#Helena Kosmatos

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comics writers will keep inventing the most cool female character ever and then inexplicably not do anything cool with her instead to do another series about Mid Man #3514 or write her around her male love interest and barely if ever allow her to outshine him

[donnatroyprincessofthemyscira]

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quick character design headshots for orion's team :3

[marcos-h-c]

DC Fan Art Comic

So, I am thinking about doing a comic of the old DC characters Iron Munro, Fury and Flying Fox -the replacement for the golden age trinity once the Crisis on Infinite Earth merged the multiverse on one New Earth.

This are some practice drawings of what I want to do, but my comic will be with less talk, because nowdays standards are different, but mostly will be like that.

...and my question is, will anyone will be up to read 3 comics of this age old forgotten DC heroes? I am doing to practice the 'western hero comic style', but it would be a shame that a story like that would be forgotten with nobody to read.

Please, let me now so I can start submitting things in places =D

[ufonaut]

To be fair, there’s hardly anything written about any of them anywhere. It’s like they were erased.

Stargirl: The Lost Children (2022) #1

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If you follow this blog, you know I absolutely love everything Earth Two written by Roy Thomas at DC in the 1980s, from All-Star Squadron to Infinity Inc to Young All-Stars and beyond. So when this issue of Alter Ego magazine arrived in the mail yesterday, I was pumped and read it from cover-to-cover in one afternoon. Such fantastic stories about an amazing series that didn't survive very long. I particularly have always been taken with Thomas's theory about the Crisis erasing the big Golden Age heroes but not their energies. I thought replacing the DC trinity with brand new heroes and adding in a few other young guns was an ingenious solution. That's something I miss in today's comics; a commitment to continuity and the clever retcon to solve a continuity problem.

[dailyjsa]

Who's Who Update 1987 #2

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An important message from the Golden Age Fury

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February 1983. In one chapter of WONDER WOMAN #300, the Wonder Woman of Earth-1 finds herself on Earth-2, where she learns that her older Golden Age counterpart married her world's Steve Trevor in 1963 — and meets their teenage daughter, Hippolyta (Lyta) Trevor. Unlike the Earth-2 Batman and Superman, there was never any story describing how the Golden Age Diana and Steve finally came to marry, beyond their brief explanation to the Earth-1 Diana in this chapter. Their daughter Lyta subsequently fell in love with Hector Hall, son of the Golden Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and the two became founding members of Infinity, Inc. as Fury and Silver Scarab.

The Crisis on Infinite Earths banished the Earth-2 Wonder Woman and her husband, who were taken off to Olympus to dwell among the gods, but Lyta remained. This unfortunately required her to receive a heavily revised origin that made her the daughter of Helena Kosmatos, the newly invented Golden Age Fury, later raised by Joan Dale Trevor (an obscure Quality Comics heroine called Miss America) and her husband Derek Trevor, a retired admiral. It could have been worse — as Neil Gaiman soon demonstrated in SANDMAN, where Lyta was subjected to relentless abuse that also apparently made her off-limits for non-Vertigo DC books until around 2006. (I certainly hope Roy Thomas got some media royalty checks for the recent use of the character in the awful SANDMAN TV show, although if anything it's even worse than the comic in its treatment of her.) All very grim, and in retrospect, it might have been kinder to just kill Lyta off like Helena Wayne.

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Diana of Themyscira, Diana Prince, Hippolyta, Phillipus, Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, Mistress, Io, Etta Candy, Steve Trevor/Howard, Artemis, Nubia, Orana, Artemis of Ephesus, Delian Peng, Donna, Drusilla, Cassie, Yara, *sighs* jason, *sighs" trinity, ronno, wingo, Antiope, Grace Choi, Lyta Trevor, Helena Kosmatos, Vanessa Kapatelis, Julia Kapatelis, Hessia, Ferdinand, Barbara Minerva, Aklia, achilles warkiller, Trevor Barnes, Bobby Barnes, Queen Desira, Glitch, and who else?

