#serving up comics

[that90ssmshow]

Madame Web discussion

Jack + Henry dropped by Serving Up Comics to talk about the "In Association with Marvel" Sonyverse and the nonsense that is Madame Web!

You can find it on on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud and all the other podcast places!

#madame web #madame web movie #sonyverse #in association with marvel #podcast #marvel podcast #serving up comics #the waffle press #Youtube

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Enki S Ending: God Blocking Gambit

#fear and hunger #enki ankarian #rher #fear and hunger spoilers #He showed up in the ugliest outfit ever and still served cunt. #Everything about him is so indirectly funny to me. #He canceled his own crucifixion to make sure *he* was the blonde bitch of the non-specific prophecy! #The old gods are running a gambit of trapping humanity in a perpetual timeloop? Just say “Um. No <3” #“Humanity will always be tempted by power and will be tricked into false godhood.” Skill issue. #(Yes I know rher isn't there in the first game but I needed one of the old gods in this comic and...he is the easiest to draw.) #Part of me wants to keep going and sillify the other S endings. Much to think about.

[maomango-doodle]

Dumping all my old Strike Hawk art here

These 3 pages are titled "Lost and Found". It's not rly related to any particular event in the story (it's just the aftermath of a mission here) But i'd probably situate it after chapter 8 with the whole Camu ordeal. I wanted to show how Kamui has found people that accept him and care for him while Camu is left behind, living through Kamui

#pgr #punishing gray raven #strike hawk #my love for this squad is immeasurable #am i the only one finding the “be positive” joke funny considering that chrome has coincidentally B fluid type #c-chrome crying p-prettty *gets sniped* #sometimes comfort is sunshine boy kamui hugging chrome who can't hold back tears of relief #serve me a protective chrome who's scared of losing his teammates and i'll eat that shit up #strike hawk angst *chefs kiss* #mama chrome and his lil birbs!!! #truly a found family #i have so much love for these four idiots #also kamui and camu's bond simultaneously kills me and heals me #pgr chrome #pgr kamui #pgr wanshi #pgr camu #cw injury #shinxo comic #shinxo art

[starflungwaddledee]

teaser wip of a bigger comic... six pages!! drama! fighting! wings!

miiight've gone a little overboard with some of these kirbtober prompts... (': this one also includes 'another dimension', which i missed, and 'knight', which isn't for a few days. still gotta figure out exactly how i'll do tones, but i'll try to have it up on time tomorrow for 'ancient'!

#kirbtober #kirbytober #my art #i guess this also serves as a heads-up for anyone who only exclusively wants to see very cute nice things #full comic has canon-typical violence and a bird throws a bat into the floor pretty hard #galacta knight #meta knight #i mean he's implied by lightning!galaxia but yknow

[ravenbrookz]

ahhh au alert wee woo wee woo trinity bales has been glorpified!! i have a batrillion ideas to this au im really excited to share but for now have a this :3 small bite sized thing(aboge the 2 photos of nicky nd trinity) + also, have some lore for them!

#my art #alien au #trinity bales #nicky roth #hello neighbor #nickys design barely changes for these aus btw #just a shirt change LMAOO #was deciding on whether or not to make nicky the alien #but i thought coming up with an alien trinity design was more fun #shes so gleepy glorp #will make some small comic snippets soon of the au #martiza and enzo get served justice in this au muwahhaha

[danny-chase]

DC comics-reading fandom is like:

"please read a comic!! I'm miserable all the time because of reading comics! That's the fun! I'm having a great time 😀! Please read a comic! But also not that comic! Read these comics <lists a shit ton of recs> not those comics <lists out personal grievances against 7 different authors who have done your blorbo dirty>! See if you read comics you'd understand my blorbo like me, and come away with the same interpretation of the character- oh you didn't 😀... anyways you're wrong and here's why <writes essay with citations>"

