#Maxine Manchester

[collectingmuses]

The End

#cole cash #grifter #ladytron #maxine manchester #zealot #zannah #caitlin fairchild #midnighter #tuesday spoilers #wildcats #wednesday spoilers

[why-i-love-comics]

WildC.A.T.s #4 - "A New World Begins With Bloodshed" (2023)

written by Matthew Rosenberg art by Stephen Segovia & Elmer Santos

#fairchild #ladytron #zealot #maxine manchester #DC #caitlin fairchild #zannah of khera #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

[evilhorse]

Go choke on a @!#$, you old bag of…

(WildC.A.T.s #9)

#wildc.a.t.s #Spartan #ladytron #maxine manchester #zealot #caitlin fairchild #wildstorm #eat a bag of dicks #matthew rosenberg #tom derenick #dc comics #comics #2020s comics

[ae-arts]

i was inspired

#maxine manchester #ladytron #wildc.a.t.s #wildcats #wildstorm #wildstorm comics #dc comics #art #my art #dc #i also got carried away but i hadnt drawn in ages ok #first burst of inspiration you have to take it

[vampibrainrot]

Roy's getting firsthand the wildcats special way of dealing with others

#It's nothing personal #They are like this with everyone #Including with each other #Especially with each other #comics #dc #roy harper #arsenal #maxine manchester #ladytron #lady zannah #zealot #wildc.a.t.s. #wildstorm #undescribed

[artgantuan]

A sketch of Maxine

#maxine manchester #ladytron #wildstorm #wildcats #comics #sketch #sketchbook #art #illustration #dc comics #wildc.a.t.s

[tmblrfuckingsucksass]

WildCATS #1 - Variant cover by Jim Lee (2022)

#wildc.a.t.s. #covert action team #priscilla kitaen #voodoo #maxine manchester #ladytron #cole cash #grifter #lady zannah #zealot #spartan #wildstorm #dc comics #jim lee

[batmanego]

do you see my vision

#doodles #wildcats #majestros #maxine manchester

[cantsayidont]

August 1995. In 1995–1996, Alan Moore took over the Wildstorm series WILDC.A.T.S.: COVERT ACTION TEAMS for a relatively brief but epochal period (#21–34, with a short followup story in #50).

The original premise of WILDC.A.T.S. was that the Earth is a battleground in an ancient war between alien races called the Kherubim and Daemonites, whose manipulation of humans has created superheroes and supervillains. At the start of #21, most of the WILDC.A.T.S. team is missing and presumed dead, leading the survivors to recruit some new members, including the inimitable Maxine Manchester (pictured). In this issue, Moore reveals that the rest of the original team has actually been transported back to the Kherubim homeworld, Khera, where they are startled to learn that the war they thought they were fighting has been over for centuries, and the Daemonites and other nonhuman species (including those also native to Khera) are now ruthlessly subjugated by the arrogant and racist Kherubim — something the team's Kherubim members, Marlowe and Zealot, seem only too happy to go along with. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the second WILDC.A.T.S. team engages in a comically brutal war on crime at the behest of TAO, the Tactically Augmented Organism, a weaselly little shit whose only super-power is emotional manipulation (super-negging, if you will).

This run, later reprinted as WILDC.A.T.S.: HOMECOMING and WILDC.A.T.S.: GANG WAR, is relatively lightweight for Moore, with a lot of humor despite its occasional dark moments. In many respects, it feels like the Giffen/DeMatteis JUSTICE LEAGUE of a few years earlier (particularly since some issues, including this one, are penciled by Kevin Maguire). However, the impact of this storyline fundamentally reshaped subsequent WILDC.A.T.S. series, as later writers tried and mostly failed to answer the question, "If the war is over, what do the characters do now?" TAO, meanwhile, went on to become the villain of the Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips series SLEEPER.

#comics #wildstorm #wildc.a.t.s #alan moore #travis charest #troy hubbs #kevin maguire #maxine manchester #it appears the homecoming and gang war tpbs #have been out of print for quite a while #which baffles me #given dc's determination to exploit everything moore touched #to which they can claim ownership #their big idea was to recruit warren ellis to do a reboot #which mostly fizzled out #and then stuff the wildstorm characters into the mainstream dcu #where they have no meaningful place and probably never will

[collectingmuses]

#fINALLY #cole cash #grifter #zealot #zannah #caitlin fairchild #maxine manchester #ladytron #wildcats #wednesday spoilers #tuesday spoilers

[dk-thrive]

In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade.  A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle.  One peaceful moment.

