#comic book code

[viveela]

It must be weird to live so long that an integral part of himself is now accepted, he'll need more time to get there too

#veearts #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel redesign #alastor redesign #alastor #radio demon #redesign #charlie morningstar #charlie redesign #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel comic #aromantic #aroace #asexual #see peep the way the book he's got has ace colors... #his mouth ourple too...his clothes kinda green...my design for him is a lil coded lol #this is for aro week btw yeah. this is semi projecty too but not reeeally #anyway this was self indulgent I just needed to get this out my system #aroace character rep so important to me raaah

[star-reyes]

Queer baiting in comics is BACK, BABY

#dc comics #this is not a criticism it's a joke #yes i know it's more coding than baiting considering the writers and how some of these characters are queer #and how these books aren't marketed to bait gay audiences #but there's something about the implied gay best friends in comics that I love #it's a staple of American comics like undoing deaths or capes #bruce wayne #minkhoa khan #ghostbat #batman #ghost maker #cassandra cain #stephine brown #stephcass #batgirls #john constantine #siegfried #dc siegfried #steve trevor #batstantine #tuesday spoilers

[zmbiefood]

#vampire kisses manga #vampire kisses #mall goth #emo #2010 emo #00s emo #2000s emo #00s mall goth #2000s mall goth #90s mall goth #90s mallgoth #mallgoth #goth #zmbie coded :3 #valentines #books n comics

[blackbatcass]

sometimes the ghost of kelley puckett (he is still alive) haunts me. does he know. does he even know. he’s so detached from the comics community and he’s such a private guy (I RESPECT THAT WHOLEHEARTEDLY) that i really and truly do not know if this man knows how much cassandra cain means to us. does he know batgirl 2000 is heralded as the bible of dc solo books, as a lot of people’s favorite comic ever written. does he know how much we love cass. how we write essays over her character and how amazing she is and how she changed our lives. does he know how adored his writing is. does he know he wrote the best comics character introduction of all time. does he even. know.

#cassandra cain #dc #look. sometimes i think about kelley puckett. and i go a little crazy #i KNOW how much shit he got from dc execs at the time #because he was doing something new and different #and because dc as well as a lot of fans at the time #didn’t have room for a newly created disabled asian teenaged girl in their personal batman mythos. #i have a pretty good idea of how much disrespect cass got as a character (SEE: HER LITERALLY BEING WRITTEN OUT OF THE STORY WHEN #DUDES GOT SO WHINY ABOUT BABS NOT BEING BATGIRL. WTF.) #so. i have no idea what his general thoughts & feelings were when writing for dc. #i think he’s doing accountancy now? or coding? something like that #the man did like ONE interview and i think it was from 2002 #ANYWAY. THE POINT IS. #the way this circle of online dc fans regard cass and batgirl 200 in general #is SO… #WE LOVE CASS OKAY. SHE’S SO MANY PEOPLES FAVORITE CHARACTER. #and batgirl 2000 is thought of as THEE comic book EVER #and as some of the best writing dc had EVER had #kelley puckett is a literal god of a writer to us. #AND I DONT KNOW IF HE?? KNOWS THAT????? #DOES HE KNOW I WOULD PAY HIM A MILLION DOLLARS TO COME WRITE FOR DC AGAIN. #because hes just that good and most comics post new 52 have been garbage #does he know how beloved he is. I don’t know #anyway. I sincerely hope wherever mr puckett is right now #he’s having a wonderful day and he knows how many gay people on tumblr #write extensive meta essays about his writing

[shyjusticewarrior]

Bernard: What group do you wanna be in?

Tim: Which are you in?

#flirting #dc #dc comics #comics #comic books #robin 1993 #robin comics #character dialogue #paraphrasing #funny #batfam #batkids #tim drake #robin #robin tim drake #lgbtq+ #canon queer characters #queer characters #queer coded #ship dynamics #ships #timber #timbern #tim x bernard #bernard dowd #batfamily #humor

[super-paper]

afotaro is the elephant's foot of toxic old man yaoi but that's not gonna stop me from memeing on it, y'know, as a coping mechanism.

