#Comics Byte

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The Batman - First Issue - Read For Free!

Batman's First Appearance - Detective Comics - Comics Byte Facts

DC Batman

#ComicsByte #dccomics #DC #dcuniverse #batman #thedarkknight #brucewayne #happybirthday #capedcrusader #superhero

#comic books #comics byte #comics news #comics #the batman #batman #batman day #bruce wayne #dc #dc comics #dc universe #the dark knight #happy birthday

[whaliiwatching]

no way!!! it's Other Characters!!!!!

#spider man: into the spiderverse #spider man: across the spider verse #peni parker #margo kess #sp//drbyte #spdrbyte #peter porker #sp//dr #spider byte #spider ham #totally not for a potential fic of mine nooooooooo why would you say thaaaaaaaat #amusing to me that i have only drawn ham once and its been as a human #his outfit/style is based on 60s era hippies bc 1956-70 was the silver age of comics!! #im not a comic aficionado but that era seemed like the right vibe #other than he's just john mulaney w dwarfism. bc spiderham is just john mulaney as a superpowered pig #and then ofc cute stem girlfriends #90s emo x bubblegum femme happening right before ur eyes #theyre adorable together but dont let them deceive you #lyla is AFRAID of them #gamer gfs who trash everyone at mario kart!!! #and also trash miguel's surveillance tech!! and portal tracking!!! #theyre parked at lovers' point watching the stars from inside sp//dr right now. they told me so

[why-i-love-comics]

Edge of Spider-Verse #1 - "The Glitch" (2024)

written by Nilah Magruder art by Eric Gapstur & Frank D'Armata

#spider byte #spiderbyte #margo kess #marvel #marvel comics #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

[moonliched]

meant to post the image ver of my tiktok. i forgor :/

newly hatched ghost hours whoop whoop! moon actually has virus-induced amnesia over murking Y/N in my fic so this is just a silly lil what-if ;0

#fnaf #fnaf sb #fnaf moon #fnaf daycare attendants #fnaf security breach #fnaf moondrop #fnaf sun #fnaf sundrop #fnaf dca #digital art #fnaf comic #fnaf ghost au #ghost au #frost byte #my art

[galfromearth-22191]

So margo and her duplication power, can we talk about it?! The possibilities yall

Distractions

Imagine Margo beating up baddies. One minute she’s there, next she’s over there. She could be anywhere. She could even use her duplicates to deliver a group attack

For laughs

Imagine someone tries to speak to her and they’re just chatting away…come to find out it wasn’t her that whole time

Convenience

Piggybacking off the last point, she cant be in the society, on missions, etc as Spider-byte? No worries, she just uses a decoy to do her tasks

#across the spiderverse #atsv margo #margo kess #spider byte #spiderverse #Ohmigosh #she’s so cool #Can we see her use it again in Beyond? #now I’m not sure if Margo’s decoys are as strong as her #we shall see #I need to read her comics soon

[avaarctic]

"Tangle & Whisper: New Roads" Prequel Release!

I'm SO excited to finally reveal the collaborative prequel for "Tangle & Whisper: New Roads!" To get ready for Issue #2, we learn about some new mysterious group causing trouble for normal civilians. Just what is going on that our heroes aren't aware of???

Art by the Amazing Starly and Coloring by N'oni!

Look forward to Issue #2 VERY Soon!!!

#tangle the lemur #whisper the wolf #sonic fan comic #tangle and whisper #idw sonic #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #tangle #whisper #Byte the goat #lanolin the sheep #jewel the beetle #ava the arctic fox #bakery #fan comic

[shibaleeart]

This really could be done better but fuck it

#shiba draws #into the spider verse #spiderverse 2 #spiderverse #spiderman #spider man #marvel #marvel comics #black artists on tumblr #artist on tumblr #art #drawing #digital art #sketch #fanart #spiderverse fanart #margo kess #spiderbyte #spider byte #black girl #black artist

[planetoflovers]

I can’t believe Hobie and Margo are both gonna have their own solo runs this year. We had to cheer

#hobie brown #spider punk #spider byte #margo kess #marvel comics

[sobbingprincess]

IDW Soundwave is just *chef kiss* 👌

#idw soundwave #soundwave #transformers idw #idw transformers #galvatron #transformers #idw comics #maccadams #maccadam #cosmos #sky byte #idw publishing #decepticons #autobots #tf idw #hasbro #idw tf #comics #cybertronian #cybertron #minicon #cassetes #tf laserbeak #laserbeak #tf ravage #idw optimus prime #tf idw1 #tf buzzsaw

[bunniibones]

Prequel for issue 2 of Tangle & Whisper: New Roads! (Fan comic not affiliated with SEGA)

It was super fun to draw it! And @nintendoni-art did an amazing job coloring these :D!

