#the ballad of jonathan crane

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Jonathan Crane meets the Headless Horseman!

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Mikey Way & Shaun Simon Expand on Collapser, Young Animal’s Newest Series

By Steve Foxe  |  April 10, 2019 | 12:00pm

Main Art by Ilias Kyriazis

Just a few short hours ago, Paste helped break the welcome news that DC and Gerard Way’s “pop-up” imprint Young Animal will be ending its hiatus by launching a brand-new slate of comics. In addition to a new volume of flagship title Doom Patrol, now titled Doom Patrol: The Weight of Worlds, Young Animal will introduce an original Green Lantern series called Far Sector and a brand-new concept known as Collapser. 

Co-written by former My Chemical Romance bassist Mikey Way and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys writer Shaun Simon with art by G.I. Joe: First Strike contributor Ilias Kyriazis, Collapser introduces struggling DJ Liam James, whose anxiety-ridden life gets a lot more complicated when he opens a package containing a black hole—which quickly takes up residence in his chest. Collapser stands apart from the wider DC Universe, but Way and Simon have big plans for addressing mental health, early adult melancholy and that whole power/responsibility thing with their cosmically powered protagonist. 

In advance of Collapser’s announcement, Paste chatted with Simon and Way to learn more about their long friendship, tackling mental health via superpowers and why Collapser protagonist Liam sports a pea coat.

Collapser Cover Art by Ilias Kyriazis

Paste: Shaun, you worked with Gerard Way on The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, and Mikey, you obviously spent years growing up, and then making music, with your brother. But how did the two of youcome together for Collapser and how long has the project been in the works?

Mikey Way: It’s crazy, me and Shaun go back a long time. He was in a band called Pencey Prep, that My Chemical Romance shared a practice space with, and we just became really close friends through so many similar interests—we all like the same music, we like the same comics and movies, we have the same points of reference. When Pencey Prep kind of dissolved for a bit, Shaun had come out on the road with us. He was selling merch and helping out and hanging out, and I vividly remember us all trading comic books around. We were in a van at the time. We’d be talking about which comics we were reading, and everyone borrowed our graphic novels. There were no tablets back then and you had to physically bring the issues with you. I remember all of us having really heavy backpacks full of graphic novels and whatnot. But yeah, we’ve known each other a really, really long time.

Paste: And how long has Collapser specifically been in the works?

Way: Two-plus years, I think?. 

Shaun Simon: I think so. Mikey had done an issue of a Batman Halloween special for DC, what was it, 10 years ago, Mikey? 

Way: It was a decade now. A decade ago. Initially, there were a few projects that I was working on with DC and then life just happened. Do you know what I mean? Different things pulled me in different directions. At the time I was really bad at multitasking. I would always write pitches or have series ready to go, and then My Chemical Romance was so consuming, that I honestly—it falls on me, I’m bad at multitasking. So I was like, “I’ll do this when we have a break, I’ll do this when we have a break,�� which is what I would say—and then we never really had a break.

Paste: Mikey, It’s pretty common knowledge that your brother pursued a comic career before My Chemical Romance got off the ground. But are you also a lifelong fan of the medium, and is Collapser a story that you needed to tell with or without Young Animal?

Way: Yeah, I think comic books—I mean, it’s how I learned how to read. My brother got into comics at a really early age and so I did I. We would walk to this store that was a couple of blocks away that was an old newsstand, and we would go and buy comics there and eventually, you know, as we got older, comics shops became really important to me and him. They became like our clubhouse. It’s kind of like your home. We played Dungeons & Dragons there on weekends and it became your home away from home really. We met lifelong friends that we still talk to at the original comic shop that we hung out at in Bloomfield, NJ, called Metropolis. We still talk to those guys pretty regularly. But yeah, it was just always there for me. I was always interested. I always kept tabs, even when life got busy and I would fall in and out of following storylines, I would always be aware of what was going on too. I’m almost 39 now so that’s probably 36 years of comic books.

Paste: Getting to the book itself, what can you tell us about Liam James and how he gets the abilities that upend his life as a struggling musician? Are we seeing the birth of a new hero, or is Liam planning to stay pretty far removed from capes and tights?

Way: I think he stays away from the tights. [Laughs] He finds his own costume of sorts.

Simon: He prefers pea coats. 

