#zachs ramblings

[winterrrnight]

claim your tickets baeeeeees 🤭 so you can always boast about being a drew og 😚

[le-agent-egg]

FRYE FINALLY WON A FUCKING SPLATFEST

[vanmarkus]

guys i fear i'm about to be real annoying about star trek again

[zennyzach]

Dont hide the sauce, man! Whats your AU for Dev?! The world wants to know!

Ohhh boy uhhh... Gonna put explanation under read more bc I'm embarrassed but here's some doodles dhdjfbf

Basically me and my friend roleplay on discord in our own server, and with the current lore which is This AU, Peri and Irep sorta adopted Dev because he wished it. After some rp shenanigans, Dev wished to be their "real" kid, which backfired in a way that oops! He's not a human now, but half fairy and half anti-fairy! Yay fun shenanigans of a kid with powerful magic trying to figure out wtf is going on, how to not keep floating to the ceiling, and how to control his magic, and with parents that have no clue on what they're doing!

Oh and he lives in the fairy world with the two, Dale hasn't noticed he's even gone, and Timmy is Dale's assistant which is killing Peri bc that's his brother working for an awful man :)

There's more lore with the RP, but honestly this already barely explains anything about the AU, so...

TL;DR Dev's wish made him half fairy and half anti-fairy

More doodles feat. Some by @phobylee

[angelwiththeblue-box]

most insane lines from pibe that i havent stopped thinking about

when the problems run up youre running away (humpty dumpty)

try that door that doors locked try that door that doors locked all the doors are locked- hope to see your sister on the other side (murk of merkmere)

"michealangelo, we need your help" "cowabunga" (whimsy on wheels)

and put myself on a shelf but i called it a rafter and i laid on my back and i painted a ceiling can you relate to that? (whimsy on wheels)

is it a real crush or am i crushing on a crush (mallapalooza)

and when i look at you or our other friends, i think i don't really care what happens as long as it never ends (mallapalooza)

if i didn't fight for every crumb i ate i would end up bereft of life (animal style)

and it can be hard to be incredible when sometimes you wanna be fine, yes im janice wood but i wanna take my time i don't want to be great i just wanna be good (trade school musical 2)

FUCK YEAH SHES TALKING BOUT ARTISINAL ICE (trade school musical 2)

can we make this part short the part where we don't talk and can we make this part sweet the part where we finally come back and meet (bonus points for can we move past can we move past can we move past) (backwards compatible)

everytime jess/mary says huge wrong (backwards compatible)

hey windella learn about me girl! (heebie jeebies)

socrates gets on his knees when he sees a fellow with my finesse and ease (heebie jeebies)

ill tell my story it doesnt have be gory it doesnt have to be boring ill tell my own story tell your own story (heebie jeebies)

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

One of the most underrated jokes from Game Changer has to be Zach Reino's improvised newsie joke of "Extra, extra, read all about it! The fish are gone."

It knocks me out laughing every time I watch the episode. I cannot imagine a funnier headline to come up with for a local newspaper.

And the fact that he somehow managed to tee up the next joke for Zeke by cosmic coincidence is just *chef's kiss*.

[rovermcfly]

underrated dropout bit is during play it by ear eps when zach suddenly steps into frame and talks to the audience but he's out of focus at first because they didn't expect anyone getting this close

[psychicpinenut]

listening to the crossroads of destiny episode of the braving the elements podcast and dante is really out there fighting for zutara with his whole chest, thank you for your service captain 🫡

[the-feral-gremlin]

Zack’s poor fucking family. Can you imagine getting a call from your son’s boss only to be informed that he exploded his hands? Can you imagine returning from getting coffee from the hospital cafeteria and then seeing him being transferred to the psych unit? Can you imagine being told that the sweet boy who loved science and his friends and family, was responsible for so much death and pain? Can you imagine having to visit him in a locked ward for Christmas instead of watching him teach his niece science?

[sophsicle]

do u like country music?

i like when the cowboys are sad

that is the only brand of country music i can stand

[leek-inherent]

My designs for the characters from We Object To Fear :) I love this show a lot and have watched it many times.

In order they are Matthew and his mum, Brian and Clark (prosecution), Alicia and Spencer (defence), and Xander and his unnamed friend (pre-trial).

