Who the fuck knows

this is kinda sick of mrs woolf because imagine being vita and your gf writes you a book but the whole time the primary symbolism is her saying that you suck at writing 😭

see now bruce would have done as much as he could for jason and forgiven him for all the killing and drug running and car bombing and beating up tim and mass murder but jason ruined everything by laughing at the idea of dick grayson dying. that was too far. batarang

Another wip cuz I do wanna draw all the robins,,, initially was planning to wait until I finish the whole thing (this will never happen-) but I’m still figuring out what details to put for Jason since I’ve been trying to revolve the compositions around their costumes 🥲🥲

Thinking about aligning his symbol with the all caste tattoos and the negative space showing his robin phase,,,

Aaa they look so nice all side by side 🥹 Steph Damian next if my art block passes 🥲🥲

dick took it as blackmail on jason

twitter saw it first please god bring my family back 🙏🙏

hello dickroyers

this picture is pretty funny because bruce is destroying slade but my guy ur expensive ass home is this only thing keeping u from being in the exact same position 😭

Lol that's Dick not Bruce, infinitely more devastating burn because Dick has been fighting Slade since he was like 16 years old and is friendly with both of Slade's kids

Nightwing by Dan Mora

Batgirl 2024 from Steph's POV is so funny your best friend slash situationship leaves town with no explanation. A few nights later you have a gay dream where you act as her spiritual guide, which has happened twice before. She is usually dying when this happens. The next day she rings you and says no she's not dying but her mom is dead. Yeah it's fine. No she's not coming home yet. You are the only one she's explained this too. You have that feeling in your gut based on past experience that she's going to die at least once before reaching Gotham again.

You tell her you love her. She loves you too. That's all that matters in the end. You'll see her eventually.

He’s a great influence (Tim broke into his flat)

& do we think what steph said on the other end of the line just now was "cassandra, please be careful." do we think steph's name is bolded for emphasis here bc steph called cass "cassandra" & she never does that so cass is playfully full-naming her in return. do we think cass is about to say she's always careful, like a liar. do we think everything's about to go horribly wrong in the immediate next panel. do we—

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x-men sketch dump including the best gambit i’ve ever drawn, some x-factor redraws, and assorted goofs

“Magneto’s backstory should be changed, it’s unrealistic that he’d still be alive after all this time!” Have you forgotten what franchise he’s from?

You can suspend your disbelief for the man transformed into sentient rocks by space radiation, the interdimensional bird, and the flaming biker skeletons, but one guy being a little old is where you draw the line?

It's the ~antisemitism~

#its also worth noting that marvel *DID* change magneto's backstory#he was originally presented as someone who had survived the shoah as an adult#and marvel retconned it to him surviving it as a child#iirc his original debut backstory involved him losing a wife and two kids??

Well, no, not really. When Magneto was made to be a Holocaust survivor, he was a survivor from childhood, though by the end of the Holocaust he was in his teens. His daughter Anya was killed by an antisemitic mob after the Holocaust, at some point in the 1950s.

It's also an attempt to pretend that the Shoah is ancient history, when it's really not.

"It's unrealistic for a Holocaust survivor to still be alive."

Assholes, there are Holocaust survivors still alive in the real world.

They're really telling on themselves because Wolverine is like 170 years old.

wolverine being a hundred and fucking seventy: normal

magneto being the same age as currently alive holocaust survivors: impossible

While there are definitely living Holocaust survivors today, most of them aren't up to doing half the shit Magneto does, and it seems to be affecting the impact his stories have on audiences. I remember reading Magneto stories as a kid in the 90s, knowing he was a little younger than my grandparents, and getting hit with a truckload of sympathy for the dude. He just wanted to have a normal life like Grandma and Granddad, and then the war happened and oh FUCK. Younger readers now are much less likely to have that personal connection; that's just how human lifespans work. And it's only going to get worse. Magneto does need some future-proofing.

That's not to say I think Magneto's origin should be changed, or that he should be permanently killed off. Far from it. This is comics; all kinds of timeline bullshit happens all the time. As someone pointed out above, Wolverine is most of the way into his second century of life.

What I'd do--and what I'm shocked Marvel writers don't seem to have done yet--is wave the mutant bullshit wand and make Magneto functionally immortal. Secondary mutation, maybe. Something something magnetic fields. The mechanics don't matter any more than "Wolverine is functionally immortal because healing factor" does. What matters is this:

At some point, Magneto will be the last living Holocaust survivor. And he will not let the world forget.

There was a story I read as a kid where Magneto took a handful of soil from the camp where his family died and spread it on the surface of the moon, where he was building a mutant haven of some kind. The image of him on his knees with soil running through his fingers and an agonized look on his face has haunted me ever since. To some part of him, it's always 1945. Never again is quite literally now.

I want to see Magneto as the furious conscience of the Marvel universe. I want him to rip a hole in the UN General Assembly building and stride in with his full regalia on--except for one sleeve, stripped to the forearm to show his tattooed number--and read the UN the riot act in all his nigh-unkillable glory. I want him to storm into summits between warring planets, atomize the ferrous metal in everyone's weapons, and lay down the galactic law that is There Will Be No More Genocides On My Watch, And My Watch Is Eternal. And I want future writers to use his story, and his enduring popularity as a character, to make sure that audiences don't forget either.

Magneto being a Holocaust survivor is only a flaw in the storytelling if you're a goddamn coward.

Preach!

Claim that Magneto doesn't age because his DNA is protected from radiation by his own personal magneto-sphere.

Sure as an explanation it doesn't fully explain why he doesn't age, but it explains it more than enough for comics.

From what little I know of genes and aging, this explanation is absolute codswallop from beginning to end, meaning that it should fit seamlessly into Marvel canon.

If Magneto's age bothers you that much, stuff him into a pocket universe where time runs differently for a few decades of our time and a few weeks of his.

Put Xavier in there with him.

Give them some time to have angry sex and angrier philosophical arguments, give the teams some space for personal growth, stepping into the leadership, messy schisms, going in oddball political directions, react to the times and to the absence of their greatest enemy and their beacon of moral direction/primary motivating force.

Dump Xavier and Magneto back into the real world and give them a multidecade time jump to react to, a changed world and changed patterns of acceptance and social norms to relate their positions to, and all their allies and enemies being vastly different people that who they left behind.

(That all said, gotta say: Magneto as eternal Watcher Against Destruction is metal (pun intended) as fuck. And Magneto as obtaining enough power to fistfight G-d over every potential genocide yet to be threatened, on the grounds that You Said You Would Not Destroy Us, You're Keeping Your Word On That If I Have To MAKE You . . . fuck yes.)

when i said we should stop taking comic panels out of context i wasn’t talking about this one