#not to mention the entire: oh who's the characters you like? batfam? oh you won't like them in canon you'd like [x] instead #that i put together #which i get it most people would be like. no. I'm here because i like [x] i don't want [y] #and fanon gives them an endless amount of [y] content + wfa is right there serving up more fanon fluff so like. what's the point #comics readers are losing every day because the truth is we're clinging to dying versions of the characters. it's fine. everything is fine. #from the mouth of danny chase

[andromeda3116]

rereading order of the stick (again), and greyiew is only in a few comics so far but man do i love this nihilistic wolf

#order of the stick #yes i know it hasn't been terribly long since i last reread it but #i've been desperately trying to get my dnd group to read it and i just had to go back and go through it again #and again. the first 250 strips or so are pretty cringey and there's aspects even later that make me wince #but fuck once you get to the soul splice arc you've read the last bad oots comic #''utterly dwarfed'' is fucking *incredible* #i am both incredibly ready and incredibly not ready for the climax #i bet durkon will live and i'm sure haley elan and roy will #o-chul i'm leaning ''survives'' and lien i think will make it #minrah will probably make it. i bet serini is doomed. #belkar is obviously doomed #i'm 100% on the fence about v #like straight-up 50/50 both ''live'' and ''die'' serve strong narrative purposes #but as to how it all plays out? #v still owes the fiends 23 minutes meaning the order can't rely on them to back them up in the clutch #so on the one hand it would make the most sense for them to hit as hard and fast as possible #but on the other - if the fiends *don't* call in the debt for their own purposes #they will have burned out their most powerful member too soon #burlew is too clever and too good a writer for a traditional battle scene as the climax #more is going to happen. *something* massive is going to shift #serini turns? redcloak turns on xykon and gets eaten by the mitd? #i can't tell! i'm going to flip tf out whenever it does happen though #hnggh this has been 20 years in the making and the climaxes have not failed a single note yet #burlew is goddamned *good* at rising action and nailing the climax of a story arc #it's gonna be fucking incredible ugh

[spaciebabie]

okay i keep thinking abt this specific arc in two that i think is gonna end up being my favorite arc n i keep thinking of kat specifically

she goes thru SO MUCH in this arc, and throughout it all she wears a brave face as horrible situation after horrible situation is thrown at her until she's barely taking care of herself and in one of the few moments of her down time she finally looks at herself in the mirror.

and she see's her hair. now idk how other ppl feel abt their curly hair, but for ppl like me (biracial and/or black) our hair means a LOT to us n im thinkin abt this moment where she realizes she has let her hair get to a point beyond repair. its too long to manage in her current situation, its matted, tangled, and she hasn't washed it in weeks and she realizes she can't take care of it anymore.

and its such a small thing right? hair grows back? but its not a small thing. she worked for YEARS to attain the length, ta get it looking the way she wanted it to and this is her breaking point. where, she has had almost EVERYTHING taken from her, and NOW-

she has ta take one more thing away from herself.

and suddenly everything comes crashing down on her. the sleepless nights, the mere scrapes w/death. how is this fair? the one thing she is able ta control in her life. and she has ta cut it off.

can you have brainrot for your own story?? auduahduahd short hair kat is gonna ruin me

#artists on tumblr #comic #LOOOOOREEE #this is not the first time she'll b in a bathroom looking at her reflection and each time she comes back she's more fucked up #two #the war organization #katherine quin #oc: katherine quin #im lowkey on the verge of spoiling something very significant #*takes my bubbly protagonist n turns her inta somethin unrecognizable* #okay im spoiling a little bit of my own story but compared ta other things that happen....its okay #the hair is not the worst part #it simply serves as a symbol #oc stuff #ive been thinking abt this arc for 5 years #original character #oc #CAN MY BRAIN JUST POWER THRU WORKING ON THE COMICS SO I CAN GET TA THIS ARC ALREADY GOD #also this is just a concept so if u follow two in any capacity n its not the same thats why #im just playin around w/angst tee hee #spacie scribbles

[kidsnextdoor-doodles]

