Here's the first in line of my rewatch creations! It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do for this episode, but I had done a comic cover for Origins Part 2 several years ago and really wanted to take a stab at another one! This is a much more cartoony style compared to the first but I think it's fun! It probably also won't be the last comic cover in this bunch, either.
Thanks to Pilot and the old Squad for the comic cover layout!! I don't know what the title font was before I but I DID remember the number font.
happy birthday @themetalvirus !! i thought it would be nice if biscuit the betta got to b appreciated for their birthday too :) hope u have a good one!!
some self indulgent concepts for a 20-something year old Chang where he becomes Tintin’s photographer. I wanted him to have a slightly eccentric sense of style to reflect his playful personality.
as my Area 51 post where Chang and Tintin are middle aged did well I was speculating on what would have happened between the “canon” timeline and them being in their mid-40s, just to get a better idea of what their relationship would be like! A Lot of background stuff beneath the cut, cw for mentions of racism and homophobia - buckle up boyos:
After Alph-Art Chang finishes school and starts studying commercial photography at university. On an exchange programme, he goes to study in Belgium for a year. Haddock has Chang live at Marlinspike during his studies, hoping he would keep Tintin out of trouble (and perhaps convince Tintin to finish school). This backfires significantly.
He’d bring an emotional intelligence to the Marlinspike team, as well as an outsider’s perspective on things. As he’s around Tintin’s age, Tintin feels more comfortable confiding in him. I imagine he’d have a wicked sense of humour too which Haddock appreciates, and, most importantly, he’s the guy in the group who brings a bag
He’s juggling a photography course, dangerous adventures, his job with the newspaper and a social life, but deep down he doesn’t feel like he truly belongs anywhere. He’s very aware of his outsider status, so embraces it. As a working class orphan who was taken in by a family of academics he’s used to not quite fitting in. He’s also trying to work through his trauma from his two near death experiences, wanting to Live Life To the Fullest, frequenting jazz bars and staff parties whenever he can.
Tintin is overjoyed to finally be able to spend time with him and takes him sightseeing in between adventures. A few months in he realises he’s developed feelings for him and has A Crisis - he is gripped with feelings of guilt and self disgust and is terrified he’ll lose Chang’s friendship. At first he attempts to bury his feelings, leading to some Incredibly Unhinged Adventures. Chang catches onto this and confronts him about it, and helps him overcome his self hatred. The two start a relationship in secret (Haddock can totally tell tho, he quickly makes it clear they have his full support). Chang’s photography career takes off and he starts engaging with local immigrant and LGBT communities
things seem to be going well for the two of them until a tabloid outs them publicly (could it be Rastapopolous? I know he took a tumble but maybe he survived? idk). Chang and Tintin lose their jobs and their reputations. WW2 hits and they take it upon themselves to travel around, beating up fascists and foiling nazi plots (I know the canon comics follow a floating timeline with some being set post-war but here I’m rooting things in a specific time period)
after the war they manage to find more work. Tintin finds work with a small local paper and Chang scrapes out some freelance jobs. The war shaped their perceptions of journalism significantly, with Tintin now giving more of his attention to less flashy stories, pledging to do what he can to prevent anything like the war from happening again. Their itch for adventure returns, however, when reports of alien sightings start cropping up in the papers...
I had to hand ink some comic pages for a school assignment (lol long story). I hated every minute of it, but there’s a few panels I like. Those inevitably got covered in the final product of course.
It’s very baldurs-gate-fanart-with-the-serial-numbers-removed
In 1973 Pinky Montilla played DC's Supergirl in an unauthorised movie from The Philippines that mixed superheroes with the supernatural. Thanks to a magic ring the titular character is able to transform into her heroine form to fight a wave of villains including local thugs, giant frogs, and zombies.
The movie poster claims it was shot in "Eastman color", but it is uncertain whether that means the whole movie or just a few scenes. Movie distributor Solar Films claims to legally own the film today, and they have uploaded a black and white copy to YouTube, devoid of any colour footage, for fans to watch free of charge.
Supergirl's costume in the movie is based on her early 70s comics outfit, with a min-skirt and belt made of linked discs. Pinky doesn't appear to wear the over-the-knee boots or gloves however. Supergirl started wearing this costume circa Adventure Comics #398, at the end of 1970, so it would presumably have been current during the production of this movie.
A new, rare, bootleg of Earthworm Jim 2 was uncovered by Russian streamer Xaocin, it is made by Waixing, and serves as an alternate version to their rippoff, Happy Biqi World Fighter. It also features this unusual lose a life sequence, where Jim faints onto a stretcher, being carried away by... I think they're supposed to be nurses, but they look like pastry chefs. This game is not dumped online, although I have asked this streamer about dumping it, I'm hopping he does, because I need to know what the fuck a game over looks like.