Disconnect That Wire!

DC Vs. Vampires: All-Out War #5 (2022)

written by Alex Paknadel & Matthew Rosenberg art by Pasquale Qualano, Francesco Mortarino, & Nicola Right

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Happy birthday to our favorite duck/superhero/dad!!!

the first appearance of drake mallard in ducktales 2017!

Darkwing Duck leak, my beloved.

I like the fact that while everyone is lying that they noticed his absence and were looking for him; Louie is keeping quiet and is enjoying the hug with his uncle that he hasn't seen in months.

This is why among the children, our little emerald will always have a special place in my heart. 🥺✨💖

Press X to Doubt

(From Ducktales 2017 - S2E24 “Moonvasion!”)

New chapter is up!

Summary:

Dick is furious!

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it’s very interesting to me that even in billys peak years mingling in teams during postcrisis he doesn’t 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 he’d 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 adam’s 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 didn’t 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 wasn’t 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. he’s been on nearly every team. it’s just very noticeable and telling to me that after all this, ALL of it, there’s 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 “x hero is known to be best friends/relies on with y hero for a period in their comic history”. I don’t think i can name even one outstanding, consistent relationship like that? and obvs aside from clark bc dc’s 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 he’s been relegated to this “bridge between worlds” role which also means he’s 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 “More than anyone who ever existed, you know what it’s like to live in both worlds.” @ 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. he’ll just never get it the way he imagines.

I’m cringing soo much right now. This promo is soo beautiful and I’m soo exited!

IT’S BEEN OVER A YEAR SINCE WE’VE SEEN HIM. 

(WATCH PROMO)

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 couldn’t stop, it was so bad that Shazam/Billy tried begging the Egyptian Gods to take Black Adam’s powers away from him, which they refused, so instead he made a deal with them to change the word “SHAZAM!” 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 wouldn’t be able to access them, since he doesn’t 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 went “say, the kid next to me is sure drinking a delicious-looking smoothie, can I please have one of those….ah….chocolate egg creams?” then suddenly transformed back to his immortal body for the fist time in forever?

I won't say!!!

Yess, this AU is too perfect.

Now, Zero to Hero and the collection could be complete 🤩

A quick continuation (edit: to this)

Bonus:

Della and Selene play the muses, but they’re actually just dressed as statues and following everyone around.