#the crime syndicate

[harveydont]

confused about the syndicate relationships? easy diagram here

[wanderingmind867]

Owlman (Thomas Wayne Jr.): Bruce Wayne's older brother on the anti-matter earth, Thomas Jr was always the more sensitive of the two boys. While Bruce loved adventure shows and wanted to be a hero, beating up the bad guys and saving the day, thomas loved nature and birds and wanted to use the family fortune to open museums and galleries; improving people's lives through peaceful means.

When Thomas was 10, he saw his parents and his younger brother killed right in front of him. His brother was eight. eight. And that did something to him. When Thomas then learned at age 18 that that his father was a mob boss who ruined people's lives and worked alongside people like the falcones, thomas lost it even more. Whatever tenuous grasp on childhood innocence and sanity he had died that day. Coincidentally, that was the same day his butler lost an eye in a suspicious accident.

Giving in to the darkness within him, thomas decided to follow in his father's footsteps. He used his childhood love of birds as inspiration for becoming the supervillian known as the Owlman. The Owlman stalked Gotham's streets, and did whatever necessary to ensure he was the last man standing. Other mobsters dropped dead. Reformist politicians got themselves poisoned. Anything to ensure the Owl was all anyone saw when they pictured Gotham.

Now, the Owlman is one of the founding members of the Crime Syndicate. When america's seven worst criminals pooled their collective resources to conquer the globe, Owlman was right there at the table. Everyone knows to fear the Owl. Everybody shivers at the thought of meeting him. But nobody knows about the little boy who's still hiding inside.

Although Thomas Wayne Jr buried his innocence and tried to become the man he knew his father wanted him to be, there's still a hurt ten year old boy deep inside. You can see it in the way Owlman defends his Talons, often torturing and killing anyone who dares look at them the wrong way. You can see it in his obsession with birds, something he never lost from childhood. You can even see it in the way he always leaves flowers on his brother's grave. Bruce was eight when he died, and Thomas still misses his brother…

After the fight between Owlman and The Question, Owlman's whole belief system is shattered. The Question managed to get under his skin, by telling him that being a criminal isn't what his younger brother would have wanted for him. Think of Bruce, Thomas. Think of him. And from that moment on, Owlman began to have second thoughts about the Crime Syndicate. Since Power Ring and Johnny Quick had already fled to the positive matter world, Owlman ends up deliberately sabotaging the plans of the other four remaining crime syndicate members.

And so by the time the Anti-Monitor leads the Anti-Matter Universe into battle against the Positive Matter Universe (and consequently pits the lords of order against the lords of chaos), Owlman is revealed to be leading a popular resistance movement against the crime syndicate on the anti-matter earth, a movement dedicated to his dead brother bruce. It's this sense of order and justice amidst chaos and injustice that sees owlman recruited into the ranks of the Lords of Order.

What Thomas discovers, however, is that Bruce is alive on the Positive Matter Universe! But the positive matter bruce gave in to the mental manipulations of supervillians, had a nervous breakdown, became a paranoid wreck and tried to kill his teammates. Now, he's a member of the army of the Lords of Chaos. And to add insult to injury, Bruce doesn't even remember Thomas (on the positive matter universe, thomas wayne jr was a stillborn baby before bruce was born)! This means that two brothers are at odds once again, one on the side of order and one on the side of chaos.

I don't really know what would happen between Thomas Wayne Jr and his brother Bruce, but I know they definitely both survive the crisis. Most characters would survive my crisis. The biggest ramifications of the crisis would be the Anti-Monitor forcing the people of the Positive Matter Universe to respect him, plus a restoration of DC's multiverse (and a loosened gateway between realities, allowing for more intercompany crossovers).

So Owlman and Batman both survive. But since I don't like Batman very much, I have been giving Owlman some more favourable treatment here. Batman's the good guy who goes bad (at least for a while). Owlman is a bad guy who goes good.

