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ungoliantschilde · 5 months

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Static, Vol. 1 # 08 by Walt Simonson, with Colors by Noelle Giddings.

#Static #Walt Simonson #Noelle Giddings #Cover Process #Process #Milestone #DC Comics #DC #Comics #Art #Illustration

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balu8 · 6 months

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Gotham Central #2: In the Line of Duty 2

by Ed Brubaker / Greg Rucka; Michael Lark; Noelle Giddings and Willie Schubert

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#dc comics #art #comics #ed brubaker #greg rucka #Michael Lark #Noelle Giddings #Willie Schubert #comic book

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coverpanelarchive · 2 years

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Sins of Youth: Batboy and Robin #1 (2000)

#DC comics #sins of youth #batboy and robin #Chuck Dixon #cary nord #mark lipka #noelle giddings #sean konot #bryce wayne #batboy #Tim Drake #robin #jim gordan #commisioner gordon

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cccovers · 1 year

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Gotham Central #3 (March 2003) cover by Michael Lark and Noelle Giddings.

#gotham central #batman #comic covers #2000s #dc comics #michael lark #noelle giddings

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dailyjsa · 4 months

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All-Star Comics 80-Page Giant #1

Writer: John Ostrander

Artist: Denys Cowan

Inker: John Floyd

Colors: Noelle Giddings

#dc comics #wesley dodds #the sandman #hippolyta #wonder woman #carter hall #hawkman #comics

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gamesception · 3 months

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Sception Reads Cass Cain #34

Robin (1993) #88 - May 2001 Story: Chuck Dixon & Scott Beatty Pencils: Pete Woods, Ink: Andrew Pepoy Letters: Willie Schubert, Colors: Noelle Giddings

Guest appearance again this week. A bit more of a notable one because as far as I know this is officially the first time Cass Cain and Stephanie Brown meet. Kind of more significant in retrospect than in the moment, as they don't exactly hit it off right away, but still.

So the basic setup is that Bruce has decided Stephanie isn't going to just go away and stop doing Spoiler stuff so he might as well take her on officially and train her, a decision spurred on by Tim working more and more on his own & not answering Bruce's calls. When Tim disappeared from the country completely without telling Bruce where he went Bruce turned to Stephanie to check up on him, in the process telling Steph Tim's secret identity, which iirc (my Robin knowledge is limited, I could have this wrong) previously Tim had used as the reason they couldn't be in a relationship. Like "I can't date you, you don't even know who I am, and I can't tell you that even though I want to because it might give away Batman's identity, which isn't my secret to share. Also my life is super dangerous, and Batman doesn't think you're ready, and as much as I like you I have to respect his professional opinion on this"

On the one hand it's dicky of Bruce to not respect Tim's privacy the way Tim respected his, but on the other hand Tim blowing up about it kind of implies that all those things he told steph were excuses, and the real reason he didn't want to date her was that he just wasn't that into her. Or maybe he was, but got mad at her for getting pregnant by someone else after he rejected her and now doesn't want to date her because of that? Did that happen already, or after this? Again, I don't know the details of Robin Lore, but reading just this issue and the previous one for background, Tim is absolutely the one who comes off as worse here between him and Bruce.

So anyway that's what's going on. Cass shows up in all of this when Bruce takes Stephanie to one of his training caves and has Cass demonstrate a training routine that Steph is struggling with.

Which, yeah, I guess this is pretty badass or whatever,

But if this were a real life situation, Cass would have just decapitated like seven dudes. 100% fatality rate for the criminal dummies. You'd think Bruce would be a little less glowing in his praise over that, considering how much of his shitty behavior towards Cass started when he found out she might have (definitely did, but denial is a powerful drug) killed somebody.

Cass gives Steph the cold shoulder. Giving Dixon & Beatty the benefit of the doubt for a moment, this does fit very much into the recent evolution of Cass's character, becoming harder and harsher as she gets more isolated. She also may be picking up on and echoing Batman's lowish opinion of Stephanie as a vigilante / person, even if it has softened enough for the moment that he's willing to train her.

And it sets up for future interactions where Stephanie basically puts in the work to break through Cass's walls, despite her initial frosty attitude, to become the friend Cass needed when when she didn't have any others. The whole arc is honestly pretty touching and really speaks to Stephanie's character, and it isn't possible without this initial attitude from Cass.