Way: Yeah that’s the thing. Me and Shaun, we’ve always been pea-coat enthusiasts. I remember like 15, 20 years ago, walking around Willowbrook Mall trying to find one. We were like, “Yo, we want a really good coat!” and me and him, we’re both really skinny, so we’d get a small and it’d be draping on us.

Simon: Yeah, we’d get women’s coats that actually fit. 

Way: We’d have to go in the women’s section, we’d try it on. I remember we’ve always been into pea coats, so the fact is that our hero, the pea coat is kind of his Superman shield. That’s his costume. It’s funny. That’s something from our past that has come up in the story.

Paste: Well, aside from his fashion choices, what can you tell us about where Liam’s life is when the series opens and how he comes to possess these powers?

Way: He’s kind of in a strange spot where he’s like—it’s the second coming of age when you’re done with high school, and there’re some people, they don’t quite know what they want to do yet. 

Simon: They’re in a limbo.

Way: Limbo, yeah. And they’re trying to figure it out. They know what they do like, but they don’t know how to make a living doing it. Like for instance, Liam is very into DJing at his local club that all his friends hang out in. And he knows he loves that, but he doesn’t know what that means necessarily. Until he figures that out, he’s got to have a regular job; he works at a nursing home. So yeah, it’s about that in-between, like Shaun said, it’s kind of like a limbo. He’s in that second coming of age, a second adolescence of sorts where he’s trying to grow up. He’s trying to figure it out. But he is very much struggling to find his footing in the real world. He’s also apprehensive to give up this stuff that, you know, some people would say is childish or it’s like a pipe dream. He doesn’t want to give that stuff up quite yet. So it’s like one foot in the door, kind of dipping his foot in the pool kind of thing—he doesn’t know how to attain his dreams.

Paste: And about the actual event itself that kicks off the book—is there anything you want to tease to readers about how Liam gets his powers, or is that a surprise that they’re going to have to pick up the book to see?

Simon: I think we could we could say that. Liam also suffers from anxiety, which is something that I know a lot of people, Mikey and I, friends and this generation has to deal with. That’s kind of a driving force in his life, that he has to deal with this anxiety, this voice in his head nonstop. And when he DJs, the music kind of calms that voice down. So right in the beginning of this issue, he gets a package from his mom, his mom who he hasn’t seen since he was little, and in the package is a black hole. And the black hole takes up residence in Liam’s chest.

And then the story goes: how does this affect him and what does this mean for him? You become this superhero and does that help you when you have an issue like anxiety, or is that just a distraction from an issue like that? And is the real solution to it something other than what he’s doing at this point?

Paste: I’m glad you brought that up because I wanted to ask—you’ve both worked with mental health issues before, Mikey with My Chemical Romance, Shaun, with books like Neverboy. Was it important for you to bring a theme like that into the pages of a superhero comic?

Simon: That was one of the first things we talked about, like who’s this main character? The music, the kind of Goth music and the New Wave stuff is stuff that Mikey and I grew up with. And also dealing with issues like anxiety and depression and all this kind of stuff, I mean this is all where we came from. So it was no question—how then would someone like this deal with becoming or getting these powers that he’s about to get?

Way: I feel like this generation is very open about their internal struggle, which is cool. I think a lot of our parents, growing up, they were told to repress that kind of thing, or it wasn’t classified what some of it was. Medicine wasn’t there yet, things weren’t diagnosed properly yet. I feel like this generation, they kind of wear it like a badge of honor, which is cool.

Simon: They’re not afraid to get help. 

Way: They’re not afraid. I know some people probably think it’s a bad thing, like a stigma. But I feel like the way the world is evolving, that it’s not seen that way anymore. But yes, it was super-important for us to get that in because, again it’s something me and Shaun and so many people we know struggle with. I see it being brought up in comic books, but this is another opportunity. I can’t remember the comic I saw it brought up, but there was a comic book a couple years ago where one of the characters had some kind of anxiety, but I don’t remember it. But I feel like it’s something that will probably become more commonplace now because it is such a big problem. I don’t know many people without anxiety. I talk to friends and people about it and everyone can kind of relate. 

Paste: Yeah, it’s not an easy era in which to feel relaxed and carefree.

