#superhero gifts

[noisycowboyglitter]

DC Comics Valentine’s Day: Celebrate with Heartwarming and Hilarious Stories

"DC Comics Valentine's Day": A Superhero-Inspired Celebration of Love and Heroism

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As the world celebrates the timeless tradition of Valentine's Day, the iconic characters of the DC Comics universe offer a unique and captivating spin on the festivities. "DC Comics Valentine's Day" seamlessly blends the enduring power of love with the extraordinary feats of some of the most beloved superheroes and supervillains.

From the passionate romance between Batman and Catwoman to the dynamic tension between Harley Quinn and the Joker, these larger-than-life figures bring an added layer of excitement and intrigue to the celebration of affection. Imagine heartfelt messages adorned with the emblems of the Justice League, or playful cards featuring the mischievous antics of Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn.

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This DC Comics-inspired twist on Valentine's Day taps into the universal human desire for connection, while also embracing the fantastical and heroic elements that have made these characters iconic. It's a celebration of love that transcends the boundaries of the ordinary, inviting fans to immerse themselves in a world where the extraordinary and the emotional intertwine.

Whether gifting a loved one or simply indulging in the thrill of these beloved characters, "DC Comics Valentine's Day" offers a unique and captivating way to commemorate the power of love and heroism.

"Harley Quinn: Mad Love" - A Captivating Exploration of the Complexities of Toxic Relationships

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In the realm of the DC Comics universe, the dynamic between Harley Quinn and the Joker has become a captivating study of the complexities and dangers inherent in toxic relationships. "Harley Quinn: Mad Love" delves deep into the twisted and codependent bond between these two iconic characters, offering a poignant and often unsettling examination of the thin line between love and obsession.

This concept explores the seductive allure of the Joker's manipulative charm, and the tragic consequences that unfold as Harley becomes increasingly entangled in his web of madness and cruelty. It's a harrowing exploration of the devastating impact of emotional and psychological abuse, as well as a powerful commentary on the societal constructs that can enable and perpetuate such dysfunctional dynamics.

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"Harley Quinn: Mad Love" is a complex and multi-layered narrative that challenges the audience to confront the darkest corners of the human psyche, while also offering a glimmer of hope and the possibility of redemption.

[tragicvampireromanceisland]

assortment of many many janes and sammys....they have totally NOT!!!! been consuming my mind whole what are you talking about 💛💙

one thing i really wanted to do with this au is reverse the initial dynamic we had in canon with these two; now sadness is the one who has to... "put up" with joy, be the more experienced and respected one of the two, not quite understand what her whole deal is, get frustrated with her optimism, and put some work in to understand her point of view.

samira's been a journalist for around six years by the time the story starts...and she's purposefully isolated herself and sidestepped having a coworker for all those years. suddenly gaining such a goofy, chaotic "partner" is...a bit much for sammy, initially. while she's as patient as ever, jane seems to have a talent for testing that patience. and what's with her rare moments of seriousness that she brushes off just as quickly? it takes sammy a while to stop viewing jane as an extra responsibility that's been dumped on her, and yet despite her insistence that getting stuck with jane is "just her luck" , a lot of her thoughts and time seem to be consumed by her...a suspicious amount, even... 🤔😳 and that's not even counting her endless notes (and doodles...) of solarflare.

annnd while felix himself has never met jane (even though he HAS very much met sol), he's frequently subject to sammy's complaints about her. not that he minds. maybe this strange mystery coworker can finally convince his best friend to stop wallowing in her misery all the time...

[katheriensapple]

Fic idea: Batman and Joker acting like a real life toxic couple while not being in an actual relationship (and making everyone extremely confused).

Bruce: the only thing he gave me for Valentine's Day last year was a rather average hostage situation and 2 stab wounds. Can you believe THAT?

The Batfam: ????

...

Joker: what did take you so long? Oh, let me guess. I bet you were with Eddie as always.

Bruce: *stops trying to beat the Joker and just stays there, looking exhausted; as if this were a pretty old argument* Joker, we've had this discussion before. I'm not seeing other rogues because I think they're better than you, but because they'll kill everyone in this city if I'm not here to stop them. Is it so hard to understand?

