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amazing-spiderling · 2 years

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Mattfoggy for the ship ask game ♡

Oh I definitely ship it 1. What made you ship it?

Believe it or not I watched the whole the Daredevil series as it came out and was like "WOW! GREAT TV!" and went about my business??? I was like "yeah that Matt Murdock is a good egg" but had no interest in doing like fandom stuff, but I was elbow deep in Spider-Man fandom at the time. In fact I was so deep in spiders that I was doing a Spider-Man podcast with a buddy, and we happened to do an episode about Spider-Man and his adventures with Daredevil, which got me reading several team up comics, including "The Death of Jean deWolf" and it blew my face off. At that moment in time I was feeling kind of underwhelmed with the Spider-Man/Deadpool series because it kept hinting at these deeper emotional themes and then chickening out, but the Jean deWolf story just *went* for it. We didn't just get a dark and hurting Spidey, we got a Matt Murdock questioning whether he was too unaffected by the course of events and the two characters realizing they had something to learn from one another and it just HIT.

After that, I decided to check out some of the Daredevil comic proper and ended up snagging a few random comics (Man Without Fear, whatever was out of the Zdarsky run and the Waid run) and the Waid run just scooped up my heart like a little football and ran for the end zone. HERE was a relationship between Matt and Foggy that had what I was looking for. Not just squishy feelings, but anger, confusion, true protectiveness and support and sacrifice and disappointment and love love love.

After reading the 2011 and 2014 run I went back and revisited the show, this time with my shipping goggles firmly in place and it was a wonderful experience. Not long after I found some people online to share fandom and ship love with and made myself quite comfortable, so I imagine I'll be here for a while. <3

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

I mean, I'm a sucker for a friends to lovers situation, and my last two major OTPs also involved characters who were working together in one form or another to further an idealistic goal. I think what I love most of all about these two is their capability for quiet intimacy. When someone uses the phrase "old married couple" I think our minds automatically turn to petty bickering, and while there is certainly plenty of that between these two, I think the notion applies to them in a softer way. A "knows your order at the restaurants we go to" and "picks up your preferred brand of shampoo because they noticed you were running low" kind of familiarity. Relationships of course, have their big moments, their swell of the orchestra, confession in the rain, scaling a mountain to save your soul glimpses into the depth of each other's emotions- but such things burn bright and burn out without the quiet soft moments to sustain them. I think it's this capability that helps to strengthen the bond between these two (in whatever capacity a reader wants to enjoy their relationship, honestly), but it allows for them to have a meaningful impact on each other in a slow, long lasting way. It isn't so much about the two of them meeting and one saving the other or sweeping them off their feet (okay, maybe there's a little bit of that) so much as it is about two people growing together over time, and both becoming stronger, becoming *better* for it. What could be a greater sign of love?

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I think I've said this before, but I think it's the only unpopular opinion I have... I don't want MattFoggy to become canon in main continuity.

That has absolutely nothing to do with them as characters and everything to do with comic book meta. I mean, there *are* stable couples in comic books, but I think a lot of them are introduced where that was always how they were conceptualized (and in the case of queer couples, they can often involve newer or less well known characters). But when it comes to main characters? Comic book title holders? Their romantic relationships are constantly in flux. Think of Peter and Mary Jane, who have been together for literal decades off and on, and MJ is rarely if ever given space to exist as anything other than Peter's girlfriend-sometimes-wife-just-another-thing-he-has-to-worry-about-balancing. Even with married couples like Reed and Sue, they are put though some frankly toxic situations just to make their relationship interesting on the page.

And while we might argue that hey, Peter and MJ are destined to be, they find each other in almost every universe, I can't imagine they would do that for Matt and Foggy. It's just... not a path to happiness in comic books, because comic books last for ages and ages and the status quo is always changing, and a quick way to do that is to break characters up and make them miserable. (I mean, Matt and Foggy break up as friends all the time, but if they did it as a romantic couple I just don't think Marvel would put them back together again. It would just go down as a failed experiment.)

Now, if someone wanted to write a limited or side series (like Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows) or hell, even make them a canon couple in one of the other established universes (cough Earth-65) that would be great. Since those universes/storylines aren't constantly being dragged into the spotlight (and in the case of Spider-Gwen, Matt and Foggy are not the main characters) there is less of need to constantly change things for the sake of changing things. If Gwen tried to thwart what she clearly thought was some kind of secret plot by Murderdock and DA Nelson only to find out they were having a small but tasteful wedding ceremony? Fantastic. And there would be literally no reason for Marvel to ever change that down the line. Why bother? They're not on the page enough for it to need to change, and we the fans can have as much fun as we want with it. Likewise a RYV style side series would just accept the pairing as fact and then build a story around that established parameter. The whole point would be that this one facet of the relationship is different, and it is permanent, so what else can the writing team drum up to create drama.

I don't imagine any of that is going to happen any time soon, of course. Marvel probably doesn't have the guts to do it, and whatever, that's fine. I just don't want to give naysayers the ability to rain on my parade by saying, "they got together and it was a trainwreck" after the fact.

#mattfoggy #thank you for the ask #sorry this got long #i just have a lot of feelings #*she doesn't even go here*

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themotherlove · 2 months

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ejaydoeshisbest · 2 months

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Chapter 8.3

Some days later, I gave you a new shirt. Papa bought a matching pair for the two of us.

You didn’t come for days at our house and I looked for you at the cave, at the restaurant, at the fish market. I found you, finally, at the shanty area near the rougher parts of the beach. You got sick, and were just starting to get better. I ran to the store and passed your friends. They pointed and laughed at me. I bought you orange juice and bread.

“You are a good friend,” you said as you tried on the shirt. “Ever since you came, my days have been good.”

I smiled. I smiled wider when the shirt fit you like a glove. It suited you, and I thought you looked better than I did. Like you could have my life and lived it well. You would have been the kid that everyone liked, because you smiled easily, and you didn’t have to tell your mind and your arms and legs to act normal.

Already I was thinking of giving you some of my old clothes. I would realize later in life that I loved giving gifts to my future friends.

Then you got tense when you realized that I was there at your place, and I knew now why you didn’t want me to come near your house. It wasn’t because of where you lived, but the people you were with. I saw the step-aunt you mentioned. She looked at you—no, she looked at the shirt I gave you, like a boar about to charge. I should’ve known better.