Way: Yeah, you’re plugged in and you’re told to be scared all the time and you’re told all these awful, terrible things. And it’s hard to not take some of it to heart. There’s a degree of shellshock. With the news and world events and tragedies, it’s a lot of process. Especially, I can imagine a young kid having to absorb some of this stuff.

Paste: I do want to talk a little bit more about the plot of the book and the new cast of characters, because based on the art in the first two issues, it seems like Liam’s story is full of new faces, not necessarily familiar DC characters. Can you give us any teasers about the supporting cast or anyone who might be making Liam’s life even harder?

Simon: There is no one from the DC Universe—this is pretty much a self-contained story and universe on its own. However, there will be people from Liam’s own life making appearances, old friends, new friends, stuff that really affects him in very personal ways. 

Way: Initially the allure to kind of scratch the itch of wanting to use some of the beloved characters we all grew up with—the temptation was there, [but] we kind of felt it would be best to go our own route, that this is actually an opportunity to create all our own stuff. We got excited at the idea of getting to mold the whole universe. Kind of almost like the ‘90s Vertigo stuff where nothing else existed around it, that’s kind of the vein we wanted to hit with this.

Paste: And is there anyone from the supporting cast that readers should keep their eye out for? Or would you rather keep that closer to the vest for now?

Simon: I’ve been saying that this dude is a late-night DJ, suffering from anxiety, getting a black hole in his chest—I feel like that might be enough for now. [Laughs]

Paste: Before we go, let’s talk about your artistic collaborator, Ilias Kyriazis. How did Ilias get attached to the book, and what’s it like working with him to bring Collapser to life?

Simon: He’s great. We were looking for artists for a while and a big part of it was finding the right tone because there is comedy in this, there’s drama in this, there’s horror in this. So we needed someone who would kind of tick all those boxes. We were looking for a while and then I believe Ilias got in touch with someone at DC and was just like, “Hey, you know, I’m available to do stuff,” and I had seen his stuff, his Dirk Gently stuff, which I was really drawn to, the art in that book. And then we got an email from one of our editors and it was like, “Hey, this dude is available and he might be great.” And Mikey checked out his stuff and he got on board and he’s been fantastic. 

He brings a whole other level to this whole thing. He makes things look lived in. [Liam’s] apartment has been lived in by people for generations, and that stuff is all important to us. Not so clean and crisp but lived-in and like it’s really happening to this guy, which is important for Liam because he’s such a ground-level character when he starts out.

Way: What I was really taken aback by with Ilias is how fast he is. I have tons of friends in the industry and they tell me stories—I’d be like, Oh, how long does something normally take to draw, etc., etc., and he’d be finished in days and it would be amazing. He’s really fast and really good which is getting to be his currency.

Simon: He’s very excited about this book too, so I feel like that adds to it. And he’s very involved in character design and the design of the world. It’s very good to be working with someone like him who is as invested as you are.

Way: He got all the references, any time we would send him references or a quick description. He was always right there with us where we were, Exactly, that’s exactly what we were thinking, and he got the vibe right away.

Paste: Collapser helps kick off Young Animal’s return this July. Shaun, like you said, a black hole in the chest is a pretty great hook, but are there any final teases you want to give fans to tide them over until this summer?

Simon: Hmm, that’s a good question.

Way: I think what’s cool about this story is it’s kind of like science fiction/horror. Anything I do has a horror element to it—no matter what I try to do it ends up having a horror aspect to it. As I grew up, all I did was read Stephen King. [Laughs] 

Simon: There’re some Twilight Zone elements to it. Stuff like that inspired us. I think overall, the whole process has just been a blast. Mikey and I are really great friends and we know each other so well, and we connect on so many things, getting to work together on something like this has been like we’ve been hanging out every day even though we’re across the country from each other. It’s just been a really great experience. 

Way: It’s a dream come true. The funny thing is, what we’re doing with Collapser, we kind of would do with other things anyway. Whenever you had a story idea, you’d be like, “What do you think?”

Simon: Oh yeah, all the time. 

Way: Or back when I was doing all my pitches, I would send them to you. It’s like a bullshit detector—is this good or does it suck? And we know from the reaction of the other how it was. Getting to finally do that with something that we’re both working on—I don’t know, it seems like a powerful combo.

In advance of Collapser’s announcement, Paste chatted with Simon and Way to learn more about their long friendship, tackling mental health via superpowers and why Collapser protagonist Liam sports a pea coat.