Joker: *tries to stab Bruce for the third time in this interaction*

....

*after his latest scheme, Joker is put into Arkham again and while the guards search him for dangerous objects, Bruce approaches and grabs Joker's phone off the table.

Dick: *assumes that Bruce is looking for more information about Joker's plan, but still tries to see what Bruce's reading and well...* Hey B, why are you reading his two years old messages?

Bruce: because I don't know what he was doing in a two weeks interval exactly two years, five months, one week, four days, seven hours, ten minutes and fifteen seconds ago. And I need to know it...

Bruce: *then his expression turns terrifying blank* he was texting Lex Luthor, calling him dear...

....

Bruce: can you ask the hostages if they can wait a little bit more? My batsuit is wrinkled and I don't want the Joker to see me like this. It won't take so long...

Gordon: ....

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Austin Grossman’s ‘Fight Me’

On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH, in QUEENS, NY. Happy Bastille Day! On July 20, I'm appearing in CHICAGO at Exile in Bookville.

In Fight Me, the novelist and game developer Austin Grossman uses aging ex-teen superheroes to weigh the legacy of Generation X, in a work that enrobes its savage critique with sweet melancholia, all under a coating of delicious snark:

http://www.austingrossman.com/fight-me

It is, in other words, a very Gen X kinda novel. Prodigy (AKA Alex Beekman) is a washed-up superhero. As a nerdy high-schooler, he was given super powers by a mysterious wizard (posing as a mediocre teacher), who gave him an amulet and a duty. Whenever Alex touches the amulet and speaks the word of power, reaclun (which he insists is not "nuclear" backwards) he transforms into Prodigy, a nigh-invulnerable, outrageously handsome living god who is impervious to bullets, runs a one-minute mile, and fights like a champ. Prodigy, he is told, has a destiny: to fight the ultimate evil when it emerges and save the world.

Now, Alex is 40, and it's been a decade since he retired both Prodigy and his Alex identity, moving into a kind of witness protection program the federal government set up for him. He poses as a mediocre university professor, living a lonely and unexceptional life.

But then, Alex is summoned back to the superhero lair he shared with his old squad, "The Newcomers," a long-vacant building that is one quarter Eero Saarinen, three quarters Mussolini. There, he is reunited with his estranged fellow ex-Newcomers, and sent on a new quest: to solve the riddle of the murder of the mysterious wizard who gave him his powers, so long ago.

The Newcomers – an amped-up ninja warrior, a supergenius whose future self keeps sending him encouragement and technical schematics backwards through time, and an exiled magical princess turned preppie supermodel – have spent more than a decade scattered to the winds. While some have fared better than Alex/Prodigy, none of them have lived up to their potential or realized the dreams that seemed so inevitable when they were world famous supers with an entourage of fellow powered teens who worshipped them as the planet's greatest heroes.

As they set out to solve the mystery, they are reunited and must take stock of who they are and how they got there (cue Talking Heads' "Once In a Lifetime"). With flashbacks, flashforwards, and often hilarious asides, Prodigy brings us up to speed on how supers fail, and what it's like to live as a failed super.

The publisher's strapline for this book is "The Avengers Meets the Breakfast Club," which is clever, but extremely wrong. The real comp for this book isn't "The Breakfast Club," it's "The Big Chill."

When I realized this, I got briefly mad, because I've only had two good movie high concept pitches in my life and one of them was "Gen X Big Chill." Rather than veterans of the Summer of 68 confronting the Reagan years, you could have veterans of the Battle of Seattle living through the Trump years. One would be on PeEP, one would be an insufferable Andrew Tate-quoting bitcoiner, one would be a redpilled reactionary with a genderqueer teen, one would be a squishy lib, one a firebreathing leftist, etc. The soundtrack would just be top 40 tracks from artists who have songs on "Schoolhouse Rock Rocks":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Rock!_Rocks

Every generation has some way in which they seek to overthrow the status quo and build a new, allegedly better one, after all. "Big Chill"'s impact comes from its postmortem on a generation where it was easy to feel like you were riding destiny's rails to greatness thanks to the sheer size of the Boomer cohort and the postwar prosperity they lived through. A Gen X Big Chill would be a stocktaking of a generation that defined itself as a lost generation reared in the Boomers' shadows, armored against the looming corpo-climate apocalypse with the sword of irony and the shield of sincerity.

