#the beetle novel

[miseru346]

My Design for Beetle Characters

#beetle #sydney atherton #dora grayling #augustus champnell #percy woodville #paul lessingham #marjorie lindon #robert holt #edward #fanfic #design #the beetle #the beetle novel

[textsfromthefifthbasement]

#gothic literature #gothic literature sexyperson poll #dracula #the beetle novel

[soranatus]

This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story

Made by Jacoby Salcedo, Julio Anta, and Francesco Segala, releasing October 2024

Blue Beetle's YA graphic novel debut, will tackle contemporary issues well-known to the Latino community. Immigration and perceptions of border life and issues will be addressed, framing current events in a DC context. Contrary to the recent film, which takes place in Palmera City, Jaime will be operating in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, in a retelling of his origin story. 

#dc comics #graphic novel #dc graphic novels #ya graphic novel #young adult graphic novel #blue beetle #jaime reyes #Jacoby Salcedo #Julio Anta #Francesco Segala #news #art

[kbkirtley]

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest Vol. 2: Strange Visitor

I’ve read a ton of graphic novels over the last year and change after not having read many for most of my life. Dan Mora’s art in World’s Finest has been my favorite I’ve seen. It doesn’t hurt that Dick and Clark are my two favorite heroes, but I’ve read plenty of other stories starring them and the art hasn’t moved me the way Mora’s has.

I can’t quite put my finger on exactly what about his style makes such an impression on me. I think he’s found a way to perfectly strike the balance of humanity and mythology that DC is built on, especially with Superman.

So far, all my graphic novel reading choices have been based on characters I most care about. I’ve also put a couple on my TBR based on writers I’ve enjoyed. Mora might be the first artist to force me to seek out his work regardless of the story or characters, just so I can see his illustrations.

Can’t wait for more of the World’s Finest run to be put in collected volumes, especially the Teen Titans run so I can see Dick’s arc in that!

#dc comics #dan mora #batman #robin #superman #worlds finest #strang visitor #mark waid #dick grayson #clark kent #bruce wayne #nightwing #comic art #comic books #graphic novel #superheroes #flash #teen titans #blue beetle #dc joker

[smashpages]

DC will publish YA takes on Wonder Woman, Blue Beetle this year

DC will collect ‘Young Diana’ by Jordie Bellaire and Paulina Ganucheau, and publish a Blue Beetle OGN by Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo.

#dc comics #dc #wonder woman #blue beetle #jaime reyes #paulina ganucheau #diana of themyscira #julio anta #this land is our land: a blue beetle story #the adventures of young diana #jordie bellaire #jacoby salcedo #graphic novels

[kazz-brekker]

less romances novels with third act drama consisting of contrived break-ups due to silly miscommunication, more romance novels with third act drama where one of the main characters is kidnapped due to supposedly knowing the location of a secret stash of ten thousand stolen guineas and gets rescued by his cool smuggler boyfriend

#pie says stuff #pie reads #the secret lives of country gentlemen #kj charles #books #EXCELLENT romance novel honestly a new favorite #marshes! smuggling! family drama! romantic walks to look at beetles! #what else could you want in a book honestly

[bluecatwriter]

...@animate-mush, you inspired me to make something...

Featuring Ordinary Solicitors Who Are Not Paid Enough to Put Up with This Shit: Robert Holt, Jonathan Harker, and Gabriel Utterson.

#my art #robert holt #the beetle #jonathan harker #dracula (novel) #dracula daily #gabriel utterson #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #jekyll and hyde weekly #my comics

[lark-lomond]

Callout post for The Beetle (1897)

#the beetle weekly #losing my mind over this novel #the beetle (1897)

[ferrymann]

i did end up finishing the bullet train novel!! some thoughts (with spoilers guys!!!):

— i have never wanted to punch a 14 year old boy more than the prince in this novel.

— nanao describing tangerine as cute and handsome.

