#Hellions mini

[agbpaints]

Da whole star. Excited to use some of these in a game, unsure of how I'm gonna fit that Kodiak in a 10bv list lol

#hobby #miniatures #mini painting #battletech #battlemech #mecha #mech #mechwarrior #clan mechs #clan ghost bear #rasalhague dominion #light mech #medium mech #heavy mech #assault mech #kodiak #hellion #ice ferret #mad dog #viper #omega galaxy

[turtsmcgurts]

Some drawings I did featuring my good friends @sharkonaut-draws's ocs! The beach one is from our Smores Au and part of a collab. I ADORE Shark's designs, they are top notch, grade A+++ stuff!

#my art #rottmnt #save rottmnt #rottmnt ocs #Smores AU #Mona and Mini Mona #Syd #Chel #Leo #Leo's Hellions

[newx-menfan]

New Mini where Julian’s new Hellions team is just all of his Krakoa children…

@thestomping-ground

#😂🤣🤣🤣 #I REALLY want this book now! #Hellion #Julian Keller #new xmen #new x men #x men #Marvel #academy x #new x men academy x #COME ON MARVEL… #New Hellions mini like…🤣

[miupow]

okay have to ask about *your* dad!txt thoughts since you've been in my askbox hehe

-ari

omg my dad!txt thoughts... i have so many but i will try to keep this short (i didn't)

txt as dads~

dad!soobin

╰⪼ has four or five kids, and none of them were planned TT they're all close together in age too, one after another.. soobin just can't keep his hands to himself when it comes to his wifey ><

╰⪼ certified girl dad omg but he'd have both... twin girls then a boy, then another girl, and then another boy hehe and they're all so sweet and shy like him :(

╰⪼ his kids walk all over him!! he just can't say no to them when they whine and pout :( gets them whatever they want and will do whatever they ask him to. tea parties and makeovers? nerf gun battles and dramatic storybook readings? doesn't matter he'll do it cos he loves spending time with his kids :>

╰⪼ he's just such a family man TT he loves his little ever-growing family sm and makes it known every day :(

dad!yeonjun

╰⪼ two kids cos he's a single child and wants his kids to have siblings :3 two girls, both spoiled absolutely rotten! they eat his credit card for lunch omg but he doesn't care, anything to make his baby girls happy ^^ they're such brats tho i know it TT have their daddy wrapped around their little fingers

╰⪼ even more of a girl dad than soobin oml... his daughters are his princesses and he'd move mountains for them if he had to!! literally melts anytime his daughters ask for something, he has to get it cos then they'll cry, and he can't stand to see his babies cry...

╰⪼ such a protective dad :( always holding them close, freaks out any time they fall or get hurt, even if it's just a little scrape. swoops them up in his arms n coddles them >< omg if kids were being mean to them at school or something.. full rampage on the poor teachers

╰⪼ always covered in glitter or has bows in his hair, carries their baby photos in his wallet, always running home as fast as he can every day so he can spend time with his favorite girls ;(

dad!beomgyu

╰⪼ he's such a boy dad nothing can convince me otherwise.. honestly that workman episode just solidified it for me. i think he'd have just one son, his mini me :( literally identical in every way, they even dress similar TT

╰⪼ his son is a little hellion tbh but it's okay cos he's cute.. just so energetic 24/7 and never seems to run out of energy TT somehow beomgyu manages to keep up with him.. i know the house is a mess

╰⪼ gyu has such a deep connection with his dad and i feel like it would be the same for him and his son :( they do absolutely everything together, with his son riding on his shoulders

╰⪼ i think beomgyu would be the least prepared to be a dad but i think he'd be such a good one :( before his son was born i think he would have a lot of anxiety about it :(

dad!taehyun

╰⪼ girl dad taehyun hits different im ngl, but i think he would have both a girl n a boy, two kids like yeonjun. they're both so polite and softspoken like their daddy :( n they both have his big brown boba eyes... crying

╰⪼ his kids would definitely be the most well behaved and respectful TT he would make sure that they behaved themselves and had good manners! they'd have good grades and play soccer and just be so intelligent.. he'd just have the best kids

╰⪼ science experiments and ant farms and bottle rockets :( his kids are so curious and he loves to watch them learn and grow <3 he always helps them too, his favorite way of spending time with them. they climb all over him like he's a jungle gym but he doesn't mind cos he's strong enough to hold them both even when they're older :>

