#his character in these comics sucks

[ghostingcrows]

While I’m thinking about it 

I feel like something people don’t really talk about with OP is the fact that he came from a place of incredible privilege compared to a lot of other characters and it shows

He was considered useful in functionalist cybertron and was in a position of power as a cop (something we see him take advantage of many times)

One of his best friends was a senator

He was practically handed the matrix and the ability to carry it by said senator friend

Then immediately after overthrowing the current corrupt prime his immediate instinct was 

“alright so obviously I’m the prime now”

Which went against the entire point of Megatrons movement and then he was shocked when Megatron turned on him

In the future hes kicked out of cybertron and is exiled but constantly returns to it anyways

He constantly takes advantage of peoples beliefs in the primes, something he doesn’t even believe in, to give himself power he has no right to 

He colonizes earth despite the people making it immensely clear they want him gone 

(The US government shooting his arm off is still one of my favorite panels lmao)

And then he technically gets arrested but doesn’t actual like get arrested and hes just left alone to do his own thing

And I just think its something that need to be pointed out because its infuriating that that a big theme of the comics is equality and freedom for all sentient beings but the person whos spouting all that stuff is literally a privileged asshole who only believes in that stuff when he still gets to be in a position of power

[b4kuch1n]

same teacher, different lessons

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[cluescorner]

I cannot imagine being a Damian stan right now. You've got both Zdarsky's bullshit (where he clearly doesn't give a shit about your boy) and The Boy Wonder (where Juni Ba clearly gives so many shits about your boy) coming out on the same day. The whiplash must be insane. I hope y'all get some nice warm soup for your efforts jfc

[winteriron-trash]

rdj the (whitewashed) electric boogaloo

This is a reminder to everyone who's excited about RDJ's casting as Doctor Doom that this casting is whitewashing. Victor Von Doom is a Romani character and has been a Romani character since his introduction in the 1960s. (Fantastic Four Annual #2 [1964]) Not only that, but his Roma identity and the persecution he and his family faced due to it is integral to his character, it is what forms his identity. (Books of Doom by Ed Brubaker) Even if on the off chance this casting is meant to not be Victor but instead be some variant of Tony or whomever else becoming Doctor Doom, it is damaging to the character to rob him of that important cultural background. Doctor Doom does not exist without that history. Fans have been pushing hard to cast Doom as a Romani actor for years, especially since the MCU has whitewashed other Romani characters. (Wanda, Pietro, etc) This casting is not a celebration moment, it's fucking heartbreaking that the MCU repeatedly ignores the important and nuanced cultural backstories of characters.

I know I can't change anybody's mind on whether or not you want to be excited about RDJ's return to the MCU. But I do think at the very least you should be mad that the MCU is baiting us all and destroying nuanced and interesting characters for the sake of self-referential easter eggs and nostalgia bait. Because that's what it is. Feel how you'd like to feel about RDJ's return, but personally, this is soul-sucking. I had such a deep love for the MCU as a teenager, it was obviously something incredibly formative to me, especially Tony Stark. This isn't recreating what I fell in love with the MCU for. This is turning a well-planned and artistic storyline of adaptations into cheap cash grabs and fan service. Because, I think we're past the point of being able to call the MCU an adaptation of anything. They can use existing characters' names and powers, but to say they're being properly adapted is laughable.

This is not an adaptation of Doctor Doom. This is RDJ the Electric Boogaloo because Marvel's fear of losing the interest of dedicated MCU fans overrides their willingness to tell stories that are genuine to the characters. I don't know what there is to be excited about that. The MCU has lost its authenticity and aside from a few projects, feels heartless. Every movie is a copy of a copy. This announcement isn't something celebratory, it feels like a death knell of a cinematic universe that's so desperate to cling to relevancy it's resorting to nostalgia for a character/actor who hasn't even been dead for a decade. We're not getting anything new, we're just rinsing and repeating the same song and dance.

I get it. I love Tony Stark, his death destroyed me and I to this day, rue the ending he got in Endgame. It misunderstood his arc and it robbed him of a satisfying conclusion. But the solution to that isn't dragging the corpse out of the grave five years later to whitewash an existing character with rich and interesting nuance, just to forcibly tie his existence in the MCU to Tony. Whether he is a variant or not. Why would you want someone else's fave's legacy to be destroyed simply so your fave's legacy can go on? Hell, if we were really all so hellbent on the return of RDJ and/or Tony to the MCU, we have the multiverse for a reason. There were other ways to do it that didn't whitewash and ruin someone else. This just. Isn't something to be happy about.

[martyrbat]

for when dc releases a new comic that mischaracterizes him again AND the humiliating ordeal of telling ppl that arent your mutuals that bruce fucking wayne aka mr cashcow is your favorite character

[harbingersecho]

you will accept chaos, by choice or by force!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

One final cooking poll.

