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Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Walt Disney

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anakin & padme on tatoonie (attack of the clones)

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The cast of MATERIALISTS recreates CHALLENGERS

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Came back to feed the Katyana nation ;D

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MY TABLETIS FIXED FINALLY I CAN DRAW AGAIN HERES WHAT I WAS DOODLING RIGHT BEFORE IT BROKE

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she kinda does …

helena wayne not having a sidekick type character is so funny to me... bruce adopts 500 kids selina brings in strays helena is like "fuck them kids" and goes on a vacation

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No Kings

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15. Mary Marvel

went for a more greek/roman inspired vibe, looked at a lot of Jen Zee’s Hades work

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Huntress by Tim Burgard

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Are there any Powergirl reading guides you recommend? What Karen Starr characterization do you prefer? Are there other Powrgirl blogs you recommend to follow to better understand her character?

I don’t have a specific reading guide but I do recommend the following titles:

• Showcase #97-99

• All Star-Comics #58-74

• ⁠JSA #31-87

• ⁠JSA Classified #1-4

• ⁠Infinite Crisis #1-4

• ⁠Justice Society of America Vol 3 (All issues including the 1st Annual)

• ⁠JSA All-Stars

• ⁠Power Girl Vol 2

• Worlds’ Finest (2012)

• ⁠Infinite Frontier #2-6

• The New Golden Age #1

• ⁠Justice Society of America Vol 4 #1-12

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helena wayne is a jewish woman to ME.

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Why do you think DC chose Catwoman to be Helena Wayne’s mother in the Bronze Age when Catwoman was banned from comics in the era before that?

She was just THE obvious choice tbh. Sure you could use someone like Linda Page, Julie Madison, Vicki Vale or any other, but the only one people would have been hype for was Catwoman, the other side of Batman’s coin, the “Empress of the Underworld” “Princess of Plunder” and “Queen of Crime” was exciting and beautiful, but also clearly more complicated than “Villainess” as even at her worst she hated hurting innocents.

Selina was an interesting complicated and layered character while the others were static, made to be pretty arm candy for the main guy while being wholly unimportant to the main story. One of the reasons her character was in trouble with the comics code was because she made crime look too fun, was always getting away with it, and was flirting with the main character DESPITE being a criminal. So of course the answer was to reform her, (which was already something that was happening with Selina in the Golden Age, who wanted to quit stealing and run a pet shop), and then kill her off (in E2) so she gets both a happy ending and a convenient way of being written out of the narrative, plus a tragic backstory for her daughter.

Also, even in the 60s, people wanted Batmarriage! and there was ONE real contender

Fun Fact: it was Fredric Wertham, dude who wrote “seduction of the innocent”, who of course got her blacklisted by singling her out, saying Catwoman was emblematic of comic books having no “decent” women, and that Catwoman’s signature whip had homosexual implications.

As ridiculous as that is, it was enough for Dc to play it safe with Catwoman for the next 12 years. But it’s a comfort to know that Fredric would want to kill himself over Selina’s modern day appearance and characterization which has FAR outlasted him 🖤 also here’s the 90s comics shading him lol

Catwoman #72

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Hmmm….

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HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN as ANAKIN SKYWALKER in STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH

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Justice League of America #159.

Fascinating dialogue here.

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this is the first issue of jlu where i actually cared about the stuff with air wave

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Marauders (2019) #16