╰⪼ like yeonjun he'd be so protective over his son and daughter, always wary about them getting hurt. he's that helicopter dad at the playground who wont take his eyes off of his kids lol. if anything ever happened to them he'd be absolutely beside himself

dad!hyuka

╰⪼ oh hyuka ;( two boys and a girl, opposite of him and his sisters. he'd be such a good girl dad because he grew up around girls but i think his sons would be such mini mes always following him around.. the huening gene is so strong they would look just like him :( he and his sons would be so protective over their daughter/baby sister too

╰⪼ just loves his kids so much :( he'd be such a good dad i can't even put it into words omg, would dedicate his life to them from the moment they were born. the fact that he was a dad would be the most important part of his identity from then on

╰⪼ i think he'd have kids later than the other boys so he'd be a lot more mature when they come into his life, a lot more prepared for the responsibility. omg that's all he would do is prepare when his wife told him she was pregnant, obsessed with learning as much as he can so he can be the best husband/father he can be

╰⪼ just dad hyuka. literally haunts me every waking moment

#lia's soft hours ☁️ #dad!txt #txt soft thoughts #txt soft hours #txt fluff #txt x reader #im too tired to tag this more #lol #📥.requests #📥: ari!! 🌿 #nightly.sfw #nightly.ot5

[gffa]

Hey! What are your favorite Obi-Wan-centric books/comics, if I may ask? Have a nice day and may the force be with you

Hi! I have a bunch that I've enjoyed! Trying to keep this as Obi-Wan-centric as I can, though, honestly, for as much as he appears in a lot of stuff, he's not necessarily always the center of the best stuff for his character. NOVELS - CANON:

Padawan by Kiersten White - This book dethroned all other books for me to take the #2 spot of Lumi's Favorite Star Wars Book Ever! It's charming, it's thoughtful, it's good-natured, it's funny, it had a fun adventure, it gave Obi-Wan some hellion little best friends as a Padawan, and just made me fall in love with the world all over again.

Choose Your Destiny: An Obi-Wan & Anakin Adventure by Cavan Scott - The CYD books (same concept as Choose Your Own Adventure books) can be an acquired taste, but I found so many lovely moments in this book, some genuinely delightful details (MACE WINDU THEATRE NERD) and some great Obi-Wan & Anakin moments. Plus, Bant Eerin recanonization!

Brotherhood by Mike Chen - I have talked at length about the problems with the Anakin parts of this book (basically: if you take it at face value, it's pretty vile towards a Black character), but I have a ton of affection for the Obi-Wan half of this book. The way he moves with his feelings, acknowledges them and lets them pass through him, the way he genuinely cares about the Neimoidians, the way he tries to be thoughtful and you can see how deeply he cares about Anakin, is all really good.

From a Certain Point of View: A New Hope (specifically the first one, not the second one) has three short stories that are stellar for Obi-Wan: "Master and Apprentice" by Claudia Gray (make sure it's the ANH anthology, not the full novel by the same author), "There is Another" by Gary D. Shmidt, and "Time of Death" by Cavan Scott. All have either really lovely insights into Obi-Wan's character during ANH or have him being utterly hilarious.

NOVELS - LEGENDS:

Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover - While not actually perfect, there are some things I don't fully agree with or think the book matched what was on the screen, when this book gets it right, it gets it so right that no other book has ever compared. This utterly elevates what was already my favorite Star Wars movie, and this man can turn a hell of a phrase.

Wild Space by Karen Miller - This is a book that I could pick apart in a lot of ways (it feels like two half-books stitched together rather than one coherent story, it doesn't earn its ending, it doesn't really do justice to the Jedi), but I love it because it's such an utterly dramatic book, everything about the events is larger than life, and has a spar with Obi-Wan and Anakin where he smacks Anakin on the ass, touches his face and tells him he did well and the look on Anakin's face in return almost makes Ahsoka cry because she's so touched, and contains the phrase "wringing wet and blowing hard" about their duel. Like, that's the kind of chaos you're in for and it's AMAZING.

COMICS - CANON:

Obi-Wan by Christopher Cantwell - It's only a five issue mini-series but it's a great look at Obi-Wan's character at various points in his life and I had so much to say about it, so I really felt it held up to analysis, and it really brought the feelings.

Obi-Wan & Anakin by Charles Soule - Another five issue mini and it does not get near enough credit for being tremendously well plotted and illustrating a lot of bigger points about Obi-Wan, Anakin, the Jedi, and the Republic, why good people were making the best choices available to them. Also, the single most gorgeous art I have ever seen in a comic.

Any of the Age of Republic comics by Jody Houser - These were a series of oneshots focused on various heroes and villains, and if you're specifically looking for Obi-Wan content, the Obi-Wan one and the Anakin one were FANTASTIC looks at the character.

