The Mighty Thor

The finished piece. I love the lines of Dauterman’s design for Thor.

The Mighty Thor

Experimenting with texture in Procreate, with the Apple Pencil.

My own colouring of Cho’s War of the Realms cover.

comicbookwomen:

Holy shit, I think I’m done with the flagged posts. Only 6-7 are not restored.

Would love to know what the 6 or 7 contain. Do you agree with their assessment? Are they just too much for a media savvy teen?

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immoralitea:

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immoralitea:

Tiny bit of senseless late-night Wicdiv ramble, spoilers for the special below

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But Laura had a spark before Ananke got to her…through Lucifer, no?

In 1831 I feel like it’s made clear that Clairmont had been pursuing Byron/Lucifer but that he wasn’t interested in her until she ascended, which she achieved by killing Mary/Woden’s children for Ananke.  Hence, the secret she shares with Ananke that she mentions at the beginning.

She had, of course. But i was referring to Ananke dismissing her as nobody at first. Just a girl close to Lucifer, a fangirl like many others. She said it took her too long to find her. And i wonder is that even true? Could she see her as a Persephone before, but only decide to act when she needed a victim?

And of course Ananke ‘corrected her mistake” in that case not because of her kindness, there’s a motive to all. Oh, so that makes Clairmont similar to the current Pantheon’s Woden as in the sense of Ananke’s accomplice. But that all does not explain the mechanism of ascension, apotheosis (do we have an official name?) tho. People get granted divinity in exchange for something or when Ananke saw something in them, and it’s clearly a part of the plan. It’s just a little frustrating, but also very fascinating and exciting, that we still get only glimpses of her intents, not a full picture.

I think Ananke may have been telling part of the truth when she said “They would develop without me, but I speed it along.” That some gods would emerge on their own without her intervention, but that the timeframe, the numbers, the geography and so forth would likely be completely disorganized and far less effective.

With Persephone, I think Ananke realized that night in Cassandra’s trailer who Laura was already becoming and decided that steps had to be taken to sort her out before she did more damage. (More damage? Yeah! Put aside Laura being a prime mover in trying to uncover the truth behind the judge, think about that Laura/Cass/Ananke scene: Cass is having a big time despair moment, the kind of low point where Ananke likes to swoop in on a god and say “Hey, how about suicide? Or maybe you could try murdering someone?” But before Ananke can take charge of the situation, Laura barges in and makes Cass feel better, makes her feel loved. This girl is a menace. She could wreck everything.)

Personally, I have always assumed the end game of WicDiv will be the revelation that everybody that is receptive to the mystery of transformation can become divine. Art as transformative magic.

The mystery cults seem to inform the story, provide some key deities, and perhaps inform the structure. It just needs someone to guide you through the ritual, help you enact your part, and reveal the hidden truth.

lady-writes:

SPOILERS EVERYWHERE YALL
Imma just drop it all in bullet points to make it easy for myself

First the Pantheon:
Woden as Mary Shelley
Morrigan as Percy Shelley
Inanna as Claire Clairmont
Hades as John Keats
Lucifer as Byron
Thoth as Poe
Perun as Pushkin
Morpheus as Coleridge
The Norns/Fates/Furies as the Brontë sisters
Hestia as Mary Wollenstonecraft
William Blake as something angelic, or Sunday related or cat related? (Tiger tiger burning Bright)

That leaves and unknown 12th but it should be noted that the Brontës, don’t necessarily have to forma triad. More on that later

Austen was 20 years dead my this point so not my choice for Hestia tho I’m not sure how much that matters

The Puzzles:
-This pantheon seems super unbalanced, heavily cthonical and/or dark, ???? Wtf

-Mary Shelley’s dead babies, if one can presume that this pantheon left no written works or less, due to their obsession with leaving something behind, is this a convenient allegory or something more indicative of what becomes of people once they go different, sleep food drink procreate, how much of that is still function and how much is just fuck it why not at this point ie, How human are they anymore?

-Are triads a necessary part of a pantheon? are they only ever triads? And most importantly for the sake of Cass and crew, do they ever make it to the end? Are pairs ever a thing?

-Does Ananke always have a patsy? Does she need one? Why did she want those babies dead? Are David and William Blake related and does she know about that?

-How much reoccurs in a reoccurence? Inanna and Lucifer always seem to find their ways to each other, and it always seems to have unfortunate consequences for the rest. Varying types of discord and infidelity is definitely becoming a thing. Even in 1924 there is palpable interpersonal discomfort in that room for all 3 pages that it’s intact

-Is Ananke for some reason now allowed to kill the final 4? She seems to prefer to let them take themselves out, she hunted down Inanna because she clearly had no intention to kill herself but, it’s super easy to see that she might have intended them to all die at the creatures hands in there

The Deep Shit

THE MOTHERFUCKIN CREATURE. Did Ananke kill it. I somehow don’t think so, my reasons. Pink woden and The bracelet Amaterasu wears in her first scene? Like straight up, pink woden is in know way just a straight up mecha. WODEN TALKS TO IT IN 14 AND IT RESPONDS. It’s horn shape matches Shelley! Woden too. Hades bracelet showing up on Amaterasu in that spread panel can’t be a coincidence either, there’s is way too much hand focus on that jewelry in this issue ya’ll, and Keats outstretched hand in first panel mimicks hers too.
To my above point if Ananke meant for the creature to kill everyone at the lake house, what did she intend to do with it after, a companion? She cops to feeling lonely in issue 10 when talking about Robert Graves. Perhaps the servant that she seems to always need, a consistent one to not have to die every 90 yrs

And lastly equivalence. Pantheon seems are clearly not identical. But parallel I guess? Morpheus = Dio, Thoth= Minerva, Hades=Nergal, and so on with the basics. But here’s the thing with now 2 near full pantheons, there are a couple weirdnesses. After this, I can’t thing of that black man as Baal or the little girl as Minerva, the archetypes don’t lay right to me anymore, not with Susannoo confirmed in the mix, and it should be noted that his is the only confined name there. The lightning bolts could be sigil for Baal or Susannoo and there are so many ram/horned gods that it’s crazy to thing that rams +lightning must equal Baal. As for the girl she’s either Lucifer or Morrigan, I’m honestly starting to think that the reoccurence of 1924 was almost as much a cluster fuck as the current one, between the insanely opaque gods and the slashed in half skull, something superbig ain’t right there.

Soooooooooooo, what do ya’ll think?

I am pretty sure death does not matter, as these are apparently not the actual romantics and literary figures but analogues. The case for Austen seems too strong because of the ‘pride’ wording. Keats was also ten years dead I think, and that is an obvious one.

Not to mention the date for the Geneva trip being way out, again suggesting that these are not the events we know.

Thoth looks and seems like Poe but dying in Paris suggests Baudelaire the French poet and Poe translator.

I am also confused by the 12th not being present. Does make me wonder if the resurrected creature counts. As it is “the modern Prometheus” being a Frankenstein’s monster analogue it is possibly no longer Woden, despite probably still being alive today.

This comic just begs an identification game:

Keats = Hades,
Inanna = Claire Clairmont,
Lucifer = Lord Byron,
Wodan = Mary Shelly,
The Morrigan = Shelly,
Morpheus = Coleridge,
Hestia = Jane Austin,
Angel of Soho, Urizen… = William Blake,
Three Lonely Sisters / Three Graces? / Fates? = The Brontes
Perun = Pushkin
Thoth = Baudelaire? (Translator of Poe, poet, died in Paris.)
? = ? (Am I missing a reference)

Hydra Cap is saddened by your lack of loyalty.