#Michael Cray

[evilhorse]

Image house ad circa October 1993

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The Wild Storm: Michael Cray #7

#the wild storm #john constantine #wonder woman #michael cray #deathblow #comics #dc

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"That Really Happened?!" DC Comics Tournament Round 1 - Match C5

[ID: Two images of cropped comics panels. The first is Green Arrow looking down toward the viewer. The second image is Elmer Fudd in a hunting crouch. /END]

Green Arrow hunts humans for sport

VS

What if Space Jam but instead of fun, it's with Batman and it's horribly depressing?

Make sure to follow the links above to read more about each event!

Which one is more shocking, unbelievable or just plain wild?

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[why-i-love-comics]

WildC.A.T.s #1 - "Better Living Through Violence" (2022)

written by Matthew Rosenberg art by Ste3phen Segovia & Elmer Santos

#grifter #zealot #deathblow #cole cash #DC #zannah #michael cray #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers #wednesday spoiler #comic spoiler

[collectingmuses]

#Grifter #cole cash #Deathblow #Michael cray #Flint #victoria ngengi #the authority

[green-lanterns-c0ck]

Sexy Deathblow pinup time

Image description: Deathblow, an unrealistically muscular man, leaning against a window. He's not wearing a shirt and has his arms raised over his head. He's looking down torturedly. He's wearing jeans and it looks like their button is open. Outside, it is raining heavily and lightning strikes over the window. Most of Deathblows body is in shadows.

#wildstorm comics #i want to BITE him #deathblow #michael cray #why is he so hot here #lemme at him please I want to bite

[shynrinn]

At some point it really didn't make sense to me for matriarchangel michael to become "power hungry" in s2 and then i realized, well probably bcuz dagon is such a good orator, they were able to convince michael to be the next supreme archangel.

#then it made my heart flutter #dagon became too supportive #michael became a bitch girlboss #i love her for it #angelfish #ineffable administrators #dagon x michael #dagon good omens #michael good omens #archangel michael #thoughts bcs THIS drove me cray-cray for 30mins

[gregkinz]

tom comforting greg in the panic room and telling him to calm down and assuring him it’s safe and jumping in to make sure he doesn’t go outside into danger…. augh the horrors

#it’s crazy how tom overtly cares about greg #he obviously really and truly cares for greg and he can’t even hide it #it’s insane that he has such unavoidable and genuine affection for greg in an environment that’s insistent on being loveless #going cray cray #tomgreg #girl michael #tomgregging never stops it just gets paused briefly by man made horrors (job) #let’s ignore the part where tom attacked greg with water bottles el oh el

[thepedanticbohemian]

Villain lover?

Sitting here, listening to a podcast on writing. The caster talked about heroes and villains in the series, LOST. He starts off with Jack and how everyone loved him.

NOPE. nope. Nope. I personally saw so much Mary Sue in Jack and hated him. Instead, I was fascinated by and in love with Ben Linus. He had a great, well-written story arc. Even in that hateful ending.

I loved him so much, I sent the (brilliant) actor, Michael Emerson, a birthday gift--a hilarious book I'd just read. He enjoys reading while flying. And he flies a lot so...

Come to find out, it was his favorite author and he'd not read this title yet! He sent me a personalized autographed photo, a postcard, and a letter which honestly blew my fangirl mind. I'd praised him not for LOST, but for his audiobook performances. He has an amazing voice and can convincingly read female characters, child characters, etc. Search for him at your local library or on Audible.com. He's done several books.

Linus has stayed with me. A little of him gets injected into obnoxious, know-it-all characters, I suppose as an inside joke for me.

Also, in FARSCAPE, I was/am madly in love with Bialar Crais. In my five novels in that universe (sorry, I took the site down due to lack of funds) focus on his story arc and journey. He gets to tell his side and in doing so, do heroic things he didn't think himself capable, and in doing these, he redeems himself.

I never liked the main character in either series. They just weren't well written. Linus and Crais were. Ultimately, that's what I look for in TV and film. Writing and the actor acing it.

I love creating antagonists as much as I do my MC/POV character. If you want your readers to love your bad guys, put in the effort to make them weird, wild, button-down, sexually aggressive, genuinely evil, etc.

