#the art is so pretty here too

[drifting-pieces-blog-blog]

Breaking Down the Comics: Teaming up with the Devil.

Moon Knight Issue #13: The Cream of the Jest. (1981) 

Moon Knight's first team up! Daredevil! 

At this point, he probably has appeared in the background of other comics and maybe even been badly sketched in one or two group shots. 

But this is the first Moon Knight comic that features another hero. 

And of course it's DareDevil. 

And thus we start Matt and Marc's long competition of who can be the most dramatically angst ridden. 

....I think Matt is winning. 

I'd also like to point out that ANY TIME Moon Knight teams up with someone, the issue always starts off with them fighting. (There is one hilarious exception and that is Franke Castle, who instantly bonded with Moon Knight and was like his BFF. That issue comes later). 

It's like anyone in the Avengers sees Moon Knight and kill bill sirens start playing. 

So the issue opens on Grand mansion and Jake (clothes and mustache make the man) is at the table reading the paper. He's not happy because someone he stopped as Moon Knight just got out on parole for being a 'model prisoner'. 

I want to point something out here: NEDDA THE COOK is better at respecting Jake than Marlene. 

She's still calling him Steven but whn Jake gets up to leave, Nedda takes the time to get it right: 

"Very well, master....ah, Jake." 

Little old granny Nedda! 

As Jake leaves, Marlene calls after Steven. 

"The name is Jake now, Lady." As he gets into his cab. 

Cut to two guys scheming together about what to do after they get out of jail. One promised to kill Moon Knight as his first act out of jail. The other is a villian named "The Jester '' because he had a poor stage performance and got booed off the stage once. 

He plans to ruin the director that fired him during his big big triumphant return to the stage. 

He also deeply hates DareDevil for putting him away. 

It's surprisingly easy to become a villain in the marvel universe. 

Yep, just as Moon Knight is planning to watch his guy, DareDevil plans to follow his own villain. I....I'm going to have to show you the glory of this age of DareDevil. 

Behold: 

Matt….What are you doing…. Was this the best way to do this? 

So the Jester is preparing for his scheme, putting together his 'deadly toys' and so on. 

He heads to the city and DareDevil follows. 

Meanwhile, Moon Knight is hot on the trail too. 

And he spots DareDevil, but he worries DareDevil is going to get in the way before the Jester leads him to his guy. 

Unfortunately the Jester nearly gets hit by a car and in New York fashion, the driver chews him out, leading to the Jester hitting him in the face with a Yo-yo. 

DareDevil assumes the worst and is ready to jump in and take him down. 

And so, Moon Knight is forced to interfere to keep DareDevil from ruining his plan. 

What does he do? Of course the most sensible thing and talks to him, right? NOPE. Throws one of his crescent darts at DareDevil and cuts his Billy Club Line. 

....And DareDevil lands in an arcade. Because of course he does. 

If you've read any DareDevil comics, you'll know that DD's greatest weakness (besides his crippling catholic guilt) is having his hearing overwhelmed. 

So while DareDevil is stunned and having a bad time with the loud sounds, Moon Knight straight up tackles him. 

Yeah, that's not how you make friends, Moon Knight. 

Jester stands outside the arcade watching the fight. 

I can't even imagine the citizen's of New York also watching these two idiots fight in an arcade. 

Jester runs off to carry out his plan. 

While DareDevil swings Moon Knight around on a billy club line. 

And Moon Knight throws his own Truncheon (big stick thing to hit people with). 

DareDevil is still off balance by the arcade sounds and gets whacked right in the face.

It's at this point that they've made a right mess of the arcade and the citizens decide they've had enough. 

Put to shame by the arcade patrons, Moon Knight FINALLY introduces himself. 

"The Name's Moon Knight, Daredevil, and it seems to me that enough is--"

"Right--Enough. We've almost hurt some innocent people as it is." 

They make up and decide to team up to stop the bad guys. 

Meanwhile, the Jester has made it to the theater and sends in his robots to cause chaos. 

They crash the play and take the audience hostage while the Jester does his thing. 

They proceed to rob the place. 

Running up to the theater, Moon Knight spots his man in the getaway car playing lookout. 

On a walkie talkie, he tells Jester that the cops are coming. 

They have a getaway plan, though. "Go get the helicopter, Taggert-and pick me up on the theater's roof in say, a half hour?" 

Look at my boy go. Sending people to ‘Dreamtime”. I’m not sure that makes sense. Did you mean Dreamland? I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, he did take a few DareDevil hits to the head, after all. 

He calls Frenchie in his chopper and tells him to get ready for a plan. 

You gotta love the early comics. They were about fun and surprises. Even when you could see where they were going, you had no idea how they would pull off the gag. 

DareDevil meets with the police at the baracaid. 