[cartoonsbyandie]

I couldn't choose so Take Both

This doesn't make any sense does it, alright fine explanation under the cut

I really like the concept of Khonshu being the son of Amon-Ra, who has no shame in manipulating/insulting/setting Khonshu on fire. So imagine how he was when Ra was at the height of his power and they ruled together, but Khonshu was stronger. And also Ra likes to eat other gods.

I like the idea of even a dickbag god like Khonshu having unprocessed trauma after thousands of years, absolutely showing shades of his father while being in aggressive denial about this and viewing himself as his father's direct opposite, his antagonist, everything that he isn't. Cares about protecting humanity, kind and compassionate compared to Ra! (Because he isn't actively eating/setting them on fire/acting like a tyrant. Usually.) That he's fought Ra personally and through avatars a hundred times over the ages, burned more times than he can count, it hurts, but he has to come out on top every time. No phoenix rose from these ashes.

[lightbulb-warning]

i used to freehand comics all the time as a child and since the part i liked was the drawing part i would just draw panel after panel because i didn't want to stop drawing to think about icky icky words, plus the story TOTALLY still made perfect sense! to me! and noone else, but 'whoooo caaaaares omgggg its not like comics and sequantial art are a communicative meeediummmm lmaoooooo'. i spent my entire childhood telling myself stuff like "oh pfft I know this story by heart- ill SIMPLY remember the dialogue and write it later" ...and. I can't help but admire baby maiora's (call that a minora ba tm tsk) fucking audacity? hubris? confident wrongness? kid couldn't even remember to finish the comics in the first place? INCREDIBLE levels of unearned self assurance, wish that were me, genuinely- what an icon!!! anyway i think i have forever cursed myself

[wannabemasterofwindintraining]

Will you guys kill me w hammers if i said logan gets babied by the fandom to a severe degree

[jesncin]

GOOD NEWS

I made so much progress on the Ma'alefa'ak retrospective essay that I basically have only one comic left to analyze/dissect!

👽🎉👽🥳👽

BAD NEWS

It's the New 52 Martian Manhunter solo run,,,

oooooyyyy

[lilatreus]

Controversial take but the Daredevil comic should’ve never gotten into religion.

[cookiekitkat8484]

It has come to my attention that people who haven't read the comics don't realise Wallace was the one who harassed scott into being his friend. Like he saw that nerd at uni and went oh yeah that's my guy now. This bitch would not shut up and showed up at his house uninvited to hang out till scott gave in and befriended him, then they got suuuper drunk and scott let him crash at his. He comes to family dinners, is best friends with his sister, and chats to his mum.

He despises envy more than anything and is furious when she tries to mess with his life again and scott gets hurt, so he cooks him breakfast and comforts him. He coaches scott in fighting and helps with strategies so he doesn't get his ass kicked. He bullies him to leave the house because there's a heatwave and he wants to make sure he doesn't get heatstroke. Like they're close enough Wallace walks around in his underwear (though scott whines about it).

I've seen people assume Wallace supports scott out of pity but that man is a bitch and morally questionable (affectionate), I do not think he would put up with it at all if he didn't want him around, especially given he can barely afford to support them both. When they stop living together he doesn't just kick him out it's because their landlord kicks them out, he actively enchorages scott to move in with Ramona out of care for him and offers to stay with him if he needs it, though ends up signing a lease with his boyfriend (in his defence scott didn't ask for him to stay and decided to try make things work with Ramona) but still let's him stay at the new apartment with them when Ramona kicks him out.

Yeah he's mean to scott sometimes and makes fun of him/is brutally honest but he basically became part of Scott's family and part of that is calling people out when they're being a total jackass and teasing them, he's that kinda guy and scott knows that he doesn't actually hate him or something. Yeah scott will do puppy dog eyes if he wants something but wallace is frequently nice to him on his own initiative and scotts not a suck up to Wallace, he can be a bitch right back at him.

They're a really important part of each other's lives. though I can understand people not familiar with the characters who watched the show thinking Wallace doesn't care about scott being gone, literally all the characters reacted super casually. Bryan has tried to clarify his way of trying to cope is him "being a jerk"/disconnecting/acting apathetic. Also in the show o'malley basically confirms Wallace had feelings for scott and that was why he had the affair with Todd and you can quote him on that, aswell as scott admitting how they became roomates was "somewhat gay" in the comics, so there's definitely some weird more than friends emotional mess tied in there.

comic panels i reference under the cut

TLDR wallace lives with him because he cares about him, whether you read that as still somewhat romantic or now platonic, with either interpretations fitting better with different versions of the story

[arabian-batboy]

The Damian’s tag isn’t his tag anymore, its literally just posts with him X that Ladybug girl, him X Danny Phantom, him X the reader, him X female characters from Pokemon and quit recently him X Nico from PJO.

Like wtf is going on? Am I missing something? Because this kid is one of the least shippable characters in existence, so why are people shipping him with these random ass characters that have nothing to do with DC?

[lu-polls]

Hyrule: yay or nay?(blorbo wise)

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💥👏💥

killing him

[jaydendoodlesart]

moments before disaster