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Gonna test something actually

Busiek just gets Clark the way so few writers do. Like I don't think any writer within the last 20 years just short of Morrison and Yang have truly made Clark click to me like he did.

I dunno if it's just the smaller follower count but I swear some of my posts get way less traction than on Twitter

But that man's face? Something so eerily familiar. That nose, that chin, that hair. He recognises that man. That man who activated the machine. His executioner. Something beckons him to show him the horrors he unleashed. Unknowingly punished Kal-El to the sins of his father.

It doesn't matter when you entered. Decades, centuries after his imprisonment. The Phantom Zone doesn't understand time. All it knows is that this man has been subject to ever mutation and twisted his every cell. Punished for his twisted crimes, after a millennia, he's forgotten everything.

But if you're truly unlucky, you'll see a figure over the hill. One that's very real, and approaching. It looks humanoid, but it's limbs are too long. It's knees bend at the wrong angle. It's features, don't make sense. Adorned in bandages and a tattered red cloack: The Phantom King.

The dimension is cast with a looming sense of paranoia. The winds sound like screams, in every fog and reflective lake you'd swear you'd have seen eyes. Silhouettes fading in and out of view. It's like a terrible nightmare, except its not your dream.

The Zone itself is a place that could drive even the strongest of wills mad. It's a realm cast in monochrome, caught in an eternal storm. Its physics incomprehensible as landmasses drift apart and through each other, mass has no concept. Motion has no rules.

The Phantom Zone Projector is the Kryptonian Atom Bomb. A device that taps into a power man should never have had access to. Harnessing an eldritch power for utilitarian purposes, its what happens when you undermine an authority. They'll do anything to show who's in charge.

Seriously this is so fuckin lame. How do you take a lovecraftian being who's very consciousness is the Phantom Zone and turn it into another boring megalomaniacal overlord.

I know Waid said the election would worsen his writing but this is ridiculously quick

The only way I even remember that he was part of the Golden Age was because Johns made him a seperate character that hasn't actually had a proper appearance

Way less qualified than the previous guy but is still a great hero.

Eric is funny as Black Ant and I genuinely couldn't tell you anything about the other one

I'm not all that familiar with their comics so I'm going strictly off of conceptually and adaptations.

I've gained a recent liking for Hank thanks to Ultimates and think he's a great part of the team.

Scott is my favourite kind of legacy character where he has no business being here and is 1/2

I mean sure, can't guarantee I'll get to reading it soon but it'll be good to have

Think it'd be cool to read through his entire history chronologically because he's the only one of the main 6 I've basically read zero comics for

post your most popular art from twitter

i honestly didn’t think these two would go anywhere

I have read a bit of Claremont but like it just seems like such a massive read I have neither the time, nor interest to commit to

Wes Craig, Dike Ruan, DWJ and Marco Checchetto

I think JSA because he just has more stories there to be told. Khandaq was a great part of his character, but it's not the endpoint.

Swan Songs is one of my favourite comics of all time, Arcade Kings is a really simple but fun story and Deadly Class is just a phenomenal book.

Simone put me off slightly after I saw the FCBD special with the whole "they missed one slur" thing

I was considering starting Uncanny X-Men, but I never got around to it. X-Men still feels impenetrable to me no matter how many times I try to get into it

Comics AMA

Watched Dragon Ball Z Kai as a kid which was definitely the root, but then got into MHA and JoJos around 2018 and then properly started watching stuff when the pandemic hit

This story's got a cool classic myth structure where Diana has to fetch an ancient item in order to save Themyscira (from aliens but that's aside the point) and faces the typical trials and tribulations. It's fun.

I'm not a fan of Silver Age Wonder Woman because the front half of it is just Wonder Tot, Wonder Girl stuff which I'm not a fan of, and then the latter half is the super-spy stuff which I'm REALLY not a fan of but there is a handful of gems in there

The reds a little much I think. Also the gloves confuse me because (probably a colouring issue) ones a red fingerless glove with a cuff and the other is just the cuff

Show your comic taste with 4 different comics

*Gerads