#amecomi

[amazonmandy]

I’m overhauling my Wonder Woman for a new shoot, did you know I also did Artemis? Based on the same Comi figure! I changed her sword out for a bow bc she was just a recast of the WW figure & I thought her bow was more appropriate! #wonderwoman #artemis #amecomi #amazon #archer https://www.instagram.com/p/CgXCF6Zuf-N/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nakanotamu]

Holding my head in my hands I still cannot believe they really did this SHIT. Who there was reading my fucking blog. This is so evil. It's so vile. I hate them so so much. Kouki call me

[stillness-in-green]

Spinaraki Week Round 3, Day One: Reunion

This is how I would like to see canon going in the next few chapters, please and thanks.

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That was the moment that decided everything that would come next.  I didn’t understand it at first.  When it happened, it took almost too long to figure out what had changed.

When the black gate swirls into existence in the middle of the field, a collective gasp tears itself from the throats of everyone on it.  Izuku, nerves and senses both alight with One For All’s power, reacts before he can think, already catching the falling Shigaraki with a length of Black Whip.  The images and facts pile up behind his eyes—Toga almost turned the tables by pulling him through a portal, and he can’t let it happen again by letting someone pull Shigaraki through another one; but Warp Gate severs things when it closes—as his gaze jumps from one horror-stricken expression to the next (even from a distance and through the electromagnetic barrier, he can see Monoma’s mouth moving), then to the triumphant grin slashing a smile onto Shigaraki’s face, a red curve of blood-smeared teeth.

Familiar yellow eyes open on the gate, then close again as someone comes through—a woman, strips of hair like paper streamers, eyes wide over no visible mouth.  As quickly as Izuku can take in her features, someone else follows—then another, and another, then too many to keep looking at as, suspended from Black Whip, Shigaraki wheezes out a hateful laugh (All For One, Izuku knows, but the cadence of it is so much like Shigaraki that he still struggles to believe it).

He didn’t think Danger Sense could get any more strident, and it doesn’t jump, not all at once, but its electric whine in his skull climbs smoothly and slowly higher, like Jirou turning up the volume knob on an amp.  In his ear, a jumble of words he can’t pick apart: Mandalay, Fourth, Second, First, Fifth.

The hospital.  Who did we have at the hospital?  Who did he send to the hospital; who did he even have left?

And then a bulk of green and shock of purple-pink come through the Warp Gate, and the world drops out from under Izuku as Shigaraki’s laughter abruptly stops.

His face contorts, twitching through discordant expressions as he stares at—Spinner, the League’s Spinner, it has to be, but huge, the size of a fully bulked out Muscular or even bigger than that, but if he had a quirk that could do that, why didn’t he use it at the training camp or at Kamino or—

But then Izuku—already hauling Shigaraki out of reach, length by length, Fa Jin coiling its strength back into his arms with every repetition—registers the spittle oozing between Spinner’s teeth, the sick glisten of it painted down the column of his throat, and his question answers itself.  (Multiple choice, two memories: the way Kaminari’s eyes used to glaze over and his face go slack when he overexerted himself, and All Might speaking in a low, grim voice about the consequences of taking gifts from All For One.)

The stream of people still flows through Warp Gate, more and more packing in, a building roar of shouting. In Izuku’s peripheral vision, blurs of brown and white and red move as Mirko leaps in to engage, Lemillion and Suneater just steps behind.

And still, Shigaraki dangles at the end of Black Whip, stare fixed on Spinner as his brows knot lower and lower, the earlier rictus grin now a downturned grimace.

“Everyone shut up!” Sharp and sudden, Hatsume Mei’s voice on the comm line cuts through the white noise garble.  “The engines can’t take any more weight than this!  Someone get that gate closed or the whole school’s gonna crash!”

“Eraser?”  Mandalay’s voice, harried.

