Dick is furious!
Darkwing Duck leak, my beloved.
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G1 Transformers becomes a lot more unsettling to watch when you take into consideration that all the animation errors are canon.
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Itās been a while, literallyā¦
Sorry about that. Working in 3 jobs is not a joke, and exhausting. But now I'm back to two jobs and have more time for myself in the afternoons š¤
Hopefully, I will come back to writing and other things
See you soon āļøš½
This is easily one of my favorite comic moments of all time.
After his wife and brother-in-law (who really was more like his own son) have been brutally murdered, Black Adam went on this terrifying rampage that even the entire JSA couldnāt stop, it was so bad that Shazam/Billy tried begging the Egyptian Gods to take Black Adamās powers away from him, which they refused, so instead he made a deal with them to change the wordĀ āSHAZAM!ā that he and Black Adam use to transform into a new secret word that only Billy knows.
That way Black Adam gets to keep his powers, but he simply wouldnāt be able to access them, since he doesnāt know what word he needs to shout and how could he? It can literally be any word in existence?!?
So imagine his shock, when one day the powerful and ancient ruler of Khandaq, decided to sit at a random dinner (after a long hard journey across the world, which would have been a lot more easier on him if he had his powers) and basically wentĀ āsay, the kid next to me is sure drinking a delicious-looking smoothie, can I please have one of thoseā¦.ahā¦.chocolate egg creams?ā then suddenly transformed back to his immortal body for the fist time in forever?
itās very interesting to me that even in billys peak years mingling in teams during postcrisis he doesnāt necessarily have much strong reoccurring bonds with characters outside fawcett. like aside from the trinity who do crop up once in a while - not often bruce and diana even less - I think a lot of writing back then unconsciously or consciously wrote him out to be The Outlier in whatever team heād be in. jla was that culmination of him being team friendly, where everybody listened to him but only because he brought things to the table that were clearly different from what others were experiencing. and jsa was a step deeper and further at the same time bc of courtney and adamās role in the team. he was the one set aside there too, something clearly temporary like a bodyguard/limited time role, and even the courtney arc didnāt ground him like how that normally would for a char. jli, like the og jli, he was ⦠well if we took that spot for him seriously he also wasnāt ever fully dissolved into that team either, seemingly of his own rejection of assimilating.
cap marvel was in every event and crisis. everybody knows him, likes him. heās been on nearly every team. itās just very noticeable and telling to me that after all this, ALL of it, thereās no ties that bind him to really any dc char as strongly as many established characters have with each other a la teen titans or trinity or even just basic āx hero is known to be best friends/relies on with y hero for a period in their comic historyā. I donāt think i can name even one outstanding, consistent relationship like that? and obvs aside from clark bc dcās inevitable comparison games w them complicates how organic their bond can get to me. just. ok. even if cap marvel has his family freddy for most of his appearances in postcrisis was actively establishing his own existence as an individual hero in other teams and outside of their own comics you never saw mary and billy teaming up during many crises. in this case and maybe all of it is a writing gap at best.
but altogether the full read is just. cap marvel/billy is meant to be unable to really connect fully with other people on this plane, possibly because heās been relegated to this ābridge between worldsā role which also means heās 50% here and 50% gone, which notoriously is a bad sign for fully integrating into a single world. rmr in kingdom come when supes said āMore than anyone who ever existed, you know what itās like to live in both worlds.ā @ billy? i feel that comes at the cost of being able to connect with anyone fully and wholly then, in either of his forms. which hurts im sure, since connections are all he ever wants. heāll just never get it the way he imagines.
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āTell me more, mom!ā She begged with a dream twinkle in her eyes, hugging her favorite book.
āOf course, sweetheart.ā replied Beakley with a small smile, happy to see her daughter's excitement.