Hate people who always yap about Fanny having a crush on Wally because I swear if you asked mr Warburton himself about it he’d be like “what the fuck are you talking about”

#it’s in one scene in op end and is never brought up again throughout the entire series #which leads me to believe that it was either forgotten about or it was disregarded when they started exploring the side characters more #cause it serves literally NO PURPOSE to either Fanny or Wally’s characters #it’s never brought back even in episodes they’re both in like op slumber #it was just for a bit please can we forget about this #knd #kids next door #numbuh 86 #numbuh 4 #wally beetles #technically it was kinda alluded to in a comic but I hate that comic so we can just ignore it

[that90ssmshow]

We had a chat about Insomniac Spider-Man + its sequel as well as a bunch of other Spidey games with Gene over at Serving Up Comics!

Vid link above or audio over on Soundcloud /wherever else you listen to podcasts

#spider-man ps4 #insomniac spider-man #serving up comics #the waffle press #video games

[triangle-strategy-notes]

Cordelia Concept Art

Cordelia concept/reference art. Translation notes and image id below the cut.

Translation Notes

The word for "sash" on this page was literally "obi," the type of sash a woman would tie around a kimono. "Obi" is a valid English word, so I went back and forth between what to use, but since her dress isn't technically a kimono + the sash isn't tied in the style an obi usually would be, I decided to go with the more catch-all term.

"White as snow" was a word that literally just meant "white," but the first character and the word in general had some connotations with innocence/purity, so I added "as snow" to try and give that same connotation.

"Simple" as it refers to the fastener might have also meant "casual."

"Once upon a time" wasn't exactly the Japanese phrase for "Once upon a time," but it was fairly close. A more literal translation would be, "In the olden days, it just so happened that..."

"Girl of innocence" appears to literally be the word "witch". However, if you take the first character as a separate prefix to the second, it would mean something along the lines of "pure/genuine/true girl." I'm not really sure if that's how it works, but it seemed to make more sense than "witch," so that's what I ended up going with.

Image IDs

[id: Five images. The first two are the full pages of Cordelia's concept art in Japanese, the other three are translated versions of the text. On the first page, there is a colored and uncolored version of Cordelia's portrait. Underneath, there is an illustrator's note that reads, "Cordelia's overall tone is pale, so I thought it ended up being pretty difficult to choose a shading color. And actually, her initial facial features were much younger, but Mr. Ikushima redesigned her several times to give her the elegant look she has today. (Rina Yoshiura)". The second page is titled, "Morality's Sister (Healing Hands to Protect) Rough Draft". It has a small illustration/comic of a childhood Cordelia and Roland. It has the notes "Country A," "13 year old," and "girl of innocence." It then has a note that says, "I have to protect," with a large bracket beside it that contains the list, "small, dainty, gentle". There is also the word "pure" nearby. Underneath that is the illustration, titled, "Sister and Morality" with the subtitle "about 8 years ago". In the illustration Roland seems to be throwing a caterpillar-like bug aside. It's labeled, "Weird Bug Arm Bar Throw." Roland has some dialogue that reads, "I've for real gotta catch it!" Cordelia has some dialogue that reads, "huh?" Underneath them both, there's a note that reads, "Once upon a time, a warm fuzzy feeling made him think, 'I have to protect her!'" To the side there are several portraits of Cordelia, some full-body (one of which has a note about her braid being brought in front of her shoulder), and two that are labeled as "Bust portraits". One of the portraits shows Cordelia in a simple cloak with the fastener being labeled, "simple metal fastener." There's a top-down diagram of the metal she wears at her dress's neckline, labeled, "Decoration rough draft." On the second half of the page there is a portion labeled, "Working out the sister's hair ornament….." One version has a large flower on it. Next to it is a small portrait of Groma. A note reads, "Big flower, three strand braid. Doesn't she look like Grandma?" Another section is labeled, "Morality Facial Features and Morality's Sister WIP". There are several drawings of Cordelia's face, along with a full body rendition of an alternate design. She still wears the same sash as she does in canon, and nearby is the note, "For women. If they are wearing a dress, the sash should be wrapped like this." At the bottom of the page, there is another illustrator's note that reads, "She had this more child-like sort of look to her character during the drafting phase. But she ended up taking on a more serious role than I had originally expected, and the design was tweaked to fit. I recall she was a difficult character for us. (Yasuaki Arai)" /end id.]