"You can't go barging in there--He's got five hundred hostages!" 

You can't stop DareDevil when the law is being broken. 

"...And not even the Jester can laugh at the law. I'm bringing him to justice." 

And he dramatically vaults the baracaid. 

He's just so passionate about the law....

He runs in before the Jester can hurt someone and jumps through a background prop. 

And I do mean through. He busts through like the Kool-Aid-Man. 

"DareDevil! Bursting through the scenery! But I thought you were--" 

"Trading punches with Moon Knight? Sorry to disappoint you, but we kissed and made up -- Deciding our punches would be better spent on YOU, Jester!" 

Gotta love old comic dialogue. You just... You just have to appreciate it. 

The robots attack DareDevil and Moon Knight busts in to help take them out. 

It goes about as well as it usually does.

 Why does he always look so utterly helpless all the time? I’ve never seen someone spend so much time face down on the floor. That’s not just me, right? Does he splat on the floor a lot?

He jumps on a robot and just beats the shit out of it. 

Moon Knight has never been about elegance. He's not going to flip around like DD. He's always been about brute force. 

He just has no regard for his own limitations or safety. He always just goes into every fight hoping to dish out more hits than he takes. 

The Jester makes a run for it and Moon Knight lets him go. 

This is what I like about some of the older comics. You get a lot of dynamic poses. You just don’t see art like this too often anymore. 

Also, you get a lot of glimpses at Moon Knight’s sense of humor. 

Later, in the late 90s and early 2000s, a lot of comics took a dark turn and became more edgy. Moon Knight took that turn too, but Early Moon Knight really did have a sense of humor that was fun. 

You even see in some Marc Spector flash backs and side shorts that Marc was a bit of a doofus. Something I miss at times. Seeing how much of an goof he was. 

You see bits of that in modern Mr. Knight at times, but still not as carefree as it was. 

Anyways, Jester runs to the roof looking for his partner in crime to pick him up in a helicopter. 

And he sees one coming with a rope ladder! 

Getting on the ladder, he laughs about outwitting DD and MK. 

MK explains to DD who, when you think about it, has no idea what's going on, since he can't see the copter. 

"You see, that's MY helicopter... Piloted by MY partner, not his, and his ultimate destination is the True cream of the frothy jest..." 

He tells Frenchie to take him down. 

And the helicopter lands him right in the middle of the police line while he's screaming at what he thinks is his partner. 

I want to say that this issue was just outright fun. 

Even in the fun, you still get a Jake moment, asserting his identity and it was really nice to see someone in the Grant mansion acknowledge it and trying. 

ALso, Sienkiewicz went OFF on this issue. The lines and faces were just amazing and a real pleasure to look at. 

Marlene is no longer just a vague woman shape in a sexy pink nightgown like she is in SO MANY of the earlier issues. 

Gena, Jake, and Crawley are all carefully inked out and even the clothes and lines in the shirts are just stunning. 

I also REALLY enjoyed the way Moon Knight's eyes were so easy to read in the black void of his mask. 

I've always loved how the eyes are the only thing you can see and how they give away so much. It's like looking at an all black cat in the dark and suddenly big bright eyes look up at you. 

There are also a lot of new angles and action poses that you don't get in the earlier issues. I think after a few years, Sienkiewicz really came into his own and started experimenting and having fun. 

Hats off to this issue. While not a big important one, it is still a pretty good one in the Moon Knight history. 

#moon knight #moon knight comics #analyzing the comics #Marc Spector #Steven Grant #jake lockey #Why do I do these at midnight? #No one's even awake to read it? #wtf is a q #I love old comic humor #the art is so pretty here too #Moench #Sienkiewicz #Dare Devil #Team up #DD is such a cranky guy #Seriously every time MK meets someone he fights them #Marc no

[viyojo]

Happy Graduation!! ✨ 🎓 🎉

#splatoon #my art #v #agent 4 #agent 8 #squid sisters #off the hook #callie splatoon #marie splatoon #marina splatoon #pearl splatoon #anyways here's the full set #congrats to anyone graduating this 2023 season! #splat 2 is near and dear to me since I've had it pretty much throughout highschool #so the agents get to graduate too!! #also agent 3 is in the reblog :)

[madootles]

ed + cat pt. 3

#edward elric #I think he's too pretty here but it's too late I don't wanna fix it #too much work #never drew a stiffer pose in my life. sorry to all #fma #fmab #fma03 #fullmetal alchemist #art #fan art #scribbly color #his pose is SOOO AWKWARD #why didnt I use a reference???? why does that seem like so much more work #sigh #anyway hi good afternoon I have been working on this for hours

[paxcallow]

desire to draw raz's hair unhatted and uncombed spiraled into imagining an extended gag about some emergency situation forcing all of the psychonauts out of the motherlobe into the quarry in their jammies at like 2 am and judging each other's clothing choices instead of getting actual work done.