Clone Wars: Battle Tales by Michael Moreci - Another mini-series and IIRC Obi-Wan was only in some of them, but he got some truly great moments of defending the clones and being an amazing leader in them.

COMICS - LEGENDS: These are so much harder because they're so spread out and often times it's just one or two issues that even have Obi-Wan in them. Ones I do remember enjoying:

The Clone Wars: The Smuggler's Code by Justin Aclin - A short graphic novel where Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka go on a beach vacation and run into a criminal from Obi-Wan's past and the entire story is UTTERLY UNHINGED, it's so hilariously over the top that I hyena laugh ever time I read it.

The Republic series from Dark Horse had a bunch of good Obi-Wan moments in it, if you don't mind paging through a lot of other characters. It's about all the Jedi, so they all get their turns, so I would suggest getting this one from your local library to find the issues you're most interested in!

Honestly, so much of reading SW books and comics is the willingness to pick out small fragments of gold amidst the bigger blargghh, like would I recommend Jedi Apprentice or Jedi Quest as some of my favorites? No, probably not, but that doesn't mean that Jude Watson didn't know how to turn a hell of a phrase and that I won't pull out fantastic quotes from those books! Would I recommend the Titan magazine comics? No, they're charming but the art is wonky a lot and they're too short to really go into much depth. If anyone has any comics recs to include, feel free to add on! The novels were easier to remember, but there have been so many comics that I feel like I'm missing some obvious ones.

#obi wan kenobi #novels recs #comics recs

[iliveforyouilongforyouvesuvia]

M6's favorite nicknames for their children? For example, my mom always called/still calls me "peanut" or "impling."

The Arcana Mini-HCs: M6's nicknames for their kids

~ @hewwo-its-floof wait this is adorable help me hold on ~

Julian: whatever marine animal is their favorite with "-ie" at the end, e.g. "sealie", "fishie", "whalie", etc

Asra: so many loving and gender neutral iterations of "trouble maker", e.g. "hellion", "gremlin", "rascal", etc

Nadia: sticks to the classics because she doesn't want them to feel belittled, e.g. "my child", "precious one", etc

Muriel: just their names, or whatever part of nature they like the most, e.g. "chicken", "pebble", "flower", etc

Portia: all of the names under the sun, especially food or mischief related, e.g. "pumpkin", "crotch goblin", etc

Lucio: anything that will make them feel like royalty, defaults to "princess" because he insists it's a gender-neutral term

#ask arcana brainrot #the arcana #the arcana headcanons #the arcana hc #asra the arcana #julian the arcana #nadia the arcana #muriel the arcana #portia the arcana #lucio the arcana #the arcana game #the arcana crack #the arcana shitpost #asra alnazar #julian devorak #nadia satrinava #muriel of the kokhuri #portia devorak #lucio morgasson

[striveattemptfail]

a Thought: the batkids looking and acting like a Creacher just as much as The Bat himself

like this:

bc my first thought was if damian leaned into being a Lil Gremlim more he'd very easily exude the same ~vibes as Creacher Batsy

imagine this tiny hellion

looking like a weirdo creature similar to the 6' night demon he fights crime with

and then i realized, why stop at damian?

why not have dick perching on rooftops looking exactly like a gargoyle, but somehow this statue can jump and move like a monkey in the middle of a concrete jungle?

why not have jason looming in the shadows like a nocturnal bigfoot to scare the shit outta criminals in the alleys? why not have him move like a creature of the night that no one understands the physics of?

why not have tim be a half-zombie lurking around corners at god-knows-why-in-the-morning with his fingers curled around a shot of 5hr energy drink like it's sauron's ring and he's gollum?

why not have cass be a Creacher exactly like bruce but just smaller and arguably scarier when she's wearing her costume w the stitched up mouth? unlike the Big Bat, you can't see any part of her face, and she looks like a wholeass Mini Bat but silent, and isn't that just horrifying? what the fuck kind of expression is she making under that mask?? would a smile be less or more terrifying??

and this doesn't just apply to the main gaggle of bats—it extends to the rest of the family too: duke, steph, kate, luke, babs, all of them

i guess what i'm saying is that i would like an urban legend version of the batfamily where all of them are funky looking cryptids that somehow communicate exclusively in grunts and fistfights LOL

#batman #bruce wayne #dc robin #damian wayne #nightwing #dick grayson #red hood #jason todd #red robin #tim drake #dc orphan #black bat #batgirl #cass cain #cassandra cain #batfam #batfamily #jercy speaks #jercy attempts words #im tryna use this blog more often so yall just getting me spitballing here iight ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[darkestprompts]

What’s one thing each hero does well without knowing?

