Okay but actually "Batman but guy who instead is going to fight capitalism, and therefore he is a guy with homemade tools and skill fighting against billionaires who prioritize greed (and also have like, robot ninja defenders so Batman has people to punch), and then like Commissioner Gordon works for a federal regulatory agency that they're trying to get to be useful, and Alfred is the anarchist who took Bats in, and the bat family is basically an anarchist commune instead of people in their late teens/early 20s instead of being weirdly patriarchal, and also they just straight up throw down with the cops protecting the rich, and and and" ...would actually go super hard a superhero story.
- they/them
plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.
host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)
chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)
other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)
posts from @pnictogen-wing tagged #comics
also: #comix, #comic
Continuation of the Golden Boy arc remix fancomic! I'm fascinated by how the original run is essentially a really trippy multiverse story. With the saturation of multiverse stories today, I notice that a bunch of them are about grief and using alternate universes to save a loved one. So we wanted to twist it and tell a story about using the multiverse to hurt someone with one's own grief.
Survivor Twin grief from losing a sibling before birth is often dismissed since "why are you grieving someone you never met" and this is also repeated in the canon Golden Boy arc. In reality, survivor twin grief is very real and deeply painful. Many survivor twins struggle with unresolved and invalidated grief, spending years struggling with intimacy in relationships because they feel like they're chasing a closeness they've presumably never known. Strangely enough, a lot of these feelings of grief, guilt and struggle with commitment are things John Constantine goes through. I think revisiting this arc with that more authentic twin experience could open up so much for him as a character.
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holy heck. really! of all the things we've ever read that I never expected to see again, Constantine's Golden Child is high up the list. everyone seems to know JC from, er, later adventures. ~Chara
This post has content warnings for: Dave Sim's antisemitism.
Watching I Saw the TV Glow, with its highly unsettling lunar energy, prompted me to revisit "Cerebus".
I now clearly see a somewhat embarrassing tendency in myself—one of many—that's found expression in a number of ways, such as my curiosity about what happened to M. Night Shyamalan between The Village and Lady in the Water. Occasionally the arts furnish examples of creators who seem to be at the top of their form and then simply collapse. All the gas suddenly goes out of their career and they never recover. The great American comedy director, Preston Sturges, experienced a sudden career implosion like that. Shyamalan did. And so did Canadian indie comic star Dave Sim, who used to be one of my favorite artists of all time.
cw: lengthy discourse about Dave Sim's "Cerebus", his dabbling with the nature of godhood and gender in the comic, and its disintegration into a soup of bigotry)