“Not until Kurogiri comes through himself.”  Aizawa-sensei’s voice, flat as bare sheetrock but cut through with a strange, wire-taut pain.

Mirko pops up through the sea of people (heteromorphs, Izuku registers of the blur of features and limbs, they’re all heteromorphs) and a body sails back through the portal, propelled by the force of her kick.  But the crowd keeps thickening, even as Spinner’s advance slows and stops.  It’s no one’s work—the others are still fighting the crowd, including Best Jeanist, crouched low over Kacchan (and Izuku’s throat still reflexively tightens, his gaze still wanting to freeze in place, at Kacchan’s stillness) in the center of a cat’s-cradle mesh of threads and a tightening circle of people.

“The portal goes both ways, right?” Lemillion’s voice, barely pausing before he tumbles forward into, “I can get through the crowd; I’ll get him!”  The fluttering red of his cape marks an unerring path toward the swirling gate.

The next flurry of words is drowned out by a horrible groan, long and loud, rising up from the school to suffuse the air like a volcano’s plume of ash.  The view of the horizon shifts, a pillar suddenly jutting across the image of distant trees where before there’d been only the hazy orange grid of the barrier.  Below, the whole crowd lurches to the right.

Hatsume shrieks, “My babies!” before the line cuts to the shrill, piercing distortion of a lost signal.  It hurts his ears, but distantly, barely reaching Izuku through his lightheaded whirl.  What changed?  What happened?  I’m not out of time yet with Gearshift.  I—Shigaraki—

Spinner’s head cranes upward, the motion sluggish.  He sways in place when he sees Shigaraki, his mouth falling farther open.  His right arm twitches upward, once and violently, then flops back down to his side.  Shigaraki’s head is turned away from Izuku, white hair covering his face; all Izuku can see is the slow, trembling movements of his cracked lips.

Then Shigaraki’s head snaps back up and his hair falls back to show his eyes, blazing red and so familiar it takes Izuku’s breath away.

The city, the rain.  His class—his friends.  So much anger in their eyes, but, after weeks of cacophony, a silence from Danger Sense so overpowering that the sheer absence had felt like an unbroken scream.

The school lurches again, the barrier flickering and dying, and Deku’s hands make the decision for him.

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Shigaraki falls.  He doesn’t have to try and tear through Midoriya Izuku’s power with his bare hands because the hero did the job for him, letting go and vanishing in a zippy blur of green.  Gone to where, Shigaraki doesn’t know and doesn’t care, because Sensei is still trying to stuff him back down, packed inside his own head like someone who ran afoul of yakuza and got their body added to the cement mix of a building foundation.  And Shigaraki doesn’t care about that right now, either, because much more important is—

Even as out of it as he looked before, as jerky and glitching, Spinner’s arms go up and stay up.  They don’t flinch when Shigaraki hits them, so for just a second Shigaraki lets himself be glad of the surgery, since without it the momentum would have folded his spine in half from the impact.

Spinner looks down at him, dumb and drooling, sticky strands already splatting onto Shigaraki’s chest.  The whites show all around his eyes, shrunk down to pinpricks, and his breath shudders in his ribs.  His mouth moves, but the only thing that comes out are slurred syllables that can’t even decide if they’re Shigaraki’s name or just wracked groaning.

“No,” Shigaraki tells him, and reaches down to close his fingers around the back of Spinner’s hand.

Nothing happens.  Somewhere, then, three red eyes are still glaring at him, and the rage closes his throat; I’ll pluck out their damn eyeballs for this.

Sensei doesn’t speak, doesn’t have to.  His hand slides over Shigaraki’s inner gaze; everything goes cloudy white.

“No!”  His voice this time sounds younger; it doesn’t feel like the voice he’s used to, doesn’t match the words his lips were making.  His vision swims back into focus to find tears running down Spinner’s cheeks, his mouth still opening and closing with nothing coming out of it that makes any sense.

Tomura and the kid he used to be can both relate.

