Briar

the flash (1987) #200; final crisis #4; dc universe rebirth; the flash: rebirth; titans (2016) #1; new history of the dc universe #4; heroes in crisis #6; unused cover of heroes in crisis #4; the flash: knight terrors #2; the flash (2016) #793, annual 2

As of today, it's been 1203 days (approximately 3 years and 3 1/2 months) since DC published an ongoing comic book centering a Black character in its mainline continuity. I'm using this poll to bring awareness to some Black characters who I think could use some love. Fem edition.

The way this from Aphrodite in Absolute Wonder Woman #19 engages with the fact that we cannot get a Diana appearance in a Valentine’s anthology that is about anything other than friendship and people crushing on her, that Diana has women obsessed with her in the text in ways she cannot fully return (see Barbara Minerva’s entire history and particularly Rucka’s explanations of how he sees Cheetah’s emotions towards Diana, see main universe Circe, etc etc).

It’s playing with a fundamental Doylist problem with Diana where she’s simultaneously always been an icon of women loving women (all the way back to exactly how the William Marston origins function) and yet she’s also simultaneously expected to be written as almost above the messiness of romantic attachments much of the time, particularly to women.

Diana’s been cursed/blessed to inspire and compel love from others, and like Aphrodite, because that love is induced she cannot fully tell whether it’s something she deserves or is involved in.

Now, she will never know whether someone loves her because they love her, or because they have no choice.

hadn't done some proper barry portraits so

hal: willpower as daring (he's always doing the bold thing, even if it ends up being a mistake, like parallax or scapegoating himself, but a lot of the time, bold is what they need)

guy: willpower as grit (he's rough and tumble, always getting knocked down but also always, always gets back up)

john: willpower as integrity (he tries so, so hard to do the right thing every time, and sometimes this results in hard decisions, but he at least tries to do what's right)

kyle: willpower as creativity (he's an artist, obviously, but beyond that, he also had to answer "what does it mean to be a Green Lantern?" without the help of a corps around him)

simon: willpower as faith (exclusive to him as a GL are healing and future vision, which i think are a nod to the miracles of Islamic prophets, and even in the text himself, he is able to do these things because he chooses not to believe in the limitations he is told, and rather to believe in himself; he also at first struggles to trust in his ring, as communicated through his carrying of a gun on his person, but he later overcomes this)

jessica: willpower as growth (i think it's fair to say that jessica, more than most GLs, has to overcome fear more than most, but i think it's also a really important part of her character that anxiety will always be with her and that her journey with mental health doesn't have to be linear to be significant)

jo: willpower as perseverance (she's incredibly driven, but she was also directionless, which is why she kept failing to find the right "system" through which to better the world--until she became a GL)

keli: willpower as survival (her backstory is all about how she had some very hard circumstances and had to work to survive, and as the youngest GL in mainline comics, she's also gone through it, but she always makes it out okay)

kim: willpower as resourcefulness (tai at first dismisses that his grandma could be "creative" as a GL because she didn't seem the type, but it's pointed out to him that it must take a lot of creativity to start over in a new country; i think it's fair to say that this creativity can be flavored as resourcefulness, especially since kim is shown to have been a leader in her community even after coming to the U.S. as an immigrant with nothing)

Halbarry Week 2025 is August 10th through 16th!

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