Check Tangle & Whisper: New Roads at @avaarctic's blog!

#Lanolin the Sheep #Jewel the Beetle #Byte the Goat #Sonic #Sonic OC #IDW Sonic #fan comic #tangle and whisper new roads #starly drawings #2023

[nintendoni-art]

It's nice to have things in common with people ^^ -- Currently both my OC Zori and @bunniibones's OC Byte are going against each other in the @sonic-oc-showdown, and seeing how they also helped out with my AU redesign of Starline, I decided to throw together a little comic about two people who know the same person. Sort of.

[Seriously, go check it out, it's a neat little competition!]

#Sonic OC #Sonic AU #Zori the Zeti #Byte the Goat #Hime Bee #Dr. Starline #galaxy spiral au #zeti #zeti oc #zori #sonic #Technically this is take two of this comic #the original one was Zori finding Starline spraying cheese whiz in their mouth while on the couch #watching old salvaged video logs #and wondering where his life went wrong while his roommate was blasting caramelldansen and testing out their party lights #but I didn't want to risk any flashing light issues...

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Batman - The Killing Joke

Essential Graphic Novels Series - DC Comics: Batman - The Killing Joke

DC

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[waves-mp4]

SKY-BYTE AND WASPINATOR!!!!! I love them

#sky byte #waspinator #transformers #maccadam #idw comics

[why-i-love-comics]

Edge of Spider-Verse #1 - "The Glitch" (2024)

written by Nilah Magruder art by Eric Gapstur & Frank D'Armata

#spiderbyte #spider byte #margo kess #marvel #marvel comics #spoilers #wednesday spoilers #comic spoilers

[demon64]

Currently trying to write a Spider-Verse and TMNT crossover. For the TMNT side, it's mostly gonna be a combination of some of my favorite bits and pieces of different iterations sort of mashed together. Probably mostly the 2003 and Rise versions of the universe are the biggest influence.

Spider-Verse side of things? Three of Gwen's group, specifically Hobie, Peni, and Margo, will have gotten sent careening to the TMNT universe after a multiversal quake happened. I'm thinking as a bit of a joke, Hobie somewhat recognizes Mikey, because back on his Earth, there was show called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

So far of what I have written, the trio of Spider-People have met Michelangelo after he went looking for a flux in time-space above NYC. Agent Bishop would have investigated it himself if not for being busy, and the turtles being closer.

#marvel comics #marvel #spider-man #spider-verse #into the spider-verse #atsv #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #tmnt 2003 #hobie brown #spider-punk #margo kess #spider-byte #peni parker #michelangelo #leonardo #donatello #raphael #april o'neil #casey jones #fanfiction #random thoughts #i'll probably add more later

[daisyachain]

Restorative or Transformative?: Homoerotic Subtext, The Closet, and Ciphers in Pop Culture. The nature of commercial art is that it’s sometimes bad and inconsistent. Notably it’s also misogynistic. One way in which audiences try to reconcile massive plot holes or gaps in character motivation is by reading secrets or hidden information into a plot.

Commonly, male characters are interpreted as closeted gay or bisexual to reconcile the absence of women from commercial narratives with the generally stunted and poorly-written male characters that form the focus on said texts. This reading has become especially common among a non-heterosexual milieu. Rather than transforming the original text into some radically different new form, this closeted interpretation seeks to make the original text stand on its own as a story rather than a Swiss cheese of dumb writing decisions.

This interpretation only works for a specific type of pop, usually genre fiction. Any story in which tortured male leads eschew women in favour of male-male bonds (because female characters are constantly killed off, written sparsely, or written out, because the production team keeps casting their male buddies, because actors demand to keep having scenes with their bros, whatever) can become a sounder structure if you put one of them in a closet.