That was why you didn’t want me to come look for you in the beach huts. That was why you spent most of your days in the restaurant, helping out the head chef who was more your kin than your own blood. That was why you were with your other friends. That was why you felt safe in my room.

The next day, I spotted one of your cousins wearing the shirt I gave you. The woman you called aunt was there, eyeing you, making sure you didn’t steal back the shirt you owned. I wanted to rip that shirt to shreds rather than someone else stealing it from you. I’m sorry. If only there was a gift I could have given you that they could never steal.

#lgbtqia #gay romance #friends to lovers #childhood friends #short story #philippines #love #loneliness

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sunny12th · 1 year

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Organizing my reading list for 2023

Books, Short Stories, Plays, etc.

A Wizard of Earthsea Book 1, Ursula K. Le Guin (kindle)

Laws of Depravity, Eriq La Salle

Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamon

The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin (kindle)

He Leo Hou: A New Voice, Hawaiian Playwrights

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson (kindle)

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (reread)

The Dreyre, Edward G. Briscoe and Agatha D. Briscoe

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury (reread)

The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury

The Golden Apples of the Sun, Ray Bradbury

The Lecturers Tale, James Hynes

The Essential Homer

The Road, Cormac McCarthy (kindle)

Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko (reread)

Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese (kindle)

The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline (kindle)

The Pale-Faced Lie, David Crow (kindle)

On The Beach, Nevile Shute (kindle)

The Leavers, Lisa Ko (kindle)

Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (kindle)

We Need New Names, NoViolent Bulawayo

A Mercy, Toni Morrison

Congo, Michael Crichton

Sphere, Michael Crichton

Eaters of the Dead, Michael Crichton (reread)

The Electra Plays

War and Peace, Tolstoy

The Shining, Stephen King

Othello, Shakespeare

King Lear, Shakespeare

Tales from 1000 Nights, translated by Burton

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams

Sappho: Complete Poems and Fragments

The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature, Christopher Slatsky

No Longer at Ease, Chinua Achebe

Comics

V for Vendetta, Alan Moore

Superman Action Comics 855-865

Superman: What's so funny 'bout Truth, Justice, and the American Way?, 775

A World Without Superman

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, 1-8

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

Kingdom Come, Mark Waid

Harleen, Stjepan Sejic

Batman: Gates of Gotham, Snyder

Batman: The Black Mirror, Snyder

#looking at it like this ... hmm #also desperately want to reread ASOIAF but i gotta get through these other books first #im gonna need to make a spreadsheet #a lot of these books have been sitting on my shelf for literally years #there's so many books i WANT to read but i gotta try to get thru some of these first for gods sake #Phew!#goal for 2023 is to read all of this because it really isnt that much actually #this isn't in any particular order. but i have so many books just lying around my room that i lose track of what i have #reading list #tbr #2023 #mine

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harrisonwellishot · 3 years

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The Flash [1] [Harrison Wells x Ellie Allen] - Chapter 3

Ellie's Voice Over: "It doesn't matter if you're the slowest kid in gym class or the fastest woman alive. Every one of us is running. Being alive means running... Running from something, running to something or someone. And no matter how fast you are, there's some things you can't outrun. Some things always manage to catch up to you."

Late at night, Barry, Ellie and Iris were coming out of a movie theater...

"Regular movie scale, that was a seven or an eight. Zombie movie scale, it was, like, a four, tops." Barry said.

"There's a zombie movie scale?" Ellie asked.

"Did you know that zombies exist in nature? There's a species of fungi that infects ants, causing the ants to attack plants that can release spores which in turn indect new hosts. I'm going full nerd again, aren't I?" Barry said.

"Yep." Iris said.

"Yeah." Barry said.

"Yeah. It's okay though. You are still the cutest nerd that we know." Ellie said.

"Anyways, I'm a lot more interested in the amazing as of late." Iris said.

"You mean 'cause of this 'streak' thing?" Ellie said.

"She's out there. People are talking about her. It's a woman." Iris said.

"How do you even know it's a girl? Maybe it's guy." Barry said.

"It's a woman, okay? You know I am really intuitive about this kind of stuff. Someone even posted a picture after being yanked from a car accident. It's a red blur leaving the scene. Here, what do you see?" Iris said as she holds up her phone in front of them.

Then Iris' phone vibrates a picture of Eddie comes on screen.

"We see your boyfriend's calling." Barry said.

"Oh, I should probably get this. I'm crashing at his place tonight, and he's supposed to leave a key for me somwhere. [She turns around and starts talking on her phone.] Hey, babe. What's up? Not much, just hanging out with Barry and Ellie. You off yet?" Iris said.

Then Ellie's phone rings...

Barry gets close to Ellie, so he could listen too.

"Hello." Ellie said.

"Code 237 on Waid Boulevard." Cisco said.

"Public indecency?" Ellie said.

Barry mouths, "What?"

Ellie shrugs.

"Wait, I think I meant a 239." Cisco said.

"Dog leash violation?" Ellie said.

"Bad man with a gun in a getaway car. Go." Caitlin said.

Ellie turn to look at Iris.

"You don't have a mat. Do you a planter?" Iris said as she was on the phone with Eddie.

Then quickly Ellie zoom of there, she reached the police chase was happening, she grabbed the bad guy, handcuffes him then put him in the back of the police car... Then made it back to Iris and Barry in front of the movie theater.

"Key's in the mailbox. I'll see you later. Bye. [She hangs up and turns around to Barry and Ellie.] Eddie says hi." Iris said.

"Nice of him." Barry said.

"You guys wanna grab a bite? I'm feeling a little famished." Ellie said.

"After the Mongolian barbecue we had before the movie and the extra large popcorn you had at the movie? How are you not fat?" Iris said.

"I've been jogging and doing cardio." Ellie said.

"Oh, okay." Iris said as she laughs.

Then they pass a restaurant where a group of people were having a private meeting in. Then someone locks the door and breaks the key. Then all of a sudden green gas started moving around on the floor and everyone inside started breathing in the gas, which lead them to start choking on it and they all drop dead on the floor.

