#vedran velichkov

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They need to make Count Vertigo an anti hero again they need to talk about his disabilities again (both his bipolar disorder AND his Ménière’s disease etc) they need to talk about him being deaf in detail for once and they NEED to make him canonically like men

[kideternity]

Every single time they try to revamp or reboot Count Vertigo i'm just.

You Will Never Be Him (Pre-reboot Count Vertigo)

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[Image ID: A collection of ten pieces of artwork of different comic book characters with varying redesigns and looks, and a mixture of black and white inked pieces, pieces with colour and shading or a combo of both. The first image are chibi-style coloured versions of two white characters, Guy Gardner and Eric O’Grady, in modified versions of their warrior and irredeemable ant man looks respectively, Guy giving Eric a ride on his back as Eric smiles. The second is a detailed, Kelley Jones inspired black and white Batman, crouching on a rock with a purple circle in the back. The third is a detailed, coloured and shaded drawing of Zauriel, a dark skinned person with white hair with wings wearing black and white smiling and holding a sword. The fourth is a black and white image of Luna Maximoff in a confident pose, a blue circle behind her. The fifth is a coloured line work abstract piece of Christopher Chance, his profile within different frames with the text “Human Target” to the side. The sixth are another set of coloured chibi-style versions of the characters Count Vertigo, a tanned man frowning in black and green, Bronze tiger, a black man in oranges smiling, and Eve, a pale white woman smiling in black and purple. The seventh is a coloured line-less piece of Orion, a white man in blue and red with a silver helmet holding a sword, with the background being a circle of black, white and orange Kirby crackle. The eighth is a black and white detailed semi-crouched action pose of the character Taskmaster, who is holding a sword, a blue and orange and yellow circle behind him. The ninth is a detailed black and white piece of the character Shroud with claws and exposed tongue in a running type pose, a circle of blue behind him. The last is a black and white detailed page of headshots of the characters Firebird, Nightrider, and a bust of Osiris, with small doodles of Lagoon boy, fish, bats and a bird surrounding them. /End Image ID]

Hi :^} I know I post here never but decided for once to spam a bunch of artwork again in a post. Enjoy!!!!!!

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[Image ID: a collection of ten individual comic book edits of the characters Gus Yale, Kevin Kho, Barbara Gordon, Oho-Besh, Beth Chapel, Count Vertigo, Amon Tomaz, Alex Sanchez, Mia Dearden and Victor Stone, each having their own respective background colour of red, orange, yellow, blues, greens, purple and pink, with a darker shade encompassing the characters. /End ID]

Happy disability pride month!!! For this month, I wanted to make a set of edits to celebrate some of the canonical disabled heroes in DC comics :) this is the first of three, and under the cut will be a list of what everyone's disabilities are. Have a good july!

Oho-besh- mobility issues, uses a leg brace

Kevin kho- OCD

Barbara Gordon- paraplegic, wheelchair user

Beth chapel- partially blind

Count vertigo- deaf, meniere's disease, bipolar disorder

Amon tomaz- paraplegic

Alex Sanchez- mobility issues, cane user

Mia Dearden- HIV positive

Victor Stone- Amputee, most of his body is a mechanical prosthetic

[kideternity]

Under the cut but uhm I read ostraunder/yale’s suicide squad and i have opinions 

This particular essay is gonna be babs oracle and count vertigo focused especially in regards to their disability (shown in the run bc ig ostraunder/yale forgot? count vertigo had menieres disease?? thats fucked up) I have other thoughts about this run but. Later. Also originally I was gonna do this in a rly fancy nicely written structured way but uhhhhhhh this run pissed me off lol! A lot! So they don’t deserve that effort. Anyways I’m speaking on this from the perspective as a physically disabled person with a personality disorder though if anyone who actually has bipolar or is a wheelchair user wants to add their two cent please do, but the way Ostraunder + Yale wrote Babs’ and Count’s disability is uh. Its sure complicated! And by that I mean it’s like....... outside of typical early 90s confused attitudes regarding to how being a wheelchair user or bipolar is, it’s very much a story that FEELS progressive on paper but still falls into classic ableist narratives. Like, The Count and Babs are both characters who are given legitimate agency regarding their disabilities- and like, they do have good scenes, I'm giving credit where credit’s due! They are written in a way that obviously makes you sympathise to them over their trauma and root for them as characters. I, personally, despite having fault with it, still believe Count Vertigo is the only dc character I have EVER felt properly represented by in a comic thus far- I empathised heavily with what he went through, and having now read the run in full, I empathise with babs and her struggle, too! But its just. Its just. The fuckers decided, that the natural “happy ending” to these arcs, was that both Babs and Count needed to be cured- that they would only be able to be truly content if they weren’t bothered by these ‘ailments’. Babs memory of the attack by the joker borderline feels like torture porn when it show ups, and they manage to find a way to bullshit Count being ‘cured’ in the end for his arc. And it’s just... it sucks! I hate it here! This isn’t a narrative I WANT- What I want, is too see two disabled people, who learn that despite their issues can and will be able to live happy lives, who will be able to live with both. And like, sure, there’s good stuff afterwards, they conclude Count being suicidal in a way that still impacts me, and it’s great seeing Babs take charge and lead the suicide squad pretty effectively and confidently when Waller is out of commission temporarily, but its just- There’s like. A sting to it, you know? I dunno. I just wish they talked about it more in a less shitty light, is all I’m saying. Though unfortunately it sucks even more even this is probably better then whatever the fuck they’re doing with the two now 😭😭 

[kideternity]

Never gonna forgive DC for taking Count Vertigo, a well-written, pretty morally gray, suicidal and disabled character, whose disability was treated seriously, and then spontaneously deciding he was just completely irredeemably powerhungry and evil now