#triangle strategy #triangle strategy artbook #ts artbook character ref sheets #cordelia glenbrook #roland glenbrook #that weird bug comic was one of the first things I translated! kinda fun coming back to it again #and this page was just fun in general #cordelia's such a cool character. I would play a whole game of just cordelia #sometimes I wonder how exactly she ended up being the character that she ended up being #bc it seemed like she was originally supposed to be younger + just serve as roland's main personal motivation for taking back whiteholm #but then someone must have looked at her and said okay but consider! we could have her try and stage a coup #and I want to give that writer a high five you know??????

[alsojnpie]

there is a long running idea thread i have about him fixing breakfast including eggs but..i really hate eggy tasting things like eggs. BUT! that doesn't mean i won't eat them. because of this, papyrus doesn't know i don't like them and has in this first panel only recently very suddenly figured it out.

i think he would really hate the idea that i was only eating his food out of pity for his feelings so that's why he's watching me carefully.

#look at him serve breakfast. adorable. HHHHHHHH i love him!!!!!! #i miss that terrace and that kitchen and that whole house and THAT WHOLE CITY 😢 #i never shared this comic before because i didn't like the last panel. in the end i felt like drawing a whole new one today on a whim #the original last panel was the image it was all inspired by and it was me standing in the doorway saying 'i frew up' but #the idea that was funny in my head ended up only feeling stupid on paper. that's always disappointing

[cienie-isengardu]

NRS should have used the og origins timeline of the brothers born as Chinese-Americans for MK1.

It would give reason to why Bi-Han seems beyond bitter and resentful of being forced in the Lin Kuei beyond his control then he wants power and control of the clan because he was ribbed of having other choices. Imagine the young brothers in school and learning and have some friends and playing and the dreams of being who they want to be and then they're forced to be ruthless warriors and only devote loyalty to the Lin Kuei and/or defense of Earthrealm.

In the original origins, it was sadly implied that their mother and baby sister were killed by their father. How horrible! Also they were probably Eurasian since it was implied their mother was white and they used white actors to be the brothers. (Even though it makes more sense for them to be asian since they are biracial)

This idea could have more tragic conclusion and Bi-Han's hatred and bitterness and hey, the jealousy, and envy he must be feeling. All these chosen ones seem to have such hopeful goals contrast to him. They probably had a normal childhoods compare to his controlled one.

Bi-Han could have a love-hate relationship with the Lin Kuei. He hates them and his father for taking him away from being normal and the freedom of choices he could make, took him away from everything he known. Then he loves the Lin Kuei because now he's in control of them and the Grandmaster and has their complete loyalty. He will make them a nation for the Lin Kuei to take half of Earthrealm for him to rule over because the clan is all he has left. His choices was beaten him to always think of the Lin Kuei, so of course it literally means they are everything to him now.

Bi-Han lost his beloved mother and baby sister. And now his brothers are against him and devoted to their late father. The old man probably was two-face about it, who was kind and fatherly towards his young sons and raised them with an open gentle hand. To Bi-Han, he was cruel, manipulative tyrant who gave his older son no mercy to the training of becoming a grandmaster, raised him with a closed fist.

I mean this would have been more interesting! Or something like this!

As much as I miss the original or the alternative origin, anything similar happening now would put Liu Kang in bad light, as the Keeper of Time that allows such vile practices and benefits the most from it. What understandably is not something NRS would want for their main Chosen One and the great Champion of the Good Side. 

