#dc ref

[lafoget]

visual guide to main supergirls

If your supergirl appears in comics from 1962 to 1985 (plus many happy returns arc in 2003) wears a classic costume or these variations, and uses a brown wig in her civilian disguise, then she is kara zor-el/linda lee danvers

she dies during CoIE AND DOESN'T EXIST IN THE NEW UNIVERSE UNTIL MAY 2004, in the 90s superfam hang out with other supergirls

If your supergirl appears in comics from sept 1988 to sept 1996 (plus convergence supergirl in 2015), wears a classic suit and most often has heavy curls and sometimes turns into a pink blob of goo, then it's matrix/mae kent. she was created by lex from another universe and on the new earth ma and pa kent accepted her as their own daughter

and mae is kon's first supergirl

yes also she dated handsome lex but he was pretending to be his own son so we don't judge her too much for that lol

if your supergirl appears in comics from sept 1996 to nov 2000 and has a classic costume, but also fiery wings sometimes, she's called an earth-born angel and in her civilian form she is a foot shorter and brown-haired with a bob, then this is a fusion (yeah like in steven universe) matrix and linda danvers ORDINARY HUMAN GIRL

if your supergirl appears in comics from dec 2000 to may 2003, wears a suit with a white top, blue skirt AND a blonde wig, and in her civilian appearance is a short-haired brunette, then it’s just linda danvers, matrix separates from her and later finds a new host

linda goes back in time for some time and marries silver age's clark, yes, that's ok, they are not related in any way the day when twitter learns that it's linda and stops being hysterical about incest will be the happiest day of my life

if your supergirl appears briefly in fifteen issues in 2003, wears a black swimsuit and has short black hair, then it's cir-el/mia kent, the pseudo-daughter of clark and lois created by brainiac 12 in the future

if your supergirl has been appearing in comics since may 2004 and wears these costume variants (and sometimes holo-glasses with disguise from 2016 to 2020), then this is kara zor-el again, kara lang until 2011, kara danvers from 2016

#kara zor el #mae kent #linda danvers #cir el #superfam #supergirl #dc ref #dc

[heroesriseandfall]

Nightwing Vol. 2 #54

Nightwing Vol. 2 #73

Gibsontown, Florida, aka “Gibtown”

Ahhh, okay. Huh.

#I had wondered why they mentioned him wintering in Florida but it didn’t occur to me to look up gibtown until now. well there you go. #dick grayson #batfam #the flying graysons #nightwing #john grayson #mary grayson #nightwing (1996) #heroesriseandfall #dc ref

[scintillyyy]

LOVE when i see tags that point me in the exact direction that i want btw. dc scott peterson u are a unit, and a credit to ur name. behold. a version of the dc batbible.

(source)

(putting more under the cut for my reference)

#dc ref #tim drake #bruce wayne #alfred pennyworth #leslie thompkins #i'm nodding my head along as i read #don't agree with everything but tim!! tim!! #“as steady as a 14 year old can be” yes yes acknowledge the messiness of being 14 #jack's perfunctory interest GET HIS ASS #gtfo if u think jack is actually meant to be good dad lmao he sucks <3 #(but also gtfo if u think he was meant to be horrible) #(anyways this was an early-mid 90s bible i believe)

[bitimdrake]

pssssst hey quick question on the dl - who is helena bartinelli??

i cannot answer anon questions on the dl, so answer on the up-high, which she deserves:

HUNTRESS

a.k.a. Helena Bertinelli, a.k.a. Gotham's coolest and most notable antihero, crossbow-wielder, and purple bat-associated vigilante.

Helena was born to an Italian mob family, but spent her childhood blissfully unaware of the family business--until her entire family was slaughtered in front of her when she was eight. She stayed with family overseas for the rest of her childhood, learning how to fight and protect herself.

She came back to Gotham for both vengeance and justice, and became one of Gotham's many vigilantes. Though her focus is on the mob, she'll step in to stop any crime.

She's also a schoolteacher! Good for her.

She is discerning in who she chooses to kill, but she does kill. As you can imagine, this put her at odds with Batman for a long time. Helena is pretty much the premiere example of Bruce trying to claim control over every vigilante in Gotham, no matter how little right he has. The argument on killing/ethics is valid, but his default was basically "do exactly what I say and fall in line under my command, or stop completely," which is why he's an asshole control freak and why I'm constantly mad about how she was treated 👍

She was an absolute mainstay of the Batfamily before Flashpoint (2011) and it is personally hurtful to me that people don't know her. (Like, to be frank? She had far more of a presence than Damian or (living) Jason in the post-crisis era.)

You could count on seeing her in any major Batfamily crossover, from Cataclysm to Battle for the Cowl.

