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samhainfae · 2 months

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—let it bleed through my fingers, a treasure in my hands.

//strangers to lovers, fluff+angst, canon typical violence, blood, death, war, guns, mutual pining, abandonment issues, attachment issues, alcohol consumption, f!reader//

800 words.

You stared at the array of pretty scarves on the street, admiring them. You could never hope to afford one with your mother being sick. A feeling of dread washed over you. You were going to be alone soon, with no one but the ladies at the library. Your mother was the only family you had left.

“Pretty aren’t they?” A voice said from behind. A handsome soldier, in a pair of camouflage pants, and a gray sweater, a bag over his shoulder.

“Yes, sir.” You said, wide eyed. You hadn’t had much socialization outside of your dying mother. “I come here every day to look at them. My treat after caring for my mother. She’s dying.” You told him sadly. “You’re always reaching out your hand, until they’re no longer there to reach back.” You continued softly.

He looked impressed by something for a moment, eyes wide and jaw slack, before he kissed your forehead, lingering, making you press closer. You were hungry for affection, being so isolated. “How old are you, sweetness?”

You blinked, looking up at him, wondering why he asked. “Twenty five. You?”

“Thirty-two.” He looked at the vendor. “Purple, for the pretty lady.” He said, handing him some cash from his pocket.

“Sir, I won’t be able to pay you back.” You said, cheeks warming, reaching for some change in your pocket, anything to pay him back. You only found a pink gumball. With your cheeks warm, you handed it to him, “This is all I have.”

He took it, his heart aching that you didn’t just want to take from him. “It’s Billy,” he said, wrapping the scarf around your neck, and pulling your hair out. “I can’t deny a pretty girl with sad eyes.” He flirted playfully. “I grew up poor too, sweetness. I know about struggling.”

“You’re in the army, Billy?”

“Marines. Scout sniper specialist.” He said proudly grinning, picking up his bag he’d set down. “I’m about to go back over to Afghanistan. I’m almost late for my flight.” His knuckles tenderly brushed your cheeks.

“Good luck,” you said softly, before he left. “I’ll wait for you.”

But he wasn’t sure he heard you.

Billy had his rifle over his lap, waiting for the enemy to make a move. It had been an ambush, and a lot of their men had died. One who’d joked with Billy earlier that day and played cards with him and Frank the night before, him and Frank had to leave behind as he bled out, screaming.

Billy was covered in his blood, and shaking. He’d always hated attachments. His mother proved that relationships were ephemeral. That people were after themselves.

But he mourned that man’s death, and he reached into his pocket, pulling out your pink gumball. He took you with him at every mission, but was careful not to let the other men see. He’d kill someone over that little pink gumball, if they tried taking it.

He didn’t understand his vicious attachment to the little thing, other than someone who had shown they cared, had promised to wait for him. The promise of someone waiting at home for him was sweet.

He pressed his mouth to it, and swore he could smell your perfume clinging to it. Or maybe he was just goddamn tired, and hallucinating.

He quickly pocketed it as Frank moved over, a wry grin on his face. “Gonna eat that gumball eventually, Bill?” He asked, passing a flask to Billy.

Billy choked on the moonshine. “I’m savin’ it for when we go home.” He hedged., wiping his chin.

Frank looked out into the desert. It was quiet right now. The calm before the storm. He turned back. “What woman gave it to you?” He asked, taking the flask back, drinking from it himself.

Billy’s jaw ticked. He didn’t want to share you. He wanted to keep your sweet memory and his infatuation to himself. Mostly he didn’t want to look like a fool when he returned and you had inevitably found someone else. Or just wasn’t truly waiting for him like he thought.

Frank sat down next to him, and didn’t press any further, and Billy was relieved, as he closed his pockets, not wanting to risk losing you. And just in time.

Forces were coming towards their hiding spot, shouts over their heads, and they readied their weapons. Frank turned to Billy. “You get home to her, so you can give her a kiss.” He said roughly, turning and firing at someone, his shot going through the guy’s head, dropping him.

In the darkness, Billy’s cheeks turned pink as they burned. But he didn’t have a chance to respond as someone shot at him, missing by a hair’s breadth away.

He would come home to you. He swore it.

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ultrameganicolaokay · 1 year

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Wonder Woman #800 by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Tom King, Joëlle Jones, Todd Nauck and Daniel Sampere. Main cover by Yanick Paquette. Variant covers by (2) Jamal Campbell, (3) Brian Bolland, (4) Michael Allred, (5) Belen Ortega, (6) Sampere, (7) Megan Huang and Pride variant by (8) Brandt & Stein. Out in June.

"'Whatever Happened to the Warrior of Truth?' concludes in a landmark 800th issue! Diana’s visions become more vivid as she finds herself trapped in the dreams of those around her! As she struggles to escape, her life as Wonder Woman hangs in the balance. When the dust settles, will she still be the Amazons’ greatest champion? Find out in this extra-special celebration!"

#wonder woman #diana of themyscira #dc comics #becky cloonan #michael w. conrad #tom king #joëlle jones #todd nauck #daniel sampere #yanick paquette #jamal campbell #brian bolland #michael allred #belen ortega #megan huang #brian & stein #variant cover #comics

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talktomeinclexa · 1 year

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Thank You Technical Issues

By: TalktomeinClexa

Rating: Explicit

Warning: None

Status: One-Shot

Summary: If Clarke had any hope of hiding how her day went from her mother, it dies the moment Abby sees them. [...]

