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Love how when you are a comic fan for long enough you always eventually have one ‘obscure’ character, which can range from a side character that almost no one but you has ever heard of to like an average b lister hero with a consistent ongoing book, who you are delusionally convinced just needs that one good mainstream adaptation and they would become universally beloved and acclaimed overnight.

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FIRST step to enjoying any media is getting attached to the character whose suicidal tendencies are the most obvious

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can someone hire me please. i want to see movies

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💥I'LL BE AT BROOKLYN COMIC CON! feel free to say hello ^_^ and find me at TABLE 55A for cool and awesome goodies!

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💥2025-2026 Merch Catalogue💥 here is my updated merch catalogue, debuting at Brooklyn Comic Con :] see you soon guys!!

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there are only so many words for small

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ancient friends

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[through tears] yeah i remain whimsical

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Infodumping here about the re-contextualized history of Rip and Booster now that Rip his canonically his son because I can't stop thinking about it.

Like i said before I really like the balance of Rip and Booster being really similar when they're in their 20s and within the same period of time VS that NOT adding at all to their possible friendship that booster seemed to want

Obviously Booster didn't know Rip was his son and just saw him as an expert in time travel, someone who he could relate to maybe. But Rip is someone who refuses to let them be closer at this point in time of their history.

like that is explicitly a barrier we see Rip put up between him and Booster multiple times in the older comics.

In the back to the future arc of BG vol 1 at the start when Rip says he thought about just turning in Booster instead of helping him but Jack convinced him to help (this also coulda just been a joke). Then again at the end Booster proposes that Rip could work with his company and brand as a time travel expert and Rip outright is like "nope, im going home, if you really need me then we can talk".

I also really like that Rip has an annoyance towards Boosters whole persona at this time too, and outwardly shows it.

He places this same barrier at the end of BG vol 1 when Booster begs him to take him to the future again to get away from his troubles and Rip reminds him that it is HIS fault his time machine is broken and that he can't, and wont help.

There's always a unease on Rip's end when it comes to Booster during this time period, which to me makes a lot of sense because I feel as though because Rip is so young in this time (he is honestly maybe a year younger than booster, i feel its implied that jack is younger than booster and jack went to school with Rip. Rip was the youngest person to get a doctorate at the time. so. but still they're around the same age range.) and even if you're a super genius like he is nobody knows completely what they're doing in their 20s.

Rip canonically also has poor personal skills at this time (Rip only gets good at manipulating people and keeping up lies when he is older and that's when him training Booster comes into play and who we see in comics now).

So imagine all of that and then your dad just shows up, also your age, and you can't slip up and let him know anything or else you could ruin your own existence. Avoidance is the easiest route.

Though, despite that Booster in this time remains Rips connection to the league and who HE ends up going to when he needs help. Of course Jeff has to convince him the first time to do so but Rip does end up calling Booster again and asking for help to get SUPERMAN to talk to him. We know Booster doesn't even like superman at this time so, big ask but Booster still pulls through. Not to mention the "call dad" sticky note in the bg of this panel.

Despite all of this we also get the implication that...Booster and Rip talk on the phone enough for Booster to know a lot about Rip's partner and Rips paranoia later on. There is also a point a bit later comics where the linear men want to kill Booster and the person they ask to do it is Rip (this goes nowhere really).

Anyways, It's really evident that Rip cares A LOT about his father and who he was to him growing up. Rip doesn't just save Booster over and over because it saves himself, he does it because he loves his family. The Rip who is forced to watch Booster hurt himself over and over is a Rip who learned to cope with it and keep his feelings hidden- It was impossible for Rip to do this in the past.

It's also really interesting to see younger Rip's reactions to seeing his dad go through emotional distress and bad choices, seeing him put up walls and push him away. Then later seeing a older Rip see his dad go through the same thing times ten and while he still puts up a wall and boundaries its in a different way. He grew into someone who could handle it.

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My cover for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Rita's Rewind #1 . An oversized one-shot issue. In comic shops August 8/6 -

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Reblog with your animal. It’s toucans for me

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in times like these at least i have the character

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Normal peoples favorite comic characters: superman, batman, etc

My friends favorite comic characters: guy nobody likes, 4th wall-breaking loser, every gorilla, evil worm.

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Truly heartbroken to ear of the passing of Peter David. Thanks for everything you brought to the Hulk lore, for adressing mental illnesses and neuroatypies with a great respect. Without you, I wouldn't love Sam like I do This is a great loss for gamma spawns but a greater loss for the comics World If it wasn't for his work, I wouldn't be drawing, Hell, I would probably not even be alive. I'm sad, but I'm mostly upset. He died in medical debt while still working for Marvel & DC until his last breath, without having one of the big two raising a single finger to help him out. After everything he did for his industry, he never got any support from them. But his family still need all the support they can get so if his work had any meaning for you, at least share this :

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So excited to be thinking about the implications again!!!!!!