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mini "evil" femslash february fic masterpost!

prompts taken from here. i had a lot of fun with this. last time i did femslash february properly was in 2019--if you'd like to view all of my fics in one series including those, you can do so here.

all four titles, summaries, and links are under the cut!

ten steps just to run a mile (scandal savage/liana kerzner/knockout) prompt: love is devotion (thank you anon! sorry your ask got banished to the aether)

Scandal and Kay inhale fear toxin during a job. Liana does her best to hold the three of them together.

to be alone (yolanda montez/beth chapel) prompt: living dead

Yolanda has been restless lately, preoccupied with thoughts of chasing down the monster that killed them both.

how large the teeth (paula brooks/helena kosmatos) prompt: it still bleeds

Many years later, Tisiphone hunts a tiger.

lay my rifle down (jesse chambers/artemis crock) prompt: alternate timeline

In another world, Jesse Quick and Huntress face off

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trick or treat

Ok, so another potential fanfic idea floating around my head

Is based off me reading sandman, infinity inc, and young all stars and wonder woman and in general finding the arc of lyta trevor and helena kosmatos unsatisfying.

Ok so general themes: I think that Sandman Lyta is too passive compared to Infinity Inc Lyta, and she feels like a very generic character mostly designed to fill a role, rather than "This is what Lyta would actually do"

I also think that the Silver Scarab plot in Infinity Inc was rather unsatisfying.

Anyway, so. the premise is that we see Helena Kosmatos actually appear on panel (well ""panel"" it'd be in words if it's a fic) sometime post COIE and before Lyta leaves to look for Hector. She warns Lyta about the potential power of the Furies, because Helena has felt herself become more and more okay with what they do* and acting as Tisiphone, just over the years, but she remembers how horrifying she found it when she was young and acting as a conventional superhero**. The having no control would "foreshadow" Lyta in Sandman as she says (when she is being warned away from her path to kill dream and become an agent for the furies) that she has no choice. This also parallels well with the "it was destiny/unavoidable" of Hec's arc in Infinity Inc, where his villain-face-turn (thru... being hollowed out) is treated as a prophecy that cannot be averted except for in his death.

Anyway, so! How do we get to Lyta as she is in Sandman?

I think that Lyta should kill Hec >:D

Ok well TECHNICALLY Tisiphone should kill Hector, but while possessing Lyta, so Lyta would blame herself.

My idea is that after Lyta is approached by Helena, post COIE, she eventually goes to find out where Hector has ran off to, as she did in Infinity Inc canon. In this instance, when she sees Hector's dead body and is approached by Silver Scarab, she becomes so angry that she starts to unleash Tisiphone, and nearly kills him. She stops because Silver Scarab pretends that he is Hector, and she overcomes Tisiphone because of her love for him. This is what creates the weakness in Silver Scarab, rather than Lyta being pregnant***. He was saved by love. Slowly (very slowly) the silver scarab starts to unwind.

However then her not killing him results in her getting captured, like she did in Infinity Inc. The furies hate that!

Norda finds the infinity Incers after being re-trained by Worla and they go after Silver Scarab similar in canon. BUT! Norda, due to the training he received, notices Hector's weakness. He is encouraged by it, because he does not like the rhetoric that he just has to kill one of his friends because the prophecy says so. When Norda observes this, the Furies see this as their chance to strike. They are angered, humiliated, and Lyta does view her previous showing of mercy as part of her fault and why she was kidnapped, so she is in the place to unleash the Furies.

And... she kills Hector.

This explains why she's so willing to follow him into the dream world when he reappears as sandman, rather than young love and it being scandalous to be pregnant and unmarried. She has a nagging sense of guilt. She follows him into some new world that is not quite reality, from which she will not be able to return, because she remembers her own hands killing him.

When Daniel is at first kidnapped later on, and we don't see her acting at first but just letting the police try to solve things, it is because she remembers how badly things went last time she let her anger and fear influence her decisions.

but then daniel dies.

And she goes on the quest she does in Sandman, slowly becoming more and more an agent of the furies and less and less herself, and she remembers her mother's warnings.

*as she is in wonder woman, Jimenez's run

**as she did in Young All Stars

***which was just... super weird? IDK its like he can't be completely evil b/c the person he is possessing had unprotected sex?

[donnatroyprincessofthemyscira]

[redwraiths]

a messy maybe outfit for teen helena :) shes probably fresh off themyscira after a few years of training and eager to help

[marcos-h-c]

Colorber day 20 - Fury

[ufonaut]

why was fury never part of the jsa?

well helena kosmatos was in the young all-stars and too young for the jsa proper, then seemingly out of the superhero game for a long while in the post-war years and then too hell-bent on revenge for the jsa (which was really more of a theoretical thing between the 50s and the 90s at any rate). lyta was in infinity inc and again too young for the jsa proper, and then too dead for it and the jsa was stuck in ragnarok anyway. so there you have it