Which is basically what Grossman is doing here. What's more, doing this as a superhero story is a genius move – what could be a better metaphor for a teen's unrealistic certainty of destined greatness than a superhero? Superhero fantasies are irreducibly grandiose and unrealistic, but all the more beautiful and brave and compelling for it.

You know, like teens.

At 52, I'm a middle-aged Gen Xer. I've got two artificial hips and I just scheduled a double cataract surgery. My hairline is receding. I'm an alta kaker. But I wasn't always: I was a bright and promising kid, usually the youngest person in the room where we were planning big protests, ambitious digital art projects, or the future of science fiction. I had amazing friends: creative and funny and sweet, loyal and talented and just fun.

We're mostly doing okay (the ones that lived; fuck cancer and fuck heroin and fuck fentanyl). Some of us are doing pretty good. On a good day, I think I'm doing pretty good. I had a night in 2018 where I got to hang out, as a peer, with my favorite musician and my favorite novelist, both in the same evening. These were artists I'd all but worshipped as a teen. I remember looking at the two selfies I took than night and thinking, Man, if 15 year old me could see these, he'd say that it all worked out.

But you don't get to be 52 without having a long list of regrets and failures that your stupid brain is only too eager to show you a highlight reel from. No one gets to middle age without a haunting loss that is always trying to push its way to the fore in order to incinerate every triumph great and small and leave ashes behind.

That's why there's a "Big Chill" for every generation. Each one has its own specific character and meaning situated in history, but each one has to grapple with the double-edged sword of nostalgia. Not for nothing, John Hodgman (a bona fide Gen X icon) calls nostalgia "a toxic impulse."

Grossman really makes Fight Me work as a Gen X Big Chill. He's a great Gen X writer; his first novel, Soon I Will Be Invincible, was a knockout debut about superheroes and supervillains that had a very "The Boys" vibe, you know, that neat little move where you contend with the banal parts of a super's life and show how super powers don't make you a good person, or even a competent one.

His followup to Invincible came six years later. YOU is a coming-of-age story about the games industry with a second-person narrator (think "Zork"). Grossman is an accomplished game dev (Tomb Raider Legend, Deus X, Dishonored, etc), and he uses YOU to really plumb the depths of what games mean, what fun is, and how working on games isn't just work, it's often really shitty work, the opposite of fun:

https://memex.craphound.com/2013/04/16/austin-grossmans-you-brilliant-novel-plumbs-the-heroic-and-mystical-depths-of-gaming-and-simulation/

Grossman's last novel was Crooked, a very daffy alternate history in which Richard Nixon is a Cthulhoid sorcerer locked in a Lovecraftian battle of good and evil. This is a purely hilarious romp, wildly imaginative and deliciously certain to offend reactionary jerks:

https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/26/austin-grossmans-crooked-the-awful-cthulhoid-truth-about-richard-nixon/

All those chops are on display in Fight Me: a book that covers its brooding with wisecracks, that spits out ten great gags per page even as it drives a knife into your heart. It's a great novel.

Fight Me doesn't come out in the US and Canada until tomorrow (it's been out in the UK, Australia, NZ, etc for more than a month). Normally, I would hold off on reviewing this until the on-sale date, but this is my last day on the blog for two weeks – I'm leaving on a family vacation early tomorrow morning. I'll see you on July 14!

Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/01/the-big-genx-chill/#im-super-thanks-for-asking

[hufflepuffwritingstuff2]

Christmas Snippet 2023

Supervillain had just finished making a steaming mug of hot chocolate when the doorbell rang.

“Who could that be at this hour?” they wondered.

They approached the front door to their mansion. It had better not be any Christmas carolers, they didn’t have the time or patience for that. Supervillain opened the door and saw no one. Oh brother, a ding-dong ditcher? On Christmas Eve? Supervillain was about to close the door when something brightly colored caught their eye.

A large parcel lay on their doorstep, brightly wrapped in red and green paper and topped with a gold bow. Supervillain tilted their head, puzzled. They usually didn’t receive gifts from anyone this time of year- or any time for that matter- unless it was a trap. Supervillain bent down to examine it. They picked up a small, glitter-covered tag and read a neatly scribbled note.