The next day at Central City Police Station... Barry and Ellie walk out of the elevator with their cup of coffee and they smiled as they listen to the cops that Ellie helped last night.

"Where'd you cut him off?" He asked.

"So we cut off at eighth. I mean, the perp was in the backseat of the cruiser before he even knew what happened." Paulson said.

"Congratulations, Paulson, on that arrest last night. Hell of a job." Joe said.

"You come by later, Joe. I'll give you a driving lesson, okay?" Paulson said as he chuckles and walks away.

"Wasn't even him last night. It was Ellie." Barry said.

They started walking up the stairs.

"I figured. I just didn't realize you were helping people for the glory." Joe said.

"It's not like I want a museum built in my name. Keeping what I can do a secret from Iris and everyone, it's harder than I thought." Ellie said.

"I know, but it is safer that way. Besides, we got work to do." Joe said.

Minutes later in Barry's lab, Joe put an evidence box on the table.

"The evidence for our mom's case... We've been through this box 1,000 times." Barry said.

"Before, your story about what really happened that night... The lightning storm, the man in the middle of it... I thought that was two kids trying to protect their father from prison. But now that I know it's true, we're gonna go through every scrap of evidence until we find something that helps us." Joe said.

"It took the jury 52 minutes to come back with a verdict of guilty." Barry said.

"They moved too fast, which is why we got to take our time." Joe said.

Eddie walks in and says, "Barry, Ellie, Joe, we got multiple homicides. Do you know the Darbinyan crime family?"

Later at the crime scene at the restaurant, the Darbinyan crime family was dead on the floor and the cops were taking pictures of the scene.

Barry and Ellie were checking out the bodies when Joe walked up to them.

"Barry, Ellie? Ah. Anything?" Joe asked.

"Signs of histotoxic hypoxia. The cells in their bodies were unable to utilize oxygen." Barry said.

"It's consistent with exposure to poison gas." Ellie said.

"What kind of poison?" Joe asked.

"We'll need to take a lung sample, see if we can narrow it down." Barry said.

Eddie walks up to Joe and says, "The only other exit was bolted from the inside. They were trapped... I was thinking someone pumped gas in from the outside, but witnesses say the street empty."

"Unless it had a mind of its own." Barry said.

Joe and Eddie turn to look at him.

Ellie chuckles.

"Eddie, would you mind canvassing again? Somebody had to have seem something suspicious." Joe said.

Eddie nods and walks away.

Joe turns to Barry and Ellie then says, "Okay, explain."

"The boss collapsed by the table. This guy made it 10 feet away. That guy had a chance to move off and fire three shots into the window trying to break the glass." Barry said.

"But they all started in the same spot, which means they should have all been affected by the gas at the same time, but instead, it's as if..." Ellie said.

"They were attacked one by one. My gut feeling, if we're gonna solve this one, we're gonna need... Backup." Joe said.

"Yeah." Ellie said.

Later at S.T.A.R. Labs...

"Fascinating, a meta-human that can manipulate poison gas." Harrison said.

"Is it just poisonous gas, or can he control all aerated substances?" Cisco asked.

"And how is he able to formulate the connection? Is it physiological or psychological?" Caitlin asked.

"This individual can create a mental nexus using gasous substances." Harrison said.

"You mean connect with gases on a molecular level?" Cisco said.

"Yes." Harrison said.

"That is ridiculously cool." Cisco said.

"They get really excited about this stuff." Ellie said.

"The only thing I'm excited about is putting criminals behind bars. Except Iron Heights isn't exactly equipped to handle meta-humans." Joe said.

"Then I guess it's fortunate the ones you've encountered so far are no longer with us." Harrison said.

"Well, unless we're planning on excuting every super criminal we stop, you geniuses are gonna have to come up with someplace else to hold them." Joe said.

"A meta-human prison. Sweet." Cisco said.

"Until we figure a way to remove their powers." Harrison said.

"There is one place here that might hold them." Cisco said.

They turn and looked at Cisco.

"You can't be serious. I mean, we haven't been down there since... It's cordoned off." Caitlin said.

"Cisco is right. It could be modified to act as a makeshift prison." Harrison said.

"What could?" Barry asked.

"The particel accelerator." Harrison said.

Seconds later, Harrison was calling Caitlin's name.

"Caitlin." Harrison said.

Caitlin snaps out of the memory when the particle accelerator exploded.

"Did you hear me? We're going down to the accelerator ring." Harrison said.

"Actually, Harrison, we could use Caitlin's help inentifing the poison gas." Ellie said as she noticed how terrified Caitlin looked.

Harrison nods and says, "Okay."

"If that's okay with you?" Barry asked.

"Let's go." Caitlin said.

Later, Ellie, Barry and Caitlin walk into Central City Police Department...

"Welcome to the CCPD." Ellie said.

"So this is your day jobs." Caitlin said.

"Mm-hmm." Barry said.

A criminal in handcuffs walks passed them and says, "I'm gonna rip out your hearts and eat 'em for lunch."

"Delightful." Caitlin said.

"Lab rat, Princess, I need prints off this gun pronto." A policewoman said as she hands them a bag with a gun inside.

Singh walks up to them and says, "Allen! Princess Allen! Where the hell is the fiber analysis on the Orloff case?"

"Upstairs. It's all finished." Barry said.

"I can just run up and bring it down." Ellie said as she runs towards the stairs.

"With you, that could be three days from now. I'll go with you. [He looks over at Caitlin.] Who are you?" Singh said.

"Captain, this is Dr. Caitlin Snow." Barry said.

"I'm Ellie's personal physician." Caitlin said.

By the time they reached Barry's lab, Ellie was standing in the door way with analysis in her hand and also there were papers flying onto the floor behind her.

"The fiber analysis for the Orloff case, like you asked for, sir." Ellie said.

Singh takes the analysis, looks around the lab and says, "Clean up your lab. It's a mess." He turns and walks away.

Mintues later...

"Can we ask you something that you don't have to answer?" Barry asked.

"My least favorite kind of question. Shoot." Caitlin said.

Barry motions to Ellie to ask her the question.

"Ronnie. What was he like?" Ellie asked.

"You just never talked about him that much." Barry said.