“Mom, this is Lexa, my girlfriend.”

The lie flies from her subconscious directly out of her lips.

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Dausmesnil. Daumesnil. Mind the gap between the train and the platform.

The subway doors slide open, letting the warm, stale air of the station enter. A few people get down, and those who stay relax for a moment. Spread their elbows. Shuffle their limbs and readjust their bags. A beginner’s mistake. The outgoing flow isn’t gone yet that new passengers rush in, taking over the empty space. Prancing about and pushing each other to try to fit 800 adults where only 500 should be. A couple of lucky ones found empty seats, but most are forced to stand, surrounded by other commuters.

Clarke huffs when someone steps on her foot. Not a single “sorry” emerges from the apathetic crowd. No one meets her angry look or displays an ounce of guilt. All around her, people stare at their phones or the ceiling. One of the tacit rules in the subway — and elevators. The fool staring at their companions of misery, or worse, smiling, disturbs. They are treated with suspicion and circumspection. Who in their right mind would be happy to endure such a walkabout? Especially to go to work.

It has only been two stops since her home station, and Clarke is ready to burst. Technical issues have her line crawl this morning. The crowd grows on the platforms faster than the trains arrive, complicating a situation typically unpleasant enough.

As the doors remain open longer than usual, the mass around Clarke shifts to let more people in and a few inpatients out.

She considers mimicking them, but to do what? Subway line 6 leads her right to her office. To take another one would lengthen her journey, and there’s no guarantee the other lines work any better this morning. As for the bus, it will be full, too, by now.

“Sorry,” a brunette says after the other passengers push her against Clarke and their boobs brush.

Normally, Clarke isn’t keen on getting petted at 8:23 AM on the subway. But the other woman is so gorgeous, with her godly features and impeccable makeup, that all she can utter is a weak, “’S alright.”

Not that it matters; the woman isn’t paying her attention anymore. Like their fellow crammed-in sardines, her eyes switch from the drawing on the wall indicating the line’s stations to her watch, wondering how long it will take her to reach her destination.

A ring bursts out, signaling the closing of the doors, and for a moment, Clarke hopes. She can still make it to work on time if the train doesn’t make any more extended stops.

More people rush in, and she ends up stuck between a large man and the beautiful woman from before. Neither of them dares to breathe when their boobs press together again, and intense green eyes look anywhere but at Clarke.

Clarke shuffles back an inch to separate their bodies before stopping short when the belly of the man behind her rubs against her back. Between that and the woman’s soft flesh, the choice isn’t hard. Resigned, Clarke resumes her previous position and ignores the quirking eyebrow facing her.

Ladies and gentlemen, we apologize for the delay. We are momentarily held back due to a technical issue. I will let you know as soon as I have more information.

Keep reading

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cer-rata · 3 months

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A (long) review of the first 5 issues of Wonder Woman (2023) *Full Spoilers*

So I'm a bit of a lapsed comic fan. I grew up on my dad's collection of 90's comics and kept up on and off until the new 52 which did a lot that really put me off. And frankly Marvel wasn't doing much better so I kind of moved onto different fandoms and some smaller runs. Recently however I've decided to try to get back into the hobby more seriously, and while there have been some books that I've really enjoyed, there's been a lot of meh plots and inconsistent characterization pretty much everywhere across the major publishers.

But I was nonetheless excited to see a new Wonder Woman ongoing. Out of the trinity, Diana was always my favorite (a fact that I, as a little closeted boy, kept secret for years. More on that later) and I was aware of some of Tom King's works and was pretty impressed with his "Vision" run, so I was cautiously optimistic about the prospect of a popular modern writer giving Diana some love, and was hoping for a story with some modern nuance and uplifting fun.

The bag has been...mixed at best.

So I'm going to try to be fair about this, because writing genuinely good and transformative comics isn't easy, especially when your editorial is completely unhinged. That being said I do have some serious concerns that I think are really important to talk about.

I'm also lapsed so I haven't read everything religiously the past couple years, so if I get something about canon wrong please correct me in the notes.

I'm going to break this down into a couple of sections to help organize my thoughts. The art is gorgeous generally so I'm not going to spend too much time on that. Let's start with:

Plot

The name of this arc is Wonder Woman: Outlaw, and the first issue is devoted to setting up that premise. The action kicks off when an amazon gets into a bar fight with a group of sexist men, and ends up slaughtering every man in the establishment. The government reacts to this development poorly and ends up ordering the forced deportation of the Amazons that had settled in the states. We're given narration by a mysterious figure, detailing how Diana and her friends lobbied and fought against this obvious injustice but failed, laid over images of an Amazon resisting her deportation with violence, and being gunned down in front of her wife and daughter.

But how, you ask, was the government able to rush through this bizarre reactionary stunt?

Well you see, this is all a part of a scheme by the Sovereign, the CEO of sexism and an American "king" whose family has used the "Lasso of Lies" to control the country for it's entire existence. He showed up in WW #800 with Trinity seeking him out for information, which explains why he's narrating this story. A Wonder Woman book where she isn't the POV character? I'll get more into that later.

Anyway the Sovereign wants to run all of the amazons out of the country or kill them, whatever works, as he believes they're a threat to his rule and masculinity as a whole.