She was central to the biggest Batfamily crossover ever, No Man's Land, where Gotham was locked off from the rest of the country and turned into a lawless wasteland. Bruce left to sulk for the first couple of months and in absence of any other vigilantes in the field (only Oracle having remained in the city), Helena donned the mantle of the Bat for herself to protect the city. And when Batman came back, in return for all she'd done, she got...yelled at, assigned impossible tasks and criticized for not achieving them, her costume stolen and given to someone else, lied to, abandoned in the face of impossible odds, and shot multiple times protecting kids. Absolute fucking hero, honestly.

She also was on the Justice League for a while, though admittedly I have barely touched that run. To my understanding, despite nominating her for the position, Bruce was also the one to revoke her membership there.

Fortunately! things improved!!

In the early/mid 2000s, Helena joined the Birds of Prey, Oracle's team, and found legit friendships and support there with teammates like Dinah Lance/Black Canary. She finally got more respect in the community, and had a much better time.

Additional relationships include:

A big sister/annoying little brother type thing with Tim, who may disapprove of her killing but simply likes making friends too much :)

A great relationship with Vic Sage/the Question

One single issue where she met Steph that presented SUCH interesting potential that I desperately wish had been followed up on

On and off romantic/sexual tension with Dick, depending on the writer, which culminated in a single hook up that apparently most people around here would rather pretend didn't happen, though I really don't think it's that bad

A complicated relationship with Barbara, partially due to clashing personalities and conflicting morals (with Babs being nearly as much of a control freak as Bruce), and partially due to a shared history with Dick because DC loves making women be catty

Surely others from her first solo or time on the JLA that I don't know well enough to list!

She's rad and determined and takes no shit but cares a lot, and I love her. We deserve more stories tying her teaching day job into her night work. We also deserve more stories with her in general.

If you would like additional Helena beyond just cruising my tag, I recommend:

Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood - far more Huntress than Batman, this is a great 6-issue miniseries about Helena reckoning with her past, ft the Question.

Batman: No Man's Land - if you have the time for it, a big storyline but worth it.

Birds of Prey vol 1 (1999) - Helena starts to appear around issue #57 and becomes a central character from there.

#* #ask #anon #*dc #dc #dc ref #helena bertinelli #huntress #batfam #batman #10to2

[thekidthesuperkid]

I'm going to put a few of the reference materials for Kryptonian that I've found here

Brewer's transliteration font (used in the comics):

Doyle's Kryptahniuo writing chart, used sometimes in CW Supergirl and Smallville:

Site that compiles most info about kryptonian languages:

#kryptonian #dc ref #my posts

[lemonlimestar]

save me 90s bats…. 90s bats save me….

#bart (as in bug art) #barbara gordon #dick grayson #tim drake #was reading gotham knights when i started this project :) #my little nightwing cartoon! i’ll post the ref sheets eventually #+ my babs test animation #but! take my sillies #dc #dc comics #nightwing #oracle dc #robin

[arunneronthird]

actually i think they should do stupid things together sometimes, i also fully embraced the fact that none of them have any fashion sense

#taking a break from drawing angst so i can get energy to draw more angst #robin #nightwing #red robin #red hood #damian wayne #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #batman #dc comics #my art #this is obv a yotsuba ref but there were only 3 people in the original and i shit u not #i spent 10 minutes looking at it trying to figure out which guy to take out #turns out didnt work i love them all too much #this is the style i use when i just cannot deal with figuring faces out btw #ladies. gentlemen. you have eaten well.

[mangoisms]

it is… a product of its time and its writer i’m sure (the 80s/90s) but u can’t even deny that tim just has a bad habit of underestimating a lot of the women he encounters. like….. despite dava beating him in combat a few panels earlier and it being implied that she knows more martial arts than he does…. and like i get it shiva is Dangerous one of the most (if not THE most) dangerous fighters in the world but it’s like…. U KNOW? the savior complex is off the charts

#he is annoying ❤️‍🩹 Yet he compels me #mostly because i’m just like What if i fixed him. #i’m sure this habit erodes as he gets older but i still think he gets a little bit like that. like with steph in his red robin 2009 run #dc ref: tim #moss talks comics #dc ref

[saturnsickle]

Babs

#barbara gordon #oracle dc #batgirl dc #babs gordon #batgirl #dc comics #my art #first time drawing a wheelchair fully #i need to practice more #i feel like even though its the same position as the ref it looks off

[pokeberry5]

nobody told me that alvin draper has a nose ring!! and earrings!! does this mean tim has a nose piercing?? 