"We met when we were working on the particle accelerator. He was the structural engineer. He liked to joke that he was basically a very high-priced plumber. We were very different. You might have noticed I can be a bit... Guarded. Ronnie knew how to make me laugh. He used to say we were like fire and ice. He wasn't supposed to be there that night. He was just there for me. If he hadn't..." Caitlin said.

Then the printer started whirring as Caitlin pulled a paper out of it.

"This says that there was no residue of gas in the tissue, poisonous or otherwise." Caitlin said.

"It must have evaporated. We'll need to get a fresh sample." Ellie said.

Caitlin looks at the analysis of the gas and says, "Wait, this can't be right. This says that there are two distinct strands of DNA inside the tissue."

"How did someone else's DNA get inside the victim's lungs?" Barry asked.

Seconds later, Ellie, Barry and Caitlin were looking at the DNA that was in the gas.

"There's no DNA match in the database." Ellie said as she was looking at the computer screen.

"I don't understand. Why would a chemical attack leave behind another person's DNA inside the victim?" Caitlin said.

"What if the meta-human we're looking for doesn't control gas?" Barry said.

Ellie thinks about that he said and says, "What if he becomes it?"

The police scanner then goes off...

"All available units, we have a report of a toxic gas attack in the Central City Shopping Mall."

Ellie looks at Barry, then she quickly got her suit.

"Ellie, don't. We don't know enough about what we're facing yet... It's not safe." Caitlin said.

Then in seconds Ellie zoom out of there... She make it into the mall with Cisco's help.

"I patched into the mall's security system. According to witnesses, the gas attack was in the main elevator in the north wing." Cisco said.

"Which one is the north wing?" Ellie asked.

"The one with The BIg Belly Burger." Harrison said.

Cisco gives Harrison a look that said, "What?"

"I eat." Harrison said.

By the time Ellie reached the elevator, there was a crowd and the woman was dead outside the elevator. Then she saw green gas going into the back of a hallway and that's when she saw the gas foem into a creepy bald guy.

"Why did you kill that woman?" Ellie asked angrily.

The creepy bald man was wheezing then he says, "She deserved to die. Now go run away. I still have one more name on my list. Don't make me add you to it."

Then Ellie zooms towards him and tries to punch him but just goes through him. All of a sudden the meta-human turns into greed gas and punches Ellie in the face. He went straight for Ellie and the gas goes inside her.

Ellie gasps as she grabs her throat.

Back at S.T.A.R. Labs...

"Ellie. Ellie... Ellie, can you hear me?" Harrison said.

"Ellie's vitals are weak, but she's alive, Dr. Wells. I'm sure she's fine." Cisco said.

Then all of a sudden Ellie zooms in and stops by Harrison.

Ellie was wheezing and coughing.

"Help... I can't breathe." Ellie said as she was wheezing and coughing.

Harrison pulls Ellie onto his lap and in his arms then yelled, "She needs oxygen. Get the crash cart!"

Cisco takes off to get it.

Harrison wheels Ellie over to the bed.

Ellie was wheezing.

Caitlin runs in with Barry as she sees what was happening and says, "Ellie! What haapened?"

Ellie was wheezing as she says, "Cut me open. The poison's still in me."

"She brought us a sample. Caitlin, we need to do a pulmonary biopsy, extract an active portion of that gas." Harrison said.

Caitlin looks down at Ellie and says, "I can't give you any anesthetic. Your metabolism will burn right though it."

"I heal fast... Just do it." Ellie said.

"Cisco, give me the syringe. This is gonna hurt a lot." Caitlin said.

"It's a small needle. You probably won't even feel it." Cisco said as he holds up the syringe.

"You're definitely going to feel it." Caitlin said as she stabs Ellie with the syringe.

Ellie gasps.

Moments later, Ellie was connected to a monitor that was beeping steadily as she woke up.

Ellie groans as she turns to see Harrison holding her hand while also working on a laptop.

"She lives." Cisco said.

"You'd be dead if your lung cells didn't regenerate so quickly." Caitlin said.

Ellie groans as she puts her hand on her chest and says, "My chest feels like that one time I had a cigarette with Barry in his room."

Caitlin turns and looks at Barry.

"Yeah, teen me and tweenish El lived for danger." Barry said.

"Barry, this isn't funny. Ellie could've..." Caitlin said.

"But I didn't." Ellie said as she tries to assure Caitlin that she was okay.

"Now that we have a sample, we'll get to work analyzing it, figure out the makeup of the poison, maybe get a clue as to his human identity." Harrison said as he was looking at his laptop screen.

"Or at least a way to stop him from turning into a mist. The Mist. Okay, that's his name. End of discussion." Cisco said as he smiles.

Ellie gets off the bed and says, "We have to get to the station."

"You should be resting." Harrison said.

"We have to talk to Joe." Ellie said.

Later at Central City Police Department, Joe was waiting for Barry and Ellie in Barry's lab...

"Joe. I had him. The meta-human. We were wrong. He's not controlling airborne toxins. He can literally transform himself into poison gas." Ellie said.

"That's new. The victim was a judge. We're going though some of her old cases to see if there's a connection." Joe said as he was holding a case file.

"It's too late. I should have been faster." Ellie said.

"Focus on the job. Don't think about that right now." Joe said.

"You don't want to know what I'm thinking about." Ellie said as she walks over to the window.

"Ellie." Barry said.

Ellie sighs and says, "Our dad has spent 14 years in a 6x8-foot cell for a crime he didn't commit. I couldn't save my mom, but I can save him."

"Didn't I promise you both that we would get your father out of prison together?" Joe said.

"We don't need your help, Joe." Barry said.

"I could be in and out of there with him before anyone even sees me." Ellie said.

"Okay. You break him out of there. Then what? He's on the run for the rest of his life. And something tell me he's not as fast as you are." Joe said.

"You don't know what it's like there." Ellie said.

"You think I don't understand what you both are feeling? I have been a cop for almost as long as you both been alive. So you should know, putting on that suit does not make everybody safe. For every person you save, there's gonna be somebody you can't. And the hardest thing you're gonna have to face is not some monster out there with powers. It's gonna be that feeling of uselessness when you can't do anything. Or the guilt that weighs on you when you make a mistake. Some things, Ellie, you can't fight. Some things you just have to live with." Joe said as he turns and walks out of the lab.

Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, Caitlin was sitting alone in a room... Ellie and Barry saw her through a glass window on the other side of the room.

"You should go talk to her." Barry said.

"Yeah, I know." Ellie said.

Barry starts pushing towards the room as he says, "Start with an apology, don't ask why. Just do it."

Ellie nods.

Then Ellie walks over to Caitlin and sits next to her...

"I'm sorry. I... I didn't mean to scare you, leaving like that." Ellie said.

"It's okay. I get it. You had to go. It's just... That's the last thing that Ronnie said to me that night." Caitlin said.

"My mother died 14 years ago. I used to think that the further away I got from it, the less it would hurt. But some days, the pain, it's worst than the day that it happened. Some things you can't fight." Ellie said.

"For so long, I've been terrified of going into that hole." Caitlin said.

Barry had been listening just in case, he walks in and says, "What if we went with you?"

Minutes later they all walk into the door leading the accelerator.

"He saved so many lives that day, and no one will ever know what he did." Caitlin said.

"We do." Barry said.

"He was a hero." Ellie said.

"I didn't want him to be a hero... I wanted him to be my husband." Caitlin said.

Barry gave Caitlin a hug to comfort her and Ellie gave her one as well.

"Barry, Ellie, Caitlin, you down there? You got to come look at this." Cisco said.

Then they go back to the lab to see Cisco standing in front of a computer screen.

"Hey, check this out. It's a 3D molecular model of the gas we retrieved from Ellie's lungs." Cisco said.

"Hydrogen cyanide?" Barry said.

"What's interesting is what's mixed in with the cyanide... A sedative." Harrison said.

"Of course... The night of the explosion, find out if anyone was executed." Ellie said.

Caitlin walks over to another computer.

"Why?" Harrison asked.

"That sedative is given to criminals on death row before they go to the gas chamber and breathe in hydrogen cyanide." Ellie said.

"That's right." Harrison said.

"There was someone executed. Kyle Nimbus." Caitlin said as she puts his picture on the screen for everyone to see.

"That's him." Ellie said.

"He was a hit man for the Darbinyan crime family. They turned on him and testified. Judge Theresa Howard was the judge at his trial. She sentenced him to death." Caitlin said.

"He must have been affected by the explosion while he was being gassed." Harrison said.

"Records indicate the execution was completed." Cisco said.

"That's why there wasn't a match. The DNA datebase only has records of the living." Barry said.

"Right." Harrison said.

"He said there was one more person on his list. Check the the arrest record. Who caught him? That could be his next attack." Ellie said.

"Barry, Ellie, the lead detective..." Caitlin said as she had a worried look on her face.

They looked on the computer screen and the lead detective on Nimbus' case was... Joe West.

Then at Iron Hights, Joe had come to see Barry and Ellie's father, Henry...

"Here to see Henry Allen." Joe said.

"Sign here. Personal effects here." The guard said.

Joe started taking out his things out of his pocket and putting it into the basket, when outside the prison, Nimbus was walking towards the gate of the prison.

Back at the precinct, Eddie was at his desk when his phone rings.

"Eddie." Ellie said.

"Ellie, what's up?" Eddie said.

"Hey, do you know where Joe went? He's not picking up his cell." Ellie said.

"Uh, not sure." Eddie said.

"Eddie, it's really important I speak to him. I need to know where he went." Ellie said.

"He went to Iron Heights to see your dad." Eddie said.

Then Ellie hungs up the phone and has a worried look on her face.

"Ellie. I reverse-engineered an antidote to the toxin. I hope you won't need it." Caitlin said.

Ellie turns to look at her suit then back at Caitlin and nod.

Back at Iron Heights, the door buzzes and clanks as Henry walks into the room and sees Joe sitting down on the other side of the glass window of the visiting room.

"What are you doing here? Is Barry all right? Is Ellie all right?" Henry asked.

"They're fine." Joe said.

"Then to what do I owe this visit?" Henry asked.

"I know I should have come to see you sooner." Joe said.

"You just weren't up for a little chitchat with a man who murdered his wife in front of his own kids?" Henry said.

"Except now I know you didn't kill your wife." Joe said.

Back at S.T.A.R. Labs...

"Ellie, I pulled up the specs on Iron Heights Prison. It's maximum security, but I think I can talk you through breaking in there." Cisco said.

"Don't bother. I've been figuring out how to break into that place since I was 5." Ellie said.

Back at Iron Heights...

"Some new evidence has come to light. I can't go into detail. It's just... Look, the important thing is, I'm reopening the case. I'm gonna find out who really killed Nora, and I promise you, Henry, I'm going to get you out of here. [He breathing shakily.] I am so sorry." Joe said as his eyes were watery.

"It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in me... Because you always believed in my kids." Henry said as his eyes are watery also.

Then all of a sudden green gas appears behind Joe and the guard that was standing behind him was coughing and wheezing as he choked on the gas. Joe stands up as he watches Nimbus take his human form.

"Nimbus. You're supposed to be dead." Joe said.

"Same to you." Nimbus said.

Then Nimbus turns back into gas and starts choking Joe with it from the inside.

Joe drops to the floor as he starts wheezing and choking.

"Joe? Joe! Help! Guards! Somebody help!" Henry yelled as he bangs on the glass.

Nimbus escapes through the air vents as Ellie arrive... Joe look like he was having a seizure until Ellie held him down so she could inject him with the antidote that Caitlin gave her. Then she turn to see Henry and she make her face blurry by moving fast, so he wouldn't know it was her, and then Ellie looked down at Joe.

"Go get him." Joe said.

Then she zoom out of there and found Nimbus walking in the middle of the street and he was wheezing.

"So you've come to finish what the gas chamber couldn't?" Nimbus said.

"You're going somewhere you can't hurt anyone ever again." Ellie said.

"Wrong." Nimbus said as he turns back into gas.

With Caitlin, Harrison, Barry and Cisco... They were with Ellie every step of the way.

"She used the antidote on Joe. [She talks into Ellie's ear piece.] You need to stay away from him. Do not breathe him in." Caitlin said.

Then Ellie stated running away from Nimbus, so she wouldn't breath in the gas.

