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My friend sent me this with a "this made me think of you."

I feel so seen.

I feel like this has to end in a variation on a closed loop, right? Of the 'dude vanished bc his son went back in time to save him from vanishing' variety. Except instead of just getting pulled forward Odysseus is compelled to take the slow path for the sake of his future family.

Having never considered the concept of a highschool retelling of the Odyssey until that one post mentioned them in passing, I'd like to give my own pitch: the Odyssey meets Back to the Future meets whodunnit.

Odysseus is the central figure of the story, of course. He is also one of those high school protagonists who is inexplicably surrounded by half a dozen girls, because emphasizing that aspect of the Odyssey is funny to me. There's Penelope, his actual girlfriend; popular girl Circe; poor little rich girl Calypso; freshman Nausicaa; and Athena, who is older and solidly in bro territory with Odysseus, but still adds to the overall effect of him being surrounded by girls. (Is she a goddess? Idk. Probably she has some other kind of power, like riches or genius or both.)

The cast is rounded out by some of his Odyssey crewmen, maybe a few Iliad Greeks, and Telemachus, a new kid at their school who quickly becomes friends with Odysseus. For about half the story, things focus on slice of life, Odysseus's schemes, and the students' various personal problems. Incidents from the Odyssey are nodded toward, but not directly retold.

Then you get the Back to the Future part with the reveal that Telemachus has traveled back in time twenty years, with the help of future Athena, to solve the extremely cold case of his dad's disappearance by investigating his high school life.

Future Athena was only able to discover that someone from his high school circle was involved; in their time, there were just too many roadblocks set up between her and the truth. And she can't get inside access to those events as her adult self. So it's up to Telemachus to get to know his past parents, investigate their friends, and chase down the clues to discovering where his father's been all his life.

...While hopefully not raising the suspicions of his teenaged, but still infamously clever, parents in the process of this totally straightforward and not at all emotionally taxing mission.

I'm glad we actually limited his powerset a bit more than that, I guess back in the 60s it wasn't as well known just how WEIRD "all the powers of earth's lizards" would be if true. Amazing Spiderman 6

Can confirm for Lake Michigan (though I always thought her a friend); two hours into a lovely day at the beach was when the coastguard showed up to save us.

Superior, though. Her our father always taught us to fear. It never stopped us swimming, but it kept us safe.

Whereabouts do you live, roughly speaking, and what drew you to that place in particular?

I'm in Michigan, and that's as specifically as I will answer that question! We have really lethal lakes.

I'd like to think this misconception is the result of a deliberate snow job on the part of the younger Ms. Watson. For the purpose of getting an in with the cute boy next door, natch. I mean, MJ *is* an actress, is she not?

HA! And I say again HA That's like the winning entrant in a "explain what MJ is NOT" contest. Amazing Spiderman 15

the realest part of this that Disturbed me was the implication that some part of modern airplanes is considered 'flesh'

TIL: Paper airplanes were not created to mimic real airplanes. They predate them.

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calmest peter parker evening (he dealt with everything before this dw)

Worst pun I've seen in at least a week, all hail all praise. Best I could've done was say they were slated for love, I need to up my game.

The Warners win, hands down UNTIL THE ROBINS ARRIVE

Batman VS Everyone

If Batman gets prep time, so does everyone else

See, this is the sort of art fandom is made for. Let's take a beautiful song and apply artwork in such a way as to transform it into something greater than the sum of its parts.

Hi. I finally finished the Spirk comic set to Johnny Cash's Hurt I have been working on for a month. If you want to, please enjoy and leave some nice words :) thank you.

CW for: blood, self-harm, spoilers for anything TOS, death

HURT

There is a part 2! Please consider reblogging and reading the whole comic :)