— nearly everything with lemon and tangerine actually i think i dog eared almost every page

— lemons parents!!! i loved that little insight into him

— “tangerines world goes silent”

— when the prince says tan knows a lot about thomas and he smiles to himself a bit

— the way nanao is described as going off the scale when he gets cornered

— yuichi’s parents lmfao i loved them

overall i enjoyed it so much, i enjoyed the certain insights you got into characters and their little differences. i thought the casting of tan and lemon as english was actually very fitting based off the book, i’m not sure why but i definitely was able to get that feeling. nanao was genuinely such an interesting character to follow too he was so so so so so pathetic

i’m not sure i have anything else but wow lmfao i’m glad i took a break from anna karenina to read something more digestible

#bullet train #bullet train novel #maria beetle #tangerine bullet train #lemon bullet train #nanao #ladybug bullet train #yuichi too

[sohcah--toa]

bullet train/マリアビートル details ~

Hello!! I recently dug up the Bullet Train script (if you search it up, you should be able to find it relatively easily!! I'm not sure if it's completely reliable but it seems to be the first version) and listened to the soundtrack. (It's awesome, you should listen if you haven't already!!)

There's a lot of stuff here about マリアビートル, I hope you enjoy reading 🥳 (It's really ridiculous)

-- 1 ) LEMON'S CHILDHOOD // BACKGROUND(??)

I attached a photo for reference in the book!! :D (there's highlighter marks, I'm sorry) His backstory is tragic and aahh noo 🥹... I won't say much on it because we're all thinking the same thing. In the script, this is carried over when Lemon passes out because of the water. But apparently, in the final movie, this isn't shown a lot. In the book and movie, they aren't brothers and have a considerably colder relationship, so I can understand why the childhood scene in the cut is so much more wholesome. (Still supersuper cool though!!)

-- 2) "I'm forever blowing bubbles"

The original reason why this song was chosen for Bullet Train was because of Tangerine's West Ham United sticker (turns out, that's a football club). Hey!! But wait a minute!! There's a funny coincidence because Ladybug in the book was trying to become a football star. He has a quote that's like "my friend told me that someone like me could either become a footballer or a criminal, so I did both" and he says that his first crime was stealing a football.

The song delves into themes surrounding fortune as well!! I love their music selection 🙇‍♂️😤

-- 3) THREE ASSASSINS/グラスホッパー REFERENCES

Okay this part (in a way...) contains spoilers for Three Assassins, which is the first book of the "series"! ! The story revolves around a guy named Suzuki, who appears again in Bullet Train!! He kinda-sorta becomes friends with Ladybug and it's like 😊 they are so happy. To be completely honest, Suzuki's a bit traumatised but so is Ladybug, right?? Lovely friendship!!

It's also so interesting that he's reading a hotel buffet menu because his wife used to love eating at buffets and he adopted the habit of hoarding all the food as well. He's on the train to meet with his dead wife's family (which was extremely difficult for him after her passing).

-- 4) BULLET TRAIN REFERENCES IN THE MANTIS/AX

There's this other book in the series called The Mantis or AX for the Japanese version. This one isn't talked about a lot but if you like family stories, this book is so so soo good. It really pulled at my heartstrings when I first read it but I can't say too much without spoiling everything. Anyway, it makes a few references to Bullet Train and literally starts with the main character, Kabuto (an assassin), having a flashback to talking to Tangerine and Lemon during one of his missions, where they had the same target so they worked together. The Twins really respect him, actually, but find it funny that he's so careful around his wife (YES KABUTO, AN ASSASSIN, HAS A WIFE). Some characters reappear so.. :")) yay!!

-- 5) 777

Ladybug comes back!! He comes back in the latest book in the series; 777. So far, the Japanese reviews have been pretty positive and I think there's an English translation coming in November!! 🥳 I like how the title is 777; 7 like 7 tails in Nanao (七尾), car 7, his favourite number is 7 (if I recall correctly), 7 the "lucky number".

-- 6) THIS GUY

No one asked but I heavily dislike the Prince in the book. (to be honest, who doesn't...) He's just mean for no reason and likes ruining people's lives, makes fun of poor Ladybug (this really isn't that bad compared to the other stuff he does) and yeah, the list goes on. Also apparently he (heavily) tortures other schoolmates and it's not like he gets paid for it like the Twins or the other guys. He just does it for fun?? OK!! The premise of his character is amazing and it's great to see a villain that's actually just straight evil but since he's designed that way, we are validated when hating him ww. He talks about politics as well for some reason... keeps referencing historical tragedies.... man.