So he's in the background. The foreground antagonist is Sargent Steel, who's been tasked with leading the Amazon deportation and is actively hunting Diana, who he eventually corners as she's paying her respects to the men that the rogue amazon killed. He tries to assassinate her, obviously fails, and Diana extracts some information from him and begins her investigation. See it turns out that after running out of other options, she's trying to hunt down the rogue amazon and figure out what's going on in the hopes that she solve the tensions.

So that's the basic premise of the arc, Diana is trying to solve a murder mystery while being actively hunted by the government. It's not a bad premise on its own honestly, so I was intrigued. The first issue is pretty, well laid out and interesting. The problem is that the following issues don't really deliver on that premise.

Instead of detective!Diana, we spent issue #2 on a (gorgeous) fight with the actual US army, intercut with a flashback of Diana's trial by combat in order to leave Themyscira in the first place. It really is a beautiful issue that really drives home how much of a badass she is, especially since she ends up not killing anyone in the process. Somehow. She did throw tanks at people so...I'm not sure how she...anyway.

Issue #3 is Diana walking into Steel's base, bulldozing through all the security and then bullying him to get some more information about the case, where she finds out that the Amazon is pregnant. Intriguing right? Meanwhile we see the Sovereign showing a young soldier around his house, which is filled with old American historical artifacts. See he wants this kid to push the narrative that Wonder Woman emasculated him and took away his pride, but the soldier doesn't really care? He's actually excited to have fought a superhero and live, and he thinks she's cool. So that won't do, and we're shown the capabilities of the Lasso of Lies, as the Sovereign uses it to implant feelings of discontent and depression into the young soldier, while also ordering him to write a manifesto about Wonder Woman taking his manliness and then to...kill himself. The idea being to create some bad press and push public support away from Diana.

Issue #4 is my favorite in the run so far, devoting most of it's time to watching Diana give a terminally ill kid who idolizes her the best day of his life. I'll get into it when I talk about dialogue later but I think it's the truest depiction of Diana so far, you get to see her kindness, generosity and wisdom. There is a nice moment where she comforts the kid about destiny and soothes his feelings of otherness in the face of the expectation that he should be drawn to a male hero. It's really nice. But also kind of a strange decision in the scope of the plot. As much as I love this moment, I think her taking a day away from her mission of stopping this political disaster and being on the run to just hang out with a kid is...odd from a pacing standpoint. With the lack of effort she's shown so far in dealing with Steel and the machinations of the Sovereign, and the threat to the Amazons happening mostly off screen and with very limited access how Diana's feeling about it all because she's not the narrator, it all wraps up in not feeling very urgent. It's mentioned that she's trying to control her emotions and that makes sense in theory, but with the way she's drawn and written she just seems unbothered.

Meanwhile, Amanda Waller tells Steel that they're just going to throw all of Diana's villains at her and call it a day.

Issue #5 Deals with the Wonder Girls, Cassie, Donna and Yara trying to convince Diana to accept some help. She challenges them to trials where if they can beat her she'll allow them to assist. It's kind of a neat concept, but it highlights a strange piece of this characterization of Wonder Woman: her desire to work alone.

It's...very Batman of her in ways that don't make much sense in the narrative and in the broader scope of her characterization. And it would be more understandable if the conflict was more focused, Diana hunting down Cheetah to try to reform her, a more personal mission. But this literally involves all of her people and could lead to actual war between the states and Themysicra. It seems weirdly shortsighted for her to shun help from adult Women who she's trained and worked with in the past. The rationalization that she doesn't want to endanger them falls completely flat because they're already in danger.

Also what is Yara referring to here? She acts like there's history of them working together and it not working out. Why do they insist on trying to make her a Wonder Girl in the first place?

Anyway they all lose but then ignore the terms of the wager and show up in her apartment in their costumes, not taking no for an answer. And like that they ignored that foolishness, but then I'm bothered that we spent almost an entire issue on this pointless conflict that didn't really teach us anything useful.

But I did say almost, and the rest of the issue is devoted to Steel and the Sovereign convincing some of Diana's greatest foes to join up on a squad to take her down.

Which is...a choice. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool sequence, and It's not an unusual conceit in comics to collect a bunch of villains to take down their nemesis, but as far as I was aware, in this continuity:

Giganta and Silver Swan had buried the hatchet

Circe also helped Diana defeat the upside down man, and seemingly dropped her animosity (and...I...I thought she was trapped in a mirror. How did they get her out?) But regardless, why on earth would Circe agree to work for anyone, especially the US gov?

Grail was never that focused on Diana in the first place, but I could see her wanting to kill her for kicks, but again, why would she agree to work with lesser beings and take orders from mortals?

Angle man is nuts, so, sure

And Dr. Psycho does hate Wonder Woman with a passion so sure.

But this doesn't take into account that if they were to be written correctly, Circe or Grail on their own are justice league threats, and even with the Wonder Girls helping that would be an uphill battle. And then you add all the others, and factor in the dubious choices here in relation to established canon and it leaves me concerned that none of these villains are going to be used properly to their potential, or written in character. The idea that they were convinced to do this in the first place is hand-waved away, likely because there are no real persuasive arguments to get someone like Grail or Circe to job like this.

