slowest draw in the west

hello. hi.

about of me: adult human of various nebulous flavors. i like art and stories and media and the internet.
about of blog: posting counterpart to @weirdsnail (my main/reblog blog). mostly stuff i made and fandom blogging, except when it’s not.
expect a pinball approach to fandoms/topics here, though superheroes do come up often.
i do not guarantee consistent tagging of anything outside of my tagging system (including content warnings, unfortunately).
follow or unfollow whenever you want. it’s OK to tag my posts as whatever. et cetera, et cetera. go forth, have fun.
i am inconsistent about checking my notes, so i may not notice any form of interaction in a timely way >_>
my avatar is from betty boop concept art, my main desktop theme background is from supertux, the corner halbarry is yoinked and edited from justice league of america (1960) #3, and my header image is a picture i took of a bubsy pin.

crop of teeny tiny atom standing on green lantern's shoulder with little lines radiating off him

quite adore The Atom’s Special Emanata employed to highlight him when he might otherwise be too small to notice

panel of jonathan crane brandishing a gun in his classroom as he says "now you see what the gun can do! it can destroy! before-- you only guessed what it could do. now that you have seen its destructive power-- you are even more afraid! simple psychology, gentlemen--" meanwhile, a student gawps in shock and dismay in the foreground.

now surely his villain origin story is that he got super mega fired for doing this.

MS paint doodle of a dog with petals around its neck and the text "a dog who is a flower"

looking at various owlman and power ring image search results, and it’s kinda interesting that the former’s designs get better while the latter’s actually get less appealing to me. i mean, the first part isn’t surprising because. there is nowhere to go but up.

collage of owlman images. a full body image of him showing that he looks like silver age blue batman but with an orangish brown owl cowl that doesn't even cover his face. a closeup image of his face where his cowl covers his eyes but its own big stupid eyes are higher than where his real eyes would be. (this one is labeled "i hate him.") and a more modern take on owlman that is completely gray and black and has a cowl like batman's but just sculpted to look more like owl tufts and with round lenses over his eyes.

taking batman’s extremely bat-based costume and just removing the logo and swapping out the cowl with a googly-eyed helm that doesn’t match the color palette of the rest of his design at all even a little bit vs. a clear concept of “what if you made batman more owl-shaped” but, like, cohesively. cohesively.

but then these later power rings i am seeing are watered down wrt what i like about the original design.

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the mask is more sensible because of a “mirrored rhombuses” shape that keeps the harsh angles while also giving his eyes space to actually exist on his face.

but the rest is a duller kind of dulling… the receding of the black from the palette so that it goes from sleek, super dark green to painfully monochrome with even less black than regular green lantern’s costume…

and i didn’t show it much in the above images, but even the logo tends to get rounded to a sort of butterfly or even clover shape? which, not that i’m big attached to the original logo, it’s pretty generic, but making it so squishy is a strange choice for “evil bad guy version of hero character”

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at least john stewart’s power ring looks pretty cromulent…

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drawing of owlman and power ring from the crime syndicate of america. owlman has his face resting on his hand in an extremely smug way. power ring stands behind him with a tiny face.

hateful

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"command bar settings" window in clip studio paint. dropdown is set to "options," and the "drawing color" submenu is open, with "switch to main color" selected.

oh my god, i finally found this. thank you korean clip studio forum post that i’m only 80% sure depicts this because the auto-translate doesn’t apply to screenshots but helped me get here anyway.

doodle of supergirl and brainiac 5 holding hands and smiling and blushing and in the background is a sad little merboy blob labeled "i don't remember what jerro looks like"

jazzgard:

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screencap of superman splatted face down on the ground as a volcano erupts around him

two panel MS paint comic. lex luthor says, "ive got you now, superman!!!" superman replies, "no you don't!"

photo of a duck captioned "A mallard, shown looking like a duck and swimming like a duck."

shitty MS paint doodle of the flash running and the words "so fast" above with a million jillion O's in the "so" and he's running on a green scribble with a label below that says "no shoes because running on GL made road and not because i didnt feel like switching to yellow to draw his shoes. deifnitely the first thing."

MS paint doodle of supergirl using her heat vision

i like reading scans with the original ads and bonus bits because it’s fun for immersion in the historical context, but it is also dangerous because their cross-promotion of simultaneous and “upcoming” comics works on me too often.

these old comics sure love the word “spurt”

a previous iteration of my supey wiki had two pages titled “Superhero Comics Are Bad, Actually” and “Superhero Comics Are Good, Actually” where i would put screenshots of stuff i came across. e.g.:

text excerpt: While at the edge of death, Garth saw Tula and begged to join her in the Great Beyond, but was instead revived by Tusky the walrus.