A drawing of Superman against a sunrise, or sunset, your choice.
Wanted to do something for fun today, and felt like drawing Superman. Playing around with focus and a new palette.
honestly, using money as a store of value is pretty ingenious if you have the power to safeguard money (as kingdoms do)
#MyAdventuresWithSuperman #Superman #dccomics
old hollywood movies had a lot of verbal sparring that I think is an ancestor of quipping, and I still do enjoy quipping when done well
but it's gotten a whole lot worse recently
there are also people in my own "tribe" who I don't agree with foundationally but there is more common ground
this *is* what "don't let perfect be the enemy of the good" looks like
sometimes the things people tell you are good, just. aren't.
I also don't like the tribalistic nature of politics but the fact remains that there are people in the opposing "tribes" who I disagree with foundationally, about what is good, evil, the value of human life, who counts as human, and so on
the only thing I really want from a comic book writer is for them to be decent at their job, and most of the big names aren't
chris claremont is not, mark millar is not, frank miller is not, tomasi and cates are hit or miss...
sometimes you're full of shit, as much as everyone is
having high standards is all well and good but i fear sometimes you will take a position that makes no sense just because it serves a different position you also hold
at my cousin's wedding
i think i like herman's hermits more than the beatles
the funniest outcome to DOGE would be that the boer keeps sending out these recommendations but trump just does none of it, which leads the boer to declare war on the literal president of the united states like a jilted lover
as a kid i hated caesar salad, now as an adult i think it's great
in retrospect, i knew we would no longer be friends because they would say "hugs" and "e-hugs" and i would say "please don't touch me"
like they were becoming too repulsive to me to even consider imagining touching
i usually don't mind when friends say that, but not huge pieces of shit
fascists watch star wars and think they're the resistance
a nazi could read the torah and think he was god's chosen people and the folks in the camps the canaanites
it's like being colorblind: they just don't think like us, they can't see what we see
but you can't celebrate mediocrity, because nobody can, mediocrity is boring, it resists even being talked about
keep your idols, but don't pretend they aren't
if you really honestly truly loved and admired normal people, common people, you would celebrate mediocrity
the art that common people create tends towards mediocre, and I'm including myself in that group
because they don't have the money and/or connections for formal/informal training
the conqueror doesn't have the rubicon crossed on them, *they* cross the rubicon *so they can conquer*
the thing about ian miles cheong is that whenever he says shit like this, he wants to say that he and his kind are like julius caesar, but what he's *actually* saying is that he and his kind are like pompey and the senate, fleeing rome in fear
the rubicon has been crossed
did you hear? we can't go back now, we're past the point of no return
because
the
rubicon
has
been
crossed
and it's all well and good to be wary of people who want to "retvrn" to some golden age, but we should also be wary of people who want to *create* the golden age in the future
because they are all our enemies
ultimately these terms are imperfect descriptions of our complex reality, terms that break down really quickly in deeper discourse (to say nothing of fitting it into a wider historical context)
it's important to remember that the nazis were centrists (positioned between monarchists and communists) and the italian fascists were progressive (focused on destroying the antiquated past and creating the future)
i use these terms descriptively, and neither in glowing nor derogatory fashion
when i die, don't let them print in the newspaper that i was mad
the shape of the planet is real (and a sphere) but ultimately irrelevant to most of us and what we do as a trade or calling
the earth is round but my world is flat
and by that I mean is that it is so big that it seems flat down here, so we live as if it is flat
tables do not have two legs of one length and two of another to stand on a curve, they have four legs of equal length to stand on a flat surface
when it's done
I'm actually going to put the scrapped guys in the villain team