[floralcyanide]

me falling in love with another fictional character

[dracuno]

⟡ intro : VISERRA, twenty, she/her, alastor & lucifer's

⟡ dedications : about the author ୨୧ about the blog

⟡ table of contents : archives (masterlist) ୨୧ letter for me? ୨୧ cillian archives (masterlist)

⟡ now playing : there is a light that never goes out — the smiths

⟡ latest : giving him head during a trial (judge crane imagine) (v light nsfw)

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The Ballad of Jonathan Crane, 2008

Writer: Mikey Way Art: Mateus Santolouco

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Muse list

Stranger things

Eddie Munson

Billy Hargrove

Steve Harrington

Chrissy Cunningham

Henry Creel

Jonathan Byers

Stephen King's IT

Henry Bowers

Patrick Hockstetter

Reginald 'Belch' Huggins

Victor 'Vic' Criss

The Lost Boys

David

Dwayne

Marko

Paul

Edgar Frog

Alan Frog

Sons of Anarchy

Happy Lowman

Alexander 'Tig' Trager

Child Play

Charles Lee Ray

Scream

Billy Loomis

Stu Macher

Crazy Fun Park

Remus

Zed - Trial

Gonzo - Trial

American Horror Story

Michael Langdon

Tate Langdon

Original Characters

Olivia Bowers - IT

Frankie Bates

Violet Bates

Hestia Wolfe || HP verse

Faustian Wolfe || HP verse

Cornelius 'CJ' Jamieson - Good Omens

Jimmy Cunningham - Stranger Things

Adelia Brooks - Crazy fun park

Maximus Grant - Crazy fun park

Colette 'Cole' Murphy

Aleksandr Volkov

Polaris Snow - The Hunger Games

Avery Hart

Ástríðr Svendottir

Hati Greyback - Harry Potter

Lucas Wesley James

Aiden Sullivan

Elijah Crane - DC Batman

Silas Hawthorne

Sophie Thatcher

Baelon Targaryen - HOTD

Amelia Beaufort - Walking Dead

Skylar Evans

Harry Potter

Tom Riddle

Regulus Black

Draco Malfoy

Lucius Malfoy

Blaise Zabini

Vikings

Ivar The Boneless

Sigurd 'Siggy' Lothbrok

Hvitserk Lothbrok

Floki

Mythology

Angrboða

Jörmungandr

Hati

Skoll

Thrúd

Iðunn

Skaði

Loki

Týr

House of the Dragons

Aegon Targaryen II

Daemon Targayen

Nettles

Alys Rivers

Laenor Velaryon

Outer Banks

Rafe Cameron

JJ Maybanks

Divergent series

Eric Coulter

The Invitation

Walter De Ville

Julie and the Phantoms

Alex Mercer

Gen V

Maverick

Sam Riordan

Jordan Li

Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Coriolanus Snow

Tigris Snow

Batman

Jack Napier - Pre - The Joker

Jonathan Crane

Jervis Tetch

House of 1000 corpses

Otis Driftwood

Fargo

Gator Tillman

Fear the Walking Dead - Season 3 and before

Nick Clark

Troy Otto

Qaletaqa Walker

Baldurs Gate

The Dark Urge - Zion

Assassin Creed: Valhalla

Eivor Varinsdottir

Farcry 5

Joseph Seed

Jacob Seed

John Seed

[finniestoncrane]

Could we maybe get No.10: The Staunton Lick with Arkham! Scarecrow? I’d love to see what music you think would fit him :)

🎀 No.10: The Staunton Lick 🎀

give me a character and i'll make a mini playlist for them a/n: oooooh he's an interesting boy to work with, but i think i got him! 1k milestone info! 🔞minors dni🔞 • kofi • tag: finnie1k

o, death - ralph stanley

any rendition works for him, but i think this one particularly, lack of accompaniment, bluesy folk voice, it's barren but filled with emotion, just like him

libera me - faure's requiem

'i am made to tremble and fear' the perfect amount of catholic guilt in a song, but while it's tone and admittedly some of the words suggest doom, it's about deliverance from that evil. the entirety of faure's requiem is very jon tbh

one caress - depeche mode

one of the few 'pop' songs jon might consider listening to, it's dark, almost classical sounding, and is so lamentable omg lighten up jon

riders on the storm - the doors

this is in his sex playlist, won't be told otherwise. gentle, slow, thorough, atmospheric but also about a murderer? so sexy jon. although i bet you there's a shit tonne of jim morrison on his sex playlist, maybe even some of his spoken word stuff too...