[horror-enthusiast-xemi]

*sighhh* while I'm making some banger art for tumblr I am also giving in to the voices and writing a small Ultraman x J'edd J'arkkus fic

Idk if I should just post it to AO3 or drop it here.. they're brainrotting me

[indiebyrdn7]

Chapter 21 is up

“Stand down and you won’t end up like this fool,”

            I pointed down to the pile of ash. A few of the men muttered to themselves. Weighing their options as if they had one.

            “What’s in it for us?” 

            I looked over to Selina’s top bodyguard, Ollie, who had taken a step forward from the rest of the crowd. He wanted out from under Selina’s titan grasp. Whether the Canary did, didn’t matter, he wanted out. Though I owned the building, the Cat’s Den was Bruce and Selina’s brainchild from Gotham. I had a bargaining chip to play, loosening Bruce’s hold on my assets.  

            “You want to leave this place with your little birdie, don’t you?”

            Ollie raised his eyebrow. 

            “Don’t listen to him....” one of the men behind Ollie said.

            “I am a generous man to those who serve me and my cause,” I continued. “Walk away now and I’ll extend an invitation to you to join me directly. You and your little birdie will have a safe place under my roof and the power that it entails...”

            Ollie lowered his gun. The men behind him looked shocked.

            “Traitor…” one of the men shouted. 

            Ollie swiftly shot the man in the face without looking back.

            “Well then, let the fun begin…”

 Ollie slipped another round into the barrel of his gun as the men behind him rushed us. The first man that reached me, I grabbed hold of his arm. Ripping it out of its socket, arm still in hand, I cracked the skull open of the man behind him. Ollie was head-shooting men left and right. While I ripped Selina’s men, limb from limb. After a few moments, we were surrounded by a pile of broken bodies and blood.  

            “We make a pretty good team…” Ollie started to say, but I was already running down the hall.

            After a few seconds, I was standing behind Selina. She had slammed the door to her office. I could hear the Amazon screaming from the other side. Rage filled me. 

            “Selina!” I bellowed. 

            She reached for her gun and turned to face me. She shot three rounds into my shoulder. Ping, ping, ping. They bounced off my body, ricocheting into the walls around us.

            “DIE”

            “You first,”

            I unleashed hellfire from my eyes into her face. She barely made a sound as her flesh melted. Even the walls around us were singed. Rushing through her burnt body, I slammed into the door. It didn’t budge.  Suddenly, a rumble of thunder emanated from inside the room. I needed to get inside. 

            I rammed into the door a few times to no avail. Bruce’s doing, for sure. He wanted to keep his whore safe from me. Sadly, it didn’t work. It, however, was going to get the Amazon taken. Where was J’onzz?

            “J’onzz...  J’onzz…” I called out.

His absence frustrated me. He should have been here by now.

“Where the hell are you...”

Crackdoom…. Thunder clapped once more from inside Selina’s office.

            “She’s doing that,”

I heard J’onzz’s voice beside me. Out of the corner of my eye he phased into view. 

“What are you talking about, you green bastard?” I hissed. “Why are you just getting here?”

Crackdoom….

“Oh, I’ve been here,” J’onzz said as he pointed up to the heavens. “I’ve been observing her....”

J’onzz looked at me with a gleam of wonderment in his eyes.

“...She’s causing it, the thunder. I knew she was powerful but this is fascinating…”

“Fuck your fascinations, J’onzz!” I snapped

J’onzz rolled his eyes as he pointed to the right of the door in front of us.

“I’d blast over here,” he said. “He’s got her pressed up against the door….”

I tried to look through the door, but it was made of lead. I was able to make out two figures. One was smaller with their back to the door, the other was taller, broader. It was caressing the smaller figure’s body.

“Mine…” I thought.

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[ginge1962]

Smash #1 - October 2023. cover by Andy Clarke.

[kurotaurus17]

You can keep your big blue Boy Scout…meet MY Superman! 🙌🏾 “Ultraman”

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[beyond-darkness]

Including Canada.

Don’t tell him, just turn him around at the border if he tries to come to the G7 in June.

[farshootergotme]

Wait, how tf did I miss this.

