#Circus Of Crime

[why-i-love-comics]

Doctor Strange #11 - "Circus" (2023)

written by Jed MacKay art by Danilo S. Beyruth & Kj Diaz

#circus of crime #ringmaster #stefano stiletto #gym nasty #marvel #chief beef #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Incredible Hulk #217 (November, 1977) Art by Jim Starlin

#Marvel #Comics #Incredible Hulk #Hulk #Bruce Banner #Circus of Crime #Ringmaster #Maynard Tiboldt #Princess Python #Zelda DuBois

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Doctor Strange #11

#doctor strange #stephen strange #bats the ghost dog #clea strange #circus of crime #the ringmaster #marvel comics #marvel spoilers #matt reads a thing #i posted this

[cinder-no]

Live Wire - Pony Town

#Live Wire #Pony Town #Marvel Ponies #Rance Preston #Circus of Crime #The Circus of Crime #Pony Town Character Creator #Pony Town Characters #Marvel #Marvel Villains #Marvel AU #MLP #MLP AU #My Little Pony #My Little Pony AU #GIF #GIFs #Walk Sprites #Sprites #Earth Ponies #Character Creators #Videogames #CinderNo

[vavavadoom]

…and the Masters of Evil?

Searching for a Doom story and stumbled across these, new to me, from 2009, Paul Tobin & pencils shared by Jacobo Camagni and Patrick Scherberger. The title is mystifying, as the MoE barely have a role larger than the Sinister Six and the Circus of Crime. They really missed a beat by just having Magneto and not the Brotherhood, making the whole series have a team theme. The art is not my cup of tea, for design, but is very energetic.

The story is a great Doom one, though, really about his character, revolving around two macguffins. (Maybe four?) Spoilers below…

Bonus: one of the best appearances of Selene ever. And it ends in the longest set up dad joke in comics. (Probably not literally, because comics, but 4 issues is a hell of a wind up.)

And the punchline…

#DOOM #victor von doom #magneto #sinister six #circus of crime #masters of evil #Selene

[evilhorse]

The Circus of Crime must be purged.

#ghost rider #circus of crime #bloody #purge #johnny blaze #benjamin percy #cory smith #marvel comics #comics #2020s comics

[elgaberino-mcoc]

Clown has been added to the MCOC Wishlist

#Clown #Eliot Franklin #Kazi #Kazimierz Kazimierczak #Circus of Crime #Jumpsuit Mafia #villain #additions

[eliah]

#thor #145 #marvel comics #1967 #stan lee #jack kirby #vince colletta #circus of crime

[beam-of-sunlightbb]

#israel #palestine #palestinian genocide #massacre #gaza #ethnic cleansing #gaza strip #war crimes #genocide #barbarians #taylor swift 1989 #1989 taylor's version #taylornation #fnaf #birds #free gaza #jujutsu gojo #the amazing digital circus #education #human rights violations

[quasar1967]

The Incredible Hulk #3

July 3rd 1962

Banished To Outer Space

The Origin Of The Hulk

The Ringmaster

#incredible hulk #marvel comics #circus of crime #ringmaster #clown #human cannonball

[supaidasensu]

Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #16

Published: c. July, 1964? Cover Date: September, 1964

“Duel with Daredevil” Writer: Stan Lee Artist: Steve Ditko Inker: Steve Ditko Letterer: Sam Rosen

#spider-man #amazing spider-man #steve ditko #sam rosen #circus of crime

[why-i-love-comics]

Doctor Strange #11 - "Circus" (2023)

written by Jed MacKay art by Danilo S. Beyruth & Kj Diaz

#circus of crime #stefano stiletto #gym nasty #chief beef #marvel #donna #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: Super-Villain Team-Up #8 (October, 1976) Art by Marie Severin

#Marvel #Comics #Super-Villain Team-Up #Doctor Doom #Namor #Sub-Mariner #Ringmaster #Maynard Tiboldt #Circus of Crime #Savage Sub-Mariner

[th4t1guylol]

#the amazing digital circus #digital circus #pomni #pomni posting #tadc caine #the amazing digital circus caine #caine #caine posting #tadc pomni #the amazing digital circus pomni #bank robbery #crime

[littleghostboysthings]

:3 I love Gangle so much:3

#be gay do crimes #the amazing digital circus #tadc kinger #tadc #tadc gangle #gangle #bubble tadc #shef

[envysparkler]

so this.  this would be one of the nightwing longfics.  the long, character-driven fic that I wish I had time to write but alas.

the crux of this fic is when Tim goes to ask Dick to return to save Batman from his grief, Dick agrees.

Nightwing coming back to Gotham.  fighting, every day, to keep Bruce from self-destructing in a manor so full of grief that sometimes he sits in empty rooms and cries.  Dick that can’t visit Jason’s grave, it’s too painful, but sometimes he sleeps on the couch in the library and pretends like his little brother is sitting on the other couch and reading.  and Nightwing also needs to deal with this precocious twelve-year-old who might not be Robin but thinks that it is perfectly reasonable to stalk them around Gotham.

it’s hard.  it’s so, so hard.  Dick losing pieces of himself, bit by bit.  he sees hallucinations of Jason and eventually, the hallucinations are the only things he talks to truthfully.  he has to keep Bruce sane while Bruce keeps lashing out at him.  Alfred’s not getting younger.  Barbara’s furious and upset and grieving what happened to her.  Tim has no parental supervision, what the fuck is going on with this kid, Dick needs to watch out for him too.

it’s slow, but the pressure just keeps piling on.

meanwhile, the people he’s helping start to get better.  Bruce notices their baby stalker, figures out Tim’s situation, and puts in immediate paperwork to get temporary guardianship.  (Dick still hasn’t been adopted.  it’s fine.  he doesn’t care.  he doesn’t.)  Barbara recovers and becomes Oracle, a saving grace to the wider caped community.  (she’s so busy.  Dick just wants a friend to talk to.  please.)  Tim is introduced to the Titans and makes fast friends with them.  (the Titans were Dick’s first but they’re gone, all gone, why does everyone keep leaving him.)

and then there’s a mention of a new crime lord on the scene, Red Hood, who’s looking to shake things up.

things build and build and build, Hood taunting them and Bruce’s suspicions and Tim’s stalking, until it reaches a breaking point.

a warehouse.  Batman and Red Hood and Tim and Dick.  everyone is shouting at each other, yelling at each other, accusations flying, emotional barbs thrown.  Dick trying to keep the peace and failing.

maybe someone snaps something that wounds.  maybe Dick just collapses under his own exhaustion.  either way, he gives up.  he walks away.  he can’t do this anymore.

no one notices him leave.

Dick leaves his suit in the Cave and writes a short note explaining that he’s quitting.

he’s done.

this world--Gotham and Batman and all the heroes and villains--has taken too much from him. he’s barely twenty-one and yet he’s lived lifetimes.  he’s shouldered the weight of the entire world on his shoulders for so long he cannot remember what it feels like to fly without a net.

he returns to the first place he called home.  there’s a Flying Grayson at Haley’s Circus again.

#fic ideas #dick grayson #the sequel would be dick asserting that he Doesn't Do That Anymore #while batman and the justice league and the titans and deathstroke and ra's al ghul #all try to convince him to come back #feat. the shenanigans of an accidentally-unintentionally-crime-fighting circus