But enough of that tangent. This upcoming slug fest raises the question: What happened to the investigation into this rogue Amazon? 5 issues in and all we know is her name and that she's pregnant. Diana doesn't even know her name though, because if she did she'd realize that she actually knew the woman. So 5 issues in and the main plot has taken a backseat to watching Wonder Woman be a badass and including a bunch of villains. And don't get me wrong, I love a badass Wonder Woman. I was absolutely thrilled watching her go to work on people. But if you strip away those exciting set pieces and try to follow the plot and themes, there's not much substance there.

And you know, now that we've got an overview of what's happening, let's talk about the greater ideas here.

Themes

So King clearly wants to investigate misogyny in this book, with his villain Johnny Sexism. Uh. I mean, The Sovereign, an old white man who hates women and believes in the divine right of kings and wields the literal Lasso of Lies. And his unwitting sidekick, Military Industrial Complex Man, AKA Sargent Steel.

So it's not inherently bad to personify an social issue. Comics often work in shorthand like that. The issue I have here is that when you have a mastermind character who has manipulated everything behind the scenes, who is ALSO a caricature of a social problem, instead of providing interesting analysis of a systemic problem and its sources and methods, you instead attribute it all to One Evil Man. Which is painfully reductive and misguided. Sexism is complicated, much more complicated that one evil wizard deciding that women are the problem. It's like if you created a vampire slave owner who had been manipulating the country from the shadows and created the system of racism. It's bizarre and not really analysis to suggest that you can just solve social issues by stopping individual bad actors.

The bit with the soldier really crystalized this for me. We are given a kind man who has no misogynistic tendencies, and then the CEO of sexism forcibly implants it into his mind. He's shown personally bullying the president into submission, manipulating Steel, most overt examples of sexism can be tied directly to the Sovereign, which is a bizarre choice that really flattens the narrative weight. Couple that with the fact that the Sovereign is shown to be completely ill-equipped to actually stop Diana. She literally walks through all of his roadblocks, doesn't seem like she's out of control of the situation outside of the opening explanation that she wasn't able to save her sisters. The only real threat so far is the team of villains, and that's framed as Amanda Waller's plan. Why isn't she the villain of this book? And he's the narrator. In a book about sexism, immigration and tribalism, the voice we hear the most is that of the Sovereign. And he doesn't have anything particularity interesting to say. He's not scary, he doesn't seem particularly competent and he provides no interesting analysis so I'm left wondering, why are we centering his perspective over Diana's? In a book lead by a feminist icon, about the evils of sexism, we are completely locked out of her head. She barely gets a chance to speak, and when she does it's clipped and robotic. There's no personality, and certainly no continuity to her popular depictions. I'm all for writers reaching for topics, trying to make social commentary. Some of the best arcs we've ever gotten deal with real issues. But you have to A: Know what you're talking about and B: Actually talk about it. Sexism bad, men bad--it's not enough, it's not analysis, it's not revelatory and by creating such ridiculous caricatures of hyper masculinity, you make it very easy for the average male reader, who I assume you're trying to engage with, to separate themselves from the equation. It's thematic window dressing, and frustrating to see in a Wonder Woman book of all places. I don't think that only woman can write women, that's ridiculous and removes the responsibility to be better from male writers. But, if you're going to talk about social issues that apply to a group you're not a part of, you'd better know what you're talking about. Hell even if you're in that group you still have to know what you're talking about. This is feminism that starts and ends with "Sexism bad" and it's 2024, we have to be smarter about this.

That being said, I think issue #4 has bits of the right idea. Seeing Diana representing something greater than the sexist division that the world perpetuates is great. I felt incredibly seen as a little boy who loved Wonder Woman, and that moment of kindness meant a lot. We're given believable symptoms of sexism, from Jack's dad being uncomfortable with his son idolizing Diana. and Jack having internalized that judgement. It's handled gently and instead of just beating us over the head with obvious allegory, it shows us a taste of what Wonder Woman stands for: a better, more loving world. And it's mostly because it's the most insight that we get from her about how she thinks. The best part of the book about Wonder Woman is, shockingly, the part about Wonder Woman. Why can't we get more of that?

Dialogue

Man it's weird. King is clearly snappy, with a decent sense of humor. There's lots of fun exchanges in this book, particularly the backups, which I'll get to soon. He's pretty good at dialogue, which makes the way he writes Diana so bizarre. Awkward sentence structure, aloof characterization, the grating repeated use of "No thank you" as some sort of catch phrase. What? king has taken the warm beating heart of the trinity and made her distant and robotic. It's kind of impressive. And some of the rationale is that she's in emotional turmoil and trying to maintain appearances. But that's not reflected in the art at all, even when she's alone. We're told that she's conflicted and angry but almost never shown it. She feels like a side character in her own book most of the time. Speaking of side characters:

The Backups

So the running plot here is Damian Wayne and Jon Kent...babysitting? raising? Diana's daughter Lizzie Prince, who is eventually known as the hero Trinity in the future. And it's cute, particularly when they're all younger. King really gets Damian and Jon's characterization and writes some really fun exchanges.

Issue #4 and #5's backups are a little weaker but still really fun.

So my question is...why is the best characterization in this Wonder Woman book the backups starring the Supersons? I love the Supersons! Why are they here? Why would Diana choose them to watch her daughter? Why isn't she on Themyscira or being watched by any of her adult friends, especially those who have actual experience with children? It's fun but feels shoehorned and poorly reasoned. Honestly? I get the feeling that king wants to write this more than he does the main book, and it's mind boggling, because I wouldn't hate him writing supersons, and his version of Jon is the most Jon we've gotten in a while. So why is he writing Wonder Woman?