#my hero academia #mha spoilers #afotaro #all for one #dank mha meems #tw: child abuse #what do you mean afo manipulated kotaro into fucking his wife. hori???? 😭😭😭 #give nao to me you utter loser i wouldn't need some ancient eldritch comic book shill to convince me to make love to my beautiful wife-- #more seriously tho #I've said it before that AFO and Tenko's dynamic is meant to be viewed as a story of abuse told through a lens of fantasy #and these chapters cemented that impression in the best (worst?) possible way bc so many abusers get close to the parents-- #--so they can have unrestricted access to their children + be trusted to be left alone with their children #Hori has really hit the nail on the head so it's disappointing that so many people still downplay Tenko's victimhood #and view this chapter as him ''falling off as a villain'' (wtf) #also the idea of AFO appearing to the Shimura fam wearing different faces/fulfilling different ''roles'' is so fairy tale coded I love it

[xoxogabriella]

The real reason why this show is called Stanger Things

#if you know which pic of keery this is based on - lets be friends #the steddiefication of everything #just to clarify when i say steddiefication i mean me taking a vintage comic book and redrawing it in a gay way #some ppl saw my previous work and thought it's an already existing thing #I'll take it as a compliment tho #stranger things #stranger things art #vintage comics #steddie #steddie art #steddie coded #eddie munson #steve harrington #eddie and steve #joe keery #joseph quinn #gayer things

[therobotmonster]

Superman's unwillingness to kill is not his greatest weakness...

But Rom the Spaceknight's is.

Warning, I am on pain medication.

I didn't want to bloat the post that inspired this more than I did already. In it, there's reference to Zach Snyder alluding to his putting Superman in the position where he 'had to' kill Zod because Superman's unwillingness to kill is "his greatest weakness."

I disagree. Superman's unwillingness to kill is actually his greatest strength, or at least a manifestation of it. Superman doesn't refuse to kill just because of a Christian devotion to 'thou shalt not kill' or an adherence to human law. Clark's refusal to kill is an extension of his absolute dedication to not abusing his power.

Clark's actual greatest weakness is his compassion for others. That's the thing that constantly tempts him to abuse that power. It isn't that killing Lex Luthor or Zod is an unforgivable crime in itself, it's that Clark knows it wouldn't be.

Rom, on the other hand, is the other way around.

Rom isn't really a Superman Expy, but he's certainly a commentary on him, even if unintentionally. Rom is also a paragon-type, also an alien superhuman with a wide assortment of immense powers. His greatest weapon is essentially a phantom zone projector.

Like Superman, Rom is sworn not to kill. But that's the important part. Sworn not to. He is bound by oaths and duty and rules of engagement because he's both a holy knight hunting demons and a soldier in a war. He isn't allowed to kill non-wraiths because they're civilians and doesn't want to because he cares about most living creatures.

He isn't allowed to kill wraiths because death is too good for them. He's hunting down war criminals, and the Galadorian leadership sentenced them all to exile to limbo to suffer for eternity, immortal but unable to affect, much less harm, anything.

A dead wraith is a wraith that has escaped its sentence, and coming back from the dead is easier for a species of demon-warlock aliens than escaping their metaphorical exorcism and banishment to hell.

Rom's code against killing is the most often exploited weakness he has. The wraiths, knowing a front-on confrontation with him is certain banishment, love to hurl non-wraith humans and superhumans at Rom, knowing the Spaceknight won't return their lethal force (and that if he did, they'd have forced him to murder an innocent, which they consider a win).

In these contests, Rom's humanity (specifically his ability to express human traits like compassion, mercy, and self-sacrifice) is usually what turns the tide by convincing these dupes of his true nature.

Pictured: Rogue inadvertently triggers Rom's body dysmorphia

Now, as has often been mocked, Rom does kill a couple of times. This gives him an existential crisis, but it's more about violating his oaths and losing control than remorse for destroying a wraith in a moment of passion. The audience isn't supposed to be horrified at his actions or unsettled, they're supposed to see the impossible standard the Galadorians put on Rom and his brethren.

But it still works with the themes, because Rom is a man trapped in a machine, and his Spaceknight code and duty are a part of that machine.