house of the rising sun - the animals

this kind of dark ballad, the woes of mankind, the elements of absolute sorrow, perfect for him. i bet he tried learning the riff on guitar when he was younger

down in a willow garden - the kossoy sisters

i know because he told me, but jonathan crane has a whole load of appalachian murder ballads on his playlist, but this particular one is his favourite. he hums it absent-mindedly while he works

the headless horseman - thurl ravenscroft

this is as jaunty as jon ever really gets, but he'll tap his toes along to this while he works if he's in a good mood

season of the witch - donovan

if jonathan crane was going to be a genre, i think he'd be soft, psychedelic rock and this song by donovan encapsulates that kind of vibe perfectly

hurdy gurdy man - donovan

and then because it's also very much jon, i'm adding this one by donovan too. bet jon refers to himself as the hurdy gurdy man when he's talking to his crows

don't fear the reaper - blue oyster cult

this is his theme song, for me at least anyway. he listens to this before he executes a big plan, like his psych-up song. he's an adorable little creature

[jennajaeger]

Just for fun, I thought I'd put together a little masterpost of characters that are either old F/Os from before I got into selfshipping proper, or are almost but not quite at full-blown F/O status :P

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Past F/Os

Victor Van Dort (Corpse Bride), Jasper Whitlock Hale (The Twilight Saga), Jonathan Crane (Nolanverse Batman movies)

Viserys Targaryen (Game of Thrones), Harry Osborn (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), Balem Abrasax (Jupiter Ascending)

Pietro Maximoff (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Anatoly Ranskahov (Marvel's Daredevil), Vladimir Ranskahov (Marvel's Daredevil)

Wade Wilson (Deadpool), Chato Santana / El Diablo (Suicide Squad), Kylo Ren / Ben Solo (Star Wars)

Almost F/Os

Alastor (Hazbin Hotel), Eros (Marvel's Eternals), Billy Hargrove (Stranger Things)

Bruce Wayne (The Batman), Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil), Nathan Bateman (Ex Machina)

Paul Atreides (Dune), Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows/Shadow and Bone)

Asha of Rosas (Disney's Wish), Coriolanus "Coryo" Snow (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes)

[justsomerandomfanfic]

Characters I Write For ~ 2022 - 2024 ~

I will only write for these characters at the moment.

Italics = I have already made fanfics on this character if you want to read them

My Masterlist

DC/Gotham - Bane (Hardy), Bruce Wayne (Bale), Dick Grayson (Robin), Garfield Logan (Beast Boy), Jack (Heath) Joker, Jaime Reyes, Jonathan Crane (Gotham), Johnathan Crane (TDK), Kori (Starfire), Maxwell Lord, Orm Marius, Roman Sionis, Victor Stone, Victor Zsasz

Disney - Christopher Robin, Cruella de Vil, Gaston LeGume (Beauty And The Beast 2017), Jasper Badun, Prince Eric (The Little Mermaid 2023)

Kingsman - Eggsy Unwin, Hamish Mycroft (Merlin), Harry Hart, Jack Daniels

Marvel/X-Men - Bruce Banner, Bucky Barnes, Charles Xavier, Eddie/Venom, Erik Killmonger, Everett Ross, Harry Osborn (TASM), Heimdall, Helmut Zemo, Johnny Storm, Kurt Wagner, Logan Howlett, Loki Odinson (Not the Series), M'Baku, Natasha Romanoff, Otto Octavius, Peter Parker (Andrew), Peter Parker (Tobey), Pietro Maximoff, Sam Wilson, Scott Lang, Steve Rogers, Thor Odinson, Tony Stark, Wade Wilson

Star Wars/The Mandalorian - Anakin Skywalker, Armitage Hux, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren, Din Djarin, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi

Stranger Things - Billy Hargrove, Eddie Munson, Robin Buckey, Steve Harrington

The Hobbit/Lord Of The Rings - Bilbo Baggins, Boromir, Dwalin, Faramir, Fili, Kili, Haldir, Legolas Greenleaf, Pippin Took, Samwise Gamgee, Thorin Oakenshield, Thranduil