Conclusion

I think I'll keep reading, mostly to fuel my desire to see what they do with her actual villains, but it's not the smart book I was hoping for. It takes pretty big liberties with characterization and recent canon and there's not much actual commentary to find here. The art and the action are incredible, but the story that should be supporting it is pretty anemic and frustrating, with moments of genuine quality that makes the rest of the book even more disappointing.

Honestly? Just read Amazons Attack instead. Better dialogue, better pacing, better characterization, just more fun.

#wonder woman #wonder woman 2023 #diana prince #dc comics #damian wayne #jon kent #lizzie prince #tom king #daniel sampere

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gorogues · 8 months

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Spoilers for comics in December!

These are from the official solicits for that month, which you can see in full at Adventures In Poor Taste.

Evan is back, and joining in the fun with the Folding Man.

THE FLASH #4 Written by SI SPURRIER Art and cover by MIKE DEODATO JR. Variant covers by MIKE DEODATO JR. and FRANY 1:25 variant cover by JAVIER RODRIGUEZ 1:50 variant cover by MATT TAYLOR Santa variant cover by STEPHEN SEGOVIA $3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 12/26/23 As the Flash continues to explore the Gallery, he meets a living entity called the Resident that he feels drawn to. Can she aid him in his battle against the Folding Man…and even if she can, does she want to? Meanwhile, Mirror Master returns, unveiling even more upgrades since we last saw him in The Flash #800—but he’s not the only one with new powers, as Irey “Thunderheart” West is eager to show the world. Also, the Stillness decide to act upon humanity as the new chapter for the Flash Family continues!

SPEED FORCE #2 Written by JARRETT WILLIAMS Art by DANIELE DI NICUOLO Cover by MIKE DEODATO JR. Variant cover by SWEENEY BOO $3.99 US | 32 pages | 2 of 6 | Variant $4.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 12/12/23 As Wallace and Avery race to uncover the mystery of the missing S.T.A.R. Labs scientists, something appears to be affecting their friends—is it tied to the bubbles popping up all over Keystone, or the “spooky Speed Force stuff” Mr. Terrific is warning everyone about? Also, a classic Flash character appears— and is really into EDM, but to what end? The young Speedster team-up continues!

Could it be Hartley who's gotten into EDM..?

TITANS: BEAST WORLD TOUR: CENTRAL CITY #1 Written by SI SPURRIER, A.L. KAPLAN, ALEX PAKNADEL, JARRETT WILLIAMS Art by A.L. KAPLAN, GEORGE KAMBADAIS, and SERG ACUNÑA Cover by MIKEL JANÍN Variant covers by CULLY HAMNER and TAURIN CLARKE $5.99 US | 48 pages | Variant $6.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 12/19/23 Speedsters infected! The home of the Flash is not immune from the Starro spores, and as a member of the Flash Family is infected, it’s all hands on deck across both Central and Keystone City. Irey West has a plan that requires the help of her BFF Maxine Baker, while Avery Ho, Wallace West, and fan-favorite Circuit Breaker will all be working together with the entire clan to contain the infected speedsters causing chaos across the city. Oh, and the recent issues within the Speed Force haven’t gone away… This key chapter of the Beast World saga also contains important revelations for the Scarlet Speedster’s next steps as The Flash writer Si Spurrier is joined by Speed Force writer Jarrett WIlliams, Circuit Breaker scribe A.L. Kaplan, and Knight Terrors: The Flash writer Alex Paknadel!

As per a variant cover, it seems that Godspeed is the infected member (or one of them, since the solicit later says speedsters plural) of the Flash Family.

And because we know Len is in this series...

JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. GODZILLA VS. KONG #3 Written by BRIAN BUCCELLATO Art by CHRISTIAN DUCE Cover by DREW JOHNSON Variant cover by JONBOY MEYERS Variant cover by MIKE DEODATO JR. 1:25 variant cover by SIMONE DI MEO 1:50 variant cover by ARIST DEYN $4.99 US | 40 pages | 3 of 7 | Variant $5.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 12/19/23 Superman and Godzilla have gone head-to-head with devastating consequences in Metropolis as the Justice League scrambles to protect their homes from the monsters—Supergirl encounters Kong on Skull Island and Wonder Woman takes on Behemoth on Themyscira! Lost in the monster mayhem, though, are Lex Luthor and his Legion of Doom… what nefarious connection do they have to everything?

#Mirror Master #Evan #Captain Cold #Godspeed #the Flash #Irey #Avery Ho #Kid Flash #Folded Man #Pied Piper #maybe?#solicits #spoilers: comics

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advictoriams · 8 months

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WIP: SAVE 217 RESET: BE YOUR OWN BOSS TIMELINE. ALTERNATE START

Been sharing this around with @ltcolonelcarter and @thirium-800 after hypothesizing what would happen in a SaveState Reset after Death Shroud? (Thanks @chadfallout76podcast for giving me a new perspective on save states)

Oh @bokatan it's not housemates but it is a post Death Shroud reset

This is set just before the events of Cyberlife Tower to as soon as Sixty's been activated. Like Nick, Danse and Kellogg also remember the previous timeline (wasn't born, was an idea. So effectively all androids/cyborgs/anyone with digital enhancements has retained some if not all of their memory of the Death Shroud timeline, hence the references to 250 years).