-- 7) ASAGAO/THE PUSHER

The Pusher is back too!! Weee~ (not really)

In the movie, it seems as though this entire part got cut out which, like, is reasonable. I attached a photo from the Grasshopper (2015) movie for reference hahaha. The guy in the black suit is the Pusher!! Yeah, he pushes people!! (not in the fun way!!)

He is in charge of protecting Wataru from the Prince's guy, although he's reluctant at first. He's obsessed with bugs and stuff. Whenever he opens his mouth, it's probably going to be about bugs. The Pusher's also strangely poetic. Maybe it's because he likes old bands like the Rolling stones? Oh!! And he gets mentioned in The Mantis.

And speaking of the Kimura family, Yuichi Kimura says something very true and it's:

"who do they gotta make the train toilets so nasty"

-- 8) LADYBUG IS COOL

This is very much a fact. In Mariabeetle, he gets kidnapped when he's 8 years old because he gets mistaken for a rich kid (after he lost a bet with his wealthy friend and had to wear his "rich person backpack"), then in the place he's being held captive, he escapes by HIMSELF since his dad isn't able to give the guys money for his son back (since they took the wrong person!!). But heyy he's resourceful and smart.

AND guess what?? He gets traumatised because there was this other boy being held but Ladybug didn't save him and it's haunted him ever since. This is also one of the reasons why he ends up helping the Prince even though he knows it won't do him any good.

Obviously, it gets worse from there. He makes it back to his family and they're pretty happy. Unfortunately, they're far from rich and Ladybug has to study extremely hard to get into a college. Spoiler alert, he doesn't. THE THING IS!! He studied so hard!! It's just that during his exam, some kid sneezed on his paper and he wiped it, smudging all his work and even his name!! Nanao! No!!

-- 9) TANGERINE BOOK RECS

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

"We perished, each alone."

-> He really loves that quote. A lot. Also he's a Virginia Woolf fan!!

2. Forbidden Colours - Yukio Mishima

-> He's also a Yukio Mishima fan... I wonder if he's ever read "The Sound of Waves". What would he think about it? Hahaha this will keep me up at night 😅 (<- SLANTED EMOJI!!)

3. The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima

-> To talk about Article 41 of the Penal Code of Japan. (Mr Kotaro Isaka, the author, studied law, by the way!! It's interesting!!) However, here, Tangerine quotes Mishima on Article 41 ;)

4. Hemingway and Faulkner

-> Actually it's a collection so it's not really a book recommendation but these two people are real - Ernst Hemingway (the Old Man and the Sea guy) and William Faulkner. They didn't really get along, by the way, and even though they respected the other's work, they criticised more than praised. Sounds like the Twins.

5. Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky

-> "Crime is no longer insanity, but simply common sense, almost a duty; anyway, a gallant protest."

I think the author is a heavy Fyodor Dostoevsky fan, just because he also referenced his works in Three Assassins.

6. Crime and Punishment ;D

-> "Science now tells us, love yourself before all men, for everything in the world relies on self-interest."

(CONT'D) yeahh this book was referenced in Three Assassins and one of the characters is obsessed with it. Glad to see that Tangerine is a fan too hahahaha.

-- 10) LEMON IS AWESOME

Opinionated text here but Lemon is plain awesome.

"Between the principal's name and Doraemon's gadgets, it was blindingly obvious which one was more important."

To each their own and I know he's a criminal but he seems like he has no enemies. Sounds very wholesome.

-- 11) HORNET THE MVP

She's in Three Assassins AND the Mantis!! Hypercool. In both books, the Hornet is a team of a male and a female. The female is eliminated (this word choice ww) by Ladybug but the male is still up and kicking, though Ladybug feels bad about it. They use poison needles, like the movie, but they trigger anaphylaxis, which is a really dangerous allergic reaction that causes body shocks.

-- 12) SUZUKI: PHILOSOPHER AND ECONOMIST

"If people knew that they might be killed by someone tomorrow, economic activity would grind to a halt."

... well 😅 take from that what you will.

(that's Suzuki!!)