"I'm not sure how that help me, guys." Ellie said.

Then Nimbus goes back to his normal form... Ellie try to run and punch him, but she just go through him.

"You can't fight him, El... Just keep him coming at you. That should sap his strength." Barry said.

"Gas is the least stable form of matter. This meta-human will not be able to stay in his mist form for long. His particles will need to reform." Harrison said.

Then Nimbus comes at Ellie fast and she kept running back and forth until he started slowing down. But just came at her again and she jumped out of the way.

Nimbus turn back to his normal self and was wheezing bery heavily.

Then Ellie shoves Nimbus hard that send him flying to the other side of the road, Nimbus was so exhausted that he passed out.

"Ellie... Ellie... Ellie." Harrison said.

"We win." Ellie said.

Later at the hospital, Joe was sitting up on his bed as his monitor was beeping steadily... Ellie was asleep in a chair.

"It's been a while since I watched you sleep." Joe said as he chuckles.

"Rescuing you is exhausting." Ellie said.

Joe was chuckling as he says, "I really miss the ability to be able to ground you."

"Sorry I went and grew up. [She got up from her chair and walked over to Joe.] I could have got my dad out of Iron Heights tonight." Ellie said.

"I know." Joe said.

"But you were right. That's not the way." Ellie said.

Barry walks in with a cup of coffee and says, "Hey... Yoh guys are up."

"Yes... Please tell me that's for me." Joe said as he points to the coffee.

"Sorry Joe... It's for Ellie... She needs it more." Barry said as he hands Ellie the coffee.

"Thanks." Ellie said as she smiles at him.

Iris runs into the room, hugs Joe as she says, "Daddy."

Eddie was right behind Iris, they had walked in together.

"Oh. Baby, I'm fine. Don't worry." Joe said.

"We'll let you guys talk." Barry said.

Then Ellie and Barry walk out of the hospital room.

Later with Ellie and Barry at Iron Heights... They went to see their dad.

"Joe's gonna be okay. You know, lately I've been thinking about mom. A lot. [He sighs.] I miss her." Barry said.

"Me too." Ellie said.

"Did I ever tell you both about the time you learned to walk?" Henry said.

Ellie chuckles then says, "A couple time."

"Everyone was walking before you. All the little babies running around the neighborhood, not you. But your mom was never worried. She just said, "they'll walk they has someplace to go." and sure enough, the first time you took a few steps, you moved so quick, you didn't walk, you started..." Henry said.

"To run." Ellie and Barry said with tears in their eyes.

"And Barry, you ran to your mom. Ellie, you ran to Barry and your mom. Right into their arms. You had someplace to go." Henry said.

Ellie wiped her tears away and smiles.

Ellie's Voice Over: "I thought being the fastest woman alive would make my life easier... That I could outrun anything... Turns out, no one can outrun pain."

Ellie saved a woman from being mugged.

Ellie's Voice Over: "Life is tragic. But it's also precious... And sweet..."

Barry, Caitlin and Cisco were getting ice cream and Iris was writing about the streak.

Ellie's Voice Over: "And exrtaordinary. And the only way I know to honor my mom's life is to keep running."

#barry allen #the flash #harrison wells x reader #the man in the yellow suit #ellie allen

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9.1.2021 | Waid | 15.00h

Vor dem geschlossenen Restaurant reger Betrieb. Parkierte Autos, Spaziergänger, Ausflügler. Trotz der steifen Bise sitzen Leute auf den Bänken, trinken Tee aus Thermoskannen. Im Wald Winter, gefrorene Wege, Schnee auf den Bäumen. Tapfer absolviert ein junges Paar die Übungen auf dem Vitaparcours. Sie zeigt ihm, wie er im Vierfüsslerstand den Oberschenkel aus der Hüfte drehen muss.

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Some Thoughts on Daredevil #600

Here’s to 600 issues of Daredevil (not counting mini-series, annuals, etc.)! As usually happens at these landmark moments, Marvel and the DD creative team celebrated with a longer-than-normal issue, which sparked far-reaching changes to Matt Murdock’s world.

The situation set up by this story arc is a grim one. Wilson Fisk has been elected mayor of NYC. Matt has been keeping an eye on him (and vice versa) as Fisk’s deputy, but has struggled in his every attempt to sabotage him. However, he has recently discovered a crack in Fisk’s law-abiding facade: a meeting that he has planned with the city’s prominent street-level villains. Matt, as Daredevil, gathers together a gang of heroes to crash the party.

Matt: “We protect this city, we fight in its streets, we are New York. And now we’ll take it back from Wilson Fisk. Mayor or not, he has to go down. We agree on that.”

Colorist Matt Milla still hasn’t quite gotten the hair color memo, because poor Jessica has lost her brown hair. It also would have been nice to see Colleen in this team-up, since Misty is there. But these are minor complaints. In a series that restored Matt’s secret identity and thus symbolically isolated him from many of his friends, it’s a powerful gesture, in this climactic issue, to see him engaged in this kind of a team-up... even if most of the people involved still don’t know who he is. It’s especially nice to see Maya (Echo) here, back in action alongside her former friends. Since her resurrection early in the run she has had a few really touching moments of reconnecting with Matt, and we hope to see more of her as the series continues.

Matt has pulled off similar plans in the past, and he has taken down Wilson Fisk in some thoroughly delicious ways, but in this instance, it ends up not being that easy. And we like that-- Fisk has been one step ahead of Matt for this whole arc, and it would have felt anticlimactic for such a simple, faulty plan to bring that to an end. Rather than catching Fisk red-handed, the Kingpin doesn’t show. The collected villains turn on each other, the heroes swoop in to prevent any unnecessary deaths... and then the cops arrive.

Matt: “Damn. Damn. So much for the plan. Need to get down there, before someone gets-- Wait. NYPD. But that’s... Oh, no.”

This scene, as exciting as it is, features a reappearance of the less-than-stellar Garney/Milla radar sense, which we’ve complained about before.