Miscellaneous -

American Psycho - Patrick Bateman

Baldur's Gate 3 - Astarion, Gale, Halsin

Barbie - Ken (Ryan)

Beetlejuice The Musical - Beetlejuice

Doctor Who - Ninth Doctor, Tenth Doctor

Five Nights At Freddy's - Mike Schmidt, William Afton/Steve Raglan

Indiana Jones - Indiana Jones

John Wick - John Wick

Jurassic Park - Ian Malcolm

Scooby Doo (2002) - Shaggy (Norville) Rogers

Spiderverse - Hobie Brown, Johnathon Ohnn, Miguel O'Hara, Peter B. Parker, Peter Parker (Noir)

Supernatural - Castiel, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester

The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes - Coriolanus Snow, Lucy Gray, Lucky Flickerman, Sejanus Plinth, Tigris Snow

The Last Of Us - Joel Miller

The Pirates Of The Caribbean - James Norrington

The Phantom Of The Opera - Erik Destler

TRAP - Cooper Adams

Twisters - Tyler Owens, Javier Rivera

The Witcher - Geralt, Jaskier

Pride And Prejudice - Fitzwilliam Darcy

Uncharted 4 - Sam Drake, Rafe Adler

Walking Dead - Daryl Dixon

Wonka - Willy Wonka

X-Files - Fox Mulder

Celebrities - Chris Evans, Harry Styles, Justin Timberlake, Pedro Pascal, Timothee Chalamet, Tom Holland

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Requests are OPEN

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Fandoms that have gone to Fandom Heaven:

Harry Potter

2022 - 2024 © justsomerandomfanfic

[seldarinestrumpet]

People You Want to Know Better

@queenofcarrotflowers-s tagged me over a month ago and I'm just now doing this lol.

@thembohux as always tagging you

Three ships I enjoy: Astarion x Durge for sure, and my two standby rarepairs Hux x Pryde and Barbara Gordon x Jonathan Crane

First ship: Dylan x The Thin Man (Charlie's Angels - God, I'm old)

Last song: Never Gonna Give You Up by Broken Peach, which my dad literally just texted to me; I had never heard of them before

Last movie: It's been a minute since I've watched a movie because I spend most of my watching time on YouTube BUT I did recently watch The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and subsequently start the audiobook, I think I may be getting into The Hunger Games for the first time...

Currently reading: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and a whole stack of JSTOR articles related to my debut novel I'm working on

Currently watching: Lots of Tasting History on YouTube, the occasional commentary video (Liking Curtistown, ChadChad and Funky Frogbait lately) and anxiously awaiting the return of The Traitors

Currently eating: I had cinnamon rolls for breakfast because medically I can't fast even though it's Yom Kippur

Currently craving: Ben and Jerry's pumpkin cheesecake ice cream

[arkhamtoxin]

Hello @ilovetheriddler comic book shop worker here!! 👋 here is my list of books that I can remember off the top of my head haha :)

Shadow of the bat issue 17-19 is called god of fear, if you find the trade paperback it’s volume two.

Fear state is an obvious one haha :) fyi the fear state books didn’t have the few issues leading up to fear state that have him in there and they don’t have the aftermath too, so if you can hunt them down you’ll get the whole story that isn’t in the fear state saga trade paperback. Good luck :)

Batman and robin eternal is an underrated one I enjoyed scarecrow in that one.

Future state Harley Quinn is funny and he’s pretty cute in that one.

Nightwing knight terrors had scarecrow throughout the whole two issues and the story was great.

Batman year one if you can hunt that down.

New years evil: scarecrow is another hard to find.

Batman 89 echos is a recent one (I’m sure you have seen it)

Batman Arkham knight comics he’s in those for a bit.

He’s in dc vs vampire for a few panels but I highly recommend that story is extremely good and nightwing wears leather pants.

Long Halloween: the prequel: haunted knight.

Batman rebirth volume four: the war of jokes and riddles is another where he cameos but the story is extremely entertaining.

White knight is another one where he cameos a bit but the story is one of the best Batman books I’ve ever read in my opinion.

There are a few in the Batman adventures, Batman and robin adventures, the further adventures and the adventures continue these are all continuations of Batman the animated series and you read them in the order I listed :)

Kings of fear is an okay story in my opinion but I loved Jonathan they got his character just right.

