Antics & Artists

𓍊𓋼𓍊 My piece for "Together from Afar: a How to Train Your Dragon" tribute exhibition at Gallery Nucleus! The show runs from April 11-26 and opens tonight from 5-8pm (free + no RSVP needed) 𓍊𓋼𓍊

Batman: faces

What do you see, Starscream? …This is super inspired by Soundwave’s original/g1 bio (shown below) 😮‍💨 and like how in Marvel G1 Soundwave kinda does have that friendly facade.. but Starscream tended to see him how he truly is whereas Megatron and Shockwave tended to blindly believe in Soundwave’s loyalty (but then even Starscream still had a little bit of a blind eye to Soundwave’s act a few times too)… I wish Soundwave having that affable surface yet opportunistic personality showed up more in continuities tho, it would be so interesting to see him like that again and more

He shows up at her birthday in Action Comics #270

They make a great team in Brave and the Bold (1955) #147

Kara calls him a foster parent in Supergirl (2005) #5

their second the brave and the bold (1955) team-up, where she asks him to help find her missing foster father (the "what brings you to gotham city? is this a social call, or—?" is very funny to me. yeah she's just there to get brunch with you):

the brave and the bold (1955) #160

the moment in the phantom zone (1982) where she immediately alerts him when she thinks clark went missing (her family members really love going missing—also i just really like how they interact with each other here, she used to get written like an adult and one of his peers and i miss that!!):

the phantom zone (1982) #2

post-crisis kara going to talk to bruce while clark is busy on a mission and him empathizing with her over seeing her parents' faces "one last terrible time":

supergirl (2005) #30

kind of similar to the one above—but not a direct interaction between them—is that moment from the world's finest (2022) issue with kara and dick's terrible date where he has to remind dick that she saw her literal whole entire world die—not just her parents:

world's finest (2022) #12

this last one isn't super significant but "sorry about the 'pain in the butt' thing, batman" / "i've been called worse. today, even." makes me giggle whenever i think about it:

supergirl (2016) #36

and since i'm already here—and because i mentioned the "bruce would take in kon and not treat him like an abomination" and "bruce is jon's favorite uncle" fanon takes in my original tags—here's bruce openly treating kon like shit:

superboy (1994) #85 | batgirl (2000) #42

and jon openly disliking bruce:

action comics (1938) #1035 | adventures of superman: jon kent (2023) #4

Let there be light ☀️

I had alotta fun with this piece but I don’t have much to say about it😭! I love eldritch Duke (though this art isn’t really super eldritch) I think it’s so cool he deserves to be a lil freaky scary, he’s a bat it’s in the contract!

Also Glowing eyes for Duke Thomas week!

Refs + extras below vv

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.