Hm, the ask is a little vague, so I will interpret it as either things the heroes have the potential to excel at but never tried, or general skills they have but never noticed are out of the norm.

Man-at-arms: He thought of it as "tactical maneuvering" but in reality Barristan had all the makings of a great diplomat. He was much better at persuasion and charm than screaming orders. His talent was wasted in the military.

Abomination: Has a good ear for music, would learn an instrument easily if he applied himself. He has more sensibility than he gives himself credit for.

Antiquarian: Her fingers are very agile, but she never tried to learn sleight of hand. Thank fuck, because she'd be scary good at it and use her power for evil.

Bounty Hunter: Once Alhazred asked him if he ever studied the occult arts. Tardif told him to kindly sod off with that magic shite. He'd rather not know why he asked.

Grave Robber: Audrey never thought of getting her hands dirty before bankruptcy, but she would do well with gardening. She has the precision, the patience and the brutality to deal with weeds and pests. With her sharp aesthetic sense, she'd make beautiful pleasure gardens. Aren't graveyards just gardens for the dead?

Plague Doctor: Junia once told her she'd be a good preacher. Paracelsus laughed her way to the floor. It's true though. When she deigns to talk about something she cares about, she gets really passionate and eloquent, much like Reynauld. She just needs to learn to match her speeches to her audience. It's hard to be inspired by the biology of leeches.

Flagellant: Damian has very good memory. Perhaps that's part of what makes him so obsessive about sin, he never forgets his mistakes? He doesn't realize it's unusual, it has never come up. Mostly because nobody wants to talk to him.

Jester: Someone needs to find Sarmenti one of those 3D puzzles or building kits or anything of the sort. He's crazy precise with his hands and gets easily absorbed by the task. I imagine he could build one of those absurd domino mini-cities if you locked him in a room with enough material.

Crusader: Reynauld is a good army organizer for many reasons, one of which he never noticed is that he has an outstanding perception of space. He's the kind of guy that can estimate how many bricks should go in a wall at a glance. Could have been a master builder in another lifetime.

Hellion: When she finally learns to read, she will also learn the joys of writing. She will progress quickly by keeping a private journal and discover a knack for it. She and Dismas can workshop poems.

Vestal: It doesn't come up because of her vow of poverty, but Junia has a good head for managing money. She can squeeze a lot out of a tight budget and knows how to set priorities. If she was in charge of the Hamlet's finances maybe it wouldn't be falling apart.

Arbalest: Good with teaching and explaining things in general. She could instruct a few snipers for the Hamlet, if she was willing to let anyone touch her arbalest. If she got roped into teaching basic first aid the Hamlet would save a killing in Survivalist lessons.

Occultist: Even though he's a liberal arts guy, he can still make insane head calculations. He assumes the reason not everyone can make three number multiplications on the fly is just poor education. Everyone else thinks it's a result of witchcraft and the devil.

Highwayman: Dismas writes on scrap paper during his few moments of leisure, but he could develop a good writing hand if he had more time and a better set up. Maybe Audrey could teach him some calligraphy, she had to learn all that flowery crap. He'd find the end result very satisfying.

Shieldbreaker: ...Well, she already found out she's really good at killing people. Now she needs to realize she has a great poker face and capitalize on it. She could give Josephine a run for her money.

Houndmaster: He likes memorizing quotes from plays and novels, but it never occurred to him he could act or recite. Someone should make him read out loud.

Leper: Thinks it's totally normal that birds sit on his hand and baby fawns lay on beside him. "Oh, you just have to stay calm and not spook them". No, Baldwin, you are an animal magnet and people keep score of your ridiculous Disney Princess incidents.

Runaway: Would never think of herself as a sciency person, but one day her knack for systematically identifying plants will make Paracelsus delighted.

#darkest dungeon #asks #anon #dd lists #dd ensemble

[tricitymonsters]

After all of these things people send out. Just imagining MC having kids with Mori 😂😂

Just a feral mini Mori army of gremlins, with the Mori as the general. No furniture or drapes are safe from the claws. They eat their food too fast and throw up. MC has to get those one bowls to get them to slow down. No plastic unchewed. They yowl together and they sleep in a puddle with MC. They start a war with the local birds.

They will be hellions, its a fact. I've always liked the idea of moris genetic component to be freakishly potent like he's just going to father a pack of little Mori Carbon Copies. MCs traits are def there but something about rancid punk genes just transfers and now you have a litter of cat-toddlers who only sleep if you play the Vandals for them. Prepare yourself for their school aged years.

#thank you for asking!! #mori #his baby batter is potent!

[weirdefilippis]

Brian's death makes me so sad, because he was a minor character throughout the main book and didn't have much development, but in the Hellions mini and in House of M it seemed like you guys were really setting him up to have some serious depth.