Arkham scarecrow is a trade collecting all of the older issues with scarecrow so it has the first issues and most of the ones that come after.

Swamp thing 100 page giant issue #1 Mikey Way (bass player for my chemical romance) wrote a short story called the ballad of Jonathan Crane. I loved this short so much!

Gotham city villains anniversary giant #1 has a scarecrow story called the fearless man.

Joker puzzle box is another good read with scarecrow cameos and jokers asylum too (they don’t involve joker much it’s just the name)

Batman Gotham knights: contested I have blanked on the issue but if you can find the trade paperback he’s in there.

If you haven’t listened to Batman the audio adventures podcast I recommend that one too scarecrow is in there and he’s in the follow up comics also called Batman the audio adventures.

And fan made Rogues the podcast is top notch and we get southern scarecrow voice and I love it so much. Can not recommend this one more!!

These two for in the kids section but they are very cute and fun to read and they have scarecrow the first is arkhamaniacs and barkham asylum.

I hope there are some in here that you haven’t read! I’m sure I’ve missed a few but tumblr will do its thing and fill in the missing blanks! :)

I hope this helped!!!

So, one of the things I enjoy collecting is Comics, and I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for good ones that involve Jonathan Crane?

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

He stole that mask from a literal Scarecrow....which is so iconic and on point.

DC Universe Halloween Special ‘08!

[pennyserenade]

multi-fandom. some of my interests include: x-files, pedro pascal, the hunger games, old hollywood, & cinema 

18+ content. no minors please!

recommended movie: the wind that shakes the barley by ken loach 

recommended reads: my goodreads / my storygraph 

x files fic recs: i & ii 

ao3 | fic blog | spotify 

PEDRO PASCAL masterlist. 

CILLIAN MURPHY masterlist. 

HUNGER GAMES masterlist.

MISC. masterlist. 

[floralcyanide]

𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫!

hello everyone! I’ve decided to have a fun little event this Saturday where I answer asks and write some blurbs.

✼ here are some questions you can send in! ✼ here, here, and here are some smut prompts to check out for requesting blurbs! ✼ here are some fluff prompts to check out for requesting blurbs! ✼ here are some angst prompts as well!

feel free to send any requests that aren’t on the prompt list. also feel free to send any asks you’d like. I’m thinking of starting around 5-6pm EST and participating throughout the night and possibly into Sunday, depending on how many asks/ requests I get. I will be writing for any characters/ fans I’ve written for before. you can find those on my masterlist or in the tags.

feel free to go ahead and send stuff in!

[current-mcr-news]

mikeyway: It’s a real honor to have my Batman & Scarecrow story -“The Ballad of Jonathan Crane” reprinted in the new Swamp Thing 100 Page Giant #1! You can find a copy at your nearest @walmart . Thank you @dccomics #swampthing#dccomics #batman #scarecrow

[askmelone]

((Get To Know Me!

Tagged by : @abri-chan

Rules: answer the questions and tag 9 people you want to get to know better.

Fave color: Purple and green are 👌 Black is my favorite shade

Relationship status: Taken since 2015~ My boyfriend’s a real sweetheart~

Top 3 ships: Oh god only three--

Jonathan Crane x Edward Nygma (DC Comics, Batman): This was my starter ship when I was a kid, and my love has only grown since. I really fucking love the dynamic, and I like anything built off of intelligence.

Cioccolata x Melone (JJBA Vento Aureo, obviously): This one should be obvious. It fits into my niche of fucked up geniuses, and for me it’s very much an intellectual ship.

Akon x Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach): Look, this whole list is just crazy scientists. I like crazy scientists. 

Yeah, Imma do a fourth to break up the trend cause fuck the police Hisoka Morrow x Illumi Zoldyck (H x H): Now they’re just normal crazy murderers instead of scientists~ They are technically married in canon so

Last song: The Nearness of You, Glenn Miller Orchestra (vocals Ray Eberle)

Last film: The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)

I don’t know anyone but @daily-suzi-q @catsforthecatgod  @unhealthy-ballad @lovingthealien1987 @asksakura1125td @purple-telephone @skelelovely @isabelbuccellati @bd-1920s-cherryboii @dailyghiaccio ))