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures #7

You're telling me Forever Evil happened in this universe? You're telling me SPYRAL happened in this universe? I'll have to hope that everything went down very differently because otherwise there's a lot to unpack there that clearly this comic isn't ready for.

[harveydont]

"I guess it can be kind of peaceful up here, sometimes...Ultra?"

Ultraman design belongs to @hermannco

[wanderingmind867]

My Justice League Canada ideas may not be perfect, but there's too much writing on my part for me to completely ditch it. So I'm going to reblog some of my old notes, repost some of the old ones, and then just share all my new ones. Just really try to work on finally sharing it all. Because I never actually have shared it all, and I feel like that's my bad. So I'll try to correct that. Because my team concept had Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Red Tornado, Martian Manhunter, Captain Marvel/Shazam, Mantis (yes, that vietnamese celestial madonna from marvel), and a whole slew of original characters (who I didn't actually put extensive detail into, but who had enough detailing). Oh, we also had the crime syndicate, an original villian who gave people influenza, and Guy Gardner.

[mylionheart2]

[indiebyrdn7]

“You going to answer my question?” he asked.

“And what was that?”

“Darkseid?!”

He raised his voice a little too much. Slamming the glass down on the table, Bruce’s hand began to bleed. Bringing his bloodied hand to his lips he pulled a piece of glass out with his teeth.

“So it is about the girl,” Bruce spat, spitting the piece of glass onto the floor. 

I shrugged.

“Maybe,” I replied. “Hence I need you to look into him…”

“Maybe?” Bruce asked as he raised his eyebrows. 

“Did I stutter?”

Walking past Bruce, I pulled down on a candelabra on the wall behind him. A piece of a side panel popped out of the wall. Pressing inward, the panel revealed a hidden passageway.

“This isn’t a laughing matter, Clark,” Bruce said with a hint of shock. 

“And I didn’t laugh,” I replied. “You are coming?”

Stepping into the passageway, I followed it deep underground. Not as grand as his cave in Gotham, this was the center of his spy operations in Metropolis. Bruce soon followed suit. Rushing to catch up, Bruce was breathless. His heartbeat tripled the closer I came to his private hideaway.

“He’s never messed with us before and we’ve never messed with him,” Bruce shouted from behind me. “The only thing different now is the girl... What does she have to do with Darkseid?”

“She’s beautiful,” I replied. “What more does a man need to want to take something?”

When Bruce finally caught up with me, he jumped in front of me. Breathless, he placed his hand out to stop me from moving forward. 

“So, you want to start a gang war with a man with more power than us, over a woman,” he said in between trying to catch his breath. 

Swiftly I grabbed Bruce’s wounded hand, digging my thumb into his open wound. He grunted in pain. A sound I did enjoy. Probably more than I should have, but I took great pleasure in silencing his big mouth. 

“This has nothing to do with her,” I lied.

I pushed him back into the wall behind him. Leaning my mouth to his ear, each word from my lips burned in his ear. Bruce’s resistance to my grip faded.

“Lie to yourself, but not to me,” he said as he licked my lips. “Tell me, did her body fold into you like this...”

He pressed his body into mine, I felt him pressing against me. Hard as always.

“I wouldn’t know,”

I avoid his gaze.

“Now, now Clark, who’s lying,” he cooed. “This has everything to do with ‘her’.”

 I ran my thumb over his still-blooded lips as his eyes closed. 

“And what if it does,’ I replied.

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[reality-detective]

Biden Family Scandal About to Erupt?

With Trump back in the White House, its all about to come out. 💥

Newly discovered bank accounts tied to the Biden family reveal millions in laundered funds from China, Romania, and Russia, traced back to Joe Biden's time as VP. Among the findings: $240K in direct wire transfers to Biden himself—with no explanation.

This isn’t just a scandal; it’s a potential crime of historic proportions. The American people deserve answers: Who sent the money? Why? And what was promised in return?

With mounting evidence, is prison time looming for Biden? These revelations could trigger a political earthquake and shake the very foundations of the Biden family.

Accountability is overdue. Justice must prevail. Stay tuned—this could be the story that changes everything. 🤔