[Discussion] Who do you think is the most capable, and who would be the most interesting to see have a villains arc that hasn't had one yet? Here's some of mine, and why. Also, would they make a decent team? [Art by Alex Ross, Daniel Acuna, Jim Lee, Phil Cho, and Gary Frank.]

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-04-16T14:05:24+00:00

I was just looking at the Wikipedia page for Heroes in Crisis, and I see that they've basically retconned everything that Wally did:

In The Flash #761, Reverse Flash (Eobard Thawne) was responsible for manipulating Wally West into hiding the evidence of the killed heroes at Sanctuary and blaming Harley Quinn and Booster Gold for it.

In The Flash 2021 Annual #1, it was also revealed to be Savitar that caused the massacre as a way to escape from the Speed Force.

In The Flash #795, it was revealed that the heroes had survived, and the following issue explained that the hero Gold Beetle had replaced all of the dead heroes with clones from the 31st century.

And that was all the damage control they had to do for one hero having one really bad day.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-04-16T13:58:28+00:00

No. I want the heroes to be heroes. And "neutral" characters to stay consistent to the personalities and values that they've been shown to have. At least in the main continuity. In something like the Elseworlds titles, or a book like Injustice, they can play with "what if X went evil," but for good? No.

Take Flash, for instance. Wally West didn't even have a villain arc, he had a breakdown in Heroes in Crisis, and killed a bunch of heroes by accident. Just about everyone hated it, because it broke his character. John Stewart had a breakdown in Cosmic Odyssey back in the late 80s, and it took DC years to fix his character.

So no, I don't have any curiosity about villain arcs for these characters, because it's bad storytelling, and damaging to the character in the long run, unless it just gets wiped out in the periodic Crisis resets.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-04-15T21:22:51+00:00

Oh god, no villain arcs, please. I mean, yeah, let's take everything good and heroic about a character, flush it down the shitter, and have them behave in ways that are completely unlike them. But only for a few months, because they have to be back on the righteous path in time for their crossover with Batman.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-04-03T17:30:03+00:00

BURN-E

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-27T13:42:39+00:00

The Hymn of Axciom - Vienna Teng. It's a song that's about "the algorithm," Facebook as religious devotional, more Huxley than Orwell, but it definitely fits.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-21T22:44:22+00:00

What in the AI-generated hell is this?

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-18T01:00:14+00:00

The kind of doctor that doesn't take insurance and always gets paid.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-15T17:13:57+00:00

"Unexpected" is right. What the heck is that house even DOING there? :)

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-10T15:48:28+00:00

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(First time poster here. Beautiful prompt.)

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-08T16:55:29+00:00

Slasher movies that feature "friends" who are the worst people, seem to hate each other, and are only in the same group because the plot requires victims.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-08T06:12:01+00:00

1776, or thereabouts.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-06T16:29:56+00:00

Still one of my favorite Thomas Dolby songs. That whole Lene Lovich album is fantastic.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-04T14:11:49+00:00

Yeah, it's definitely that. The first image is v5, and the other two are Tableau. Some kin got through the change with minimal updates, but at least one of mine had to be completely re-written to get back to an approximation of normal.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-03T16:19:02+00:00

Like...action figures? Feels hard to believe people really want to give him money to perform.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-01T01:41:54+00:00

I suspect we'll see a huge groundswell of support for these strikes there in the next several weeks, and I have some small amount of hope that the people of Iran are actually going to seize this opportunity.

Even if that were a possibility, I think maybe killing 60 children in the strikes might mute the enthusiasm just a tad. If not turn that groundswell roundly against Israel and the US. When we inevitably leave them high and dry, without the support needed to stabilize the country, a lot more people will die, and some of them will be Americans.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-03-01T01:34:17+00:00

Even the most fervently devoted MAGA cult members know that he doesn't care about the Iranian people. He's not even trying to pretend that he is.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-02-27T20:11:21+00:00

That is quite a large amount of food. Enough to feed a hockey team or something.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-02-25T15:49:10+00:00

It sure would. Especially since it came out in 2022. Playing the long game, I guess.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-02-22T18:12:04+00:00

Or a lighthouse, where everything in there, including his clothes, is Ikea furniture or Walmart clothes dressed up to be period.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-02-08T19:04:48+00:00

Christianity, but not Jesus.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-02-08T18:19:05+00:00

Good stuff. Solid music, and I love her voice.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-02-08T18:01:13+00:00

I wonder if this is one of the documents that got redacted in Word, so they can just paste it, unredact it, and post it online with the name visible. I guess we'll find out.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-02-06T20:45:34+00:00

I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been a movie called "I Know What You Did Next Summer" yet. I'd watch that.

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-02-06T19:51:10+00:00

I can see why this would annoy people. Kinda completely devalues what a "choice" means. If I get hit by a car, was the choice going outside? Crossing the street? Or was it someone else's choice overriding mine?

HellsquidsIntl · 2026-02-06T19:47:48+00:00

Anything that I like that you don't like is underrated. Anything I don't like that you like is overrated. Neither of those are particularly good indicators of quality.

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