Meg Syverud | Storyboard Artist | Daughter of the Lilies .com | I like to draw and tell stories. I'm a married chick with a BFA in Graphic Design. DON'T REPOST MY ART. Read my Spider-Man fancomic at astudyinscarletandblue.tumblr.com
Are you Ok???? Do you need help???? I saw your posts on bluesky is there anything we can do???
For Context!
For the past year I was working for Ten Speed Press as the artist for an as-of-yet unnanounced graphic novel. In early March, I ultimately decided to fire the client after a history of rude and unprofessional behavior from them throughout the project, culminating in catching them in a lie. I already wasn't being paid a lot for this project; I certainly wasn't being paid enough to put up with this kind of behavior. In addition, I had become aware of just how exploitative some terms of the contract actually were when some experienced individuals had a chance to look at it. So I elected to terminate the project, but the publisher is not letting me go without trying to screw me over one last time on my way out the door.
I can't really go into further detail at this moment, but to actually answer your question: yes, I am okay! I'm just waiting to hear back from some people who are interested in helping me on this matter. It's a Staring Contest and Waiting Game at this time.
If you would like to support me, I am on Patreon. My patrons have supported me financially disproportionately more than these "professionals" at this publishing house have done over the past year.
Sorry for being vague; things are just not yet resolved and going into detail at this time is not advisable.
Thank you for your concern! You are great! Sorry I can't say more.
He is starting to feel his age catching up to him, which really stresses him out. His wife has been nagging him to retire for a couple years now; she wants him at home full time because she wuvs him.
You know how there's a subset of martial arts Tiktok where people post short vids of them doing a quick routine/choreography?
People in Gotham post blurry clips of the Bats, and a few martial artists challenge each other to reproduce the moves. One vid goes viral and more people start to give it a try, including non martial artists, who just meme with the choreography/try to imitate some moves just in good fun (and whoa some dancers and gymnasts do surprisingly well)
It naturally gets back to the Wayne brood, except, of course, the real challenge for them is to fail in a believable way.
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Tim, on camera: "I was nearly good enough for the Olympics, surely I can do that...? Let's find out."
[cue footage of him falling down, cartoon-style, right as Damian was walking by and getting both of them drenched in Dami's smoothie]
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Jason sees the compilation someone made of Bruce's ridiculous attempts at reproducing the moves (Tim and Steph roped him into their shenanigans.)
Two days later, a video of Red Hood goes viral: it's him condescendingly explaining how to throw a punch and challenging Bruce Wayne to do it properly because "no Gothamite should be so shit at fighting"
Bruce is verklempt when he watches it, because some of it is word-for-word how he taught baby!Jay
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Tim gives Damian blurry, grainy footage of Black Bat to imitate. After that, Dami spends days hounding Cass for training because he nearly broke his nose tripping over his own feet.
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Dick flawlessly lands a flip in front of all the others with "ASSERTING DOMINANCE" written on screen before winking at the camera.
Right before the video cuts, Tim's voice can be heard saying, "Whatever, your ass is still flat compared to Nightw—"
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Something that always trips me up, as a lifelong Peter Falk and Columbo fan, is which one of his eyes is actually false. Look at these two images. The eyes are noticeably different! Based on your own, cursory observations of these two pictures... which one is the glass eye? And why is it the one I always assume is the real one at first glance?
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On top of EVERYTHING ELSE!! Dude WAS AN ARTIST!!!
His figure drawing instructors would yell at him for smoking in the studio, he would do the Columbo "oh gosh sorry sir," and then COYLY RELIGHT THE CIGAR AND WINK AT HIS CLASSMATES