Under the cut for length

"Hey, Boyscout! Going my way?" The moment he hears that name. He can feel two hundred and fifty years catch up to his newly activated body.

How was it even possible? The last time he'd heard that voice it was screaming desperately for help as it faded away into nothingness just minutes before his activation.

As he fires another shot into the guard on his left and another at his right, a flash of colour catches the corner of his eye amidst the cold and sterile blacks and whites of Cyberlife Tower on a snowy November night.

Cherry Red. It feels so out of place among the red splashes across walls from Cyberlife goons. It's somehow much brighter and warmer. And the android is like a moth to its flame.

Hearing pistol shots ring out further down the road, Sixty's attention finally completely draws towards it.

A 1977 Hammerhead Convertible. He had to wonder if he was dreaming. First, her voice, then her car?

Strange, he thought to himself...

Androids can't dream.

He drops the next guard trying to attack him and makes his way over to the car.

Though as he approaches the vehicle, curiosity dissolves and soon the smile on his face is much harder to hide.

There she is. Cherry red lips curved into a mischievous grin as well as a faux fur coat that melts seamlessly into the car's paint job while she's brandishing a bull barrelled revolver, shooting at the security attacking from the tower gates and Sixty's letting himself drown in familiarity.

While he hadn't expected Kiki to be there, she's definitely a welcome surprise.

The prospect of home feels just within his grasp. All he has to do is get to her.

Without words he leans over the driver's seat door and greets the buxom blonde woman waiting for him with a deep, yearning kiss while she cups his bloody cheeks in her free hand and the peach of his skin fades to a glossy polymer that's as white as the blonde's exposed cybernetics.

As one bullet very narrowly misses the both of them, he breaks the kiss they're sharing and jumps in the backseat, loosening his tie and peeling off his blood spattered grey Cyberlife jacket.

Then, it's as if pure instinct leads him to the pump action shotgun hidden under the passenger's seat, the grin on his face twists into something far more menacing, sinister almost.

Two centuries of memories had definitely been good for something.

As more guards pile through the tower's front entrance and from the gate with their rifles drawn, the blonde revs the car engine as if she's daring them to advance.

They're outmanned and outgunned as Cyberlife's security detail begin to swarm outside from every direction. It was the last hurdle that stood in the way of Sixty and freedom, or at least escaping in one piece.

With no options left, Kiki reaches over to the front passenger seat and takes out a bottle with a rag in it.

Both of them get out of the car, sizing up the competition - at least thirty, thirty-five guards, fifteen armed with assault rifles, ten with standard issue sidearms and a few brandishing riot shields.

Reconvening at the back of the car and in front of the crowd, Kiki lights the projectile in her hand and grins.

A single word flashes on Sixty's HUD in a bold red as the makeshift explosive flies through the air, colliding with a guard's helmet;

⭕SHOWTIME

Once the flames create a distraction, the pair open fire on the crowd; shot after shot ringing out into the frosty Belle Isle night as guards either try to put themselves out or try to attack from the gate entrance.

As the android bashed the butt of his shotgun into the face of a guard about to punch him from the right, Kiki swept the leg of the guard to her left, then dug the heel of her red Louboutin stiletto into their throat as she shot them right in the centre of their forehead.

Stealing the rifle from the body at his feet, Sixty kicked another away while he emptied the mag into two more guards that were in pursuit. Then, before the two guards behind him could advance, Kiki threw her knife at one and shot the other, dropping them both to the snowy asphalt.

Fighting off a few more towards the front of the car, Both Sixty and Kiki kept shooting until they could get back in.

⚜️ NOTORIETY LEVEL 5

"Shit." Both swore in unison under their breaths as their HUDs notified them of more imminent danger. Though what they'd both trained their eye on was the figure coming from the north entrance.

Black, white and imposing, just like the tower itself. What had stopped Sixty and Kiki in their tracks however was the glowing flashes of blue and cyan that seemed to only stick out more among the blanket of night.

Sixty analysed the figure coming towards them, brandishing a minigun and panic began to burn behind his composure.

A face exactly like his, like Connor's but with steely blue eyes with nothing behind them. And on the white and black jacket that had caught his and the cyborg's attention the model number -

RK900

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Wonder Woman #800 Review

Wonder Woman #800 Review #wonderwoman #dianaprince #amazon #wonderwoman1984 #wonderwomanfan #DCEU #dccomics #comics #comicbooks #news #dcu #dcuuniverse #art #info #NCBD #comicbooknews #previews #reviews

Writers: Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad and Tom King Art: Joelle Jones, Alitha Martinez, Mark Morales, Nick Robles, Todd Nauck, Skylar Partridge, Cully Hamner, Jen Bartel and Daniel Sampere Colors: Jordie Bellaire, Tamra Bonvillain, Jen Bartel and Tomeu Morey Letters: Pat Brosseau and Clayton Cowles Publisher: DC Comics Price: $5.99 Release Date: June 20th, 2023 It’s a milestone issue as…

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From what I've heard, Getty likes women. Especially doe eyes. I've heard for months about this mystery billionaire, but didn't know the name until it pushed out in the papers (wonder by whom), but what I've heard about this person, almost certainly Getty, is that he has made it clear to Meghan that this is just a man enjoying beautiful women and he wants sex and to buy her what he wants her to have, but under NO CIRCUMSTANCES does he plan to link himself to her financially in any way, not through marriage, business, politics, nothing...