But to be honest, Bi-Han doesn’t need additional trauma that shaped him in previous timelines, as what he got is still a solid reason to resent the Fire Lord. He and Kuai Liang said that members of Lin Kuei are trained from childhood and trained differently. Lin Kuei aren’t meant to be the Champions that will officially be recognized by befriended realms and bask in the glory of this honor and glory of their victories. Kitana literally asks in her intro vs. Sub-Zero “Why are Lin Kuei never Earthrealm champions?” and it is because they are the black ops, a private army of  Fire Lord, never recognized by nations but who do the dirty job for Earthrealm’s sake for literal centuries. The members of Lin Kuei are not trained to fight honorably but to eliminate the threat Liu Kang points out to them and kill whoever stands in their way which we could see during the mission to the enemy's hideout. And this is not a life any of them choose as adults, like usually happens with people enlisting to the widely understood uniformed services, especially for commando or spy jobs. They are destined to uphold the “honorable tradition” since they are children and frankly, it is not just the physical training but also psychological preparation as killing is not something that comes so easily as one may think. Bi-Han literally said to Reiko in one intro “To kill, one must be cold-blooded” and sure, it could be just the cryomancer thing, but may as well be a hint what Lin Kuei training included, as a means to transform children into deadly weapons. So how much Bi-Han or Kuai Liang or any other child born into Lin Kuei had a relatively happy childhood is up to debate. And Bi-Han as heir to Grandmaster had an additional role to prepare for and the older he was, the more resentful and frustrated he became, as Lin Kuei for their devoted service to Liu Kang and Earthrealm didn't get much in return. Which I think is an understandable source for his anger and frustration, especially if his mother died in line of duty. 

Of course, it would be much better if we had a chance to see how Bi-Han interacted with his father and if the man treated his sons differently, especially if he was more demanding from his first-born or not. But I feel Bi-Han doesn’t need to endure additional abuse to feel his father failed the clan, as he experiences first-handly how Liu Kang treats his beloved Champions and Outworld friends and how Lin Kuei is treated to feel the servitude is unfair and akin to slavery than any honorable duty. I would love, if the NRS gave us a more complex and exploited backstory for Lin Kuei and the brothers, but I think there is enough ground to give Bi-Han benefit of doubt that his claims aren’t baseless and there indeed is something tragic about his desire for freedom, for himself and whole clan.

I don't mind the current biography, but for sure giving us more details would make everything better in my humble opinion.

#mortal kombat #my replies #bi han #sub zero #i love the original bio and how tragic it is #but anything openly painting liu kang as bad feels like out of question #but like i said the fact alone lin kuei are trained from childhood to serve fire lord as the black op is itself very tragic and sad #as for white actors playing ice bros #yeah that weird one as comics and books usually went with the chinese/asian ethnicity while in mythologies they may be biracial however #the mother is not said to be american herself only that children were born there so the biracial is up to debate #unless this is about the cryomancer genes?

[ccbatman]

woe. bruce and dinah friendship be upon ye:

"Someone has to have our backs. Keep us honest. That's why I'm here." / "Batman needs a conscience? Okay, I'll bite."

{ The Brave and the Bold (1980) #166 • JLI (1987) #13 • Batgirl Year One (2003) #7 • JLI (1987) #6 • JLI (1987) #7 • JLA: Incarnations (2001) #4 • Green Arrow/Black Canary (2007) #1 • Injustice 2 (2017) #4 • JLI (1987) #13 • JLI (1987) #11 • Justice League of America (1960) #84 • Justice League of America: Rebirth (2017) }

