"Who Is Superman? A Private Interview with Lois Lane" a fancomic about hope and connection.
I've had this story in mind for so long and I'm very excited to be able to share it at last. Thank you for reading, and happy Lunar New Year!
not gonna elaborate it rn, but people diminishing Jason's experience with homelessness, malnourishment, childhood abuse and neglect, because he got adopted by a billionaire while also hcning Tim Drake to be abused and starved by his wealthy parents is rooted in racism and classism
Asian Comics dispels the myth that,
outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and
comic books. Relying on his fifty years of Asian mass communication
and comic art research, during which he traveled to Asia at least
seventy-eight times and visited many studios and workplaces, John A.
Lent shows that nearly every country had a golden age of cartooning
and has experienced a recent rejuvenation of the art form. As only
Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous
scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major comics creators
outside of Japan.
if ur seriously trying to untangle the retcon that rewrote dick to be explicitly romani u really have to include devin grayson’s deeply unhinged brand of racism that has negatively affected his portrayal as a man of colour in the following decades, specifically in his rabid oversexualisation and dehumanisation
however….. it would also be irresponsible to say that his race is not a fixed, canonical part of his character. taylor, for his in-numerous flaws, canonised his bg. mary is romani in the gotham knights game. very occasionally he’s drawn as vaguely brown.
with that being said — it is equally as irresponsible to delegitimise discussions about his bg and his status as a prominent romani character in comic canon!!! it just also should be said that while characters like cass and duke and damian and the foxes have experienced significantly bad writing and worse visibility, dick’s race should still be part of that conversation. it should not be ignored in favour of hcs for other characters who have always been yt
one of my fav tropes of all times is a bunch of 20 smth dudes who have no business raising a child try to raise a child (plus the dad of one of the dudes who also is a hazard)
so there's this post that talks about how people call jason's curved knife a kris but it's not a kris 'cuz why would he have a southeast asian knife? and op's tags say if you're gonna give him an 'exotic' weapon at least make him malay or something. a later reblog adds a filipino kris as an example, and then i was like, 'omg, jason in a barong tho.' SO i tried designing a bat-barong inspired by his hood logo, for a filipino jason haha. and now here we are! 😊✨️🇵🇭
I know Tim is usually portrayed as a "thinks mayonnaise is proper seasoning" white guy, but I love the idea of mixed Tim, especially half east Asian Tim, and even MORE specifically, half Japanese Tim. Idk why it just makes sense in my brain. Every Tim I write is half Japanese in my mind even if it doesn't make it to the final product.
I also like the idea of white passing, half Korean Tim. Imagine everyone thinking he can't handle spice because they've seen Bruce trying to eat takis and he almost died, but Tim grew up with his mother's kimchi which was made to burn through solid steel and has an unhealthy obsession with spicy noodles (think buldak, shin ramyun, etc). This guy could eat California Reapers like grapes without so much as flushing and is honestly terrifying to witness (i guess this scenario would also work with Japanese!Tim, but tbh I know more about spicy Korean food than spicy Japanese food).
I feel like a lot of people in the fandom tend to forget this, so I'm just here to give a kind, thoughtful reminder :]
Ambrosius Goldenloin in the movie is an East Asian man (Korean-coded), his skin is tan, his eyes are monolid and his nose is big
He's voiced by Eugene Lee Yang - a Korean-American actor who also has Chinese and Japanese heritage. Eugene Lee Yang looks like this:
During the production, when Ambrosius was decided to be East Asian, artists looked up queer East Asian-American men, and based Ambrosius off of them. Ambrosius is literally drawn to look like Eugene Lee Yang
i deserve a spider-woman nepal..... miles doesn't have to be the only teen spider with a terrible bisexual mentor (enter my own sketches of the world's most annoying spiderperson, who i fling towards pavitr, complete with a design that's subject to change)