Personally I really like the contrast in when Julian is his best friend vs when Quentin is in House of M. You can see in both examples that he attaches himself to his friends very easily and would do anything for them. I remember you saying in a post that he sort of forms his personality after his friends and doesn't know who he is outside of that (which, mood, as someone with BPD) and I can really see that both of these things. He kind of tags along (no pun intended) with whoever is his best friend and does whatever they do, and supports them however they need. With Julian that meant being his right hand man, and his agent in the Hellions mini, and with Quentin that meant sticking up for him when people were rude to him, assuring him that he had friends.

I really love Brian and I really wish he had gotten to be developed more as a character, I think his story would have been something I really related to. <3

It made us sad too. A lot of the deaths hit us hard, almost as a personal loss. But his was more of a regret. We hadn't gotten to do much with him, and just when we started exploring him in the Hellions mini (and hinting at other versions of him in House of M), our time with him was done, and it became clear no one else wanted to do much with him and that potential would go to waste.

We think people got lost in his powers - didn't know how to make them work (as writers) or what to think of them (as fans). And that was on us - we went weird and obscure when devising them. Still, we liked them.

As we've said before, the downside of work for hire is that when you leave the characters, they're not yours anymore. They're in someone else's hands. So you make your peace with it. We're glad he came back, though. Hope he stays that way.

#ask #new x men academy x #hellions #brian cruz #tag

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

If Butterfly People Effect is the pregnant Logan verse based on vibes, I feel like eatd is the "LAMP proximity baby" verse.

like aklshdajksd okay bear with me here, im picture post-linda virgil intoxicated for some reason, extremely flirty but also so far gone he's almost kind weepy? and sappy about how much he loves them

and the combination of Virgil's wildly OP energy and Logan and the stars align JUST right in a way they just didnt happen to in the main story and theres a set of apple nymph quadruplet boys who look stirkingly like very dark haired mini-logans (and come bearing four different eye colors) and are, and i cannot stress this enough, hellion children. you thought pieces dukeceit had it funny going from zero to three in six months? well im about to be hilarious

#ask #centrumlumina #love and other fairytales ask #eatd au

[mortallyminiaturewerewolf]

November Mini Challenge 7/30

Yet another mech in Clan Wolf Colours, this time it's an Ice Ferret.

This mech has some fun lore. Originally named the Wolf Hunter and built by Ice Hellion to combat the Timber-Wolf mech Clan Wolf won the design in a Batchall and renamed it the Ice Ferret, the only natural predator of the Ice Hellion.

#battletech #mini painting #mechwarrior #mecha #miniature painting #battlemech #clan wolf #Ice Ferret

[newx-menfan]

Fav X-23 artists!!

In celebration of Laura’s new mini (🍾🥂), here’s a countdown of some of my FAVORITE Laura Kinney art!

Mike Choi

Let’s be honest- Choi is pretty much *THE X-23* artist! From “Target X” to “X-Force vol. 3”, there’s just something about his art that always manages to capture Laura’s essence perfectly!

2) Joshua Middleton

I KNOW Middleton is a controversial choice…but there’s just something sad and tragic about his rendition of Laura that I really love. He’s one of the X-23 artists that I really wish would return on another X-23 book!

3) Will Conrad

It might be because of the Hellion and Laura “Killing Dream” scene, but Conrad is one of my favorite X-23 artists! While definitely not the strongest X-23 artist listed…I just really like his rendition of Laura!

(I think part of it is that I just like Laura with pouty lips!) 😂🤣

4) Billy Tan

Tan probably SHOULD be higher, simply because he did such a wonderful job with conveying a wide variety of emotions despite Laura being completely silent!!… Tan really makes “Innocence Lost” the power house book that it is and if it wasn’t for Choi and Middleton, I would probably say he is the most iconic X-23 artist!

5) Skottie Young

While I do weirdly enjoy Mark Brooks 90’s style chibi art…Young is definitely *THE New X-Men artist!* While I wasn’t much of a fan of his version of Julian…I deeply LOVE his Laura, Surge, Pixie, and Anole and appreciate how much Young IS the Bill Sienkiewicz of NXM!

6) Sana Takeda

Takeda is kind of a “hit or miss” for me…if I am being honest, I like Takeda’s rendition of Hellion better than I like her Laura.

Some of Takeda’s panels are really gorgeous and really fit the scene perfectly (like the panel of her with Jubilee!), and some just feel kind of out of place in an X-23 book; I would kind of compare it to “Batman: Gotham Knight” with bishie Bruce Wayne… sometimes it’s just a little bit jarring and it kind of takes me out of the moment.