— Maxine Hong Kingston, in "Maxine Hong Kingston" by Helena Grace (Manchester University Press; June 30, 2006) (via Make Believe Boutique)

#Maxine Hong Kingston #violence #politics #destruction #moment #peace #war

[why-i-love-comics]

WildC.A.T.s #6 - "Mergers & Acquisitions" (2023)

written by Matthew Rosenberg art by Stephen Segovia, Tom Derenick, & Elmer Santos

#ladytron #maxine manchester #DC #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

[evilhorse]

Yeah, well, news of my death was slightly exaggerated.

#wildc.a.t.s #grifter #cole cash #ladytron #maxine manchester #not dead #reunited #wildstorm #matthew rosenberg #stephen segovia #dc comics #comics #2020s comics

[watsondcsj]

History of the Hypercube and How it Saved Jon Kent From a Volcano

Superman (2016)

#8 & 9

After a vivid dream, Jon Kent constructs a device that when completed assimilates Kryptonian knowledge and reconfigures itself into a cube.

Krypto attacks the cube and it warps Clark, Jon, Krypto, and itself to Dinosaur Island. It is a place outside of time where they find countless extinct species and Captain Storm, a Golden Age war comic character from Our Fighting Forces that ran from 1954-1978.

They spend the next issue finding the cube so they can return home. Captain Storm sacrifices himself so the Kryptonians get home safely.

Superman Reborn

Mr. Mxyzptlk warps reality around the Kent family causing the timelines of Post-Crisis Superman and The New 52 Superman to merge into one.

The next few issues of Action Comics would explain how this all works and moves Jon Kent’s birth to Earth-0, but later in Infinite Frontier #0 The Spectre, God’s Hand of Vengence, would reinforce Jon’s original origins from the Convergence Earth and hint that this teen may become like a tyrant.

Special #1

The final issue of the run sees Clark use the cube to open another portal to Dinosuar Island to rescue Captain Storm.

They assume the cube itself came from Manchester Black as he had technology that was controlling the beasts of the island and on monsters he used to attack Hamilton County.

Adventures of the Super Sons

In the final two issues, Jon and Damian are trapped inside the cube by the main villain of the series, Rex Luthor. Inside is a white void, not dissimilar to how The Source has been protrayed. The Source is more or less DC’s in-universe mythos of the paper its stories are printed upon. Earth 2 Society and Dark Crisis Young Justice are some examples of The Source being manipulated.

The Hypercube itself manifests in the place and explains to Jon and Damian that it has existed in one form or another since the dawn of time in the DC Universe. Finally unable to stand being used as a prop for someone else’s story, it began to move and create under its own command. 

Cube admits it created the galaxy the villains of the series came from, and it seems to imply it has knowledge of all things that have happened and will happen as well as that they are in a comic book but spares the boys of that burden.

Cube takes The Puppeteer, a villain killed earlier in the series, and brings him into itself with Jon and Damian alive as if nothing had happened to him. The boys use his technology to break out of the cube. It seems the only limitation to Cube’s phenomenal cosmic power is his box-shaped lamp.

The Flash #797

Apparently, moments after defeating Rex Luthor, Jon and Damian find themselves in the future on another Earth to help Jai and Irie West and Maxine Baker beat some multiversal baddies.

I assume Cube was attempting to save the boys from the events of Teen Titans 2018, Superman 2018, and beyond into what was going to be 5G by skipping them past it. The boys return to their proper time, however.

Action Comics #1054

In chapter 4 of "Lois & Clark 2," Jon is badly burnt by a flame. This story takes place between the handoff from Jurgens, Tomasi and Gleason to Bendis in Superman and Action Comics. This is somewhat of a discrepancy if this Jon is intended to be the same Jon who survives in a volcano for 5 whole years.

Injustice #1

The Joker nukes Metropolis killing Lois Lane and her unborn child. 

Cube takes this child from the currently unknown Earth-49 and recreates the abandoned Superman: Reborn composite timeline for this version of Jon and Lois to live and grow.

