. no one look at me.