DC recs/shoutout post!

please share any of your under appreciated/you just want to rant about them faves here (comics runs, arcs, events, characters, concepts, etc.)

I’ll go first. You all are sleeping on Hartley Rathaway aka Pied Piper. He’s one of dc’s first openly gay characters and he’s a redeemed villain turned leftist king as well as the best friend of Wally West and Linda Park. You can find out more about him in the Messner-Loebs and Mark Waid flash run.

Also Damon Matthews and Todd Rice (aka obsidian) are such an underrated couple from the Kate Spencer Manhunter run and Todd Rice is an angsty mentally ill gay man with show powers and both mummy and daddy issues. He should be doing numbers on tumblr.

Jennie-Lynn Hayden aka Jade

Todd Rice aka Obsidian

Combat training with Ted Grant (aka wildcat).

quote from Schitts Creek

Feel like pure shit, just want Damon Matthews back

Shout out to Alan Scott for somehow being one of DC's most iconic gay characters and on of DC's most iconic homophobic characters. No one else is doing it like him.

In honour of the upcoming spooky season I combined my two favourite old men with lanterns, Alan Scott and the Woodsman from Over The Garden Wall

Ted Grant aka Wildcat

At this point JSA/Infinity Inc really has to be written by anyone with vague sensitivity in regard to writing mental illnesses (and in particular psychosis) and who will at least try to depict mentally ill characters is a respectful and non-ableist way.

Okay I've thought a lot about how I would do the Tom King Best of the Best style Black Canary vs. Shiva fight (whilst keeping as much of the original idea in tact).

Main thing is that I would change the training line up. In his version you have Wildcat (Ted Grant), the original Black Canary (Dinah Drake), and Batman training her. And while I love her JSA links getting a shout out I have no idea why Batman is there except for the fact that both King and DC think Batman has to be everywhere.

If I was to redo it I would have the lineup instead be:

So partially this is just because Connor Hawke and Cassandra Cain are two of the best hand-to-hand fighters in the DC universe who have previously and fought and held their own against Lady Shiva.

But also they also have more thematic significance. Along with Grant and Drake represent the key superhero groups that Dinah has been part of and shaped throughout her superhero career. Drake and Grant representing the JSA who raised her. Connor Hawke representing the Arrow Family she shaped. And Cassandra Cain representing the Birds of Prey she co-founded and her future as a hero.

(She has also been JLA/JLI and you could fit Batman in for that, but I would argue that she is the premiere hand-to-hand fighter of the main JLA cast over him)

Not only does this provide a good showcase of different chapters Dinah's story, but it also highlights the importance of her role in the DC universe as a teammate and often a team leader. Also it allows the people whose lives and heroic careers she's shaped to support her in her literal fight for the top billing as a solo act as she strives to become DC's Best of the Best.