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Introducing: Moth to a Flame, the final book in my trilogy about a traumatised teenage assassin trying (and mostly failing) to live a normal life in a fictional closed city in Yorkshire. And also in Leeds, as this graphic suggests 😆 Sorry, that's sort of a spoiler for THK...

I figured I'd give you all three of these graphics so you can get a sense of the overall vibes of the trilogy. And so you know why I'm still using this overly cutesy font, because 2022!me made this decision and I guess I'm sticking with it. I know most people use these graphics to label tropes you'll find in the book, but aside from "found family", I'm not sure any of these really count as tropes. (New trope: Yorkshire?) You can also tell I've been getting steadily worse at marketing since 2022. Or maybe better. Who's to say, really.

(Yes, it does annoy me that the arrows for book one go in the opposite direction. No, not enough to re-make the whole thing.)

And if you're wondering what constitutes "considerably less murder"... I tried to track the body count of THK, and lost count at around 50. MTAF, by contrast, has, like ... 3 murders? Very different vibe. THK was when I broke everything and MTAF is where I slowly start putting it back together. This is the Bucky Barnes Recovery Fic of the series. We're talking grief, grappling with trauma, learning to be a person again, finding solidarity with others who've been messed up by the military and the arms industry, possibly joining a support group full of gay communists, and ultimately, realising that sometimes it's not enough to escape, because the whole system needs to be dismantled to stop it from hurting anyone else. I'm terrified no one will like it because they're here for the violence, but it was important to me to write it this way.

It's coming in May! You can preorder it now! And if you haven't read the first two books, you've got a perfect amount of time to buy and read those ahead of book 3's release to minimise cliffhanger agony.

Also: it still contains Esperanto, street art, no romance, an aroace protagonist, and bad life choices. I just figured those were a given at this point and didn't put them on the graphic.

While Tim isn’t exactly the most interesting Robin I think it’s notable that out of all the protégés he comfortably has the best Rogue’s Gallery and it Carrie’s him a long way. Barb has Killer Moth, and formerly the Cavalier I guess, and Damien has his family but all of them are mostly Bruce’s villains. And everyone has rivals in Bruce’s rogue’s gallery but those connections never stick. Tim’s got Anarky, King Snake, and the General as pretty much exclusively his nemeses, and he’s got a great dynamic with all of them, like Lonnie, Dorrance, and Ulysses are all full fledged rogues with history, and most of that history is up against Tim. Steph is the only competition, but Cluemaster is ontologically pathetic by design and it’s tougher to have him be a recurring threat yknow. I think it’s worth putting energy into, because otherwise you end up with Dick’s most recurring foes being Blockbuster and Double Dare, I like Blockbuster and Double Dare more than most, but if they’re your arch-villains then something is wrong.

okay i wasn't able to get the knight terrors preview for free comic day but i just found screenshots and look!!!!!

casual bat & villain interactions!!!!!

:D!!!!!!!!

The og Teen Titans cartoon is WILD

The season 2 episode 5 about Raven’s fear genuinely had me on edge like I WAS SCAREDDDD BRO OH MY GOD

And then the next episode we have a dude with just an entire spider as his head that drags the limp human body along with it.

AND IN THAT SAME EPISODE WE GET FUCKING MOTHMAN SAYING “sorry kitten daddy was at work” WHICH IS HILARIOUS AND I LOVE IT AND I’M SO HAPPY 2020 TIKTOK DID NOT GET AHOLD OF THAT

“Who is this girl and why does she call you poo?” STARFIRE I LOVE YOU ‼️‼️

Dcoodles! Thank you for the requests :)

Batgirl by Chris Samnee

Batober prompt: Shelf

first personal art in forever. have a oc that i revived on the request of a friend

✌️.

Henchmen of Killer Moth

Apearing in Batgirl: Year One #1 till #5 where they try to rob a policemens ball before being stopped by a Barbra Gordon in her first fight as Batgirl. Afterwards Killer Moths henchmen most defining trait is show, that being they abandon him the moment his money dryed up. There colouring and wing shaped glasses are a brilliant look, almost as brilliant as what there absences provided Killer Moth. Them leaving does two things, show something that must happen in Gotham more then any villain would like to admit and cement Killer Moth as a loser villain.

I love the design great and it is a missed opportunity that they weren't called Moth Men. It would be interested for him to recognise one as a henchmen for Penguin or Joker years later.

The only other point is he did try to have Firefly as a sidekick in the story and fail, but Killer Moth should have his own Robin. He was originally made as an anti-Batman so his anti-Robin could mirror any of the Robins. Someone trying to get back at Robin for Dick, a street thug for Jason, a wannabe fan for Tim & his own bastard for Damien or Stephanie.

Business Meeting.

based on this

You gotta admit, they look pretty good together.

This is my YA trilogy about a traumatised teenage assassin trying and failing to live a normal life in a fictional closed city in Yorkshire. If you've been looking for YA with no romance, morally ambiguous (or outright terrible) characters, tons of murder, revolutionary librarians, poison, Esperanto, loving descriptions of street art, and varying degrees of critique of the military and the arms industry (from subtle to overt as the trilogy continues), then this might be the series for you. The Butterfly Assassin and The Hummingbird Killer are out now; Moth to a Flame will be released on 23rd May. Full details of all of them are on my website.

Toby: I love butterflies so much.

Jeff: They aren’t like, very badass though.

Toby: Butterflies scavenge corpses, which is what they will be able to do when I’m done with you.

Happy (belated) bday to @hibiscera!! I found a Moth Man of sorts lurking around Gotham, I think you'll like him :3

A Holloweane / Hollowduke Collab with the INCREDIBLE and Insanely Talented @ratb4stard3 (Follow them NOW!) who I watched Killer Track with!!

He Drew Duke, and I drew Miss Holloway, plus the shading and funny little Firework in the Background.

OG Screenshot beneath the cut

I'm NOT Crying, you are...