(related doodles under the cut, feat. dick:)

#tim drake #dc #alvin draper #caroline hill #sart #this was meant to be me having fun drawing tim getting disguised #and then i was like : you know what's also fun? #--> impostor syndrome #also this was .... so many hands #shoutout to the mirror on my desk #im trying to draw tim less twiggy but i use myself as a ref and have no muscles to speak of so

[piikopoko]

drew this as a gift for my friend who super loves superbat and robin wholesome family times

#i dont go here so the amount of refs and fanarts i sifted through for inspiration felt like stepping into another world lolol #superbat #superman #batman #dc #robin #dick grayson #clark kent #bruce wayne

[heroesriseandfall]

Here are the “Gothamites calling Nightwing a New Yorker” panels I was talking about in this post.

People mostly knew early Nightwing as the leader of the New Titans in New York. At the time, he only came to Gotham occasionally to team up with Jason or help Bruce or whatever—up until he moved out of NYC (living in Gotham for a bit, then moving to Blüdhaven for the first time) when Dick was 22 and Tim was 14. Dick lived in NYC for about the first 3 years of being Nightwing.

Teen Titans Spotlight #14

#gothamite: what is a New Yorker doing here? — dick who lived in Gotham for many years & saved it a billion times: hey! #dick grayson #batfam #new teen titans #dc comics #maybe at some point I need to make a ‘where dick lived in post crisis’ but then I’d have to reread stuff for refresh. #heroesriseandfall #dc ref #dcu geography #dc continuity

[catmanbowser]

Random bart doodle i forgor about….

#bart allen #dc #catman's art #the outfit ref is GONE but it was a screenshot that someone sent me from tiktok i’ll find it again someday…. #i saw that and went hm bart maybe would wear that but with a superman logo bcs i was thinkign abt bartkon that entire day

[bitimdrake]

Young Justice reading order 👀

Yeah! This one's pretty simple. If you just read straight down the bolded comics, you're good.

Optionally, you can start with the first meetings between the future members. I've only read some of these, but it's:

Robin Plus Impulse #1

WF3: World's Finest Three (Superboy/Robin) #1-2

Superboy and the Ravers #7 - Kon and Bart

Impulse #28, #41 - Bart and Cissie

And then we get into the actual Young Justice content:

Young Justice: The Secret #1 (1998)

JLA: World Without Grown-Ups #1-2 (1998)

Young Justice vol 1 (1999) #1-2

optional DC One Million tie-in: Young Justice #1,000,000

Young Justice #3-4

Secret Origins 80-Page Giant #1 (1998)

Young Justice: Secret Files and Origins #1 (1999)

Young Justice #5-7

Young Justice 80-Page Giant (1999)

Young Justice #8-10

Young Justice Special #1 - tie-in to No Man's Land

Young Justice #11

Heck's Angels crossover: Young Justice #12 / Supergirl vol 4 #36 / Young Justice #13 / Supergirl #37

Young Justice #14 - tie-in to Day of Judgement

Young Justice #15-19

Young Justice had its own event, Sins of Youth, with a bunch of oneshots for various characters. Honestly just pick the ones for characters you're invested in:

Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1

Superboy vol 4 #74

Young Justice: Sins of Youth Secret Files and Origins

Sins of Youth: JLA, Jr. #1

Sins of Youth: Aquaboy and Lagoon Man #1

Sins of Youth: Batboy and Robin #1

Sins of Youth: Kid Flash and Impulse #1

Sins of Youth: Starwoman and the JSA, Jr. #1

Sins of Youth: Superman, Jr. and Superboy, Sr. #1

Sins of Youth: Wonder Girls #1

Sins of Youth: Secret and Deadboy #1

Young Justice: Sins of Youth #2

And then we finish up the series (with a couple extra notes to keep you up to date on the solos):

Young Justice #20-34

Our Worlds at War tie-ins: Young Justice: Our Worlds at War #1 / optional Superboy #89-90 / Young Justice #35-36 / Impulse #77 / optional Superboy #91 / Young Justice #37

Young Justice #38 - tie-in to Joker: Last Laugh

Young Justice #39-44

World Without Young Justice: Impulse #85 / Robin #101 / Superboy #99 / Young Justice #45

optional Impulse #86

Young Justice #46-55

The team ended with Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day #1-3. At that point, half the members faded into the background and the other half moves over to Teen Titans vol 3, found over in my Titans reading order.

#* #ask #anon #*dc #dc #dc ref #dc timelines #young justice #young just us #yj #tim drake #kon #conner kent #bart allen #cassie sandsmark #cissie king jones #anita fite #slobo #robin #superboy #impulse #wonder girl #10to2

[jamjoob]

Lil Ivy (5-16yrs old)

#Sumn so sad abt drawing comfort characters as kids #Like wdym I wasn't there to take care of them & tell them they're loved?? #First drawing is a ref to poison ivy thorns #poison ivy #pamela isley #dc #my art

[lemonlimestar]

<3

#tim drake #kon el #timkon #adventure time ref btw :)! #yaaaaay #dc #dc comics #bart (as in bug art)