So where Superman must triumph over the temptations his own compassion puts before him to go too far, Rom has to keep his power and duty from keeping him from feeling the emotions he needs to triumph over his demons.

#hope I explained that well #rom #rom spaceknight #superman #code against killing #comic books #ramblings #old fan yells at cloud

[smbhax]

Cover of Strange Tales #111, August 1963. Stan Lee script, Jack Kirby pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg colors, Artie Simek letters.    

#strange tales #human torch #teenager #marvel comics #marvel #marvel comics group #marvel age of comics #asbestos man #superhero #super villain #comics code authority #1960s #comic #comics #comic book #comic books #stan lee #jack kirby #dick ayers #stan goldberg #artie simek #johnny storm #the human torch

[weirdlookindog]

Adventures Into Darkness #13 - Pines, March 1954.

Cover art by Mike Sekowsky? & Mike Peppe?

#adventures into darkness #mike sekowsky #mike peppe #pines #attend the feast of ghouls #comic art #horror comics #comic book covers #pre code comics #horror art

[comicartarchive]

Chamber of Chills 23 Cover by Lee Elias

#comic book cover #comic cover #original comic art #pre code horror #lee elias #chamber of chills #horror comics #zombie

[bloodof-leaves]

My brain is a mess atm so I'm gonna try to keep this as cohesive as possible but god. I saw Across the Spiderverse for the second time yesterday night and I had completely forgotten the opening with the Comics Code Authority seal. My first time watching me and my friends laughed at that scene, "Haha lmao they're spoofing on the comics code authority a bit, hell yeah" I had thought, and I moved on to the masterpiece that was ATSP. The second time though, after knowing all the themes and ideas of the movie, the comics code seal hit me like a truck. Because Miles's story could NEVER be approved by the comics code. Neither could Pavitr's, nor Gwen's and definitely not Hobie's for that matter. And this ties back exactly to the themes of the movie because Miles's story is about rejecting conventional storytelling and the norms of what a Spiderman story should be. In the same way that Miguel is so obsessed with maintaining canon, maintaining the status quo of the Spiderman mythos, the entire point of the comics code was to restrict stories with new perspectives that didn't fit a certain agenda. It was when comics were able to break free from the code that we got so much innovation and diversity and complexity. And I know that morally Miguel and the Comics Code are definitely not a 1 to 1 comparison but in a meta sense, viewing ATSV's themes as a commentary on storytelling conventions, it fits perfectly I think.

#i fuckingn. love this movie #any piece of fiction that poses a meta commentary on storytelling norms and breaks through those norms is a masterpiece in my book #i think this is part of why i enjoyed atsv more than itsv #i just have a soft spot for it #across the spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse #spiderverse #comics code authority #miles morales #spiderman into the spiderverse #textpost #teatime ramblings

[briefgardenerpirate]

Collage Horror Art

#my post #horror #illustration #gothic #not my art #not my creation #ec comics #horror comics #pre code comics #tales from the crypt #pulp art #pulp fiction #pulp horror #comic book babes #1950s

[gameraboy2]

1966 Batman code

#batman #code #1966 #1960s #vintage #comic book #comics #comic book art #art #illustration

[mydetheturk]

me baiting the trigun fans w/ the dark tower series like "pspspsps this is a normal scifi western it will not hurt you (it wants to hurt you. it wants to hurt you a lot actually)"

we even have COMICS and characters DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE and weird, fucked up THINGS and the main character is GOING THROUGH IT

#myde talks #the dark tower #trigun #vash as a christ figure #roland as literally the descendant of king arthur #desert worlds where Fucked Up Shit happens #ill give it this #trigun isnt as heavy on the weird metatextual context as tdt is #but also wolfwood and eddie dean parallels WHOO BOY #permanently changed by meeting the main character and death fucking CODED #but also susannah my beloved #the comics are genuinely good! #they're written by stephen king's like. assistant? #robin furth is a godsend tbh #and the art in both the books and the comics is SO fucking good

[comic-covers]

(1940)

#Terror Tales #comic book #1940 #John Drew #cover art #vintage #horror comics #pre-code #age #mummies #1940s #comic books #golden era