#psychonauts #razputin aquato #lili zanotto #sam boole #sasha nein #milla vodello #hollis forsythe #truman zanotto #otto mentallis #gisu nariman #lizzie natividad #EVERYONE IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #yeah only the first five of those characters are getting tagged so i dont know why i bothered. #fanart #my art #i was gonnna draw morry in a bunny kigurumi but it was too hard. #i dont think you guys understand how dead my artistic muse was before the P2 art book arrived in the mail. #it was Pretty God Damn Dead. Really Really REALLY Dead. this is partly why psychonauts is the ONLY thing i can draw. #also i KNOW they dont all literally live at HQ just pretend it was like a LOCK IN or something okay

[ruporas]

tri-trans! happy#tdov 💘

#trigun #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #meryl stryfe #available as a print also in the little heart #<-- guy who needs to work on promoting. but i just drew this for fun and for my own self happiness... #i drew an one piece vers of this before and i remembered it today while scrolling thru twitter #and knew i had to make a vers for them.... SOON MILLY WILL JOIN THEM TOO!!! love and peace!!! #they just make me sooo happy and its like. most ppl i interact with tends to hc them as trans so naturally. also the way nightow just #designed them. SO trans coded. sometimes i think about vash's design -- look at his little earring his hair his long red coat with the dips #it gets me every time. and meryl and wolfwood and milly... and actual trans canon chara elendira my love <3 #anyway. im just happy being trans on this day. and everyday! it's been pretty rough but it's always nice to celebrate just being here #and with everyone else #ruporas art

[ewwww-what]

I mean??? That’s one way to get him to stop picking on you I guess?????

#STOP PICKING ON ME #he is about to make some very coincidental and unfortunate rolls #give him a break man #genuinely this scene reminded me a little of the bit with Doreen where Adaine just kinda??? #accidentally swings the ladle too hard??? #but here it’s not so much an accident as it is a black-out bully-induced rage #this has to have been a pretty deeply upsetting situation for him after the rage wore off but I’m not gonna think about it too hard #fantasy high freshman year #fantasy high #d20 fantasy high #d20 #d20 fanart #dimension 20 #gorgug thistlespring #gorgug fantasy high #fhfy #blood #blood cw #undescribed #my art

[zu-is-here]

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#zu art #comic #studio #zudio #dream!sans #undertale #undertale au #utmv #aaand here we go!! \(//∇//)\☆ #the fifth (!) ongoing comic is finally here *w* #this series is gonna be pretty messy cause 1) me lazy 2) too much to draw =) #it won't be a beautiful story by the studio but a gray reality outside of it; even here there's room for an interesting plot though ♪ #so no high hopes ; just enjoy <3 #[9/9] #and ​thank you guys so much for 16 200! (*ﾟ∀ﾟ*)

[iamhereinthebg]

Happy Lunar New year!!

#loved the hanako design and wanted to be self indulgent af so here we are #my art #toilet bound hanako kun #aoi akane #mirai #the three clock keepers #tbhk #jshk #jibaku shounen hanako kun #jibaku shonen hanako kun #hanako kun #was thinking about what to eat for the new year and thought of this #the makeup make him way too pretty lol #lil Mirai she has a dragon kigurumi :DD #jshk fanart #tbhk fanart #wooden dragon year yay

[puppyeared]

updated Sleight ref!!

#i changed his colors !! #treat this as a suggestion than a solid ref. i spent like 3 hours drawing and redrawing the legs bc i couldnt get the shape right so if u #wanna draw them more planti or digi i do not mind ^_^ get silly with it!! same goes for pelt pattern do whatevr u want with it #the pelt pattern is loosely based on a snowshoe cat which was fun to play with. as u can see they kinda have a butterfly motif going on #if u squint the ear tufts kinda resemble luna moths or swallowtails with the long tail at the end of the wings #i was kinda torn about changing the costume color but it clashed too much with the new color palette so i had to change it #i didnt include the cape here so its easier to see the costume but ill draw it another time if i remember lol #its also a lil hard to see but i put pinstripes on their pants but thats optional. their design is pretty flexible anyway #god im pretty attached to this guy already. hes like semi fan character semi regular character... oc... thing #i should draw more furries. i followed some furry artists for giggles recently and its true what they say. u need furries in your life #btw while i was drawing this i was fooling around while trying to figure out his costume color and colored it as kaito kids suit for fun #and i just stared at it for a solid 5 minutes before saving a picture. maybe ill post it later #my art #myart #my oc #oc #furry art #fur #furry #laika's comet #laika's comet oc #fan character #sleight #ref sheet #oc ref sheet

[humming-fly]