7) Kalman Andrasofszky

While Andrasofszky has ONLY done covers…I tend to think they have all been pretty memorable! I especially LOVE his Hellion and Laura cover and I wish Andrasofszky was doing the main art for the new Schultz book!

8) Marcio Takara

I really enjoy Takara and how fun his art is; my only wish is that he had drawn Laura during her X-23 days, because I think his commission work of her is a bit better than his work on ANW. That being said- his Gabby is positively ADORABLE, as is his Jonathan!

9) Sara Pichelli

I REALLY love Pichelli’s art despite it being a Bendis book, focusing on Laura and O5 Angel, and Laura’s eye color being totally wrong!

Pichelli’s “goth Laura” is just absolutely beautiful! She’s another artist that I would love to see return to X-23, because her art is just Joelle Jones levels of beauty!

The nightclub ANXM issue is hands down some of the best Laura art out there and if it wasn’t for the coloring mistake, she’d probably be higher on the list for me!

10) Juann Cabal

While I don’t always love how Cabal does faces, he is definitely one of the most creative comic artists out there! The detail he puts in and how he stylizes the onomatopoeia is just really engaging! I especially LOVED his work in the “OWL” arc!

11) David Finch

While I am not always a big Finch fan, nor do I always think his art suits every character, I do really like his rendition of Laura. The excess of lines and grittiness just work really nicely with Laura and remind me of Jim Lee or Andy Kubert’s 90’s X-Men, but with a more modern color palette.

12) David Lopez

I really loved Lopez’s art when it first came out but have kind of cooled on it a bit since then. I think part of it is it just doesn’t really “look” like Laura to me. Compared to all the other artists, I just don’t feel like Lopez captures Laura’s “essence” as well as the others.

That being said, Lopez did a great job on “Four Sisters” and the panels in Paris are especially beautiful!

13) Phil Noto

Noto is that artist a LOT of people dislike because all his faces look more or less the same. I will give Noto this- I think his “face” works well for Laura in this instance; there’s just something kind of innocent about it that I like. I also like how Laura is a little more “plain” and “awkward” in his work; she looks like a genuine teenager here. She blends in to the background more.

I know Laura is SUPPOSED to be very attractive, but in some ways I enjoy Noto’s plainer rendition and I often think Noto’s work is in general, better suited for teen books than drawing characters like Emma or Black Widow.

14) Clayton Crain

While I like Crain’s work and think it was a good choice for X-Force…it does sometimes bug me how “CGI”- lite it looks…it definitely hasn’t aged well.

Some panels are absolutely amazing…others…not so much!

While I do think Crain had improved over time, his old work is, for lack of a better word, sometimes kind of clunky!

Those are some of my personal favorites- Let me know if you agree…? Or disagree…?

#x 23 #x23 #laura x 23 #Laura Kinney #wolverine #art #x men #new x men #new xmen #Marvel #Mike Choi #Billy Tan #Will Conrad #Sara Pichelli #Sana Takeda #Marcio Takara #David Lopez #Joshua Middleton #Clayton Crain #Kalman Andrasofszky #Phil Noto #Skottie Young #David Finch

[rikebe]

Do you have a favorite X-men comic run? 👀

HMMMM id say my all-time favourite x-men run is def Excalibur Vol. 1 (1988)! It's the perfect sweet spot of a fun, well-written story with silly parts and great character moments, and it's filled to the top with soap-opera drama that we so dearly miss in modern x-men comics. I think the team is pretty much the perfect size to give everyone room to shine, plus the art is done (for the most part) by my all-time favourite x-men artist Alan Davis who's kind enough to draw kurt in tiny shorts over and over again. truly a hero. the cast is great (kurt, kitty and rachel are all favourites of mine and i really like meggan! brian is also there) and it's just a damn good time

other than that i have terrible taste so a lot of my personal favourites are in that 2012 - 2018 dead zone where the xmen were kind of a worthless brand they were trying to kill off so they just did WHATEVER. i love wolverine and the x-men, i love all-new x-men, amazing x-men, gen x 2017, all those weird middle children that were kind of balls to the wall are really fun for me, in part because that's when i started seriously reading comics so they hold a special place in my heart, but also because i kinda prefer x-stories that aren't so grandiose and all-important and world ending, and more character focused and creative, which is why a lot of the krakoa stuff really didn't catch me.

i also (big shocker) really love everything Academy X (so New Mutants Vol 2 (2003/2004) and then New X-Men Vol 2 (2004 - 2008) and the Hellions Mini (New X-Men: Hellions) and probably some more i'm forgetting right now) though those should definitely be read with a grain of salt, and if anyone's interested i'll gladly provide content warnings because they are DEFINITELY needed.