To: Supervillain

From: Superhero

May this Christmas gift be an offering of peace

Supervillain scoffed. Definitely a trap then. They were just about to close the door when they heard a very faint whimper from inside the box. Their eyes widened. That better not have been what they thought it was. They lifted the box with their powers- it was quite heavy- and hastily brought it inside, closing the door behind them.

Supervillain worked quickly to tear off the paper. Underneath was a thick, metal box. Lifting the lid, Supervillain held in a gasp at what they saw. Nestled in the padded box was Hero, a gas mask strapped to their face and several straps restraining them tightly. Angry, purple bruises and red gashes littered their battered body, and their suit was in tatters. One of their eyes was black and swollen, and they had burn marks between some of the gashes. Hero had put up quite a fight before ending up in the box. They whimpered in their sleep, as even their dreams couldn’t remove the pain.

Supervillain quickly undid the straps and pulled off the gas mask, gently lifting Hero into their arms. They carried the crime-fighter over to the couch and laid them down, leaving to get a med kit.

…

Hero stirred on a soft surface. They opened bleary eyes to a grand yet cozy living room. They tried to sit up, but strong hands pushed them back down.

“No, no, stay down,” a voice said, “you’re very hurt.”

Hero’s vision cleared up and their eyes widened.

“S-Supervillain-”

“Shh, yes, it’s me,” Supervillain admitted, “it’s alright, I won’t hurt you. It seems Superhero’s done enough of that already.”

Hero sniffled, tears brimming in their eyes.

“M-my whole team, actually,” Hero said, wiping their tears.

Supervillain stiffened, their gaze becoming dark and hard.

“What?”

“I…I shouldn’t have said that. Forget I said anything.”

Supervillain took one of Hero’s hands- it was heavily bandaged- and looked them in the eye.

“You are going to tell me everything now,” they said, “or I will kill all of them this very minute.”

Hero blinked in fear, and Supervillain sighed.

“Please,” they added, their tone softer, “tell me what happened.”

Hero gulped, and told Supervillain everything.

The plan was Superhero’s. Supervillain had been wreaking havoc on the city since Thanksgiving, and enough was enough. The heroes weren’t strong enough to stop them, but maybe if they had a peace offering…

“Hero,” Superhero had said, “meet me in the training room, please.”

Hero thought it was an odd request, considering it was Christmas Eve, but they didn’t have any plans, so they did as they were told. Once they arrived, the doors swung shut behind them, locking in place.

“Superhero?” Hero asked, “what is this?”

“I’m sorry, Hero,” the older crime-fighter said, “you’ve been a loyal upholder of justice, but we need results now.”

Hero’s team came out of the shadows, surrounding them.

“I hope you understand.”

“Superhero, wait-”

The blast of fire came from the left, the electricity from the right, and the throwing stars went right into their back. Hero cried out, forming an ice dome to shield themselves. Superhero slammed their fists into it, making it shatter. They landed a few good hits right to Hero’s face, while Vigilante got them a few times with a knife. Every attempt Hero made to fight back was weakened by Teammate 1’s fire and Teammate 2’s electricity.

‘Stop it! Stop it!” Hero screamed, “I haven’t done anything!”

Eventually, Superhero put them out of their misery. A sharp pinch in their neck, and Hero quickly went limp. Their former team stepped away to let them breathe.

“Why?” Hero breathed tearfully.

“It had to be someone, Hero,” Superhero said, “you just happened to be the weak link.”

Hero’s vision faded just as Vigilante approached them with the straps.

The room was silent for what felt like an eternity.

“I’ll murder each and every one of them,” Supervillain promised quietly.

“But you said you’d kill them if I didn’t tell you!” Hero protested.

“My dear little Hero,” Supervillain said gently, cupping the side of Hero’s face with a hand, “they don’t deserve your mercy.”

“Please, Supervillain, don’t kill them, I don’t want that on my conscience-”

“Your conscience? You’ve done nothing wrong, and it is no fault of yours if I make myself the consequence of their actions.”

“Please,” Hero begged, fresh tears forming, “it’s Christmas!”

