Read "Suki, Alone". Liked it in general. But can they please, please hire someone who knows both the show's actual events and how to follow through on a character arc? Because guys. Guys. That comic is not implying about Suki what they meant it to be implying, and all because of literally one line.
So like. From a writer's standpoint:
What they meant to do: show Suki as a community-oriented person who cares for her people, and believes in everyone succeeding together.
As opposed to (spoilers): the thief girl they set her up in contrast with, who's pretty upfront and consistent on primarily looking out for herself. She betrays Suki for one (1) corn chip to improve her own life at the prison, no surprise.
But the problem is: they give Suki an inspirational line to the effect of "we're all working together and we'll all break out together"
You know
The thing she does not do in the show
So if both the show and this comic are canon, then instead of setting up a compare/contrast with the thief girl, they've just set up a comparison. One were Suki is arguably worse, because she's been leading a significant number of prisoners on with her "we'll all fight and win our freedom together!" business, only to straight up cut them out of the escape loop and abandon them, whereas the thief is only leading Suki on in the sense that Suki keeps telling her what it's morally correct to think and confuses snide replies with agreement
My dudes. My fellow writers. You people actually being paid for this. There were so many ways to fix those awful implications against our girl's character, the simplest of which would be to not include that line. Or they could have, you know, made it canon compliant with what actually happens in the show, so that this comic doesn't set Suki up as a betrayer instead of a community builder. Like... just send all her good prison buddies off to other prisons in the wake of the warden finding out they're colluding. Have it timed to be right before the next new prisoners arrive, thus setting it immediately before the Boiling Rock episodes, so Suki didn't have anyone left in the prison she'd want to take with her on a breakout. For bonus points, include a page or two of her and her Kyoshi warriors opening up the cell of one of her prison friends post-war, thus implying she's tracking down and actually fulfilling her promises. Maybe even show her doing the same with thief girl, who was established as being imprisoned on false charges anyway, and also showing that Suki is A) the bigger person, and B) willing to acknowledge her own role in mistakes (because I cannot emphasize enough how much thief girl was not hiding her own priorities, and it was Suki who approached HER with all this, not the girl ever doing anything special to weasel her way in) (this would also open up an opportunity for paralleling Suki's earlier in-comic mistake of not listening to one of her friend's very valid thoughts and feeling, which lead to the girl leaving their island alone pre-canon; a "seeing people as they are, not what you want them to be" moment)
Anyway yeah enjoyable enough for a quick read but another one for the "this can't be canon or the characters are So Much Worse than they were in the actual show" pile
At least Aang didn't promise to murder anyone in this one
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And a close up of Marinette.
Alternative sayings for Dingo:
"Time to take out find the competition. "
"I'm gonna go steal her box"
"Good thing you have me to wingman"
@verfound
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I feel like not enough people are highlighting the fact that not only did James Somerton monetize his apology video (!!) but he claims he's going to give all the money he makes to Hbomberguy's team to distribute which like, if he does it great?? BUT ALSO this suggests that a) he has no idea who he's plagiarized from or how many there are and b) he is completely unwilling to work it out!!!!! So he's just going to piggyback off of all Harry's work!!!!!!! JAMES!!!!!!!!
and then he also says, or maybe I'll donate it charity, because this way he has an out when he doesn't actually give any money to anybody.
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Adam and Lucifer getting comfortable enough with each other to the point that they could talk about Eden without it being a sore subject.
Lucifer: I still cannot believe that you thought that I was a bird!
Adam: Hey! You had wings and tweeted like the fuckers!
Lucifer: It's still funny!
Adam: You know, I named a bird after you.
Lucifer: Wait, really? How am I just hearing about this?
Adam: I saw a small pretty bird with yellow feathers, red cheeks, and shiny eyes.
Adam leans in close to Lucifer, who is looking at him with hooded eyes. Lucifer leans in as well. Adam's lips are right over his ear as whispers: Do you wanna know what I called them?
Lucifer: Yes....
Adam: Cockatiel
Adam pulls back as Lucifer blinks once. Twice.
Lucifer: You didn't.
Adam: Be glad that I went with that instead of almost calling them Cockteases.
Oh, what could have been.
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