i could go on longer bc ive read a looooot of comics in my years (i could talk for hours about the pros and cons of reading akihiro comics for example. or random solos that are really good.) but yeah these are the ones that come to mind immediately! without making the list too long lol

#comics ive heard of them #xmen #the life and times of brows

[lovecatsys]

Tag/Brian Cruz Appreciation Post

Brian is the only Academy X character from the main two squads who never got any real character work in the main title, he remains pretty strictly a background character in Weir/DeFilippis and is quickly killed off in Kyle/Yost. But it's clear that before they were kicked off the book, Weir/DeFilippis were going places with him, and we can see it in the New X-Men: Hellions mini and in House of M.

(more under the cut)

In this miniseries, the Hellions squad are all granted wishes by a villain named the Kingmaker. Julian's wish was for fame and glory, and pretty quickly his wish was granted when he stops the assassination of a governor, and the press is immediately all over him. It's later revealed that the journalist who spoke to him also works for the Kingmaker, and Brian was in on this and helped him out by directing the questions to her so that Julian could look good to the public.

Later on, Brian is acting as an agent for Rockslide, who's wish was to become a pro wrestler. He reveals that his wish was simply to help his friends with their own wishes, and doesn't seem to have any problem with this at all. We know that his original wish the Kingmaker thought was dumb, so he changed it to this, which Julian is a bit bewildered by.

Brian is clearly a very selfless person, he is committed to getting his friends what they want and doesn't seem to care that much about what he wants for himself. I'm very curious what his original wish was, presumably it was something that he actually wanted for himself, but was okay with giving it up.

Weir/DeFilippis have talked about the direction they were taking Brian on their blog, where they stated that he had no sense of self outside of his friends. (x) This is definitely what I have analyzed from this mini as well.

We can also think about the fact hat Brian's powers are really specific and not exactly the most helpful in a combat situation. Pretty much every time he uses them it's shown to have a really short term effect. Compared to the rest of his teammates, with Julian and Sooraya being ridiculously powerful, Santo being very strong, Cessily's powers being very combat effective and Kevin's deadly touch, he probably feels very outclassed and useless. If having a sense of self is something he already struggles with, this must be a huge insecurity for him. In fact, part of the reason he might want to help his friends out so much with their wishes could be that he wants to feel useful for once.

In House of M, Brian is in a very different place as a character. Instead of being Julian's best friend and part of the Hellions, he's actually part of the "New Mutants Academy" along with Prodigy, Wallflower, The Stepford Cuckoos, and Quentin Quire.

Quentin was not a part of the Academy X class at all since he was a Morrison character and was comatose throughout the history of the book. However, since House of M was an alternate universe where a lot of dead people were shown to be alive, and a lot of wrongs were righted and "greatest wishes" came true, Quentin is here and appears as he did before the riot at Xavier's - his hair still brown and still looking like a nerd.

And case in point, everyone at this school seems to hate him, except for Brian.

Brian consistently sticks up for Quentin when other students are being rude to him, though Quentin dismisses Brian each time he does. This is very in character for Quentin, but it's interesting that Brian doesn't have any (negative) reaction to the way that Quentin treats him.

Later, at the end of this issue, Quentin is forced to commit suicide by Laurie because he finds out via his telepathy that she and her dad are working for S.H.I.E.L.D.

Brian eventually finds Quentin's body, and refuses to believe that he would have committed suicide. He also says that he was planning on hanging out with Quentin that night. Laurie's father, who is a therapist then comes in and lies that Quentin had been seeing him and was struggling with suicidal ideation, to cover up his and Laurie's tracks. Brian refuses to believe this as well, claiming that he would have known and that Quentin was his friend.

Heartbreaking as this scene is, despite the fact that Quentin was shown to be rude to Brian in front of others, it appears they were actually close friends. We can assume that Quentin either was much nicer to Brian when they were by themselves, or simply doesn't know how to be kind to his friends. My money's on the latter, and that Brian knew this and was alright with it. Brian is shown to be a very emotionally intelligent person, and Quentin struggles in relationships with others most of all.

Brian later is confronted by the Cuckoos, they offer their condolences and he lashes out, angry at them for being rude to him. They agree with Brian that they don't think he was the type to commit suicide, and Brian thinks more on this and begins to suspect Garrison's hand in Quentin's death because of his pheromone powers.

It's clear that Brian feels bad for Quentin, that all the other students hated him and didn't care to understand him. He was all Quentin had, and now Quentin is gone.