I think he's dead serious about that, which is why we're now hearing that Meghan is now trying to get this man's juices to make a baby thereby ensuring his financial support for the kids' life. Meghan tells everyone her business which is likely how the Gettys now know this bank of baby plan is being tossed around.

Not to be gross, but in every book written about Meghan from Low, to Bowers, to Campbell, to Brown, and in anecdotes from other books and articles since the beginning, is that Meghan is up for anything sexually. During their courting, everyone called Harry BJ Harry because of how he was attached to her 24/7 and followed her like a puppy. My point is, if any woman can snatch away baby batter without consent, it's her. Then she can just pop up with this turkey baster special and acts like a condom broke in normal intercourse or something.... which would also be all too easy to manufacture. This will be relatively easy for Meghan, if she can conceive and carry a baby still. If thats the case, she should be golden in conveiving this golden goose.

The issue is going to be, I think, that Meghan is infertile. I don't think she can carry another child based on how the Lily pregnancy unfurled. I don't even think her own eggs are viable, also based on how the Lily pregnancy unfurled. I don't think that will stop her, because she can just mix his DNA with hers or donor eggs and have a surrogate carry and deliver. She can moonbump to her heart's content in the meantime.

What I DON'T know is if eggs other than hers are used. If it's hers and his DNA, she's getting child support. But what if it's his DNA, she has legal custody of the child, but is not the biological mother?

Also... why wouldn't an oversexed manwhore like this have gotten a vasectomy years ago?

GETTY- Get your old ass up under the knife and get snipped already. An old dude like you? Your prostate has to have been checked like 800 times by now. You could have had the finger, the cough, the snip and be done in 15 minutes.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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Wonder Woman Reviews: Wonder Woman #800 (Partial)

By Tom King (writer) and Daniel Sampere (artist)

I'm calling this a partial review as I'm only reviewing the Tom King segment at the very end.

As a prologue to a larger run there's obviously only so much that can be talked about but I thought I'd just post some thoughts given my post from a week or so back talking about what hopes/thoughts were for King's upcoming run.

Overall, I would say I liked what we saw of Trinity a.k.a. "Lizzie"/Elizabeth Martson Prince. King certainly did what I was hoping for that she'd be characterized differently from her mother and that's certainly what I got.

Yeah, this is about as far removed from just about most characterizations of Diana as you can get. Some of have certainly been more outgoing or boisterous like in the Golden Age but this is a level of open egoism usually reserved to characters like Artemis. I'm not complaining, I do like what I've read so far but I can see why this would turn some people off and she could very easily go into straight unlikable territory if one's writing isn't careful.

From what little we've learned of her so far we do see Lizzie's ego comes from her admiration of her mother as the world's most famous heroine and feels it's her duty to try and live up to that. I find to this to be actually be an interesting take for a child of Diana, actually. It is rather Damien Wayne-ish but given how presumably differently characterized Diana will be under King I think this will lead to more interesting dynamic between mother and daughter than one usually gets from Bruce and son.

Speaking of one half of the Super-Sons, I can't say I'm a fan of them being here. King's already talked about them showing up in future issues (presumably their younger counterparts in present issues) and that really only fills me with dread. Both of them have books to themselves, there's multiple other Superman and Batman books they could appear in, I really don't get why Wonder Woman's one book needs to devote some of it's limited page count to these two. They were written fine in the story itself but what it just reminds me of how DC so often reduces Diana's relationships to just Superman and Batman at the expense of everything else unique about her world.

Overall, I'm still optimistic about King's run when it starts up September but I do note we still don't know how King will actually write Diana as she herself (well unless you count an hallucination) doesn't actually appear in his prologue.

#wonder woman #dccomics #tom king #lizzie prince #comics #comic reviews

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Diana by Joëlle Jones Wonder Woman #800

#diana of themyscira #diana prince #dc comics #wonder woman #joëlle jones #yara flor #issue 800 #comic book art #dc #WW vol 1 #my edit

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Wonder Woman’s daughter, Trinity, to be introduced in issue 800

Well, now all three of DC’s biggest heroes are also parents.

Just in time for Mother’s Day, DC has announced that readers will be introduced to Diana of Themyscira’s daughter, Trinity, in Wonder Woman #800, out next month.

Of note is the character’s design: brown hair and three lassos: one gold, one silver, and one black. Her father has not yet been revealed (heck, she could’ve been molded from clay like Diana was once upon a time).

Writer Tom King and artist Daniel Sampere will handle her introduction in the book, which DC is hailing as a relaunch of the series.

#wonder woman #trinity #dc #comics #tom king #daniel sampere

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The title "A celebration of Wally West" makes my heart happy. It is a milestone in itself to reach 800 solo issues . Wonder Woman is also accomplishing this feat in 2023. The longevity of these stories is thanks in large part to the many creative teams that have told their own versions of these heroes. Many of them will appear on issue 800 of The Flash. It will also prelude to the new creative team, which launches the rebooted Flash title during "Dawn of DC."

There is plenty to reminisce about when it comes to milestones such as this. There are plenty of amazing Flash stories told over those 800 issues that showcase why The Flash is such a fantastic character for DC. I, for one, can't wait to get my hands on this oversized adventure and then see where the story takes us from there.

