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A.M.

Bonus concept sketches below

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I noticed that a lot of people missed a small reference WB made about Jack Slash

So Jack Slash is obviously and purposely a Joker reference, meant to play into the fact that despite just being a homicidal clown, Joker is treated as a big bad player in the cape game (I personally find that incredibly dumb moment of him being so “crazy” that he is immune to Martian Manhunter mind powers to be the most memorable).

In Jack’s case, despite having a generally mid power (can project the edge of his blades as far as he can see), the fact that his Shard can boss other Shards around means that he’s always on top and cannot be defeated by Parahumans in a fight, so they need to use normal humans to defeat him.

The Joker and Jack Slash stuff is all well and good… until you remember there are 2 Jack Slashes.

Some of you might know what I mean, but for those who don’t, Eden’s/Contessa’s Interlude gave us an alternate timeline that shows us a heroic Jack Slash:

- Interlude 29 Worm

The Black Knight is Jack Slash, a member of the Wardens.

Jack Slash is a Dark Knight. A caped crusader with peak human skills that lets him hang with the big leagues.

He’s fucking Batman.

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buncha old worm doodles.. i stopped at like 19.2 but ill get back into it at uhhhh some point

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Sabah is not built for winter in Maine

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pov you're getting bullied at winslow high

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answer the question

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Remember the guy who was rewriting worm for their girlfriend and had detailed rationale for all their editing choices but the final product was worse in every way

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Miscellaneous tattletale drawing number 7295748485738

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QUESTIONS

I am once again coming to y'all, hat in hand, asking for more sweet sweet questions. This time, we actually are talking about big ass dragon robots AND killing your boss. I want everything you've got! Make sure to label the asks with [show] so I know what you're about!

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Articulated Tattletale paper doll!!!

It was fun making this! I’ve always loved working with paper cut outs, it was the medium of my art portfolio last year!

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Love how Taylor just exited the narrative. Truly what our girl deserved. Everyone else is suffering through multiple apocalypses during Ward and Taylor is off somewhere in earth Aleph getting eaten out by Sundancer.

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sometimes you talk too much

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Post-it doodles of the big L

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first day of being a parahuman warlord and i've discovered i can sense how people will react to anything i will do but it takes like two seconds to use and my eyes glow when i'm doing it which is cool but really puts a limit on how useful my powers are in a face-to-face conversation. i try to use it to figure out who would be willing to be hired as a henchman but my endurance is shit so a thinker headache hits me after 20 minutes and i have to go lay down for a while.

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The beat that always stuck with me in regards to Uber and Leet was when Taylor mentions that they beat up sex workers on livestream while LARPing Grand Theft Auto. Uber and Leet get a lot of mentions before they actually show up, and the drumbeat is that they're pathetic, they're fodder, "as incompetent as supervillains can be while staying out of jail." Leet is the butt of a rom-com gag where Brian gives Taylor pointers on how to choke a man out more effectively. But they made money by beating up sex workers on livestream. That's a non-negligible number of potentially ruined lives! That's not softball fun-and-games! It's like textbook misogynistic violence against the marginalized! It's awful!

The narrative doesn't really dwell on this, because it's told almost exclusively from the perspective of people who have the firepower necessary to get away with treating Uber and Leet like jokes. But I think that it's a useful reminder that if you aren't one of the initiated, so to speak, then an encounter with the C-list, D-list, Z-list supervillain can be life-altering if not life-ending. The dumbest listicle-fodder DC or Marvel villain you've ever heard of has probably ruined at least one person's life over their handful of appearances, if not more. And it's an early indictment of the broad concept of the unwritten rules as advanced by Lisa, where she calls out Uber and Leet as the textbook example of villains kept in circulation because they're "amusing but harmless." This is within parameters? This doesn't merit heroes and villains putting aside their differences to clean house of problematic elements? Of course it doesn't. Both examples that Lisa gives of that dynamic in 3.6 involve a cape transgressing against another cape.

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What do you see?