Supervillain sighed. They scanned Hero’s mangled body, their wounds covered in bandages and their eyes pleading.

“I will spare their lives for now,” Supervillain said, “if only for your sake.”

“Thank you, Supervillain,” Hero said softly, “could you please take me home?”

Supervillain paused, then shook their head.

“Don’t those so-called heroes know where you live?” they prompted gently.

Hero’s face fell.

“…Yeah… yeah they do.”

“I will go by your house and get your things for you,” Supervillain offered, “you’ll be safe with me.”

Supervillain got up to leave. They turned to Hero one last time.

“Try to rest, little one,” they said, “I’ll be back soon.”

Hero nodded, settling into the couch. They drifted off shortly after Supervillain left.

…

By the time Supervillain returned, all the news channels were reporting the vicious attack on the hero team. Teammate 1 had third degree burns littering their entire body, Teammate 2’s scarred body was still twitching and spasming from the repeated exposure to electric currents, Vigilante looked like a pin cushion with all the sharp weapons stabbed into them, but Superhero? Superhero was on a ventilator, every bone broken, their lips and fingertips blue from stage four hypothermia, and one lung collapsed.

Supervillain kept the TV off; Hero didn’t need to see any of that, it would only distress them further. Supervillain, however, needed the closure. Turns out revenge made an excellent Christmas gift to oneself.

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BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #214

This issue of INCREDIBLE HULK was also included in the SUPERHERO GIFT PACK that I received for Christmas in 1978. The timing on that PACK was very precise, as the issues contained within were mostly all ones that I hadn’t seen in the 3-Bags that were used to sell nine month old comics through department stores and chain stores, and which had been a source of recent back issues. I’m guessing these…

[zecoritheweirdone]

saw the news that @scorpionoesit's fic vagabonds will be making a return in a few days,, and i am!! hyped!!!!! so hyped that i made some more art for it!!!

basically i thought a bit too much about a stuffed bear and then this happened,, sksnskjsk. ended up doing a slight redesign of my own vagabonds!tommy design,, slightly inspired by this art! tho i did keep the ascot and the denim jacket i gave him, if a bit modified for the latter,,, loved loved the idea of michael braiding his hair a bit!!

[ducktoonsfanart]

Donald Duck as Duck Avenger (Paperinik-Pk) and Odin Eidolon with their family and friends - PKNA - Duck comics and Duckverse - My version - Gift for my friends

I drew this because I was amazed by reading PKNA, Pikappa and Pk2 comics in which Donald Duck as the Duck Avenger (Paperinik) in addition to fighting against alien dangers also travels through time, more precisely to the future, to the 23rd century where it looks completely different there. In the future Duckburg is the main Odin Eidolon and one of the richest and most powerful people in Duckburg and the world in the 23rd century, as well as the owner of the largest production of androids, by the way, was originally Uno, Duck Avenger's closest ally and mentor. And often in those comics when Donald is stuck in that future time, he gets tasks from Odin, but also becomes his best friend. After all, I've seen a lot of drawings and read fanfictions where Odin and Donald are even in a relationship, so I decided to dedicate one drawing to that. It's just that Odin understands Donald a lot, and he himself in the past as Uno Ducklair (a computer duck) helped Duck Avenger as much as he could, only that Donald does not know that Odin is Uno, and the question is whether he will ever find out.

Of course, I drew Donald Duck as a superhero as Duck Avenger (Paperinik) in the version of PKNA where the partner is Odin Eidolon, and with them are friends who make up their future family. The Raider, a cocky former thief from the 23rd century who worked for The Organization, however, during the fight against the Duck Avenger turned away from it and became in certain situations also the best frenemy of the Duck Avenger, and there is his son Trip. There is also Lyla Lay, a journalist and secret agent who works for the Time Police against The Organization and herself comes from the future in the 23rd century and she is an android by the way and has had a difficult fate. There is also Lyonard D'Aq, an old-timer who was an assistant to the old superhero (Destroyer Duck), and then became a worker and lives in the old abandoned factory Century and helps Duck Avenger. There is also Omega, an artificial intelligence created by Everett Ducklair, with a similar appearance to One, who sets tasks and helps Duck Avenger, but adapts him to new methods for dealing with new dangers and new technologies. Appears in PKNE (Paperinik New Era) comics. And finally, Donald's naughty nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck who are like little Paperiniks or Duck Avenger Juniors, as Paperiniks' successors. And all together together. I drew in my own style, and sorry if I made a mistake somewhere.