#Farscape #Bialar Crais #LOST #benjamin linus #ben linus #Michael Emerson #Lani Tupu

[queen-mabs-revenge]

so this post by @ardentlake about the references to the drowned towns of wales in the way set all my neurons firing, because for real the way that the series takes these real and overwhelming violences on marginalized people (the drowned towns, industrial injury and death, systematic deprivation and alienation) and tells their story through surreal myth recounting is so fucking....

all i keep thinking about is how the way is in reality a work of gothic marxism? which margaret cohen describes as:

(1) the valorization of the realm of a culture’s ghosts and phantasms as a significant and rich field of social production rather than a mirage to be dispelled; (2) the valorization of a culture’s detritus and trivia as well as its strange and marginal practices; (3) a notion of critique moving beyond logical argument and the binary opposition of a phantasmagorical staging more closely resembling psychoanalytic therapy, privileging nonrational forms of ‘working through’ and regulated by overdetermination rather than dialectics; (4) a dehierarchization of the epistemological privilege accorded the visual in the direction of that integration of the senses dreamed of by Marx in The 1844 Manuscripts….and (5) a concomitant valorization of the sensuousness of the visual: the realm of of visual experience is opened to other possibilities that the accomplishment and/or figuration of rational demonstration.

like it's almost a textbook case?

(1) the ghost of denny driscoll as a literal ghost of himself but also a ghost of welsh working class struggle crushed by neoliberal capitalism exemplified by thatcherism. every time geoff sees denny's ghost or thinks about his death by suicide you see the past flashes of the miner's strike struggle being violently suppressed. but also their very first interaction is geoff clinging to 'rationality and sensibility' against denny's 'romance' and 'the fight' to try and maintain a fingernail grip on any remnants of bare survival in the miserable status-quo

owen seeing denny's ghost in the labyrinth of the drowned town in his dreams handing him the gift of united working class struggle against oppression - that if we're in conversation with our ghosts instead of dispelling them, we can learn key parts of our own present liberatory process - that we will then hand down as ghosts to the generations coming

(2) the valorisation of the "cultural detritus" - cohen talks about cultural detritus as the things that are seen as extraneous or superfluous to the capitalist ruling class - that can be anything from entire people as in the case of colonized and indigenous peoples at the sharp end of capitalist imperialism, down to the fragments of communal human existence that serve no capital gains - so like everything from our folk arts and narratives to the human experience of communal kindness and help.

you see this in the deep scars of alienation in the way from the drowned towns that were literally made into detritus by the English ruling class being the link between wakefulness and dreams and understanding, the red monk standing over the detritus of the walls of the original abbey smelting works, the pilot light of the factory as a bit of superstitious detritus cast away by the owning investment company even and especially in their attempt to 'better the factory and the town' (their profit margin).

how all of these things when embraced are can fuel the fight against emiseration and alienation

(3) the phantasmagorical staging of the dreaming, the withdrawal hallucinations, the ghosts, and the way those aren't discarded by the narrative. that they give insight into the waking moments of the escape, and even in the terror of the unknown ahead of them give them strength even as oppressive forces close in. how these moments of surrealism aren't removed from the characters' experiences but inform and hone their decisions.

(4) not discarding the sensory experiences of the characters that lie outside of the senses accepted as relevant to science and industry (how the characters start to become unalienated when they reclaim those sensory inputs). the ideas from marx's 1844 works cohen's referring to are that marx talks about alienation as an expression of how under a system of private property, the senses that confirm ownership are prioritised as not just all-important but the limitations of sensory experience. that in order to have a truly liberated human sensuality, we have to get rid of the system of private property.

you get nods to bridging that alienation in the way from how geoff can't shake the feelings churning in him from seeing a fellow worker's self-immolation, to the senses of comradery towards Anna that extend beyond the rigid bourgeois family unit even in the face of possibly being disappeared, to the feelings of wrongness and instinct that are leaned into by the entire group as they make their way through the dangers of the violent state surveillance hurdles of 'illegal' migration.

(5) but also embracing the senses that are seen as valid and rational but bringing them into their full expression by removing the false binary with the other possible senses of the phantasmagorical, psychological and dreaming, putting the characters as a direct opposition to the nostalgic rigid regurgitation of the repressive violence of the state. all of that as an antidote to the alienation that all of the characters feel as cast-offs of capitalism, imperialism, xenophobia. a way to make these broken characters take a step towards finding a measure of wholeness.

there's so much more there and i'm just vomiting out my immediate thoughts, but yeah imo the way is def a work that uses ideas of gothic marxism in its surreal speculative fictive narrative to tell the story of oppression from the point of view of the marginalised

#the way #the way 2024 #michael sheen #gothic marxism #haha was gonna add this as a reply but then it got cray cray out of hand sooooooo #but yeah hmmm the gendered aspects of this are kind of wild too tho #bc dee very much embodies the romance and fight that denny represents to geoff #but dee doesn't get the same interiority that geoff and owen do #thinking many thoughts

[evilhorse]

There’s a lot less nudie lady pics than I woulda thought.

