#lilith clay

[why-i-love-comics]

Power Girl #8 - "Paige Has a Crush" (2024)

written by Leah Williams art by Eduardo Pansica & Julio Ferreira

[saiditallbefore]

Power Girl (2023) #8

You know, DC, having them talk about a guy doesn't actually make everything going on here seem any less gay.

[mysterycitrus]

thanks for the requests!!

[gffa]

I’m just imagining telepaths trying to read any of the Bats’ minds and being like, AHA, we’ll go for Nightwing, he seems like the nice one, this’ll be easy, a total cakewalk--oh, fuck, WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS IN THIS DUDE’S MIND, WHY ARE THERE BATS SCREECHING IN THE BACKGROUND, WHY DO I FEEL LIKE A SUPERSPY IS ABOUT TO STAB ME IN THE NECK WITH A PARING KNIFE!? All while Dick Grayson is just like :D :D :D right at your face and you legitimately can’t tell if he’s not even trying to be dangerous, he’s just Like That, or if he’s actively deceiving you and YOU DON’T KNOW WHICH WOULD BE WORSE. Never forget Dick Grayson is a Bat, no matter how nice he is, THAT MAN IS A BAT AND HE WILL STAB YOU IN THE KIDNEY IF HE THINKS HE NEEDS TO.

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[dailydccomics]

Wally West and the Titans by Mike Choi

[covertblizzard]

Oh, this is so cool???

"In that issue, the African-American Mal kissed the Caucasian Lilith Clay goodbye, in a scene considered to be the first interracial kiss in comic book history. When editorial director Carmine Infantino objected to the scene, thinking it too controversial, editor Dick Giordano kept the scene, but colored it in blue as a night scene, to draw less attention to the moment. Giordano recalls receiving many letters about the kiss, both hate mail (including one death threat) and many supportive letters approving of the kiss."

Bonus: the set up

[dcbinges]

Batman #241 (1972) by Mike Friedrich & Rich Buckler

[big-ass-magnet]

I am JUST now realizing that Lilith's glasses make her eyes look the same size. It's a really clever way to show how she hides herself, AND to draw attention to it on a meta level as not a stylistic choice or artist error but a physical aspect of the character that is worth hiding.

considering I didn't notice her eyes were different sizes at all until the novelization mentioned it I guess it didn't work so well on me

[why-i-love-comics]

Power Girl #5 - "Streaky Does a BIG Stretch" (2024)

written by Leah Williams art by David Baldeon & Romulo Fajardo, Jr.

[saiditallbefore]

Look I know that the current Power Girl run has made some characterization Choices ™️, but on the other hand... look at how shippy she and Omen are:

Power Girl Special 2023, Power Girl 2023 #1-2, 4

They're best friends! They're always holding hands and hugging! During the special, they have a psychic link, and even afterwards Lilith uses her psychic powers to find and save Paige when she's in trouble! I think the book may be setting up a dude love interest for Paige but he's shown up like twice and Lilith is in every issue, because she's basically the most important person in Paige's life.

I just think more people should see my vision here, okay?

[nightlight-stardust-and-rain]

Having Higgs thoughts.

First of all, it's absolutely hilarious that Oggie calls him kid even though Higgs is literally a first-generation Jager. Incredible. This must be the Jeger equivalent of being 40 but having such a bad case of baby face that you look like a teenager and no one takes you seriously.

Secondly. I read a fic with one (1) interaction between Higgs and Lilith/Judy and decided it would be very interesting if Higgs had been the one to 'raise' her (and Punch/Adam too I guess?). But then I really thought about it and it makes at least a bit of sense. Visibly they were created as adults, but the emotional and mental maturity and humanity had to take a while to set in. And who better to teach them how to act human, how to be human, and how to fake being a socially acceptable non-mechanicsburg person than the guy who's not human but whose job is literally to blend in with them? Plus, Dimo said that Bill and Barry didn't like the Jagers being with them because it was bad for their reputation or something but Higgs doesn't look like a Jager so he was probably on Heterodyne-sitting duty way more than the rest of them because he's way more subtle and less réputation-damaging than the others.

Point is. Higgs being the one to teach Punch and Judy How To Be Human When You're Not, Really and then he ends up catching parental feelings which is... Interesting. Never happened before. When Punch and Judy are good enough at passing for human and don't really need him for that anymore he goes back to his job but they keep in touch sporadically. He's really worried when they "disappear" but he can't search for them because he's in a deep cover operation. Plus, signs points to Punch and Judy being very good at hiding if no one found them in Agatha in all those years.

Higgs learning that Judy and Punch were 'killed' and just..... Disappearing from the airship for a while to destroy a forest or two. Only to discover them in Gil's secret lab during his routine patrol of all the secret places in the airship. From then on he tries to visit them as often as he can without compromising his cover.

Obviously he probably learns about the Agatha thing early, but then he learns who raised her and gets confusing grandfatherly feelings. Give him a break, he's just gotten used to the idea of having children, he wasn't expecting a grandkid :/ he goes to Oggie (grandfather many times over) about it. Oggie, surprisingly, takes him absolutely seriously, gives him advice, and only teases him a little ("out ov all de grandkeeds hyu chust had to get de most troublesome one uh ?")

It still takes a while for Agatha to learn that she's got a sort of adopted grandpa (who isn't evil !) who looks barely 20 years older than her and is one of her subordinates oh that's awkward..... But at least he's very trustworthy and now she has to adapt to the idea of her best friend dating her grandpa (Zeetha thinks it's absolutely hilarious).

[mickidona]

Winter has hit the tower; some of us are feeling it more than others

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