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first day as a second century warlord i have my men tie branches to their horses’ tails to stir up dust and make it look like there’s a lot of us but i forget it just rained so there isn’t any dust and the enemy can clearly see there’s like twenty of us all spread out in a line

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>looking for the topographical anomaly

>ask the director if it is creepy or wet

>she doesnt understand

>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is creepy and what is wet

>she laughs and says “it’s a good topographical anomaly”

>get to the tower

>its creepy

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Woke up in a cold sweat after dreaming this meme.

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what if you were FORTY YEARS OLD and GAY and a LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER who used to be a PASTOR with DADDY ISSUES and then one day you ACCIDENTALLY pricked your FINGER and that led you to be CONSUMED by an ALIEN GOD whose home was DESTROYED and now you had to write SERMONS on a TOWER that went UNDERGROUND

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I have more Southern Reach art for you all. Maybe even more in the future. I'm in a deathgrip i fear. Anyway, I keep thinking about that one bit of Acceptance and getting EMOTIONAL about it. augh. wauuhghh. here you go

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Hey y'all remember when the biologist projected the personality of her late (most likely dead or transformed) husband onto an owl that may or may not have actually been her actual husband after undergoing a transformation brought on by the effect of being in area x?

Y'all remember when the biologist lived with her owl husband for years and years, not forcing it to act human but allowing it to do its own owl thing while it allowed her to do her own thing? And despite them having their own individual lives, they loved in proximity of each other, sought each other out despite being completely different species, brought each other gifts and food? How even if the owl was never actually her husband and was just a regular old owl, how the love/solidarity/trust that formed the basis of their mutual relationship transcended both their species and extenuating circumstances?

Y'all remember how when the owl eventually succumbed to old age, the biologist allowed the brightness within her to be free? The very same brightness that the biologist was quite literally fighting off? How she had to continuously injure herself, self harm, make herself sick and miserable in order to desperately hold onto her humanity, onto the very essence of who she is? How when her owl husband died, she no longer had a reason to keep fighting against her transformation? To keep fighting to remain the biologist as she was?

Was the owl ever actually her husband, or was she looking for a reason to keep fighting against what became her very nature?

Y'all ever think about how, by being a literal owl, the biologist's husband was easier for the biologist to both understand and care for? How, by being an owl, the biologist's husband could show love and trust in a way that the biologist understood and appreciated? That this transformation allowed them to find happiness with each other, regardless of its fleeting nature?

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obsessed with the fact that Ghost Bird, doppleganger created by alien entity Area X, is somehow better suited to interacting with/forming relationships with humans than the Biologist was

there's something to the fact that the Biologist ends up this massive, alien creature, while Ghost Bird ends up walking out of Area X seemingly human

what if you had an alien copy but somehow that copy was better at being human than you were

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This is (probably) something.

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*from computer speakers* vsauce, *from suddenly behind you* michael here

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The Ultimates Vol. 4 #1 (June 5, 2024)

Written by: Deniz Camp Artist [pencils & inks] by: Juan Frigeri Colorist by: Federico Blee Lettered by: VC's Travis Lanham Edited by: Wil Moss (editor) and Michelle Marchese (assistant editor) Published by: Marvel Comics

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Without spoiling, this is probably my new favorite issue of the Ultimates from the [new] Ultimate Universe.

The structure of its 4 panel pages with each row being a different point in time and divided into two flashback panels and two present-day panels, you can read the entire way through by just going across. 1st panel is represent of the past. 2nd panel represents the fate. 3rd panel represents the guilt. 4th panel represents the present.

The release date for this issue is prefect, this was released on the 4th of September, it would've been too perfect if this was released in April, as the 4th day of fourth month, but still, it's brilliant.

The Ultimates Vol. 4 #4 (September 4, 2024)

Written by: Deniz Camp Artist by: Phil Noto Lettered by: VC's Travis Lanham Edited by: Wil Moss (editor) and Michelle Marchese (assistant editor) Published by: Marvel Comics

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Steve Rogers & Jim Hammond

Ultimates (2024) #7

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Absolute Martian Manhunter - Coming March 2025, written by Deniz Camp & with art by Javier Rodríguez

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unfortunately doesn't really work digitally but one of the coolest gimmicks I've seen in a while, really cool effect when done physically (the last two pages are front and back)

Absolute Martian Manhunter #1 (2025) written by Deniz Camp art by Javier Rodriguez

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Absolute DC

By Luciano Vecchio

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