[winterrrnight]

get yourself a man who can do both

[le-agent-egg]

whatever

[batbabydamian]

🦇🐥 Batman and Robin (2023) #5 rambling and a conspiracy theory lol

tbh this is the most exciting issue for me since…the first one 💀 i’m going to talk about the story and art separately because Nikola Cizmesija’s one of my favorite action focused comic artists so this issue’s a treat 😭

Alfred used to mediate during a lot of Bruce and Damian’s early relationship, so it’s refreshing to see Bruce take more initiative involving himself in Damian’s life even if it’s for a case lol

a couple instances of Alfred’s fatherly support on behalf of Bruce and Damian from Batman and Robin (2011) #2, 4, 39 and Teen Titans (2016) #1

Damian seems to take Bruce's involvement more as a sign he’s not reliable rather than Bruce finally just. being around to help him. which is fair 😭

this is complementary to Cizmesija’s art, but i love this half of the page so bad 😭 the negative space and the shaded foreground with Damian mid-run gives this feeling of time kinda stopping for us to really feel the impact of Damian’s entrance AND the effect it has on Bruce, like!! that wide eyed expression in the below panel!! 😭

Bruce’s quiet “you can do it, son” to A FULL BODY CHEER OF “GO, DAMIAN!” Bruce witnessing Damian be great outside of Robin, and on top of that it’s just another mundane moment that Bruce has wanted with Damian 😭

this is such a goofy bully line sdfgh though the whole “broken” bit might be a callback to Batman and Robin (2011) #1, in that Bruce is really trying to do his job as a father here or i'm likely reading way too into it

SO the “shocking ending” of Zach being Zsasz’s kid was definitely a surprise but then got me wondering what is up with Williamson doing reveals of new kids for villains lol otherwise, the hints in the issue were neat!

the tally marks!! at least tallying blocks is pretty innocent compared to kills 😭

and Damian would recognize how Zsasz moves, since he’s personally fought him before in Streets of Gotham (2009)!! very much not in a sport, but uh maybe it was to Zsasz

the art!! first a shoutout to the colorist Rex Lokus for giving Damian his green eyes and maybe melanin (it didn’t look consistent throughout so i say maybe)!! 😭 also a Talia by Cizmesija!! even though this panel calls her a “not great” teacher…💀

SUCH A FUN PAGE 😭 i’ve been into montage scenes lately lol and i love how quickly Cizmesija establishes Damian’s routine - Tues, Wed, and Fri are the funniest for me!! Damian grumpily getting lectured by his teacher in the foreground while his classmate’s still visibly steaming from the hit he took LOL, DAMIAN’S BUG EYED STARE WITH HIS SUNGLASSES UP, and then Damian looming. stealthily. in a tree. while some kid is blatantly pointing him out HAHA 😭

Cizmesija’s use of motion lines and effects when conveying movement is so cool!! the shonen manga vibes jumps out!! the smoke/dust trails following the movements; the limbs and soccer ball having a sort of blur effect with the motion lines. V COOL.

which leads to my favorite part of Cizmesija’s work - HIS IMPACT SHOTS!!

more motion lines and effects!! the splatter effects!! the arcs!! the jolting impacts!! GRRAAHH!! the setup to that impact shot of Zach's block is so great, and then following with Damian's reaction!! i almost wish that "???" wasn't there, just because that expression of stunned silence already feels so loud!!

last thoughts about Cizmesija's art is that i'm really hoping for a showdown between Damian and Zach next issue because i need to see a Damian fight scene in Nikola Cizmesija-fashion 😭 we get a taste of it with Orca and soccer but i NEED MORE LOL for now, dropping the moment when Damian overpowers Zsasz, in Batman: Streets of Gotham #11 since it was such an epic moment

okay SLAPPING MY CONSPIRACY BOARD!! so on another note Principal Stone being Shush is starting to feel like a red herring and Ms. Heather Hall could actually be Shush. Shush’s main point about Damian as his instructor was emphasizing how much potential he has, but the “wrong” influence could affect that

Stone and Hall have made the same observation about Damian’s potential, but the difference is how they address that - one wants Bruce to be more involved while the other wants Bruce to back off

Stone acknowledged Damian can take care of himself but still wants Bruce to step up in Damian’s life; Hall says it’s okay to be a helicopter parent BUT implies giving Damian space (which we already know Bruce has given so much of after Alfred’s death to the point of neglect 😭)

Hall even suggests moving Damian on to college, which would estrange Damian further. also idk how Damian kicking his teammates/bullies asses at soccer is really “making friends” lol

and of all the subjects she’s teaching, it’s AP Biology - according to the current case Batman and Robin are working on, which is centered around DNA-sequencing, it makes Hall the perfect accomplice to Langstrom

this is where my brain started reaching because i laughed at first at how specific that comparison is, but then it just made me think of how Shush’s first introduction was sniping Bruce LOL anyway, Bruce’s reaction is me 😭

one more Cizmesija appreciation panel - the lil running effects behind Damian :)

[angelwiththeblue-box]

good evening everyone i’m still thinking about can we make this part short the part where we don’t talk anymore

[owlrageousjones]

Something I only just recently noticed when rereading the scenes due to Recent Reveals...

Doctor Burger calls the town Clayview. Spender's clearly confused by this, and at the time, it's easy to think it's just her making a mistake - she's already lost track of time, maybe she's forgetting it's Mayview, after all.

But it was a hint. Foreshadowing. Zach got me again.