#Kelly Sue DeConnick

[backwardspages]

In the weirdest “life comes a full circle” moment: I spent my undergrad reading Captain Marvel, grad school screaming at the movie, and now as a doctor, teaching a class about Captain Marvel, Kelly Sue, and the Carol Corps.

This is the very best use of my PhD.

#captain marvel #Kelly Sue DeConnick #Carol Corps

[thevindicativevordan]

did you end up reading Wonder Woman Historia?

It is an utter masterpiece in every possible way. The writing is impeccable, the art knocks you on your ass with every page. I am wholly unqualified to critique it, but I give it my most enthusiastic endorsement. Every Wonder Woman fan should read it. Desperately hoping we get the other 6 issues that KSD wants to do.

#wonder woman #wonder woman historia #kelly sue deconnick #nicola scott #gene ha #phil jimenez

[brianwilly]

Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick Phil Jimenez Gene Ha Nicola Scott

#Wonder Woman #Wonder Woman Historia #Kelly Sue DeConnick #Phil Jimenez #Gene Ha #Nicola Scott #DC Comics #Greek mythology #Mythology #Hera #Athena #Aphrodite #Demeter #Hestia #Hecate #Artemis #DC #comics #comic books #Amazons #DC Black #dcedit #gods #goddesses #goddess #Wonder Woman: Historia #wwedit #wonderwomanedit #theoi

[emmartian]

I drew the cover for March’s Image 30th Anniversary Anthology. We have a new Pretty Deadly short in that one. 

#emma rios #Emma Ríos #Pretty Deadly #kelly sue deconnick #Image Comics

[tgirldarkholme]

bro if I can do that and it doesn't look out of place at all you have just terminally failed as a superhero comic cover artist 💀

#marvel #captain marvel #carol danvers #kelly sue deconnick #ed mcguinness #dexter vines #javier rodriguez #dc #dynamite comics #the boys #garth ennis #darick robertson

[agentem]

"I'm very aware of the fact that I'm just a conduit for a concept. It always, for me, was the star. I just wanted to imbue that symbol. That was my goal. If I could help imbue that star and that symbol to mean something, to help you get out of a tough situation, to give you strength when you feel like you don't have it. That we're free. We're completely free to be as we are.

"I see people in like a leather Captain Marvel jacket or a keychain or a pin with that star. If that can be a reminder of inner strength and power? It's a powerful concept. "

-- Brie Larson, on playing Carol Danvers in MPowered on Disney+

#brie larson #captain marvel #carol danvers #kelly sue deconnick #i wish the movie was about this more than the military #i don't know how I feel about enrollment in the air force being up #but i want that girl to get to work for nasa #so that is cooler #carol corps #the marvels #ms. marvel

[agentxthirteen]

Sharon-A-Day, Day 731 (1/1/24)

Age of Heroes V2 3. On sale 7/21/10. "Girls' Night In"

Writer: Kelly Sue Deconnick

Penciller: Brad Walker

Inker: Walden Wong

Letterer: Dave Lanphear

Colorist: Jay David Ramos

Editor: Lauren Sankovitch

Sharon makes Absorbing Man absorb bullets.

#sharon carter #agent 13 #age of heroes #kelly sue deconnick #brad walker #walden wong #dave lanphear #jay david ramos #lauren sankovitch #victoria hand #maria hill #absorbing man

[smashpages]

Out this week: Wonder Woman: Historia (DC, $29.99):

Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick teamed with artists Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha and Nicola Scott on this Black Label miniseries, which set out to tell the definitive story of the Amazons and their relationship with the gods. The art is beautiful, which you’d expect given the creators involved, but each of them went above and beyond to bring DeConnick’s vision to life. And it’s a vision that’s worthy of an Eisner. 

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

#wonder woman #wonder woman historia #kelly sue deconnick #phil jimenez #nicola scott #gene ha #the amazons #dc black label #dc comics #ncbd #new comics tuesday #new comic book day #new comics #new comics day #out this week #this week's comics #can't wait for comics #dc

[dark-horse76]

Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons

Saturday morning, I cracked open Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons.

It is an incredibly beautiful book. I think there should be a coffee table version of this book. (At its size, it's probably already close to one; however, there's no way I'd put my only copy of this on a coffee table xd)

My first thought on opening it was: My God is there a lot going on in the artwork. Seriously. So much. I knew I'd never be able to attempt to read it without flipping through it and just looking at the pretty pictures at least once, so that's exactly what I did.

I flipped through it, skimming the artwork, until I found the stuff at the back - the bits from each of the artists on how they went about creating the art.