Cela dit... that's all.... so long, I'm sorry. But thank you so much if you read until the end!! I hope you at least found it a bit entertaining!! :"))

#bullet train #kotaro isaka #ladybug bullet train #maria beetle #bullet train novel #tangerine bullet train #lemon bullet train #three assassins #grasshopper 2015 #ranting #do you wanna read an economics student's ramblings about something that has pretty much nothing to do with econ while finishing a report? ; #all the characters are so likeable... I don't know. I love all of them. #my mother blocked me because i kept sending her bullet train gifs #brainrot is brainrotting

[nia1sworld]

I read these graphic novels, B T W: I can't stop reading each of them SAVE ME!

Maybe I'll just put them as cameos for 'The Ink Chronicles'

#hooky #beetle and the hollowbones #the accursed vampire #graphic novel #I know each character is an Oc

[miseru346]

Intermission - The Atherton Case Continues

The cast of Invisible Man and Nobles' isle finally meet properly to have a long talk about their current situation. Meanwhile, with Sydney's identity as a supernatural being discovered, he can no longer stay in London, so while the ones after him were distracted, he reached out to an old acquaintance from Transylvania for a new base of operation.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45873157

Continuing the crossover, finally, I can put Jonathan in here, bottom twink no 2 XD (No 1 is Prendick ofc)

#crossover fic #prendickxmontgomery #edward prendick #montgomery #moreau #dr moreau #griffin #kemp #kempxgriffin #colonel adye #OC #adyexOC #sydney atherton #beetle #the beetle novel #the beetle #sydneyxaugustus #dracula #dracula novel #jonathan harker #jack seward #arthur holmwood #jonathanxdracula #fanfic #john seward #the beetle weekly #dracula weekly

[itaviv]

What happens in the Beetle: Man gets possessed by beetle to take revenge on his ex-lover. Also everyone is racist and has no charm.

What should’ve happened:

#the beetle weekly #The beetle #Robert Holt #the beetle thingy #i actually dropped the book a while ago :P #but i felt the urge to make this #aka. the beetle if it was written by me #i couldn't bare sydney atherton or what his name was #he hurt me physically #not mentally he came to my house and hit me #isha draws #isha's novel art #richard marsh #paul lessingham

[kalechipslives]

artificial traveler and the wings

#artificial traveler #oc #original work #mspaint #hathaway #beetle #elise #light novel

[lockandkeyhyena]

What's hercules' relationship with his mother? It doesn't sound all that healthy but they seem to care about eachother

Yeah you pretty much hit the nail on the head lol. Titan was surprisingly not a completely horrible mother if you can get past the whole ‘raising your child to take over a crime syndicate for you and desensitising him to a lot of murder and bloodshed from an extremely young age’ thing. Understandable if you cant tbh.

She was around a lot despite being very busy, she involved him in fun bonding activities like learning how to dispose of a body properly and sitting in on interrogations. She never thought less of him because of his blindness, making sure to make proper accommodations for it (learning braille and getting him cane lessons) which is the bare minimum but is more than can be said for a lot of non-criminal parents.

Obviously Titan isn’t perfect and has many flaws that probably outweigh her virtues, specifically in regards to her relationship with her son. She doesn’t really have a perspective of what a proper childhood should look like given she didn’t really have one and defaults to treating him more like an employee than a son on many occasions.

There’s a lot of manipulation coming from both sides of the relationship, neither of the two of them would have any idea what a healthy relationship looked like if it hit them in the face.

They’re quite different people in a lot of respects and both have hangups with each other (Titan not being able to look her son in the eye sometimes because of how much he reminds her of his father and Hercules really really not caring for how materialistic his mother is) but they really do care for each other, even if they have strange ways of showing it sometimes.

#yeen art #ocs #sadboycats #hercules beetle #titan beetle #this summary feels somehow too all encompassing and not enough at the same time. oh well. i’m sure i’ll figure it out in the future #lots of stuff i didn’t elaborate on due to not wanting to write an entire novel about these two and not really knowing what sort of #specifics you guys would be interested in

[smashpages]

This Land is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story arrives in October 2024 by Julio Anta, Jacoby Salcedo and Francesco Segala. It’ll feature a retelling of Jaime Reyes’ origin against the backdrop of immigration tension in El Paso. Read more

#jaime reyes #blue beetle #graphic novels #julio anta #jacoby salcedo #francesco segala #this land is our land: a blue beetle story