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The Wild Storm: Michael Cray #1

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"That Really Happened?!" DC Comics Tournament Entry #38

Green Arrow hunts humans for sport

[ID: Comic panel of Green Arrow looking down with his arrow drawn. He says, "It tolls for thee." Narration says, "And I can promise that if you don't stop him... no one else will." /END ID]

What Happened?

In Michael Cray (2017), it is revealed that in Warren Ellis reimagined Wildstorm universe, Oliver Queen was shipwrecked on an island were he had to learn archery to survive as a young man, as he was in the mainline comics, but instead of this experience leading to him becoming a superhero as the result, he decided this proved only the strong had the right to live, and it was up to him to enforce this by *buying a private island, turning it into an impenatrable jungle fortress, and then bringing people there to hunt them*, most dangerous game-style.

He brings the book's protagonist, Michael Cray, to his island and attempts to hunt him, but little does he know that Michael is possessed by an alien parasite that allows him to disintegrate people at will, so it goes exactly as well for Ollie as you'd expect for a human with no powers trying to kill someone who can disintegrate people with a single touch.

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[cray-cray-anime]

How do you feel about the new voice actors for Camp Camp?

I...Really don't like them. Like Gwen, I don't know why the voice actor left, I know they say that the three got replaced for representation, but replacing Gwen makes LITERALLY NO SENSE since she's not even going to be in the new season!

And then for Max, I get it, again representation, but he's already such a character. Plus, Micheal still works for Rooster Teeth, so I feel like it would have worked better if he had at least done this episode, and THEN got replaced for the next season if they really had to, and they could say he went through puberty or something.

Nerris I can't really tell because she hardly spoke, but another issue I have with Gwen and Max's voice actors is that they sound like robots. It's like this is their first jobs voice acting.

I think for Max it's almost definitely because the new voice actor is TRYING to sound like Micheal, like really trying.....I don't think it's working.

Thoughts?

Tldr I don't think the VAs are necessarily bad and can be judged completely soley on this episode. Max new VA could do really well if he talked faster and tried less sounding just like Michael. Gwen sometimes sounds too nice and monotonous and sometimes nails annoyed and tired w shit gwen. Nerris sound definitely different but not bad when not scratchy. Recasting for representation reason is understandable but it threw everyone off w new voices after 4 seasons of getting used to these characters.

Edit: adding the video cos its crazy how it improved max talking at ×1.25 speed

Hmmm well first I always think most important thing of a VA is being able to be expressive as the character. And then ofc there's if you look at that character you think this VA goes well w it.

Tho think especially hard to get used to the new VA when we've heard them for 4 whole seasons. Also i think this episode writing was also kinda awkward w the way the characters speaking or not expect the characters to say. Like for max

"Excuse me! Another betrayal"

"Woooooooow"

"Hear that, they love it. What would they do without us"

Actually someone mentioned max is talking too slow which makes it sound more off just like w that last quote.

You know putting max at faster speed at ×1.25 he sounds good like in alot of them! I'm wondering if they slowed him down or the VA really did talk slowly; so weird (I'm not over it)

Even went back for gwen on some parts and she could also talk a lil faster to sound better.

I think for max you are in somewhat right he's trying hard to sound like max, but i think emotion wise he does have potential if he just well wasn't trying hard to mimic "usual max". You can hear it especially when max annoyed like

"Nothing, I'm having a great time"

"Neil what did she just tell you to do"

"You have no idea how depressing that is do you. Don't worry kid you'll be happy at some point"

So i think as you said if the new VA just stops trying hard to mimic Michel (probably as you said excuse w puberty) I think he'll turn out well. (And if he talked faster lol)

For gwen oddly enough tho slightly different I don't think the va necessarily bad, I think in part it's the volume, like idk her volume is oddly consistent; I want her to be louder when she's pissed lol. I'm going back and someone mentioned she's sounds "too nice" and i think ye it doesn't sound in character sometimes in the episode.

Tho if she's not coming back it is odd to recast (unless it's a trick and she is coming back lol).

Tho yes it would make sense to at least keep the old va before kicking the new season but then thinking irl it's been years and who knows what they doing.

The only reason we can see is they change for representation and not to appropriate. Alot of conterversy around this, but personally I think the VA should match w characters ethnicity. Tho it can be alot harder to do like here where you already had the va for awhile and just now changing since now expected to sound the same.

As for nerris going back she sounds soooo different. She only talked twice.

One when the trio sat w her and dolph: different but not bad. Tho not typical "nerdy/dorky" voice.

And when everyone made fun of david: that i think was trying to mimic nerris "nerdy" (?) voice which made it sound off.

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[puppy-selfship]

love saiki so much i love a man who would want nothing to do with me

#michael says things #IM A LITTLE CRAY CRAY. IM A LITTLE COOCOO INSANE.

[collectingmuses]

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