Reading how they did that, flipping back and forth between that section and the finished art and seeing things I most definitely would not have noticed without being guided (or at least, not on a first or even a fifth viewing), thinking of everything that went into all of it...

I fell in love. I'm in love with a book I haven't even read yet. I know that it'll be one of those books I can read again and again and again and always find something new in it - whether a detail I'd missed or a connection/reference I hadn't picked up before - and there's even more opportunity for me than perhaps usual, as I really don't know that much about myth. But the writer posted a photo of all her pre-writing reference reading, so those are now all on my TBR list lol.

Today, I went over some of the art again, especially from the first book, and one of my initial feelings is being strengthened: I don't think I'm going to be able to read this book without assistance (i.e., digitally, using guided view on ComiXology).

It is incredibly complex, made more so by how detailed and overwhelming the artwork is.

I'm still going to try, because I really want to read this book and I don't want to wait until I can afford to buy it again digitally, but. If it goes, I think it's going to be very slow going.

#comics #dc comics #wonder woman #wonder woman historia #reading comics #kelly sue deconnick #phil jimenez #gene ha #nicola scott #wwh:ta 1.1.x

[beyondthespheres]

The final installment of great moments in High Fashion arrived today!

#Wonder Woman #DC #Black Label #Kelly Sue DeConnick #Nicola Scott #Comics #Fashion

[cloakndagger2]

I’m probably gonna make one long masterpost listing all the “evidence” that points to Carol Danvers being queer once I’ve done reading the bulk of her stuff but for now I’m just gonna point out this entire scene from Captain Marvel (2014) reads like someone meeting a queer elder for the first time and being so over the moon about it. I mean “gals like us” come on

#captain marvel #carol danvers #helen cobb #kelly sue deconnick #caroljess #carol x jessica #carol x jess #carolwanda #carol x wanda

[transistoradio]

Four two-page spreads from Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #1 (2021). Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick. Artist: Phil Jimenez. Colorists: Hi-Fi, Arif Prianto, and Romulo Fajardo Jr. Letterer: Clayton Cowles.

#kelly sue deconnick #phil jimenez #wonder woman historia #wonder woman #comics #the amazons

[smillingcartoonist]

Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons 3 #

#Wonder Woman Historia #Kelly Sue DeConnick #Nicola Scott

[queeruscant]

Name: Ackmena Pronouns: she/her Era: Imperial/Rebellion Appears in: From a Certain Point of View

Ackmena, a human woman, worked as a bartender at the legendary Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina on Tatooine -- yes, THAT cantina on Tatooine. She was a "tough old broad" who was friendly and well-respected by patrons -- including the pickpockets she had an arrangement with. Ackmena lived with her wife, Sorschi, on the Delkin Ridge.

Fun fact! Ackmena first appeared in the non-canonical Star Wars Holiday Special in 1978, portrayed by Bea Arthur.

Find Ackmena's video profile here!

Full profile under the cut:

Ackmena was a bartender at Chalmun’s Spaceport Cantina in Mos Eisley on Tatooine – the cantina where Luke and Obi-Wan meet Han and Chewbacca for the first time. She worked the night shift, which she didn’t really like, but she was very popular with her customers. She also had a little side deal with two pickpockets, Kabe and Muftak, who lived underneath the cantina. The pair paid her “rent,” some of which was passed on to the cantina’s owner, Chalmun. Despite the shady deal, Ackmena was kind, and tipped off the two pickpockets when they were behind on their payments and Chalmun was considering kicking them out. 

Ackmena first appeared in the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special, and the character was made canon in the 2017 anthology From a Certain Point of View with her appearance in “The Kloo Horn Cantina Caper” written by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction. While the Holiday Special isn’t canon, there are definitely similarities between both the 1978 and 2017 characters. Ackmena’s flat-out rejection of a persistent man in the Holiday Special especially fits in nicely with the in-text canon confirmation that Ackmena is queer and has a wife named Sorschi, and the two live together on the Delkin Ridge. And, of course, we can’t forget about the song she sang with Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes. 

In the Holiday Special, Ackmena is portrayed by legendary actress and queer icon Bea Arthur, who starred in Golden Girls. In addition to having a huge queer fanbase, Bea Arthur also raised $40,000 in a performance for the Ali Forney Centre, a queer youth shelter in New York City, when she was eighty-three years old. Upon her death in 2009, she left $300,000 to the Ali Forney Centre, and in 2017, they opened a new youth shelter named the Bea Arthur Residence.

