#valentina vostok

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

#Amanda Waller #Elizabeth Thorne #Valentina Vostok #Helena Bertinelli #Rose Wilson #Lady Shiva #sandra wu san #Talia Al Ghul #OK. NOW EVERYBODY VOTE. #Vote based on your personal favorite not who you think is the girlboss ever it will make results more interesting

[judedeluca]

I haven't seen anyone talking about it on here, but Unstoppable Doom Patrol #6 and the latest Halloween special (DC's Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun) have basically confirmed Dorothy and Kate are still dead.

The former has Dorothy's corpse being dug up by the Brotherhood of Evil as part of a ritual for General Immortus to gain the Candlemaker's powers. In the latter, Cliff is haunted by the ghosts of everyone associated with the Doom Patrol who died, starting with Kate and Dorothy.

It legitimately upsets me that editorial decided to keep these two dead as a plot device to make Cliff sad and for conflict. While the Halloween special is more humanizing than their appearance as ghoulish apparitions in the Knight Terrors event, it's hard to accept it when it came AFTER I tried to get the two back in last year's Pride anthology.

However, the Halloween story is a special kind of aggravating because it goes out of its way to acknowledge Celsius and Negative Woman are both still alive again, Arani with the Doomed and Valentina with the Peoples' Heroes as they were in Doomsday Clock. Cliff even asks how they came back in the first place.

I guess those two weren't important enough to keep dead.

#doom patrol #dc comics #robotman #cliff steele #dorothy spinner #kate godwin #coagula #celsius #arani desai #negative woman #valentina vostok #unstoppable doom patrol #dc's ghouls just wanna have fun #doomsday clock

[nitpickrider]

God can you imagine what THAT book must look like in the DCU? All the qualifiers and specific language that would be needed just to get any human being in the book when people like Superman are around

#guinness #guiness book of world records #superman #clark kent #negative woman #valentina vostok #doom patrol #superhero #comics #dcu #dc comics #dc #dc universe

[lexikamics]

Panel redraw from Doom Patrol V2 13

#dc comics #doom patrol #comics #larry trainor #negative man #negative woman #valentina vostok

[dcbinges]

Doom Patrol #10 (1988) by Erik Larsen & Paul Kupperberg

#doom patrol #superman #kal el #kal-el #clark kent #clifford steele #cliff steele #robotman #automaton #joshua clay #josh clay #tempest #valentina vostok #negative woman #scott fischer #blaze #arani desai caulder #celsius #wayne hawkins #karma #rhea jones #lodestone #erik larsen #paul kupperberg #dc #dc comics #80s comics #80s #cover #comics

[redhatmeg]

But the effect of fire coming out of Valentina's hair when she becomes Soviet Firestorm looks awesome.

#meg rewatches legends of tomorrow #legends of tomorrow #valentina vostok #martin stein

[comicsiswild]

Checkmate (2006) #23

#checkmate #sasha bordeaux #valentina vostok #negative woman #superman #clark kent #kal el #love this #don't force him to do anything #but he's willing to help if you just ask! #he's not going to ignore a plea for help #dc #dc comics

[inhousearchive]

House-ad for The Doom Patrol (1987), running throughout DC Comics titles in June 1987.

#doom patrol #the doom patrol #elastigirl #elasti-girl #rita starr #negative woman #valentina vostok #robotman #cliff steele #paul kupperberg #steve lightle #gary martin #80s #house ad #house-ad #dc #dc comics #dcedit #comicedit #comicsedit

[fortressofserenity]

Racebending and representation

If I’m not mistaken, there are people who do racebend existing characters if because they can’t see themselves in the media they consume. If you wanted me to be honest, while Arrow gave us the Felicity Smoak we know through Emily Bett Rickards yet I can’t see her as Felicity. To me, Felicity Smoak is somebody who works as a seamstress and dressmaker.

She’s Indian and rather shy and mistrusting, not to mention she can turn into a striped hyena whenever she’s stressed out or emotional. Strangely enough, upon learning that Felicity Smoak first appeared in the Firestorm comics (the one with a nuclear powered superhero) alongside the Hyena this would make this Felicity Smoak a proper modernisation.

Perhaps in a way Arrow’s Felicity Smoak isn’t as she’s suspected of being a modernised Chloe Sullivan, the girl who pined over Superman in Smallville. As for Valentina Vostok, she’s a character from the Doom Patrol comics and she’s Russian. But she’s not white to me, despite her usual portrayal (until recently if she ever gets racebent at all). She’s Yakut from the Sakha Republic.

Russia has nonwhite people, not just as immigrants but also as indigenous people especially as Russia expanded eastwards. So she’s going to be an indigenous woman in this regards, one whose ancestors and people are native to Siberia prior to Russian expansion and colonisation. The fact that all the Russians who appear in superhero comics are white is saying.

So if she does become a Yakut in DC Rebirth, that would provide much-needed representation for such a demographic outside of Russian media (if it does exist at all) that it would be a real milestone. So far, the most well-known western representation of indigenous Siberians is a nonfiction book by Farley Mowat. Indigenous Siberians are practically obscure.

