this absolutely stunning heartstopping brooding beautiful picture of Temuera Morrison

is the same energy as this of Cody looking unenthused at probably some dumb Skywalker antics.

Grant Morrison's Dick Grayson is essentially "The One Man that The Joker Can NEVER Defeat".

Sources: Batman (1940) #682, Batman and Robin (2009) #12, 13 & 16.

"I love that...Dick Grayson is just happy. Just, NOTHING depresses him. His parents died and he fought back. He's been a superhero since he was 10 years-old and— THAT guy; you know, who was in the Teen Titans, who KNOWS everyone, he's Superman's pal, he's Jimmy Olson's pal, he's THAT guy, you know?" -Grant Morrison

Dick is Mr. Laughs-in-the-Face-of-Danger. He out-laughed the freaking Joker (and continues to)!

The origin of Animal Man, from 52 #19. 2006. Art by Brian Bolland.

This photo gives me the most serotonin I’ve ever had in my life.

It came to me in a vision that the only way Sam Reid's "Rockstar Lestat" is going to work is if he is some monster hybrid of Jim Morrison (The Doors) and Atsushi Sakurai (Buck Tick).

Try and tell me that you don't see it.

(Epilepsy warning) Also this one specific music video by Buck Tick just screams LESTAT to me:

Honourable mention:

1994's Bill Morrison poster for the segment "Time and Punishment" of the episode "Treehouse of Horror V" (6x06) of The Simpsons.

Monty B (Comic Art Fans) : "This was done for the poster artwork of the Time and Punishment segment of the Treehouse of Horror episode V. "Treehouse of Horror V" is the sixth episode of The Simpsons' sixth season and the fifth episode in the Treehouse of Horror series. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 30, 1994, and features three short stories titled The Shinning, Time and Punishment, and Nightmare Cafeteria."

Their First Encounter

“The very first moment I beheld her, my heart was irrevocably gone.”

Weird, long ask but could you explain Emma Frost? I’m starting to get into the X-Men (especially thanks to the People’s History of Marvel, thank you!). But what is her deal? Like I’ve read wiki summaries but I guess I want to know, is she an X-Men? She seems to be one of the faces of the team in modern events, but is she even a hero? How much does she undergo a face heel turn? Does it feel naturally written? What’s her role (in-story and meta-wise) and relationship with the team? Do they trust her? Accept her? Does she switch her view of muntantkind, from a tool as the Hellfire Club saw mutants, to identifying it as her community? Or does she act like that, and to an extent join the X-Men, for her own benefit and self-interest?

The vibe I get is she has become a hero and member of the team, but maybe not the family? And she’s still willing to use all the manipulative tactics she did as CEO and member of the Hellfire Club, but for mutantkind. (Which I love). Is that right or is Emma Frost totally different?

It's a long ask, but it's not weird at all - Emma Frost is a very important character, but also one of the more complicated ones in terms of her complex relationship with the X-Men. I'm going to ssume that you've read my People's History of the Marvel Universe essays on the Hellfire Club and the education of Emma Frost, but I would also highly recommend Cerebrocast's episode on Emma Frost as essential listening.

While Emma Frost started out an outright villain, a succession of writers carefully laid the groundwork for her heel-face turn, creating a very psychologically grounded explanation for her transformation. Even during her "snow phase," Emma was always a devoted teacher of young mutants. While she ran the Massachusetts Academy and the Hellions with a manipulative, domineering, and ruthless teaching style that was highly influenced by the "gaslight girlboss gatekeep" method she learned from her family, she also cared for her charges.

When the Hellions were murdered by the villain Trevor Fitzroy in UXM #281, Emma Frost awoke from a coma to find that her students were all dead. Her grief turned inwards and Frost blamed herself, believing that she had failed to teach her students to defend themselves - and that they might have survived had they trained under Xavier and Magneto instead.

This belief was why Emma Frost decided to merge her Academy with the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, becoming one of the two lead teachers for Generation X. She was initially deeply distrusted by her co-teacher (and de facto parole officer) Banshee and many of her students, especially Jubilee who remembered her as one of the X-Men's villains. It took a long time for her to build up a rapport with her students, and despite her efforts she eventually lost their trust when she killed Adrienne for causing Synch's death.

However, her most enduring period with the X-Men started with Grant Morrison's New X-Men. In the wake of the Genoshan genocide, Emma Frost not only joined the Xavier Institute but also became a full-fledged member of the X-Men for the first time. While Emma was initially motivated for a desire for revenge against Cassandra Nova, she stayed on after Nova was defeated and essentially became the "loyal opposition" inside the team.

Arguing that Xavier's "x-liberalism" was inadequate to deal with the reality of human hatred for mutants, Emma taught her students the ideal of "mutant excellence" - that only by making themselves the best, the most powerful, the most successful could mutants develop the ability to protect themselves from a hostile humanity. This caused her to clash quite a bit with Xavier and his true believers (it didn't help that Emma had also started her psychic affair with Scott, making her conflict with Jean very much both political and personal), because she had no compunction about using her powers against threats to mutantkind.

Especially in the period after M-Day when leadership of the X-Men shifted from Xavier to Scott, Emma was absolutely ride-or-die for a more revolutionary brand of pro-mutant ideology (and became "part of the family" due to her long-lasting relationship with Scott), but remained distinctive from the rest of the X-Men because of her pragmatic willingness to use the ruthless methods of her villainous past to advance the cause - very much a believer in "by any means necessary."

So overall, I would say her arc has been a shift from villain to anti-villain to anti-hero.

Courtney Thorsson, The Sisterhood. How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture, Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 2023

Cover Art: June Jordan, on far right, with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange, Vertamae Grosvenor and others, The Sisterhood, 1977 [Inscription: Verso, front row left to right: Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange, possibly Louise Meriwether; back row left to right: Vertamae Grosvenor, Alice Walker, possibly Louise Meriwether, Toni Morrison, June Jordan] [June Jordan Papers. Folder ‘Jordan with others, 1977-1999’, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA]

"Let me through. I just need to get closer to make sure. By the nebulae! Don't any of you recognize the stranger on the road to the edge of endless night. Have you forgotten your scriptures? Does no one remember the prophecies? This is him. This is the dying boy. -The what? No, no , listen, I'm not dying. I don't want to die. Just tell me what's going on. -We know what awaits you in the Under-Country. Take this young man. It's no good to me where I'm headed. May it serve you well... Ours was a small world. We never knew death or pain. Until he came. -He who? What is this? Is there something wrong with me?"

Joe the Barbarian. "Chapter 2: Cloud Quay To Feather Forest Falls."

The Multiversity: Pax Americana (2014) by Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely

Toni Morrison at Howard University as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare’s “Richard III."

Not sure what I could call this take but frankly idc but when Batman "died" in Final Crisis, he should've stayed dead or at least Barry Allen years of dead (or however long he was planned to be dead according to Grant Morrison) because during the time he "died" it was great seeing Dick Grayson becoming Batman with Damian being his Robin with their own fun dynamics and struggles.

Heck I loved seeing Batman villains being like "wait a minute your not actually Batman are you, mate? 🤨"

Just my take, do you agree or disagree? Lmk.