Feel free to like and reblog this, just don't use my same ideas from my drawings without crediting me. Thank you! Also, I intended this as a gift to my dear friends @kiiriminna and @uncaaj who love this love gay couple between Paperinik and Odin Eidolon. I hope you like it. :D

Also Happy Belated Father's Day and Belated Birthday Donald Duck and Duck Avenger (Paperinik)!

[kingoftieland]

With the resurgence of the hit '97 animated series, it felt like the perfect time to take my class on a field trip to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters… 🏫

Because the King of Tieland and Framer of Fun Facts is getting ready to dedicate his whiteboard to an all-new season of trivia starring the X-Men starting Monday, September 2! ❌

[meadow-roses]

Fanart for @epnona-the-wisp's current wip, "The Whole Time" ft doodles of Sophia, Joseph, and Zephyr!

[danothan]

batflash is soooo real to me and also it can never be reciprocated at the same time or else it’s not batflash to me anymore

[obibail]

i don’t like red hood/arsenal because it’s well-written (it’s not) or well-characterized (it’s not), i like it because jason and roy are out there just absolutely rawdogging life and no one is even pretending they know how or want to stop them

[jasposeyblog]

Well a very excited and much appreciated thank you for my gift commission of Cosmic Boy vs Lightning Lord and Validus sketch cover by Dave Beaty

The concept behind this one was if the Earth’s magnetic field can prevent the passage of many particles of cosmic or gamma radiation, could Cosmic Boy tap the Earth’s magnetic field and deflect lightning blasts? Much like a magic user can tap a ley line for a power boost, maybe Rokk can do the same from the Earth’s magnetic core. Gamma and cosmic rays travel at highly charged and incredible speeds through the cosmos and some, but not all, are defected by the Earth’s magnetic field. The magnetic field can also deflect the solar wind from our Sun preventing our atmosphere from being stripping away. But lightning can be hotter than the surface of the Sun. The energy from a lightning burst is super-heated and destructive.

So two electrical types…I choose you COSMIC BOY! Can he fit in a Poké Ball?

[brokehorrorfan]

Batman will be released on Steelbook 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on May 28 via Warner Bros. in celebration of its 35th anniversary. This edition of the 1989 superhero movie was previously available in a Best Buy exclusive box set from 2019.

Tim Burton directs from a script by Sam Hamm and Warren Skaaren (Beetlejuice), based on the DC Comics character created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, and Kim Basinger star with Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough, and Jack Palance.

Batman was previously remastered in 4K with HDR and Dolby Atmos sound. Special features are listed below, where you can also see the full Steelbook art.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director Tim Burton.

On the Set with Bob Kane

Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

Batman: The Heroes

Batman: The Villains

Beyond Batman

Robin storyboard sequence

Music videos

Theatrical trailer

Jack Nicholson is the Joker, who emerged from a horrible accident as a maniacal criminal. Michael Keaton is the Caped Crusader, who emerged from a childhood trauma to become a masked crimefighter. Kim Basinger is Vicki Vale, the talented photojournalist desired by both men. And Batman is the movie, the all-out spectacular directed by Tim Burton.

Pre-order Batman.

[friskafriskito]

One last Artfight attack! This one of Powerchord, who belongs to CasualCDesign on Twitter!

(Mentioned this before, but Bat Country may have been stuck in my head the whole time drawing this—)

Here is their Instagram as well: @casualcannondesigns

___

You can find me most places as FriskaFriskito or Friskishdrawings!

For donation commissions for Palestine click here

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BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #212

The last things that came in the SUPERHERO GIFT PACK that I was given for Christmas in 1978 was two consecutive issues of CAPTAIN AMERICAN AND THE FALCON, of which this was the first. While the series had returned to its middle-of-the-road Marvel house style approach in recent months, these earlier issues written and drawn by the character’s co-creator Jack Kirby were another thing entirely.…