Theatre Kid (Derogatory)

#I had some fun on my most recent plane flight and figured I'd give it some color #the great thing about the king in yellow is i can and will draw him completely different every time #and that is 100% in character #if you draw an eldrich madness god the same way twice it's missing the point let chaos reign #was originally just gonna be the lefthand sketch colored in #but the colors alone actually looked pretty nice so you can enjoy those too #malevolent #malevolent podcast #the king in yellow #my art #doodles #I actually wasn't planning on making the bug mandible crown going into this it just sort of happened which I enjoy #lot of centipede/earwig vibes going on with the guy #something something crawls in your ear and drives you mad #anyways here's my one nice art post of this character now I can move on to shitposts guilt-free #i guess there's one other thing I wanna draw that isn't quite shitposty but it sort of is jury's out #we'll see if i get to it lol

[daeyumi]

Desert King 🌅🌺🪷

[Linktober 2022 Day 23: Ganondorf

#zelda #legend of zelda #Zelda au #Ganondorf #linktober #linktober 2022 #botw au #au ganondorf #LoZ au #zelda fanart #daeyumi art #zelda oc #cycle of the stars au #cycle of the stars #my ganondorf design for my au!! #im still rly happy with this design tbh #actually i was finally working on his ref sheet last month too & i think it’s gonna be rly pretty #did i just design this man so i could give him big booba? #yes #anyways i srsly can’t wait to post more au stuff on here #so look forward to it 👀👀👀

[star-sparkler]

What happened with Donnie’s brother immediate reaction to seeing Augustine?

How did the reveal go down?

It went well! Donnie was SUPER nervous about telling his family. After talking to April and then Draxum about it first, he eventually addressed his brothers and dad together in a big awkward infodump-y confession. Donnie was fully expecting to be teased and given a hard time for accidentally science-ing his way to parenthood, and there was definitely a little of that, but mostly his family was just really excited about it all. THEY’RE GONNA BE UNCLES AND A GRANDPA. DREAMS WERE REALIZED THIS DAY.

I give you EXTREMELY OLD art of it:

BearyUnbearable on Twitter also drew like the best thing ever post reveal and I think about it stupid often / consider it August canon.

BABY BE UPON YE. (Sorry, @spectra-bear I’m digging up your old art aGAIN but it’s still so good. 😭👉👈)

#AugustineHamato #Papatello #I’m pretty sure i adopted the term ‘Papatello’ from Azzy’s art here so thank you for that too Azzy #possumcollective #starsparklerart

[el-pie]

Did I finally finish them?! YES

Crowley and Aziraphale are both DONE

First up the newer addition: Crowley

A little wonky but I love him for that

Then we have Azi, buried in books:

They have little magnets in their hands btw

And and well I had to reenact this scene for obvious reasons:

Sorry not sorry

Okay have a nice day

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #crochet #good omens 2 #cute #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #plushies #david tennant #michael sheen #bookshop #i love them so much #too cute for comfort #art #azi does look pretty cute here though

[atalienart]

"Wysoki i szczupły, K. był kwintesencją elegancji, od nienagannego ubioru, szytego według najnowszej mody, przez starannie ułożone, piaskowe włosy, po sposób w jaki się trzymał."

#my art #nat tries to write #oc #original character #rough translation from translator xD #Tall and slender K. was the epitome of elegance #from his impeccable fashionable attire to his neatly styled sandy hair to the way he held himself. #I wanted to introduce you to my new character #let's call him Mr K. for now #I spent entirely too much time trying to draw this guy the way he should look like and tbh I'm not sure I'm 100% happy with the result #he kinda looks... so freaking generic like “every pretty dude ever” and he shouldn't idk #though in the story he is pretty #he probably looks too young here too but whatever #maybe I'll change his design later #anyway #if you've seen one of my boys you've probably seen them all #enjoy

[esaari]

🌸.

#oc #alek #hi i havent been around much lately #first piece of art in over a month so i am quite rusty #and i think i made alek a little too pretty here but i dont remember how to draw him.. or its just the hair that doesnt fit him #but continuing the tradition of drawing alek with my hairstyle so he must suffer #i havent had hair this long before and you sure do find your hairs *everywhere* and it is hateful #annnnyyway i hope u like im hoping to get more active w art but im also really enjoying viddy games as of late lols

[barghest-land]

the armor will drop iron tears on your body, and fire will become a cold wind in your mane

#barghestland #apart from rewatching game of thrones and taking some inspo from there #i'm also thinking about millions of real horses who didn't deserve to die in stupid wars irl #so this is for all the horses #art #artists on tumblr #no i don't know how armor actually works don't @ me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #drew some things here and there for the sake of it being pretty i don't care if it doesn't work okay #i'm too stupi for figuring this out