Especially if virtually all Russians represented in western fiction are white, even though nonwhite Russians do show up in Russian media (however in possibly demeaning ways). I think if DC does bother making Felicity Indian and Valentina Yakut for both DC Rebirth and the DCEU, it will be controversial to those used to their white incarnations.

But it would be the representation some have yearned for.

#dc comics #felicity smoak #racebending #arrow #chloe sullivan #smallville #valentina vostok #doom patrol #representation #yakutia #russia #arrowverse #dctvu

[boopsterliv]

Random thought, but what if in White Knights 1x04 the girls were involved with the mission in Russia and Sara had to listen to Leonard flirting with Valentina Vostok? Would she be jealous? Impressed? Horny?

#captain canary #sara lance #leonard snart #valentina vostok #lot s1x04 #legends of tomorrow

[flyboy-trainor]

Negative Woman & Negative Girl <3

#Negative Woman #Negative Girl #Valentina Vostok #Teen Titans Go! #Doom Patrol

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

Drew two best friends who have never tried to kill each other or have each other killed.

#Christopher Smith #Chris Smith #Valentina Vostok #Peacemaker #Negative Woman #My art #eyestrain #I genuinely have no idea if Valentina was actually still radioactive during vigilante I dont think she was but #I dont think anyone else knows either because nobody has read Checkmate so its fine. #yeah i did entirely draw this to make a meme only me and one other person on this planet is gonna find funny

[ducktoonsfanart]

Donald Duck as cosmonaut as Yuri Gagarin and Della Duck as cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova - Tribute to Space Race and gift for my friend - Ducktales 2017

I wouldn't have even drawn this, if this wasn't intended as a gift for a friend of mine who really likes ducks in space adventures and spacesuits.

I drew this on the occasion of the anniversary of when the first man, Yuri Gagarin, went into space on April 12, 1961, with the Vostok 1 rocket, and since then the journey of man in space begins. And I drew Donald Duck as a redraw from the comic cover of Topolino comics from 2015, drawn by Alessandro Perina, in which Donald Duck is like Yuri Gagarin, but in the then Soviet spacesuit (Vostok 1 spacesuit). Yes, I drew it to be close to Ducktales 2017 style, but in my own style, since I think somehow Ducktales 2017 suits that kind of space action. Yes, behind Donald you can see the rockets and aircraft of the Vostok program, as well as the planet Earth. By the way, the surname Gagarin means wild duck, so it is not surprising that the first man in space was a duck. XD

The next drawing is a redraw of Della Duck as Valentina Tereshkova, who flew in space around planet Earth on June 16, 1963 in the Vostok 6 rocket and became the first woman in space. Yes, I have a bit of a problem to draw Della Duck as a whole in a spacesuit, so I just sketched her, and somehow it fits her role to be like Valentina, and Della always wanted to be an astronaut, otherwise the word astronaut means a star sailor so it does matter that Donald is an astronaut too. Such a brother, such a sister. Behind it you can see the Vostok program rocket as well as the stars and the crescent moon. By the way, both Donald and Della, like Yuri and Valentina, wear the USSR mark in Cyrillic on their space helmets, since they are from the Soviet Union (Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 and was the first man in space, while Valentina Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937 and was the first woman in space). And Della is in Ducktales 2017 style, but in my own way.

I hope you like these drawings and these ideas and and feel free to like and reblog this and please don't anyone copy these same ideas of mine without mentioning me. Thank you! Happy first space flight day!

Also this is my gift for my friend who is a fan of space ducks and I wish him a happy birthday dear @ducksinspaceadventure! I hope you like this!

#my fanarts #donald duck #della duck #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #space #space travel #space suits #space suit #yuri gagarin #valentina tereshkova #ussr #soviet union #space race #disney ducks #donald and della #disney duckverse #fanarts #duckblr #artists on tumblr #fanart #ducktales fanart #ducktales fandom #gift for my friend #vostok #my redraw #my style #duck twins #duck siblings #my fanart

[nitpickrider]

I remember Triumph, He was a hero I remember Negative Woman, She was a hero I remember the Bloodpack, They were heroes. DC, don't speak for us. You've not earned the right. And you do not have the ability nor the invitation to attempt to undermine your own heroes in our hearts We were there. They fought bravely and sold their lives dearly. And we don't forget.

#dc #dcu #dc comics #dc universe #superhero #comics #arthur light #dr light #doctor light #kimiyo hoshi #black lantern #black lantern corps #negative woman #valentina vostok #bloodpack #triumph #william macintyre

[culetchemise]

#On June 16 #1963 the world's first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard «Vostok 6» spacecraft #⏲️ Flight lasted 2 days 22 hours 40 minutes 48 seconds

[dcbinges]

Doom Patrol #10 (1988) by Erik Larsen & Paul Kupperberg

#doom patrol #erik larsen #paul kupperberg #dc #dc comics #80s comics #80s #valentina vostok #negative woman #joshua clay #josh clay #tempest #val vostok #comics