The Man of Steel 2018

Jor-El picks up Jon and Lois for a little space road trip.

Superman 2018

Everything Jon explains to his father about his experience happened to him, however the Jon that returned to Earth-0 is truly the Jon from Earth-49 the alternate timeline from "Superman Reborn" with most of the memories of Earth-0 Rebirth Jon in place including those up to Cube’s wormhole the black hole. The amount of time Jon was out with Jor-El as described by in Superman #8 is now a completely useless measurement of time. Jon and Jor-El may truly have only been in space for three weeks by the Earth-0 clock before encountering the wormhole.

Jor-El tracked the only Jon Kent in the known multiverse through time and space to Earth-3 in the universe and hypertime he now found himself where Cube placed him five years in the past. Earth-0 Jon would fall through Cube’s time and space wormhole to a world that was currently uncharted but known to exist, Earth-49 the world of Injustice. 

Having scanned all possible futures, Cube opens a portal for Rebirth Jon to escape through. This is why Jor-El thinks that Jon ran from him before they fell through the black hole. A version of him did, just not the one he ended up with. 

Superman: Son of Kal-El

Jon is shown on a world that does not conform with the reader’s knowledge of past events in multiple flashbacks. His birth in the Fortress of Solitude is similar to the events in Action Comics #978 but not the same. Dick is wearing his New 52 outfit at a time when he should be presumed dead and acting as a secret agent or back in blue. Jon claims he was able to fly at age 9 when the bare minimum amount of reading comprehension would tell you he couldn’t fly until he was 10. Jon remembers his grandparents farm house after its destruction in a way the audience has never seen before. Not only were his grandparents not alive when that book was published, but these panels are reminiscent of the New 52 Superboy’s origin story.

Pa Kent would later describe the events of Superman 2016 #1. This is notable because it seems to again reinforce that this world was not changed during Superman Reborn and that Jonathan Samuel Kent was not the one to reiterate these events.

Superman & Robin Special

As Jon and Damian remind the reader of Superman 2016 #8&9 and Adventures of the Super Sons, Cube demonstrates its power once again by opening a door through space for an alien that ages years in minutes and through time for a platoon of Nazi soldiers. 

This serves a double purpose to show the reader what is in store for these two. Damian is no longer destined to become like Hitler. Teen Jon will find his double and return with him to where they came from. Teen Jon has a younger double lost out there somewhere.

Adventures of Superman Jon Kent

Jon states it is easy for him to see when someone is from another universe by looking closely at their molecules. 

Val-Zod states that time moves at a constant rate. Jumping from one multiverse to another alone would not throw the traveler through time as well. More importantly, Val-Zod then states that in the whole multiverse, there are many Jon Kents that are children and only two that are old enough to be able to assist with their mission.

Ultraman recognizes Jon confirming the volcano imprisonment did happen. 

Injustice Clark makes a double-take at Jon and claims he has his mother’s eyes, implying that this Jon is his own biological son.

This mini should see the Earth-0 Jon perhaps around age 12 at most appear on this Earth.

In the final issue of the mini, Jon states that he has practiced sneaking up on Damian for years while holding the Lasso of Truth, yet for this would be a stretch to be fact. Jon met Damian at 10 and left Earth at 11 making their friendship truthfully less than a year in length before Jon became much older.

#dc #dc comics #super sons #jon kent #jonathan samuel kent #superman soke #superman son of kal el #injustice #the flash 797 #adventures of superman jon kent #man of steel #adventures of the super sons #dinosaur island #mister mxyzptlk

[thehamletdiaries]

Over the weekend, my friend read me his diary entry from the first time we met, back in 2014, when I went to Manchester to see Maxine Peake's Hamlet with him and our mutual friend...

#hamlet #shakespeare #this play is a thread running through my life

[tmblrfuckingsucksass]

The Women of Wildstorm - art by Adam Hughes

#wildstorm universe #dc comics #wild c.a.t.s #gen 13 #maxine manchester #ladytron #roxanne spaulding #freefall #sarah rainmaker #priscilla kitaen #voodoo #lady zannah #zealot #adrianna tereshkova #void #caitlin fairchild #stylish and sophisticated #classy sexy #adam hughes