#bruce wayne #dinah lance #black canary #batman #gather around children and let me tell you a story about a young girl fresh to the world of comics who watched season 2 episode 5 #of batman the brave and the bold and became deeply invested in the relationship of bruce wayne and dinah lance as fellow proteges of the jsa #and fairly young orphans with a close if not slightly competitive relationship built on mutual trust and admiration of one another #and understanding of their respective histories #only to read more comics and learn that that's not really a thing they have. anywhere. apparently. head in hands. #anyway if anyone knows more comics where they interact please let me know. i know they team up in shadow of the bat (which i would have #included but i found out about only after i'd finished arranging my photos) and met once or twice in bop if my memory serves. and 2006 jla #see at least the bruce and zatanna childhood friend truthers have paul dini in their corner. what do i have? brief interactions cobbled #together from dozens of comics strewn across the years each with very different vibes for their dynamic. wjdhjkh #i think of them as a mix of the bruce and zee and the bruce and babs dynamics. ga/bc came closest i think. it may not have been about them #but it was TO ME. #you know the zee and dee mini series? that's what i wanted for them #oh yeah feel free to tag as ship lmao. they literally make out after one of these panels im just choosing to ignore it <3

[benbamboozled]

Please join me in…

A SALUTE to JUDD WINICK…

for his commitment to the Panty!Jay Agenda.

For example, here.

And here

And here

Oh and here

And let us not forget…

Thank you, Judd Winick 🤝🫡

Sources are Batman #645, Batman Annual #25, Robin 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1, Red Hood: Lost Days #1, Batman & Robin #23

#Jason Todd #Panty Robin Supremacy #comic panels #comic pages #on a design level I think it serves a particular purpose—not only for continuity but ALSO to help reinforce that… #…Jason was a *kid* when he died. #it serves a nice contrast even within the narrative of being the ‘bad’ Robin—he didn’t get the *chance* to… #…learn or grow or change—by Batman’s side (in-canon) or on a metatextual level ‘on-page.’ #it also helps serve to contrast Jason’s minimalist/utilitarian design post-UtH. #(which is why I actually kind of like Jason having a *costume* like in Grant Morrison’s run just…not like that.) #(and I also like Jason putting on costumes during his heel run pre-Flashpoint… #(…post-Crisis Jason didn’t have much EXCEPT Robin—hence why it was so easy to cover up his death and swap him with Tim.) #(so I think it makes sense on a character note that he would focus on costumes on an identity-building level.) #(I mean this is all fanwankery but it makes sense to me!) #(oh and also LEGGIES!!!!)

[donnyclaws]

I was gonan make a post apologizing for lack of regular art but I feel like jts already clear im sporadic and in and out of it bc chronic pain and circumstances. So for now I'm gonna hibernate, get my health steady again, deal with money issues, and art will happen when it happens.

#i do feel kind of worn down by it. i wish patreon and commissions didn't feel so taxing even with accommodations ive made for myself #maybe it'll feel better in the future when less is going on but rn it #places this barrier of management in front of art that makes it less relieving to do #cause there's always a part of my brain reminding me it needs to serve a purpose and needs to pay off in some way #which isn’t a new feeling for artists obviously. maybe doing it all since hs js also why it's tiring. and patreon changjng the way it does #working part time now too. idk if maybe id like to step back from it #it's abnormal that i worked taht hard and it did help me get out from my parents and stay out. but im also tired ect #idw let people down by not being able to keep up with a self imposed expectation or #be irresponsible and remove sources of income for myself. redbubble inprnt and patreon all suck in ways that bother me hugely #i only really enjoy itch.io at the minute #not to say anything bad abt patrons or commission clients you've all been excessively kind and patient and understanding always #i wish i could make them better i feel like there's no way how it is at the minute is of value compared to my output as an older teen #but yknow. self imposed worry. im just worn out and id like to just make things without the management and the fretting and the #i havent made a comic post for patreon in ages or this or this i havent made a speedpaint or a song or #yadda yadda lmao #sorry for the impromptu ramble #this isnt to say id never do commissions or a store or anything again or i want to not make money off art #god knows i will need to be grinding out comms once im well again but ex #i feel like im getting less and less able to manage it and then putting out less and less #and hoping ill somehow get very healthy and active again one day and make it worth the wait yknow. #it's not a feeling i want my art to carry in me. #part of me and the parent in my brain is saying it'd be selfish to give up income but the rest is like #that's cruel. i want to feel good and healthy