There has always been inconsistency, but generally, modern depictions of the radar sense don’t allow it to pierce solid objects. Here, we see Matt tracking the activity in the restaurant from outside, a blatant break with tradition that we’re not huge fans of. What makes even less sense is the arbitrary use of multiple colors. Since the radar depiction is a visual stand-in for non-visual perception, the different colors must represent something... but what? Texture? And in the panel where Matt notices the cops, his radar seems to be picking up on flat images and uniform details that he should have no way of perceiving. It’s a nonsensical, misleading approach to the radar sense, and a tragic departure from Paolo Rivera’s crosshatching design, which was used to great effect in volumes 3 and 4. We understand each creative team wanting to put their unique stamp on the comic, but come on... if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

The police swoop in and grab the heroes and villains alike. We learn-- in a neat twist that, again, fits with Fisk’s behavior in the issues leading up to this climax-- that the proposed meeting was a trap, designed to round up the city’s crime bosses and get them arrested. As Matt has done again and again in this arc, he assumed nefariousness on Fisk’s part, and ended up shooting himself in the foot. While we know that Fisk is still a bad guy, and probably has all sorts of things up his sleeve, it’s always fun to see him play the good guy, just to see how cleverly he constructs the facade. And even more compellingly, Matt’s failure to accurately read his nemesis backfires on his friends.

Wesley: “There were heroes there, too. Jessica Jones, Danny Rand, Maya Lopez, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Marc Spector. Even Spider-Man.”

Fisk: “Spider-Man... and what is his name? Who is he?”

Wesley: “We don’t know. Just before the cops grabbed him, he sprayed that webbing of his around his neck. Sealed it up tight, like glue. They can’t get his mask off.”

(Oh, Peter. He’s so... experienced at this secret identity thing.)

It will be interesting to see how long they actually end up in jail, given the events of the rest of the issue. Hopefully, someone is babysitting Dani...

One of our favorite moments in this issue is a little reversal. While Matt has failed again and again to properly read his opponent, Fisk knows exactly how Daredevil works, and where to find him. It’s a level of familiarity between hero and arch-nemesis that is highly compelling to us. It’s these kinds of details that make for the best hero/villain relationships. It also gives Matt a chance to do a badass pose on Fisk’s roof, which is always a plus.

Fisk: “It’d be just like him. Come along, Wesley. Let’s go up and say hello.”

Matt: “Fisk.”

There have been so many iconic fights between these two over the years that it’s increasingly difficult to do anything new with them. This fight is certainly a good one... but then, they all are, and this tussle probably won’t go down in DD history as one of their memorable battles. But it’s still highly enjoyable, and is enhanced by Soule’s excellent dialogue, which highlights the core of their conflict, and emphasizes just how long they’ve been having these fights.

Fisk: “If my name weren’t Wilson Fisk, you wouldn’t have batted an eye. You’d be cheering that the mayor had found a way to get Owlsley and the others off the streets.”

Matt: “But you are Wilson Fisk. You are the Kingpin. And you’re the enemy of everything that matters about this city.”

Fisk: “No. I’m not. But I’m sick of trying to explain that to you.”

But as was foreshadowed throughout this arc, Matt isn’t allowed a clean win. Fisk hits him with a sledgehammer so hard that it’s amazing he’s able to stand afterward, and then goes off to tell a crowd of adoring supporters how great he is. Again, we are given a look at Fisk’s faked (probably?) duality, as Soule is exploring it-- the idea of him playing the hero while still being a villain. This isn’t a new Kingpin concept, of course, but it remains a good one, and an engaging way of playing with the character’s complexity.

Partway through the speech, the Hand arrive and shoot Fisk full of arrows, thus kickstarting the next story arc. The Hand are really neat when used well, so we’re excited to see where Soule takes them, particularly given their new connection to Blindspot. However, they are not this issue’s big surprise. We learn, as Matt is carted away by the cops, that with Fisk now out of the picture, the mayorship falls to his deputy...

Steve: “Matt Murdock is the mayor of New York City.”

(Heck yeah!)

This is really exciting, not only because of its implications for Matt’s life, but also because it has been a long time coming. Kesel wanted to do it back in the 90s, but the idea was shot down by editorial. Bendis teased the possibility, but it never actually happened, thanks to the events of the rest of his run.

Guy: “They’re going to ask you to be the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City.”

Matt: “Huh.”

Daredevil vol. 2 #56 by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev

And Waid’s speculative story in the 50th anniversary issue suggested that Matt had been/will become the mayor of San Francisco at some point, but we don’t get to actually see him in action.

Foggy: “They remembered him from his original tour of duty here, when he and the Black Widow made the scene. [...] So when he came back, they had your pop running for office in no time. Busy boy, he was. Made lots of enemies.”

Daredevil vol. 4 #1.5, “The King in Red” by Mark Waid and Javier Rodriguez

But we are finally getting Mayor Matt Murdock, and we cannot wait to see how that works out for him.

The issue’s secondary plot thread is possibly even more interesting than the Matt/Fisk shenanigans, because it’s all new. This thread follows Sam’s final battle with Muse... who is essentially a Blindspot rogue now, rather than a DD one. Their relationship is fascinating, with Sam’s quest to understand the nature of his own heroism/lack thereof paired with Muse’s frenetic lack of morality. They are both raw, emotional characters, and their interactions in this issue are stunning. We’re gonna miss Muse.

Sam: “I need to understand, Muse. I need this to make sense. Why do you do what you do? Why do you hurt people? Why do you kill? Why?”

Muse: “You know why, Blindspot. It’s the same reason you want to kill me right now. It makes you better it makes you strong it shows them your power it says something it means something it solves your problems it gives you control you’re big they’re small it’s art it’s art IT’S ART!”

This fight also hints that Sam’s connection with the Hand is far from over... and provides a glimpse at how his time training with them may have changed him.

Beast: “You know my power. The power of the Beast. I will give it to you once again. Just reach out... and take it.”

While Sam refuses to kill for the Beast, this relationship will likely continue into the next arc-- which appears to be Hand-centric. Sam’s continuing evolution has been full of surprises, and we’re eager to see where this story takes him. All-in-all, this issue didn’t stand out as one of the most earth-shattering Daredevil stories ever told, but it was still thoroughly enjoyable, and did a great job of setting up some very exciting things in the future.