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On the other hand, this plays into an obnoxious trend of the entire bat family being written as incredibly rude and dickish towards Stephanie, in ways that very often feel completely out of character. Even (especially) Tim, her supposed love interest. Even Alfred!

Yes, calling Alfred 'the Butler' is rude, but Alfred was uncharacteristically rude and dismissive to her first in this scene.

And since it so often feels out of character, you get the impression that the people who actually hate Stephanie aren't the characters themselves, but rather the writers and editors at DC. That is eventually undeniably the case, once DiDio is in charge and War Games is happening.

But that's still 3 years away! I had to check, because the way the narrative is treating Stephanie right now, the way all the characters we're supposed to think are in the right here are treating her (Alfred, Tim, not Bruce), feels very much like the build up to War Games, with Stephanie finally getting a chance to shine and getting some respect from bruce, but with the overall narrative implying that's a bad thing somehow and that she isn't worthy, that despite all her work and earnest commitment she's somehow only coasting on hubris and setting herself up fro a fall, one that we as the audience are supposed to find, like, cathartic, or maybe at best tragic but in a cosmically justified sense that she brought on herself.

And it all kind of sucks, because no, she really doesn't deserve any of it. Or rather she hasn't been written to deserve any of it. The differences between her and Bruce's other sundry teen sidekicks and hangers on have overwhelmingly been in how others have been written as treating her, not the things she's been written as doing or in her personality or whatever.

I guess that's a free writer tip for you. If you want the reader to not like a character, write that character as doing or saying or thinking unlikable things, or acting for distasteful motives. Or give that character things they don't deserve or appreciate without having to work for them. Don't make them sweet and put-upon and have them try hard to do the right thing despite coming from a bad place and struggle to earn respect that others get for free only to have it denied to them anyway and then have all your main characters shit on them constantly for no reason or even explicitly for doing things that they all do and get rewarded for.

If you do all that, your readers will end up identifying with the character you want them to dislike and disliking the characters you want them to identify with.

EDIT: oh, I almost forgot, we do get this one cute 'proud papa' moment from Bruce:

Always nice to see those, especially amid all the less positive stuff going on with him and Cass right now.

#cassandra cain #batgirl #stephanie brown #spoiler #sception reads cassandra cain

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omniversecomicsguide · 6 months

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Life hack! If your boss gets you hooked on an experimental narcotic and your work project rewrites your DNA, simply recycle your Day of the Dead costume (with handy unstable molecules) into a neat-looking ‘superhero’ outfit! 👍🏻

Featured art:

SPIDER-MAN 2099 #3 (1993) interior

Originally by Rick Leonardi, Al Williamson & Noelle Giddings

Recoloured by Chris Blythe

Script: Peter David

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#spider man 2099 #rick leonardi #peter david #marvel 2099 #2099 #marvel comics

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dailydccomics · 1 year

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Static (1993-1997) cover art by Denys Cowan, Jimmy Palmiotti, John Paul Leon, Steve Mitchell, Noelle Giddings + Walt Simonson

#virgil hawkins #dc comics #static #static vol 1 #cover art #dc #variant cover #milestone comics

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 month

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THE DREAD FACE OF HIGH GRADE MILITARY SCI-FI IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE.

PIC(S) INFO: Resolution at 1294x2000 (2x) -- Spotlight on a Deathlok color guide by Noelle Giddings, c. 2022. A xeroxed copy of Denys Cowan's original pencil and inks on paper mounted to a foam core board.

Source: www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1846078 (Comic Art Fans 2x).

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batgirlarchive · 11 months

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Robin #120 - Jon Lewis (w), Pete Woods, Andrew Pepoy, Noelle Giddings (a)

#batgirl #barbara gordon #babsgirl #dc comics #panels

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ungoliantschilde · 4 months

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Superman: Blood of My Ancestors, Vol. 1 # 1 Page 32 by John Buscema, with Inks by Kevin Nowlan, Letters by Ken Lopez, Colors by Noelle Giddings, and a Plot by Gil Kane, with Dialogue written by Steven Grant.

#John Buscema #Kevin Nowlan #Ken Lopez #Noelle Giddings #Gil Kane #Steven Grant #Superman: Blood of my Ancestors #Splash Page Process #Splash Page #Process #DC Comics #DC #Comics #Art #Illustration #Master Class

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balu8 · 6 months

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