The gay interpretation is the natural consequence of shoddy misogynistic writing from ventures like Supernatural, Naruto, all the biggest hits. It’s also the natural consequence of more benignly misogynistic writing like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or The Lord of the Rings, where women aren’t necessarily rejected but are simply absent from the worlds of the protagonists. When the emotional crux of the story falls on male-male interactions, this reads as romantic because society at large priorities (definitively heterosexual) romance as the pinnacle of human connection. Two forces are in conflict, the primacy of heterosexuality (read as: romance) and the primacy of men.

Anyway. All that is to say that the typical gay or bisexual reading of male characters in pop fiction comes from a very real place. But, in some places, that’s the default interpretation. Angst, insecurity, secrets, double lives, fatigue, disappointment, restrained passion, stunted personal growth, anyone living in the closet can tell you that it impacts and defines your whole life to know that you live in a way fundamentally incompatible with The Proper Way that life is structured around down to tax law and superstore prices (which assume a heterosexual nuclear family unit). Characters in fiction also tend to have personal problems because that makes them interesting and tasty.

If you’ve grown up on stories with the specific type of misogyny that can be papered over with a closeted interpretation of the male leads, carrying this interpretation over to any male character will make sense more often than not. Even a bit of angst or insecurity? Well of course that makes sense if a character is closeted.

Except that’s hurt a normal part of fiction, and sometimes the closeted interpretation takes away from the point of a character. If a male character is on another axis of marginalization, the closeted interpretation imposed by the slash reading community downplays or trivializes the effects of that marginalization in the plot by overwriting it with another type of marginalization. Alternately, sometimes a character’s heterosexuality is a part of the story. There are some sorts of critiques or investigations of misogyny or masculinity that don’t work if the character has an ‘opt out’ of the cisheteropatriarchal perspective. Not that gay/bisexual men aren’t except from misogyny, but misogyny masculinity and heterosexuality are so tightly linked that it sort of defeats the point if you interpret that character outside of heterosexuality.

All that is to say—the closet interpretation is a quick and easy spice to apply to the weaker parts of action-adventure genre fiction to make it taste better. It draws from a large enough sample of art that it’s pretty widely applicable. Because of that, it’s part of some people’s [my] default interpretation package just because the semi-dull macho show at least gets less dull if you imagine there’s a reason for there to be no girls besides simple hatred. That then forms its own problem where the interpretation that works with your average genre work gets then blanket-applied to all genre works and obscures the places where the closet interpretation doesn’t fix the work, and actually makes it less interesting.

#kelsey rambles #I’m as guilty of it as anyone. #just thinking about Johnny Storm and like. bisexual ass character. deeply bi guy. but. #what IF he’s just heterosexual. what then. wouldn’t that almost be…more interesting #if he’s Like That and not closeted? what twisty gnarled psychological torments would a good comic have to explain him #and on the other hand. that one post I saw about how miles/hobie totally misses the point that their relationship is about solidarity #spider-punk and spider-byte’s alliance with miles are the same thing and to read it as romantic erases the important part #and on a third hand. when speaking of miles’ story. the stupid fucked Bendis running joke/subtext with Ganke #to have Miles be gay would possibly take away from the messy and interesting part of his character that is being a person with nothing #to hide. a totally honest genuine straightforward kid who is forced to start a double life by an outside actor #but at the same time it’s dumb and a cop-out to throw in that much bait and that much of a genuinely charged tense friendship #and then go ‘lol jk. nothing to see here’ #the other thing is the semi joke in atsv about ‘coming out’ as spider-man #the most important thing about Miles having to hide is his relatively precarious position as a black kid. he’s not afforded the leniency #that Peter Parker would expect if he got unmasked. Miles is more cautious because he is in more danger because he’s Black #so to paint that struggle with the gay brush is to disregard the character’s raison d’être. while also #using that sort of language and structure deliberately puts a gay lens over that character and ignoring that or kicking it to the side #feels a bit cheap. to borrow the look and not the substance #way too many tags and it’s past my bedtime. thesis statement is: #miles morales is a character whose history is fraught with plenty of real gay subtext and whose character struggles are entirely divorced #from any sense of gender performance. he’s subtextually bi but that’s got so little to do with his story that it feels almost wrong to read #that into him because there is so much other interesting stuff going on with him