The heroes are lost in the crowd.  The second Shigaraki lays eyes on, Kurogiri’s portal wavers and retracts down to nothing.  Probably literal hundreds of people are shouting, so the howl from the guy who just lost a leg to a closed warp gate goes unheard.

Still no sign of Midoriya, and Sensei’s still there, but when Shigaraki looks at Spinner, just looks at him and takes a breath and lets his eyes rest there, a clean anger washes through him, the kind of thing he’s only ever felt once or twice in his life, and it muffles Sensei down to something he can ignore, for now.

“No,” Shigaraki says again, quietly, and boosts himself out of Spinner’s hands.  He lost Air Walk back at Tartarus, forced by the quirk controlling him to hand it off to a sold-out, burned-out hero, but he’s pretty sure he doesn’t need it just for this.

He reaches up and wraps his hands under the edge of Spinner’s belt, thumbs hooking into the belt loops on his pants.  Then he crouches as low as he can without letting go, tightens up his grip and his thighs alike, and jumps.

The barrier’s gone, he’s not afraid of falling, and thanks—again—to the Doc’s double-edged work, Spinner hardly weighs a thing.

He catches just a glimpse of Midoriya, a phosphorescent crackle of lightning hovering in the sky above U.A. at the center of a gale.  He’s got more ropes of black power coming out of him than Shigaraki even bothers trying to count, lashed around the school and the barrier support pillars and the chunk of rock the whole fortress is floating on.  Over the roaring wind and getting-distant-fast screaming, Shigaraki thinks he hears Midoriya yell his name.

But there’s no pursuit as Shigaraki floats across the apex of his jump and then starts to fall.

Regeneration kicks in around the same time gravity does.  Someone blinked.  And somewhere in there, too, Spinner found the presence of mind to wrap those huge arms around his waist and pull him up, the massive curve of his beak pressing down against Shigaraki’s shoulder.

Wind whipping through his hair, U.A. shrinking in the sky above them, Shigaraki manages a crooked smile.

“Come back,” he breathes, ignoring the resistance burning in his limbs, and reaches up to run his hand down the rough pebbling of Spinner’s cheek. "I don't want you like this."

The quirk comes loose like pulling a splinter out of a wound, and if Shigaraki could just let it fly away into nothing, he would.  But that’s not how AFO works, so he just slots it away into the teeming mess that got sold to him as ultimate power and tightens his grip on Spinner as Spinner shrinks back down to the size he’s supposed to be.

He’s a good fit in Shigaraki’s arms, which is weird, but not in a bad way.

And then the only thing left to worry about is the landing.

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(Okay, in the canon version maybe they can get out via Kurogiri or Kurogiri can come through and deal with Aizawa or something. The main point is that Shigaraki should be the one to fix Spinner.)

[shadethechangingman]

still a little sad about lightray and orion not being made into oversexualized anime girls along with scottbarda/furies/metron/darkseid. it would have been so awful beyond words but i want to see it

[katzkinder]

I wrote a whole ass reply to that person who missed the point of my tags So Bad that they cut out the entire back end of them to make me look like I was saying something I didn’t but tumblr ate it so I’m taking that as my hunt to just block someone who isn’t interested in engaging in good faith instead of putting more energy into their hateful ass

Lol yeah buddy suuuure I totally don’t understand how misogynistic fandom is after receiving hate mail and sexual harassment for over a year because of my defense of a female character I’m just a stoopid widdle gurl who doesn’t know what they’re talking about and needs you to lecture me about what misogyny Aktually Is

[clannfearrunt]

