Deadpool #18 - “The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly IV” (2013)
written by Brian Posehn & Gerry Duggan art by Declan Shalvey & Jordie Bellaire
Marvel Voices: Pride - “Early Thaw” (2021)
written by Anthony Oliveira art by Javier Garron & David Curiel
Gerard Way’s Kingdom of the Mad (unpublished Vertigo’s Batman pitch)
After winning the 2008 Eisner Awards for Best Limited Series with The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite, Gerard Way pitched his alternative Batman story called Batman: Kingdom of the Mad to DC Comics. They approved of Way’s story and agreed to publish the series under their Vertigo imprint. However, Way’s busy schedule kept him from writing the miniseries and the project was ultimately forgotten.
In June 2013, Way posted his sketch [re]designs for the project on Twitter. He revealed the series would have been six issues in all with one word titles, the first issue would’ve been titled “Rats”.
- In his version, Batman only eats rats. His powers only he knew about like ESP. He can see into the future. And turning into a bat.
- His cape has a massive drawing of an imaginary magical kingdom inside of it, which served as his version of Heaven.
- Robin (Dick Grayson) was “the only person in the book that isn’t nuts.”
- The Joker was the youngest character in the book at age 19, a year or two younger than Robin.
- Penguin being the honorable judge.
- Mr. Freeze’s design was a robot-like figure whose suit and dressed as his dead wife in armor made of scrap-metal from her car accident.
- The Riddler was worked with taxidermy and keeps the mask on a mannequin head on his desk. He has clues written all over his office. His mask would be more of a bag covers his full head.
- Two-Face was (might be) one of guards of the asylum.
- The Anti-Bats group.
- His fan asked about if Harley Quinn would show up in his series, Way stated that there were no plans for Harley, but Catwoman would appear and was actually “very strange”.
Portals to Hell by hrmphfft
marchqueen
IT’S BACK
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS AGAIN FOR MONTHS
I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW
2ndratehandjob
ITS BACK
This is one of those posts that you need to save and tag or you’ll never see it again for 84 years.
You got that right
I’m crying
New portal just opened
I found the Cursed Post. With the Lil Nas X edition.
Carnage: Black, White, & Blood #3 - “Sea of Blood” (2021)
written by Karla Pacheco art by Chris Mooneyham & Mattia Iacono
X-Men: Curse of the Man-Thing #1 (2021)
written by Steve Orlando art by Andrea Broccardo & Guru-eFX
Suicide Squad #3 - “Need for Speed” (2021)
written by Robbie Thompson art by Eduardo Pansica, Julio Ferreira, & Marcelo Maiolo
For the people asking: I know this looks edited but it really isn’t
do some fun questions and find out what member of the batfamily you are :D
(no lyric questions dw lol)
X-Men: Battle of the Atom #2 (2013)
written by Jason Aaron, Brian Wood, & Brian Michael Bendis art by Esad Ribic, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Andrew Currie, Tom Palmer, Ive Svorcina, Andres Mossa, Guru-eFX, Matt Milla, Kristopher Anka, Chris Bachalo, Mark Irwin, Victor Olazaba, Stuart Immonen, & Wade von Grawbadger
this movie is so fucking creepy jesus fuck
tripster-and-the-mad-hatter
It’s by Tim Burton, what did you honestly expect?
Actually, it’s Henry Selick, who was the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The book was written by Neil Gaiman, though, and is far…far….worse.
Sorry, I’m about to geek the hell out.
The movie is captivating, but the book is twenty kinds of terrifying, even now, ten years after I first read it. As disturbing as the movie may have been to some, the things Selick added really serve to cushion just how horrific the story really is.
First of all, the character of Wybie does not exist in the book. Coraline is facing all of this nearly alone, with her only help coming from the sly comments of the cat, a warning from the circus mice, and the stone given to her by her neighbor, presented with no comment but that it “makes the unseen seen.”
Second, the Other Parents are never quite as warm (and, dare I say, normal) as they are in the gifs above. They’re described as having paper-white skin and the Other Mother’s hair is said to move on its own, and her long, red, claw-like nails don’t ease any uncertainty that she is absolutely, positively up to no good. The first time Coraline meets them, they (and the rest of the Others) seem to be playing roles (for whatever reason, Coraline does not seem to pick up on this), like they all know what to say and what to do and are simply waiting for Coraline to make her move in their terrifying play world. This is shown to be partly true when the Other Parents tell her they know she’ll be back soon after she refuses the buttons - this time, to stay.
Third, the Other Mother commits atrocities that really should not have been in a book for anyone not fully grown up. She physically deforms the world around Coraline to slow her progress in their game beyond any mild traps the movie portrays, and, instead of turning the Other Father into the wandering pumpkin-thing seen in the film, she simply ceases to use him and throws his body away in the cellar, leaving him to rot with whatever bit of sentience he has left. She begins to lose her touch, as Coraline gains the upper hand. Her world doesn’t just become a nightmare - it falls apart completely. No creepy but oddly cool bug furniture here, just the house that now appears to be a child’s drawing. Whatever the Other Mother is (a beldame, but something tells me she’s much more ancient and powerful than that), she does not give half a hump about what she has to do to ensnare Coraline. Destroy the supporting characters of her twisted creation? Done. Allow herself to be dismembered to ruin Coraline’s life in the normal world? Not even gonna bat an eyelash.
On a final, personal note, imagine eight year-old me, ignored by my parents, absorbed in the story and identifying with Coraline from the start. Imagine me finishing this bloodcurdling book and immediately thinking of my basement, where there is still a locked door that my grandmother swears up and down is nothing more than a storage room, but has not once in my (or my mother’s) lifetime unlocked.
Can you see why this book still scares me?
Fun fact I learned from seeing neil gaiman speak: when he first wanted the book published, his editor said it was too scary. He suggested she read it to her young daughter, and then decide. So she did, and her daughter wasn’t afraid, and it was published. Years later, Gaiman was sitting next to that daughter at an event and told her this story, and she said “oh I was terrified I just didn’t want to tell my mom”.
Coraline WAS too scary to be published, but exists anyway because a girl lied to her mother.
@neil-gaiman, is this true about the publisher’s daughter?
It was my literary agent, Merrilee Heifetz who read it and said “you can’t seriously expect this to be published as a children’s book.” So I suggested she read it to her daughters. And she called me back a week later and said “They love it and they weren’t scared at all. I’ll take it to Harper Children’s.”
A decade later, at the Opening Night of the Coraline musical, I was sitting next to Morgan, Merilee’s youngest daughter, and told her how her not being scared had made the book happen. And she said “I was terrified. But I needed to find out what happened next. So nobody knew.”
So, yes.
Wolverine has a pretty bad ass fight against the Black Blade possessed Jessica Drew, where he first catches the blade right in his latissimus dorsi and then catches the blade in his bare hand before ripping it away from her. Man that would smart so bad!! I’ve watched characters catch swords like this so many times in movies and comic books that I think it might be my reflex if anyone ever starts swinging a sword at me. Jesus that’s going to smart when that happens. Anyway, when Wolverine rips the sword out of Jessica’s hands, her possession transfers over to him, and now we’ve got a serious problem on our hands. (Wolverine Vol. 2 #2 – Dec 1988)
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Secret Recipes To Try At Home
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Here are the instructions since people keep asking!
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This is the best shit I’ve seen all week
