Just Flinging Arrows

faokryn:

　Apparently, today is “If you have a chance, you have to kill Hitler” day.

Homestuck

XKCD

You missed one:
http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/2012/06/01/06012012/
Spinnerette. Fairly close, it’s the death of planned clone Hitler.

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The Hulk is explaining empathy. This is too perfect.

dcu:

Marvel at Midnight

At first I was like, I won’t post this, it’s possibly a spoiler. Then I saw it literally everywhere, so I figure I’m good to post. I’m sure it will be in the trailers, but I have no clue how this will play out in the movie or who Iron Patriot is…

Literally the son of Steve and Tony. Duh.

Clothing catalog told me cotton candy colors are in this season. Seeing this as a verification of my OTP.

gailsimone:

letgrillbegrill:

Birds of Prey #57 (Gail Simone)
I cannot get over how much I love this damn comic. 

This arc was my first DC work. I had always loved the Black Canary, but as a female reader, I’m sure many of the male writers who had worked on her had no idea how painful it was to see her written as no more than a hostage SO often.

And she was always a wet blanket, Green Arrow’s Jiminy Cricket (until Birds of Prey and a few scattered appearances elsewhere). It used to just drive me crazy. But the hostage thing was the worst, it just killed me. They were always, always trying to make her an object, someone who needed rescuing. It was very frustrating.

So I thought, let’s break this stupid trope. Let’s destroy it and bury it and pee on the grave.

The idea was, have her get taken one last time. But the entire story, even in handcuffs, even with two broken legs in casts, she is the one making things happen, she manipulates and controls her captors, she has all the real power.

And then when it’s time to break out, she does it so hardcore that Green Arrow would pee his pants thinking about it.

I loved that. And OH MY GOD did we get hate mail those first two issues. People were sure I was betraying the character and my gender and all that stuff. The third and fourth issues showed where were were going and announced that Black Canary was no longer available for mushy sidekick and dishrag roles. The fun thing was, suddenly every book wanted to use her, wanted her to guest star. Other writers wanted to do guest issues of Bop. It made a big difference.

In a way, the success of rebadassing Black Canary led to the downfall of Bop…because she became popular and tough enough that the powers that be decided she should lead the JLA, and I had to let her go. But I got a rep as someone who could ‘rehabilitate’ characters and that’s been kind of a fun element to my career as well.

Sure enough, in her very first appearances outside of Bop, they made her a hostage again in the goofiest scene ever.

Sigh.

When I first started reading Birds of Prey, I found a big stack at my local comic shop and bought them all. This comic was one of those, and I loved this scene. This issue renewed my love of comics, the writing was perfect.

Harder than I remember. Tumblr is so much more work now that I’m involved in it.

dcwomenkickingass:

The voice cast for the upcoming animated feature The Dark Knight Returns has been announced and the star of top rated TV comedy has won the role of Carrie Kelly as seen here in this artwork (Peter Weller is voicing the Dark Knight).

So who is it? Click away!

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Anyone else upset that Kevin Conroy isn’t playing Batman? When I picture Bats I imagine his voice, it’s weird with someone else in the role.

Target launches pride apparel line

gaywrites:

The Target Corporation has just launched a line of rainbow-studded t-shirts supporting gay pride season, aiming to donate up to $120,000 of the proceeds to the pro-gay Family Equality Council. 

This may come as a shock to many gay rights activists, who remember Target sadly for its past contributions to MN Forward, a group that supported anti-gay political candidate Tom Emmer. However, Target also gets consistently high rankings on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, and it’s a sponsor of Minneapolis-area Pride events. 

“Target is not anti-gay,” Michael Francis, Target’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, told The Los Angeles Times. “It’s important to set the record straight and provide some context.”

The shirts are apparently only available online and through the month of June. Get yours here. And in the meantime, what do you think about this? Is it a change of heart, or has Target always been allied?

This is pretty cool. One upsetting bit, why is there only one shirt design for women? Queer girls have pride too!