Engaging with Kirby “canon” is a bit different than most of my other interests though like yeah there IS a Canon, sure, but game Canon is a lot looser and vague than some people might make it seem (IT IS). And besides that, the Anime and the Manga and the Other Manga and the Other 50+ Mangas and the Novels are all different completely separate canons also and it would be rly stupid to conflate any of them together (coughcoughhhhhanimefansSORRYcoughgh). I imagine the experience is somewhat similar to amecomi shit? Anyways all this 2 say sometimes when I am feeling Shelf Conches abt my own kirb shit I like to remind myself I am not just “ignoring the canon” but instead following the footsteps of the various non game parts of the franchise and engaging in the time honored tradition of “doing my own thang”

[shihalyfie]

Hi. I have been doing some more reading on the background of digimon, and I read somewhere that American comics were a big influence for character designs, and I was wondering about the designs of a lot of the megas, especially Agumon, Bond of Courage, and Gabumon, Bond of Friendship in Kizuna. Is this really true, and to what extent has this been ongoing? How does this relate to themes of evolution?

This is true, but it's not as specific as you might think. Watanabe really likes the design of American comics in the sense of a drawing style known as "AmeComi" (アメコミ), which is basically "a style akin to American comics" in the same way you'd hear a lot of people here say "anime style" or "manga style". A lot of the things in Digimon design have things you would be more likely to have seen in American comics at the time than you would in manga, such as bold, strong shadows. I've yet to hear anything particularly deeper than that when it comes to Digimon, so I think it's really just in the sense of the artists who work on Digimon taking inspiration from things they like and not necessarily being limited to just Japanese media.

[ad-cn]

Oooh my god you know how it's universally agreed that the best of the sonic Archie run was when the whole line (sometimes BOTH with the secondary line) were penned by ONE writer? Like how it seems that the only way to make a good lasting AmeComi is to just make it a manga?

I'm seeing how one title continues in a new one but they change writers, how two concurrent titles are penned by different writers but are clearly meant to eventually converge into a crossover event, with each writer tackling the same event in their respective titles -- and I'm just so baffled? At how this is just how things are with American comics?

[dukescomics]

In this panel, we see two quadcopter police drones hovering above Lily’s garage. Lily is Daizee’s best friend who is also a mechanical engineer. Aware of the surveillance, Daizee and Lily have a few decoys up their sleeve.

 #CONSTANTER

#DUKESCOMICS

#1WRITER1ARTIST

 #comics #newgraphicnovels #amecomi  #illustration #latinxartist #graphicnovel #comicart #digitalart #アメコミ  #絶えず #デュークスコミック #アメコミ #テキサス州エルパソ #デュークス  #MexAmeriCon #tokyocomiccon #manga #blackmangaka #mangaka #Twitter #sciencefiction  #drawing #indiecomics #igcomics #comicshop #makecomics

[amazonmandy]

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[stillness-in-green]

Pair O' Green One Asks

For the purposes of this ask, I will, as requested, set aside my vast skepticism about if I'm going to like how Deku saves Shigaraki to simply say: Yes. Yes, of course Deku will save him. I don't doubt it for a single second. I'd say it boils down to two factors.

(Note that the second of these asks will see my Deku Negativity back in full force and hit the jump.)

1) Shonen Jump's tonal requirements:

One of SJ's three tentpole tenets is Victory, which means that, as his series' main character, Deku has to be Victorious in the end. It's not enough to beat a big villain in the second-to-last chapter; Deku's Victory has to be a win in his own context. His context, right now, is saving Shigaraki—in the broader sense, it's achieving the ideal of victory the series laid out all the way back in the Final Exams arc: Win By Saving, Save By Winning.

Regardless of what Gran Torino has to say about death as a form of salvation, I simply cannot see Deku having to kill Shigaraki as anything but a failure. I think we see the nod toward that, even, when Hawks gets up in front of a crowd of reporters and says that his killing Bubaigawara Jin "speaks to his lack of character."

Deku failing to save Shigaraki—whether because he is forced to kill him or because he stands by and lets Shigaraki sacrifice himself for some joint goal—is Deku failing to achieve Victory in BNHA's overarching thematic context, which means BNHA fails to meet one of the Big Three Shonen Jump Golden Rules.

