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𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑰𝒏𝒏

it’s such a delight to see everyone’s reactions to dc’s first pride special and all the good reviews coming in because its immensely well-deserved all around but i’ve been a little underwhelmed by the reactions specifically to the alan scott story and confused by no one acknowledging its immense significance. i’m obviously a huge huge alan fan and i’ve read every single one of his appearances, as well as a firm believer of him having been gaycoded since the days of all-american comics (1939), and i can finally say that his story in the pride special is everything i’ve ever wanted to see & everything i never thought we’d get

alan scott is a complicated man with a complicated history that has been gravely sanitized and reduced in recent years, infinite frontier (2021) #0 was disappointing for that exact reason – as much as it accomplished its goals of establishing alan as gay (not bisexual, not  “queer”, not anything meaningless nor ambiguous) and closeted for the past eighty-something years, it presented too much of a reader-friendly version of him that does not truly exist elsewhere. on the other hand, sam johns & klaus janson create a literally impeccable narrative in he’s the light of my life and bring the entire special to a whole new level of storytelling. they present the real alan scott.

the story might easily be the bravest, most meaningful and significant thing dc’s ever put out there and that operates on two levels. there is, as always, the importance of alan scott – the original 1940s green lantern, the first bearer of a name that’s just second to dc’s trinity in terms of renown, a legacy character – being gay. this isn’t an oc created in the past year, this is the culmination of literal decades.

but, if not more then equally important, there’s the acknowledgement of the lifetime of fear alan’s lived through. we get the heartfelt story of his time with jimmy henton, his first love

and the immensity of a brush of a hand in a time of impossibility

but we also get something that has never before been shown in a mainstream comic book. a gay man who grew up and lived in the 30s and 40s shares his history of fear, deeply ingrained fear, for the first time in his life with his gay son

(”it was a bar for, uh, confirmed bachelors. you know, men… like us”)

(”they claimed we had corrupted moral fiber and they made us criminals to prove it”)

the reality of this, the explicitly worded reality of it, blew me away on a first read and still does. this isn’t a sad story – todd, alan’s son, is happy with his longtime boyfriend and goes to pride and does not live with the terror his father did – but the acknowledgement of what’s outright generational trauma resonates loudly and is necessary, it’s our history as much as alan’s. there’s a habit in modern lgbt comics to ignore What Came Before or to pretend coming out is always a possibility and never a matter of survival

(”at the time i did what i thought i needed to survive”)

alan scott’s story in dc’s pride special dares for a more complex narrative but one that has been sorely missing so far and the objective significance of that can’t be ignored

Something I never see mentioned here so maybe y'all don't know and I really need y'all to know: the stunning, queer, Black af, always booked and busy, Franchesca Ramsey -who you absolutely know (even you don't know you know) if you've been on the internet for at least ten years- is a writer and executive producer on the iCarly revival. She's HEAVILY involved.

oh hiiiiiii

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Iceman 2017 Issue #7 page 16. Art by Robert Gill

So this one was a doozy, I wasn’t even sure how I was going to approach this for a bit. I decided that the main point of this panel was to show off just how BIG Warren’s wings were. So when doing the redlines here I wanted to keep that idea in mind.

The first major correction here is the most important, I fixed the anatomy on poor Warren’s wings. His joints were all messed up. Feather layers were non-existent  and the guy suffers from that same weird skeletal bone thing that Sky had in the previous correction.

Bird wings are homologous to human arms. They have a shoulder, elbow and wrist, same as our arm. They also have digits but they’re fused at the end of the wing. In a lot of ways the first five or six primaries can act like “fingers” if you really need to emote a wing with a hand like gesture.

Keeping in mind that wings and arms are the same structure wise note that anything you can’t do with your arm, you also wouldn’t be able to do with a wing. (Wings have some restrictions arms don’t, mostly in how the wrist is allowed to bend but that’s not for this discussion)

Warren’s “elbow” here is bent in the completely wrong direction on both wings. He wouldn’t be able to use this wing, or properly fold it, ever. And that’s a pretty big problem. There also looks like there’s a strange joint in the middle of his primaries, or what I’m guessing are supposed to be his primaries… Lets just, remove that shall we?

Like most of the pictures I have saved here, feather layers are ignored completely. Most wings from the front will have three main layers of feathers, lessor coverts, greater coverts and then the flights. Flight feathers are the primaries and the secondaries, the primaries are the “finger” like flights and the secondaries are the rest. The usual point of differentiation for them is the wrist. Everything below the wrist will be secondaries. The back of the wings have more layers, including the alula, median coverts and then primary and secondary coverts. Many birds have four or five distinct feather layers on the back depending on the wing type.

I gave Warren the correct number of feather layers. Already that makes a huge improvement for how they look. Next up was the posing. Because the original had such terrible anatomy it was hard to keep it exactly the same. I opted to extend Warren’s right wing all the way out to showcase how big it was in this small room. For the left wing I did two poses, the first was trying to keep with how the original had the feathers bending on the floor. I had the wing come forward at the wrist and let the primaries drag. Feathers can indeed bend like this, they’re more flexible than one might think. The second pose I decided to just have him partially fold the left wing up. One could also draw a tighter closed wing, if he was moved slightly more to the left of the room, or if there was a more clear indication of where the other wall was, to really give the idea of a small, cramped, dorm type room.

He could also pose them like this which would be hilarious. Drop the elbow down ever further than I did and then tuck the primaries in to the back, horizontally. I was very tempted to do this with his left wing. I still might draw it in a different post.

Hellions #3 - “Nothing People” (2020)

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With IT part 2

Mob Psycho 100 poster from the Japanese magazine PASH!

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best cops buddies and i still don’t care about the whole game

Oremus Maius (2016) - Day 031

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