#casstoons

(Cass and Steph are standing together, grumpy as heck.)

Cass: "It's stupid."

Steph: "I know. I mean-Gagh! (facepalms) No matter how hard we try, our fanbase is the most toxic, most unpleasable, most horrendous-"

(Morty walks in)

Morty: "I know how you feel."

(Rick walks in)

Rick: "Welcome to the club, kids."

Cass:(directs three guys into a house)"HIDE!"

(Cass and Steph follow in, they close the door, bolt it with wooden planks)

Cass:(looks at the three guys)"Okay, why do they want to-"

Voices outside: "SYNDER! TYNION! YOU HACKS! CREEPS! YOU MADE CASS A KILLER! WELL WE'LL-"

(The three guys are revealed to be Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV and Joshua Williamson)

Scott Snyder: (sighs, talks to both Cass and Steph) "It was yet another comic reboot so we wrote you another origin story-"

James Tynion: "-yet we still kept the spirits of your original characters alive and well for new and old readers alike-"

Joshua Williamson: "-but these guys? They accuse us of "destroying you even more" and with every new story, we're quote-on-quote "sodomizing your corpses."

Cass and Steph:(wincing)"EEEEYISSHHH!"

Joshua Williamson: "And now-"

Voices Outside: "WILLIAMSON! YOU STOLE CASS' TOURNAMENT ARC! GAVE IT TO DAMIAN! SPAT IN OUR FACES! WE'LL KILL YOU! RIP YOU LIMB FROM-"

Steph: "Ugh! These delusional jerks! They think all these authors have "secret agenda," that all companies work "the Image Comics way," that The Big Two have been infiltrated by "fascism apologists" who insert pro-Nazi messages everywhere!"

Cass: "WHAT.IDIOTS. Glad we got Marguerite Bennett and Vita Ayala out of here. Sure, they knew very little about me but they did their best."

(Forces bang hard against the door. Cass, Steph Snyder, Tynion and Williamson push back against the door.)

(Rick and Morty join in to help)

Morty: "Oh Cass, sure wish more fans shared your attitude."

Let me introduce you to an old project I used to be involved with: CASSTOONS!

If you’ve never had the chance to read it before, it’s a satirical strip dealing with the stupid things the comics industry has pulled in the last decade or so. It eventually started to evolve its own storylines, and most of us at Superdickery were somehow involved with it from ‘07-about 2010. Around the time that DC did its reboot, the artist espanolbot switched from a sprite system to hand drawing the strips. Given that hand drawn stuff takes more time, we all kinda backed off and let him continue the strip on his own. But the roughly 2 years or so I scripted stories for the strip were some of the best years of my life. I felt honored to be part of such a talented and genuinely funny group of creators.

Yeah, it was deviantart or someone's archive where I first discovered them too- I remember because like I said, at the time we still had dial-up at my house and I remember just waiting for this huge wall of images to load so I could read more of the story. I remember actually being really happy when I got to the part where Steph was bought back, like it was the next best thing for Steph being bought back in the real comics for me at the time, haha.

I remember feeling this glow of pride whenever my cartoons were uploaded on the deviantart.

I really didn't draw a lot- they tended to just pop up when something about Cass REALLY frustrated me (like the Beechen miniseries) or when something was happening with Steph the main series wasn't likely to comment on since it was, y'know, about Cass for the most part. I specialized in Steph side stories. I knew my art wasn't that great and it took me forever to do even the crappy comics that I managed, so I was reluctant about them.

 Looking back through my archive I found one where I had Bart, Jaime and Steph all hang out which was CLEARLY JUST ME DRAWING MY FANTASY TEAM UP, aw teenage me you dork.

Posted entirely for the "White with blue eyes doesn't narrow it down" part pretty much

then i did a horribly drawn recap of Steph's history being mistreated in comics to celebrate her ressurection (as you do)

Context: Tim basically threatened Stephanie that she better give up the Spoiler costume in Robin #182 or he'd do...something. Gosh what a fun time that was, what a beautiful direction to take Tim's character.

That's not really why Jason died, it was because DC Comics are butts. WEIRDLY ENOUGH this was Steph's exact response to his later on, except she became BATGIRL and said "WELL I'M NOT IN THE SPOILER COSTUME ANYMORE TIM!!! RU HAPPY" :D 

CLEARLY THEY COPIED OFF ME. I still say wearing her old Robin costume would have been a sicker burn though.

I FORGOT THERE WAS A ROBIN SIGNAL. THAT REALLY HAPPENED. JESUS CHRIST.

The "I painted it red" joke was actually based off how Stephanie bought a pager and painted it purple in the comics and called it "the Spoiler signal" I love her so much <3

THERE WAS ALSO THIS ONE. the art is terrible and the layout is confusing but OH MY GOD THAT MINISERIES IT STILL HURTS THIS IS COMPLETELY ACCURATE TO WHAT IT WAS LIKE

God...

"Casstoons" were parody webcomics of DC espanolbot and then some other peeps did in response to  Cassandra Cain's inexplicable turn to evil. They were hosted on the Superdickery forums. They starred Cass (a chattier version, in keeping with parodying her comic characterization at the time) basically railing about how comics treated her. They eventually had their own kind of plotlines going, like Tim actually successfully cloned Superboy (I think? well he came back anyway) and Steph came back too (she was dead in comics at the time of course) and they started dating (Steph and Superboy, that is) Tim was typically portrayed a womanizing jerk in parody of how he was portrayed in comics at the time (as SUPER heterosexual and generally an angstbucket), stuff like that.

I remember reading them on my computer when I was in high school, I really ate them up because they sort of helped vent my frustration I felt as a fan of Cass at the time. It was back when we still had dial up at my house, but I still waited for them to load forever...eventually I joined Superdickery and started drawing my own.

I was looking through the ones on my livejournal and they're mostly terrible, but a couple of my the later ones really actually made me laugh and remember the ridiculousness of the tail end of FabNic's Robin run. There's one where Steph got trained by Lady Shiva I'm just going to post here because lines like "I was making Tim Drake's life even more miserable" got a chuckle out of me oh COMICS. I thought it might amuse Kat or someone. This was like, set after the events of Robin #179 or something? idk.