I'm not going to say that it could never happen? I certainly don't read enough Shonen Jump manga to make a statement that sweeping. I will say, however, that the big example that leaps to mind of a Shonen Jump protagonist suffering defeat at the end of his manga is Death Note, and I think you could make a decent argument that Death Note actually does support the three Golden Rules by showing what happens when people fail to live up to them. Light drops the ball on Friendship, and, having done so, is unable to achieve Victory despite all his Hard Work.

I don't see that happening in BNHA.

2) BNHA's genre inspirations:

Classically speaking, American superheroes don't kill their villains. You see it happen sometimes, when the medium is in its edgier phases, but not for no reason is one of the long-standing Amecomi questions, "Why doesn't Batman kill the Joker?" Because of the roles those comics fix their characters in and the ethics they purport to uphold, people called "superheroes" cannot be casually meting out death outside the justice system.

This is why Hawks' killing of Twice is such a massive deal: because it cuts against the grain of everything his society believes about heroes. If killing villains is the answer here, then Hawks will have beat Deku to that punch long before the end of the manga rolls around, and that's simply incompatible with the opening chapter's promise that Deku will become The Greatest Hero.

Further, Shigaraki is not positioned simply as the villain to defeat, but also as a victim to be saved. Superhero media might sometimes have Significant Failures—especially when it comes to the famously low life expectancies of your average Superhero Comic Love Interest—but failures like that serve to motivate heroes or change them in some drastic way that will shift how they approach heroism going forward in their story.

Looking at Horikoshi's favorite, Spider-Man fails to save people like Uncle Ben or Gwen Stacy at the beginning of his story, not at the climax of it.(*) If Deku dramatically fails to save the person he has dedicated himself to saving, that's the kind of thing that would mark BNHA as either a prequel or a tragedy, when plainly neither of those is the case.

Horikoshi has explicitly described Shigaraki as Deku's greatest challenge. How can Deku ever become the greatest hero if he fails?

As to how it's going to happen? What specifically is Deku going to do? That, I couldn't really speculate about without diving right back into negativity (see e.g. the ask reply beneath this), and also I'm just not big into trying to seriously predict my media. I'd much rather dig into what it offers than try to guess where it's going!

* Insomuch as cape comics have permanent climaxes, of course. But just for reference, Gwen Stacy was killed ten years into what is now Spider-Man's sixty year publication history.

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I’ve got a fandom friend (hi, Nal) that’s been saying this about Deku for a while now, so you’re definitely not alone in the sentiment!  Personally, I wish that fandom had ever come up with a snappy way to talk about Canon Sues, because while I’m very sympathetic to the view that there’s a lot of unexamined sexism in the way fandom used/uses accusations of Sueism against female characters in ways it much more seldom wields against male characters, I do also think Canon Sue main characters are phenomena worth examining.

As regards Deku, I could have given him the benefit of the doubt for a long time for how many of his fights had mixed results (Muscular; Shigaraki at Jakku) or required outside help (Stain; Overhaul), but since the Edgy Deku material, Deku’s Sue qualities have been on the rise in a very bad way, especially since one of the big indicators of Sueishness is to what degree a character makes the entire world seem to rotate around them, with the narrative’s ability to sympathize with other characters given a hard limit by how receptive those characters are to befriending the prospective Sue.

Also too, of course, “His flaw is that he tries too hard,” has always been way, way up there on the ranking of Mary Sue Test Flaws That Aren’t Actually Flaws.  It’s not an impossible flaw to write well (Steven Universe’s does so fantastically via its titular character), and certainly there are lots of ways the Edgy Deku arc could have gone that would have done a far better job of selling it. In the story as we have it, though, Deku gets consistently bailed out from having to face the consequences of his over-exertion and would-be-martyrdom, and having flaws you don’t suffer the logical consequences of is a defining Sue trait.

