little yellow creature :)

the one that got away

Are you ever reading vintage comics when a panel just hits you in the face because holy crap HINDSIGHT

2023 reading list: Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka - Vol. 2 (1987; issues #205-217)

"This was never about my eyes... This was much more important than that."

(ID under the cut.)

ID: Three animated panels from Wonder Woman comics.

1: Diana Prince stands in front of the landscape of Olympus, a building with traditional Ancient Greek architecture and a golden sky. Clouds drift across the screen. Diana is tying a blindfold around her eyes.

2: Medusa, a woman wearing a brown cloak and gold clothing with snakes for hair, stares at a cardinal sitting on a fence. She says, "Look at me." The cardinal slowly turns to stone as she watches. The jewelry around her neck catches the light and shines brightly.

3: Diana crouches. The Caduceus of Hermes is attached to her belt beside her lasso and shines rays of light over a yellow background. The same clouds from the first image drift over the screen again now. A text box appears: "I am true to my course, Great Pallas."

/End ID.

Happy soup day!!! (Superman day!)

Rambling:

Close ups:

Him shirtless:

I know what you think of me. You think I’m just a doll. A doll that’s pink and light. A doll you can arrange any way you like. You’re wrong. Very wrong. What you think of me is only a ghost of time. 

I am dangerous. And I will show you just how dark I can be.

—DR. HARLEEN FRANCES QUINZEL / HARLEY QUINN

miss kara zor-el  💝

I am so freaking angry about how DC has treated disabled characters in recent years.

Many people have pointed out all the negatives of making Babs into Batgirl again — taking away her character development, de-aging her, casting aside two other Batgirls, using comic book science to “”cure”” her, etc, all for the sake of nostalgia. Oracle was an icon and an inspiration to many, and that was taken from us. Some great meta on this here and here.

But what I don’t hear anyone talking about is how this was also done with Joey Wilson/Jericho of the Teen Titans, albeit in a slightly different way.

In the post-52 DCU, he doesn’t use sign language anymore (he’s mute) and instead uses technology to speak.

First of all, artists drawing Joey signing shows loving detail and care toward representation for that form of communication (which is frequently overlooked by able-bodied people). Joey using ASL is such incredibly important representation for everyone, and taking that away from him feels like an easy way out so artists don’t have to draw ASL and writers can give him typical dialogue. It reminds me of stories about deaf people (especially kids) who were disappointed when Hawkeye didn’t experience hearing loss in the MCU. There’s a lot of people who see themselves in different kinds of characters, and when you take that diversity away, you lose something important. I hate these cop-outs to fit differently abled characters into the cookie cutter superhero mold. Superheroes aren’t defined by their abilities — they’re defined by their heroism! Characters like Oracle and Jericho, among others, have reminded all kinds of people that anyone can be a hero so long as you care about helping others. That’s literally the point of superheroes. The superhero genre should always have room for diversity and representation of all kinds. Minimizing or erasing disability does a massive disservice to that legacy.

Destiny is calling me

dick grayson by jerome k. moore

—edited from new teen titans #86

Just gonna insist on calling Dick Robin from now on. Gonna make that 30 year old man go around wearing the costume and calling himself the Boy Wonder. Gonna tell fans that nobody's ever cared about the other Robins and he's the only one who really mattered. Maybe they can be brought back as his sidekicks or something a decade down the line. See, the joke here doesn't even work because this would still unironically be less stupid than Barbara being Batgirl in 2024.

Smallville + text posts ➡️ Lex Luthor edition

Starfire doodle💖

dinah for @sassylittlecanary!!

"You don't have to be afraid. I'm right here, and I'm not going anywhere." (x)

I feel like I'm going crazy here but why does it seem that there's a strong demand among Wonder Woman fans to bring the classic costume back?

The serious answer is that the battle skirt costume is great but it's also continuing to tie Diana to an era many Wonderfans dislike, several artists refuse to be normal about it, and seeing artists default to drawing Diana in the Rebirth-era battle skirt while simultaneously drawing Bruce and Clark in their classic costumes feels very aesthetically discordant.

Also I'm gonna be real with you fam, Wonder Woman fans tend to love the classic costume because it's a banger look and when drawn well (and not by a man who clearly thinks of Diana as a pin-up doll) outsells nearly every other look she has.

Look at this. Tell me it isn't an effortlessly well-balanced and iconic look:

Also 95% of artistic efforts to do something else end up looking bad. Most of the successes are the ones that either give her shorts/hotpants (her Golden Age looks and looks modeled after those) and a couple of the battle skirt looks.

Diana has never once looked genuinely good in pants and people should just stop trying. Leave the pants to Donna and Cassie and every other Wonderfam member who has a different color scheme and aesthetic that actually allows a pants-based costume to look good.

Batman by Tim Sale