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god. re: that post about racism/colorism dynamics wrt character design i also have to say!!!! this comes up a lot in the timkon tag :') how many popular artists are there who insist on portraying kon as loud, stupid, and aggressive, and tim as smart, reserved, and hypercompetent, and then just so happen to always give kon darker skin while tim remains pale as snow?

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Now I am curious about what you meant by the sinister implications of Iris knowing all their histories?

The answer is sort of in your question - Mark Waid sloppily implied that Iris knew of all of her family's histories and destinies, then subsequent writers also played with this and expanded on some of the extent of her knowledge which they could never tie down properly.

She wavered between knowing nothing at all, to then pretty much everything.

It was a mess, and in my opinion is a plot point that should have had some concise and very FIRM rules if they had to have it all.

Instead we got a loose idea of what she knew and it made everything confusing.

The sinister element of this plot point reveals itself because it implies that she knew that Barry was going to die (did nothing to warn him) knew her own children were going to be murdered (again did nothing to prevent it as far as we know) knew what was going to happen to Bart (didn't reach out to Meloni beforehand to try to prevent it), and then once in the past exhibited favoritism in some scenarios by helping Wally with her future knowledge (she had to be bullied once though), but not Bart with Thad. She also knew that Carol was going to be forced to live in the future for a while, which I mean... that was a 15 year old NORMAL girl come on. Although she did try to save Bart's life by forewarning him in FMA, but it was too late and she sat on the knowledge until her guilt got too great to ignore (to be fair she was also unsure if he would die but there was a high chance). The most perplexing thing about the FMA plot was she did this after she understood that the future was changed anyway, so there was no point in her keeping quiet, which was a writer's fail. I feel like FMA can be ignored.

It's messy, it's sloppy, it opens too many doors and too many questions, it was poorly executed, and it also opens up the stage for a long and lengthy debate on if Iris knew her whole family was going to be slaughtered and scattered through time before it happened, and did nothing to prevent it, does that make her complicit in their suffering?

If you favor a story about someone unintentionally causing mass suffering out of fear of deep cosmic consequences, then this is a compelling story with literal cosmic horror as the main theme. Iris was petrified of changing the future and history itself, and what the consequences would be, and thus felt justified in keeping quiet.

I do actually think there is interest and power in this plot, and I am firmly of the opinion that Iris should have been revealed to be Time Trapper which would have made a lot of things make SENSE - but we never got that and that is just a matter of opinion.

Should Iris have tried to save the lives of her family if she knew they were going to die?

Did the writers know what they were writing?

What is the biggest implication?

How much did she know and when?

How much can a writer really lean on "well 1000 years later a lot of history was lost" before it just becomes unbelievable and unworkable?

TLDR: There are worrisome and tragic implications to her knowing the future and it quickly becomes a moral debate - if you had future knowledge that someone was going to die SHOULD you try to prevent it even if it might alter the timeline in negative ways?

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Been a buZy week but I am back in biZ

Full ver w/o my cam

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I just had to search "Big Barda comics" on Google Images to see that yes, all the criticisms about Barda's voice in BoP are true

I already found it jarring, but ugh

Stop writing her as a barbarian caricature it's not even funny

And I feel bad for her fans

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welcome home my wife

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I scrolled past this in a blur trying to get to the last when Hell freezes over solicit and had to scroll back up because my heart knew it was max. I would know him in the dark at the end of the world

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Green Lantern Jo Mullein by Jenny Frison

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Zatanna #5 - "Dniheb Eht Sniatruc" (2025)

by Jamal Campbell

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I don’t think that Tara has to be a victim forever and I would honestly prefer it if she wasn’t, but if she’s going to go out of her way to team up with the guy who molested her when she was a child then maybe you should at least address that a little idk what do I know really

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I am not fond of when people talk about Slade being a bad guy for example him not naming respawn and they talk about that and are like “god he’s so bad. That not even mentioning the Judas contract stuff.” It feels weird to me as a Tara fan. Like can her name not be uttered? Is she voldemort? Why are we boiling her trauma down to “the Judas contract stuff” you don’t even have to bring that up. Especially when it comes from a non Tara fan.

Like I’ll see batboy fans talk abt what Slade did to them and do the “Judas contract stuff” cop out. Slade drugged Tara and raped her (statutorily). Like please stay in your lane. You don’t have to bring her up. And if you do, you should at least have the decency to say her name.

Maybe this is a bad take idk but it’s just how I personally feel, especially as a survivor of SA and grooming.

Either don’t mention her at all or say her name and actually address it.

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young justice except I completely and utterly change their designs part 1

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comic books are good to get into if you really like to complain about everything all of the time

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bug fella

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DC Dark Legions giving Constantine a distinctive Scouse accent instead of a generic, vaguely Northern English accent. Peace and love on whatever version of planet Earth this game is supposed to be in.

This game sure makes some weird character choices sometimes, but this is not one of them.

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You know what, I'm making a rule.

People who are obsessed with the Geoff Johns' retcon of Kon's origins to include Lex Luthor don't get to say that they want 90s Kon for style reasons or whatever. You're stuck with T-shirt Kon. You don't get 90s Kon's style without his character, which you clearly don't respect, understand, or know. So if you can only think of Kon through the lens of "teehee Clex baby haha! I'm going to make Clark owes child support jokes!" then I'm sorry but you only get T-shirt Kon.

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comic fans have got to keep in mind the year the comic they're reading was released. "why is he wearing that?" its the eighties "that would never work" it would in 1962 " why didn't they use xyz" it wasn't in my existence yet