And yeah, there’s plenty of room to talk about what traits you want to put in a character who’s intended to be Aspirational instead of #Relatable; it’s kind of the defining difference between e.g. Superman and Spider-Man!  An aspirational character can get away with not having a catalogue of faults and weaknesses, because they’re intended as paragons, as larger-than-life figures readers can admire and emulate, but it’s not some awful crime if readers sometimes don’t get all the way there, because with aspirational characters, it’s about the journey, not the destination.  All Might, as he presented himself in-universe, was an aspirational figure.  

Deku, however, was plainly intended as a relatable character instead.  Setting aside Horikoshi’s self-admitted fondness for Spider-Man, Deku was The Everyman, the one who didn’t have a power to start with because the readers don't have powers.  Deku was more emotional; there were aspects of his behavior one could point to as real blind spots and self-destructive patterns that the narrative was on track to address.  He had to struggle more, he was young and green and he couldn’t do all this stuff on his own.

He couldn’t before.  Unfortunately, now, it seems that he can do it all on his own just fine, but that screws the established teamwork narratives—as well as the series’ long-running interrogations of its own constructed society—which is why God Mode Deku feels like such a stinging let-down.  That’s on top of being unfathomably boring because of the issues about him never facing real consequences.  Hell, these days, I’d be hard-pressed to say he even faces real challenges!

Deku didn't have to be a Canon Sue, but god knows it's where he's wound up.

Thanks for the asks, anons!

[triaelf9]

Look what I found in a bookstore in Nagoya today! I didn't know there was a Japanese translation, that's awesome!

And comics from the US are apparently called “AmeComi” which I love ehehe ^_^

[roguepryncess]

Next time I'll steal your heart. . . . . . . #catwoman #catwomancosplay #catwomancostume #cosplay #cosplaygirl #cosplayphotographer #cosplayphotography #cosplays #cosplaying #kickasscosplay #cosplayers #dccomics #dccomicscosplay #dccomicscosplayer #dccomicscosplaygirls #cosplayersofinstagram #cosplayers #cosplayer #amecomicatwoman #amecomi #amecomigirls #igersphotography #igerscosplay #cosplaygirls #cosplaybabe #sexycosplay #cosplaygirls #comics #photography #photographer #roguepixelscosplayers #jdavisphotos

[oleapinglizard]

JUST LOOK AT @emmajupitercosplay :D WE MATCH!!! :D 💚❤️💚❤️ I stole her IG post... GO CHECK HER OUT!!! #cosplay #cosplayers #geckoarmy #holmat #holmat17 #holmat2017 #amecomi #harleyquinn #harleyquinncosplay #harleyquinnchristmas #harleyquinnxmas #dccomics #dccosplay #amecomicosplay

[theanimeshontimes]

Finished Version Of "One-Punch Man" Artist's "Spider-Man: Homecoming" Art Revealed

This fall, Yusuke Murata, the artist on the Jump version of One-Punch Man, has been offering previews of his work on the Spider-Man: Homecoming poster for a limited Japanese box release of the feature. This weekend, AmeComi invades Tokyo with the local version of Comic Con and that was the perfect venue to reveal the finished version of Murata's latest take on Spidey (CV Jun'ya Enoki) and Iron Man (CV Keiji Fujiwara).

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[stetheh]

Love this cover. #amecomigirls #amecomi #dueladent #gothamsirens #catwoman #harleyquinn #poisonivy #igcomicbookfamily #comics #comicbooks #comicbookcollector #comicbookfiendclub #comiccollecting #igcomiccommunity #comicbookcollection #comicbook #comiccon #igcomicfamily #igcomicbooks #marvel #dc #dccomics #dcuniverse #marvelcomics #cosplay #instagood #instagramcomics #stetheh #mcu #cosplayersofinstagram (at Lower Breck, Liverpool) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ACln9B6b1/?igshid=u0hjhecpun86