As an extra treat, the issue also includes a short, Foggy-centric story called “They Also Serve” by Christos Gage, Mike Perkins, and Andy Troy. This is merely the latest in a long line of Foggy-centric stories that celebrate his relationship with Matt. And there’s not a dang thing wrong with that, because they never get old. Matt and Foggy’s friendship exists at the very core of the comic, and its power and poignancy only increases as the years go by. Give us all of the Foggy-centric retrospectives. We will get misty-eyed every time.

We have only one complaint about this story, which is that Foggy... doesn’t really sound like Foggy for parts of it.

Foggy: “This is gonna be so great! You have no idea how lucky you are, Murdock, ‘cause Foggy Nelson just happens to be the finest wingman in the history of wingmen. You just stand there looking handsome, strong, stoic... with a hint of tragedy, while I draw ‘em in with my oratorical virtuosity. Between my silver tongue, your looks, and the whole blind thing, you’re gonna need that cane to ward off the babes.”

(Who... who are you, and what did you do with the real Foggy?!)

In fact, he sounds just like MCU Foggy. Which maybe shouldn’t have surprised us, because Christos Gage was also a writer for the first season of the Netflix show.

Despite this bit of weirdness, the issue is a nice look back at moments in Matt and Foggy’s friendship. It’s a trip down continuity lane, emphasizing just how long they’ve known each other and how much they’ve been through together.

All told, it’s a pleasant way to close out the issue, particularly given the rocky state of Matt and Foggy’s friendship throughout this run.

#Daredevil vol. 5 #Daredevil #Matt Murdock #Kingpin #Wilson Fisk #Blindspot #Sam Chung #Muse #Commentary

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twiststreet · 6 years

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I’ve had good experiences on that Comixology back when I was following comics closer and knew what I was looking for, but I went by there tonight since I got the itch and am having just a heck of a time trying to navigate this site for casual browsing...

Maybe I’m not using the site right-- but okay, okay, I go to that site, and I says to myself, I says, “say, what’s going on with those Image Comics?” And I click over there, and it just dumps out a list of every title they’ve ever published alphabetically...? Alphabetically-- no creators, no loglines, nothing but titles??? Doesn’t Image have hits that it could be, like, shepherding me to? Does Image not control its storefront??? How am I supposed to know what I’m supposed to want? An alphabetical list feels like it assumes I know what I want, instead of trying to sell me anything. But why would I know what I want??? I’m a lapsed/casual reader-- I have vague memories of stuff I’ve heard Graeme and Jeff talk about on the Wait What podcast, but... right this second, the stuff I remember them talking about the most is old Bob Haney Batman comics from the 1960′s (which actually, probably do rule, but I’m not in the mood for one of those and don’t give my money to DC, so).

Granted, there’s the question of curation-- if the Image section could be better than just an alphabetical title dump, should the Image section be shepherding a new/casual reader like me to... Youngblood? Youngblood #1 probably sold more than any of these other comics ever did, so that’d have a certain logic to it. But nope, you have to navigate to page 18 to get to one of the highest selling comics they’ve published. Or should Image instead shepherd people to some books from that Robert Kirkman creature since he has some degree of fame with the general populace? But with Kirkman, if you want to read Walking Dead, that’s... I can’t even tell you what page that’s on-- I can’t find it...? Oh, because it’s not under the Image header-- it’s under a “Image-Skybound” submenu. You just have to know that, I guess. Or I go to page 18 to look at Wicked and Divine-- I’d read a couple of those before I’d gotten too busy to keep up. But nope-- that’s on page 17, because the title of the book is THE Wicked and Divine. Silly me!

I’m just kinda surprised there’s no effort being made to guide me to anything-- maybe I clicked the wrong button, but. I need to be guided! There’s a glut of product! I kinda know that I want to catch up on Savage Dragon comics because thanks to the Comics Journal, I hear that comic’s got girls shaving themselves in it now (?????). And I guess I want to catch up someday on the books I’d started before getting crazy busy these last couple years with my whole successful occupation thing, Saga or whatever, but like... besides that, I don’t know what the hip books are right now (if any...? Comics weren’t really suffering for having too much talent when I went and got myself busy).

Am I supposed to go to Image’s site and then circle back to Comixology...??? That just sounds like way too much work-- I just never got why comics were so goddamn hard to be interested in. At one point in my life, I thought it was just nerds doing gatekeeping, but like... I don’t think the nerds have their shit together enough to gatekeep (except to keep out women and minorities, where they’ve always managed to dig deep).

The front page is just kinda weird, too-- there sure are a lot of menus! It’s Amazon so I know they probably know what they’re doing, but I find the number of menus a little overwhelming. Or the way they’re structured-- one menu, it’s seriously like “do you want to read Marvel Comics or do you want to read Space Operas or do you want to read Story Arcs”...? Those are the options within a single menu??? What the fuck does that even mean??? Those just seem like random words-- that’s like getting a restaurant menu that says “Cheeseburger,” “Japanese Food” and “Lunch” on it...! The hell is going on? But who am I to argue with Amazon...? They know what they’re doing--15 seasons of Bosch make that pretty clear.

There’s a section marked Essential Graphic Novels that’s trying to sell me Archie, Fairy Tail manga, and Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea...? All in the same section?? That seems like a weird grouping of books to me. Further in, it’s recommending Bone (which is for children), Grendel Omnibus (which is not for children), My Favorite Thing is Monsters (which is also not for children probably, but where I understand it to be not for children in a very, very different way than is true of Grendel) and Mark Waid’s Irredeemable (which is for lame-wads). Again, I just find myself confused as to how any of this is organized. A button to exclude out all the DC titles would be nice, too, but I guess not a lot of people are weird that way-- you can block people on Youtube so it’d be nice if Comixology had that as an option. Or it’s interesting how few people are planning to have their covers seen this small -- none of the covers read...

There’s a section for the 2018 Eisner Award Nominations, but I still remember to avoid all that shit-- that knowledge hasn’t left me. It’s been some years but not enough years to have forgotten that! Oh, the Eisner nominated Black Bolt comics... cue: world’s longest fart noise... They nominated something called “Batman vs. Elmer Fudd” for an Eisner, so we continue to live in an era that is too ridiculous to be parodied.

How the hell does anyone buy comics??? I’ve been looking at this damn site for 15 minutes and still haven’t found the hentai...

#Worst Hobby or Worstest Hobby?

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