on jldark #11. spoiler warning for like, the two other people that care about tim hunter.

[hexappeal]

Just try to enjoy Tim's not-so-triumphant return, will you? Look on the bright side! You like Lemire and in his caring fanboy hands (however uninspired the dialogue may be), it'll be handled better than if Milligan still had his greasy paws all over us... He was getting into Dini creepy territory for a minute there, wasn't he?

Sure, there's still that hideous, emotionless art where everyone's mouth is hanging open half the time, but here's a thought! If you take off your glasses and squint, both the art and my costume are almost bearable. See? It doesn't appear as if Tim's shaved his head and my Hot Topic goth look is all a blur! I mean, we don't really look much like anything without your glasses, but it could be worse.

It could be Liefeld or Finch.

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[bigreveal]

Just remember:

You could've been me.

[hexappeal]

I really have no response that's appropriate.

Sorry.

[bigreveal]

Didn't even tell my own damn team that Resurrection Man could resurrect, because apparently I didn't think that information was important.

I just have to wonder where my brains went.

Just look forward to having a plot that makes some kind of damn sense.

[zazz]

A gath, eh?

Gaths are pretty hot.

[sternumbush]

A goth, huh?

Goths are a pretty terrible people.

[hexappeal]

And you're leading a team? I'm not sure how that works out, if you can't remember something so simple. Er, that you.

I've got Lemire now. His dialogue tends to be interchangeable, but I know that he appreciates me and the rest of the guys, so I'm hoping it'll work itself out. You know, aside from the terrible art and suddenly dressing like an idiot.

[hexappeal]

Garth?

[hexappeal]

This is what happens when you leave me alone.

Hi.

[bigreveal]

Oh, I remembered, I just apparently thought this wasn't essential information to tell my team. That's supposed to make me look like a badass.

Eh, you already had the appearance in Swamp Thing, right? You're ripe for guest starring. Dunno what to tell you about the clothes, though.

[hexappeal]

Right. How new is that you at the whole intelligence team sort of thing? Because I'm pretty sure that withholding information isn't what makes people listen to you now.

Animal Man. Buddy and I go back a ways. Well, me-me. Not that... me? I'm not sure how I'm supposed to phrase this.

[zazz]

GATH! A gath, yanno, what yew said, with all the fishnets and skull earrings baught from Hot Topic. All dat acne, too.

[hexappeal]

You think cheaply made, yet still somehow expensive accessories and acne are hot?

[sternumbush]

If I had known you were one life upset away from turning into some punk teenager who puts of fake leather pants and too much pancake because mommy wouldn't buy them a Sega Genesis I might have reconsidered our relationship.


Hi, yourself.

[bigreveal]

New word is that I used to be some kind of god damned super spy soldier or whatever on some bullshit called Team 7 with, of all people, Black Canary, Deathstroke, and Steve Trevor, among others.

I'd go with 'sort-of-you'.

[sigils]

Get back to me when either of you has tattoos for a face.

[zazz]

Oh noo, nooo, naht the acne. That was jest a uh statement, yanno? Yew dun look like yew have acne, though. Mebbe on yer back or somethan, Idunno. Yer face is very pretty.

[hexappeal]

The make-up isn't bad, but the tattoos are. I'm pretty sure the multiverse reacted to your leave by doing this to me. I'm probably in my late 20s, too -- and I never had this bad taste, mind you!

It's, ah, good to see you.

[hexappeal]

Or doesn't exist?

I'm sure goths who aren't me would dig it. You could just settle down with a nice girl who has a split tongue...

[hexappeal]

A generalization of goths, you mean?

And my skin is flawless. [Because she is a cheater.] My back is none of your business, by the way.

[hexappeal]

Ah, Steve's shown up in the title I'm in. They seem to have gotten his appearance and age about right, though. As much as the artist can, anyway.

"Someone who shares my name and vaguely looks like me in a universe where I don't exist," is a little long, so I might go for that.

[sigils]

Twist the knife, why don't you. Still, probably preferable to what my trajectory was before.

So the universe keeps telling me, would you believe it?

[ioudas]

You didn't tell me you had a kid.

[hexappeal]

I don't.

[hexappeal]

Too bad. You had so much potential that ended up wasted by uninspired writers...

That you should get with a gal that looks like Robert Smith on a good day? The universe works in strange ways, huh.

[bornforwar]

At least you weren't created by Liefeld.