Later on, Karma catches Brian going through files to try to find evidence against Dr. Garrison, she doesn't believe him at first, but it still sets a bit of doubt in her that leads her to getting help from Doug Ramsey, using his powers to go through Dr. Garrison's computer and finding out that he's a deeply undercover agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Garrison then comes in and is about to kill them with his powers the same way his daughter killed Quentin, when Brian in turn uses his powers to save the teachers.

Brian accidentally ends up making Garrison kill himself by jumping out the window of the building trying to "get away" from himself. Brian feels awful about this, he didn't want to kill someone. But he saved Doug and Xuan's lives.

In this alternate universe, Quentin almost replaces Julian as Brian's best friend- the friend that he attaches himself too. Unlike his situation with the Hellions though, Brian doesn't have any friends outside of Quentin. It appears that the fact that he's Quentin's one true ally has made him an outsider at the New Mutant's Academy. Yet instead of feeling lonely and sorry for himself after Quentin's death, he is still thinking of Quentin and trying to prove that Quentin didn't kill himself. He cares deeply about Quentin, just like he cares deeply about Julian and the Hellions in the regular universe.

One thing I think is also very interesting about Brian is how in both examples, with both Julian and Quentin as his best friends, he joins in on them being rude, or even straight up bullying others, but when he is alone with either of them he's just a very sweet kid. This goes hand in hand with the fact that he's tied his sense of self to his friends.

I mentioned earlier that often times in House of M certain character's situations in the alternate universe are based on their "greatest desires." I have a theory about how this could apply to Brian. Weir and DeFilippis have stated that though they weren't planning on it, they did have an idea in their heads for a future arc where Brian falls in love with Julian. (x) This wouldn't have worked out for him, since Julian is in love with Sofia and presumably straight. However, Quentin Quire is a character who has always had a queer aesthetic and has had queer subtext as well. In House of M, it's possible that Brian's wish was being able to date his best friend and this has come true, with Quentin instead of Julian. This is just a wild theory though.

So yeah, though Brian didn't get any character work prior to House of M and the Hellions mini, just these two stories set him up for what could have been a really interesting arc, and hint at who this kid is on the inside. It makes it all the more devastating that Kyle and Yost killed him off, and he is very unlikely to get a story ever again. But, I can dream. I love this kid, and I wish there was more appreciation for him out there in general.

#brian cruz #tag #x men #new x men #academy x #new x men academy x #new x-men #new x-men: academy x #new x men: academy x #house of m #this kid needs more appreciation hes my underrated fav #cw suicide

[karmirage]

prev post reminded me. one of my bigger gripes with modern x comics is how willing they are to forget about the supporting non mutant casts, especially family members. like they forget that not everyone hated their parents and had a tragic past and are completely disconnected from the "normal" world

david alleyne died at the hellfire gala, but his parents and little sister are (presumably) still alive and supported him fully, when last we saw them (twenty years ago...). has anyone bothered to tell them that he's dead? what about sooraya's mother, who hasn't been mentioned since the hellions mini? god forbid we mention Sofia Mantega's positive relationship with Derek, or Dani Moonstar's parents, or even the other children of the atom besides Carmen Cruz. even the non mutant Guthries haven't appeared in forever!! even leong and nga cao manh, who were RAISED BY THEIR SISTER, hardly ever appear in conjunction with her! they have been on panel in One Issue with tran since he got back (in an infinity comic). they are hardly ever mentioned, each boasting 19 appearances to xuân's 260.

why? when did we get so caught up in events and Oh No Now All The Mutants Are Dead/Gone (again) that we stopped giving a shit about the actual interpersonal relationships and characters.

(it's been fifteen years, out of continuity, since Doug Ramsey came back to life. has anyone let his parents know?)

idk. it just kind of bugs me that x writers wanna act like everything is all doom and gloom and homicide All The Time, and that mutants are an island and can only live amongst each other, and also all humans will fall for orchis (except the ones wearing costumes), and the prioritization of romantic relationships over platonic and familial relationships. we are never beating the fixation on grimdark bullshit are we, huh

#this is connected to my post abt giving fictional characters relatives btw #marvel writers seem to think that being a parent -- or an older sibling stepping into the role of parenthood -- is a hands off job #marvel #river rambles #I'm so ANNOYED but also it's like #it's about the connections we have #the ones we make the ones we choose. all of them! including (sometimes) biological family! #anyways I'm also annoyed at how krakoa as a functional ethnostate forces its citizens to prioritize their mutant identity #over any other facet of who they are (especially since in universe it was established that not all countries recognized it) but #that is another post. for another time. #turning off reblogs because. well. this is a comic book rant post. #let it sink into the annals of my blog. goodnight