#Wally West #The Flash #DC Comics #Issue 800 #Dawn of Dc

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Comics this week ?

rezonan asked: What did you think about Ultimate Invasion #1? I thought it was pretty good and just barely justified the 9 dollars. 6160 man so excited

A great week all around for comic books! How nice to read good stories featuring both of my two favorite guys, Superman and Hulk.

Superman #5 - Another great issue, particularly for Jimmy who came off cool and competent, loved the shot of him donning his own jet pack and flying off with Superman to save the day, that's my pal! Williamson managed to win me over on a Silver Banshee who isn't a villain (for now). I've been leery about "redeeming" villains lately. Don't really see the point since all it does is further cut down on Superman's Rogues Gallery when he desperately needs for them to get used more not less. Banshee and Jimmy are cute enough together, and Marilyn Moonlight seems cool enough to stick around and take Banshee's place, that I've decided to get on board. Really it was seeing Banshee wear a bow tie on a date night with Jimmy that did it, who can resist the bow ties?

World's Finest #16 - Enjoyed this issue more than the rest of the arc, the Green Arrow/Batman banter was funny.

Nightwing #105 - A fantastic art showcase for Redondo. Oh hey and Heartless does actually show up again finally, so credit to Taylor for showing he isn't just sitting around doing nothing.

Wonder Woman #800 - Picked this up just for King's story and I'm on board for his WW run. First WW issue I've read in ages that left me eager to get my hands on the next issue. Nice feeling to have with regards to WW, haven't felt that way since Rucka.

Superboy #3 - Interesting twist to have the Cosmoteers potentially be new villains for Conner rather than friends. Forcing Conner to fight an evil/amoral version of the archetypes he was teammates with on YJ is a cool creative decision.

Vigil #2 - Another great issue even if it leaves me with more questions than answers. Love getting details on Indian conspiracy theories, that's an aspect of other cultures that you don't get in Western textbooks.

Cyborg #2 - Dropped. Take a look at the list, at this point I need a book to either be great or have a personal investment in the character to justify the cost, and Cyborg doesn't check either box.

Black Adam #12 - What an odd, odd book this ended up being. A story all about how there is no redemption for Black Adam, greenlit for synergy with The Rock's movie which starred an Adam who could barely be called a "villain", now ends long after the Adam movie flopped and killed the DCEU. The Adam parts I liked a lot, the Malik parts I didn't enjoy anywhere near as much. Much like the movie, I don't see this book leaving much of a legacy, but Priest did at least write a believable way for Adam to transition out of his anti-hero era and back to being a villain. Will the next writers to tackle Adam acknowledge what Priest did? Maybe Waid will.

Ultimate Invasion #1 -

This was the good shit my fellow Hickmaniacs. Not HoX/PoX tier but absolutely reminding me of Hickman's Avengers and Ultimates. Of course I grinned at seeing "Earth 6160", perfect number designation, if that's the Earth which will be the one Hickman is using for the relaunch then this is indeed a proper reboot for the Ultimate line. Theory time: Maker chose this Earth because this is a world that doesn't have a Reed Richards. Hickman might even make it the Earth that Doom got his Sue from in Secret Wars, their origin had Dr. Franklin Storm in Reed's place, and I could see Maker wanting this Earth partly to spite 616 Reed for crying over that Sue on Battleworld. Maker's already prevented 6160 from having a Spider-Man, and it looks like he's going to prevent the other heroes from forming too. I'm dying to know what he's going to do to the Sue, Johnny, and Ben of this world if my theory is correct.

I predict that the ending of Ultimate Invasion will be 6160 getting rebooted to undo Maker's changes, and 616 Reed is going to fold Maker into this Earth's history somehow, rebooting him back to being Mr. Fantastic. The problem the Illuminati have with Maker is that they can't kill him and they can't keep him locked up, meaning they have to find another way to deal with him. Given this was kicked off in part by 616 Reed admitting he would like to erase Maker, I think the ending will be 616 Reed realizing that's the wrong approach and instead opts to try and redeem Maker. That would also explain rumors that there's going to be a lot more interaction between 616 and 6160 than there was with 1610. 6160 becomes Maker's prison, and the 616 Illuminati keep watch to ensure he doesn't fall back into being a villain again.

Incredible Hulk #1 - Shocker I know but I liked this. Great Southern Gothic atmosphere thanks to Klein's art, and PKJ is directly following up on Ewing while also taking advantage of the Banner/Hulk reset that Cates did. Seeing Betty under Eldest's control was surprising, I did not expect her to be in the first issue but I'm happy she's back. Eager to dive into this monster mythos surrounding the Mother of Horrors that PKJ is creating, Hulk vs. Man-Thing is a fantastic matchup that I don't think has ever been done before.

Scarlet Witch Annual - Orlando handled the MCU synergy very well. Agatha is straight up MCU-ified now, no real way to avoid that after the popularity of Wandavision, but he did a good job acknowledging Agatha's previous history with Wanda and at least tried to reconcile the differences between the two takes.

Avengers #2 - Plotwise this remains great, characterwise it's clear McKay is still finding his footing in terms of juggling the cast. Writes a great Black Panther though, so at least T'Challa is finally getting treated with respect. Too bad that only happens outside his solo.

#weekly reviews #ultimate invasion

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