oh my god i hope he only saw the sfw version

May 2, 2016 10:42 AM

How did Superman even find my Deviantart? (SL Imgur album)
posted by Uncle Ira (27 comments total)

if there's not an entire Detective Comics arc where Robin plays Minecraft in the background I call shenanigans
posted by beerperson at 10:49 AM on May 2, 2016 [11 favorites]

I was like "how did I find this crazy thing" and then I realized I got there from here!
posted by grobstein at 10:57 AM on May 2, 2016 [2 favorites]

This is my new favorite superman story
posted by The Whelk at 10:59 AM on May 2, 2016 [8 favorites]

Wait, is Jimmy Olsen's Boyfriend Kyle actually a canonical DC character?
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:02 AM on May 2, 2016

This is brilliant and I love it.
posted by The Man from Lardfork at 11:11 AM on May 2, 2016

Ha, that was great. I'd love to see DC support someone tackling this as an actual book, even—imagine a cape comic story told through the lens of a hectic, style-swapping series of one-offs and pinups and splashes with all the dialogue disarmed and deconstructive but also critical commentary interjected by the characters as marginalia.
posted by cortex at 11:15 AM on May 2, 2016 [1 favorite]

I'm reading it as Kyle Rayner tbh

But he obviously isn't personally acquainted with the heroes he draws, so I guess this must be a universe in which Rayner hasn't been inducted into the Corps and then the League?
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:18 AM on May 2, 2016 [1 favorite]

OK, where is the tumblr? Where is the deviantart? Asking for a friend.
posted by adamrice at 11:27 AM on May 2, 2016 [6 favorites]

this is amazing. thank you.
posted by needlegrrl at 11:35 AM on May 2, 2016

I'm always FASINCATED by superhero stories that place them in a modern media context, like this, like I'd want an entire book just following the PR person for a superhero or thier media manager.
posted by The Whelk at 11:37 AM on May 2, 2016 [5 favorites]

"i am going to cry superman hates me" may be my status message from now on.
posted by GenjiandProust at 11:38 AM on May 2, 2016 [3 favorites]

you know I love you, but Robin and I share the the bond of two men who have been tied up in a warehouse together waiting for two other, different men

Huh. Until this very moment, I did not realize how desperately I was in need of this descriptor.
posted by Mayor West at 11:39 AM on May 2, 2016 [15 favorites]

[EDITOR'S NOTE: THIS STORY TAKES PLACE BETWEEN WORLD'S FINEST #141 AND GREEN LANTERN #48 (VOL 3)]
posted by straight at 11:43 AM on May 2, 2016 [16 favorites]

The whole thing is fantastic but just the handle "weedhorse69" makes it special.

I'm reading it as Kyle Rayner tbh


Well, thanks, now I am too, which opens me up to wanting to do a whole other search of real deviantart that I'm not about to do from work.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:44 AM on May 2, 2016 [1 favorite]

So wait, someone who reads Batman please answer, does he play the violin??
posted by ejs at 12:04 PM on May 2, 2016

That was delightful.
posted by mogget at 12:16 PM on May 2, 2016

Source. Same author, previously.
posted by Krom Tatman at 12:21 PM on May 2, 2016 [8 favorites]

Thumbs up.

If anyone has any screencaps of the time Guy Gardner's YouTube comment section flameout, I'd like to see them too.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 12:22 PM on May 2, 2016 [2 favorites]

If it becomes necessary to the plot of the book for Batman to outwit a villain or solve a crime by knowing how to playing the violin, Batman knows how to play the violin. The fact that googling shows no evidence for this just means that (a) it's a trick that's still up his sleeve and/or (b) it's a pretty nice little Sherlock Holmes reference.

Does seem like the sort of thing pre-orphan Bruce might have been forced to learn a bit of. But I think I prefer the idea of adult Bats deciding to learn from scratch in a burst of just and vigilant anger, just sawing on cats down in The Cave while Alfred keeps his earbuds in and polishes the silver.
posted by cortex at 12:26 PM on May 2, 2016 [8 favorites]

Yeah, I mostly read the violin thing as a Sherlock Holmes riff, too. Which was amazing. Of course Batman would play the violin. He's Batman.
posted by Joey Michaels at 12:32 PM on May 2, 2016 [1 favorite]

Also: Cocaine addict.
posted by Joey Michaels at 12:32 PM on May 2, 2016 [3 favorites]

What are the chances that Weedhorse69's real name is Rick?
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 1:18 PM on May 2, 2016 [2 favorites]

"Aquaman would get the bass, which he swears is not for pun reasons."

I love this.
posted by Kevin Street at 2:16 PM on May 2, 2016 [2 favorites]

I'm always FASINCATED by superhero stories that place them in a modern media context, like this, like I'd want an entire book just following the PR person for a superhero or thier media manager.

What's that you say?
posted by kafziel at 2:46 PM on May 2, 2016 [11 favorites]

OK, where is the tumblr? Where is the deviantart? Asking for a friend.
posted by adamrice at 6:27 AM on May 3 [3 favorites +] [!]

You could start with the work of nebezial and have a look at his rendering of Wonder Woman which goes along these lines (note: not waifish or slutty at all)
posted by nonspecialist at 3:11 PM on May 2, 2016 [4 favorites]

good god, all of my favorite superhero stories are internet metafanfic that someone posted on metafilter
posted by mwhybark at 6:15 PM on May 2, 2016 [5 favorites]

I AM CRYING WITH JOY I LOVE THIS SO MUCH
posted by nicebookrack at 8:20 PM on May 3, 2016