Another fun fact is that her costume in the Holiday Special was designed by the one and only Bob Mackie! Bob Mackie has designed for queer icons like Cher, Barbra Streisand, and Elton John, and was recently presented with a lifetime achievement award from RuPaul at the Drag Race season 15 finale.

#ackmena #wlw characters #women characters #human characters #imperial era #rebellion era #from a certain point of view #kelly sue deconnick #matt fraction #queeruscant* #queer character profiles #star wars #star wars characters #queer star wars #queer star wars characters

[tgirldarkholme]

I'm sure you're right but why do you dislike the Carol Corps when you're such a Carol Danvers fan???

First, never assume anyone on the Internet you don't know is a dog is right.

In case this wasn't clear I consider myself foremost a Marvel's Marvel Family fan. Anyone who has held one of the Marvel Family titles (Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, Protector of the Universe, Quasar, etc.) and their supporting cast is part of it. I think it should be more often conceptualized as such, the way the DC Marvel Family (or the Batfamily, the Spider-Family, etc.) is, with one ongoing per character regularly crossing over, maybe a common editorial, etc.

The Monica fandom is fairly friendly with the Vells fandom/general cosmic Marvel fandom, the Kamala fandom, etc. united under the stance of wanting more exposure for their characters, while the "Carol Corps" (ie those who are KSD stans first and foremost) are extremely hostile to any Marvel Family content outside what's in the footprints of Kelly Sue DeConnick (and you know how I feel about her characterization).

This can have an undercurrent of queerphobia like the attempts at making cosmic Marvel "more mainstream" (ie straight) certainly, but what is most overt is just how insanely racist they are, which I'm certainly not the first to notice. (I mean, Monica fans were already fighting KSD on this very site over this that she had to write (as the sixth issue of her run) a story acknowledging Monica (which she never did for Phyla btw) and having her team up with Carol, but with Carol absorbing Monica for a power-up, which might have been a way to "get at" the Monica fans who were bothering her under the pretense of appeasing them.)

However, it became an increasingly major problem after the movie was released (with its infamously racist treatment of the Rambeau family, and arguably of Nick Fury), bringing a lot of attention to the characters. It has resurfaced as the "Carol Corps" lash out at any news suggesting that Monica or Kamala might get more exposure (as the director and writer of the sequel is a black Monica fan), like when the name "The Marvels" was revealed, when SLJ called Monica the Black Captain Marvel, even with something as anodyne as the account for movie news updates posting a comic-book panel of Monica.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22In%20Marvel%20mythology%2C%20Captain%20Marvel%20is%20the%20legacy%20of%20Mar-Vell%22%20OR%20%22was%20forcibly%20named%20CM%22%20OR%20youtu.be%2Fl2Y8VXoCpcE&f=live

This behavior has gone widespread with functionally no overt pushback from editors and writers. I mentioned that KSD issue with bizarrely racist subtext surrounding Monica borne out of a fight with Monica fans on here (which may not a big deal in the grand scheme of things and I don't think KSD is a racist, at least against black people, but it represent the earliest spat – the general lesbophobia surrounding Phyla-Vell, Tracy Burke, and Avril Kincaid under KSD and Stohl is quite more concerning).

This has led modern cosmic Marvel writers to ignore Carol's existence as much as editorial will let them to (LoCM makes her basically unwrittable in a cosmic Marvel context anyway, which was the point), while Monica Rambeau writers have made their distaste for the racist treatment of the character, and in particular for KSD's run and the MCU, quite clear, indirectly in the comics themselves through not always subtle jabs, more directly outside of them (1, 2).

That situation will continue as long as the "Carol Corps" is the way it is and there's no real effort to push back against it and put all the Marvel Family characters on an equal footing.

#marvel #marvel critical #mcu critical #captain marvel #mar-vell #monica rambeau #genis-vell #phyla-vell #carol danvers #kelly sue deconnick #margaret stohl #anti kelly sue deconnick #anti margaret stohl

[backwardspages]

In “weird things I didn’t expect” my post about teaching a Captain Marvel lecture a year ago is now bopping around tumblr???? And Kelly Sue DeConnick and Neil Gaiman both liked it???

I mean. Hi?? Hello?? I’m not actually this cool?? My little fannish self is screaming. I need to go lie down for a while.

(But I’ve also done lectures with Good Omens exemplars) (And a whole Fraction/Aja Hawkeye and the representation of disability lecture)

#captain marvel #hi Carol Corps I love you #I am lying under my desk SCREAMING rn #hi everyone who I didn’t expect to see this?? #Kelly Sue DeConnick