#ogon bat

A “little” reinterpretation

Hey everyone, I figured I’d start doing these ask round-ups at least once a month along with some general notes. I’ve never been comfortable using social media as a diary (or using diaries in general) but, it’s been recommended to me a few times as a theurapeutic exercise and, hey, no better place to do it than here, so here goes:

-My mental health’s been improving quite a bit since the beginning of the year, compared to the last months/two years. I’m starting to get more comfortable going back to working on the stuff I want to, this blog included. However, there are a lot of other projects in the works that I want to get to that have taken, and will take, a lot of my time and energy, so chances are I may not post essays as consistently as I’d like. 

-I’ve taken up musical theater! On it’s own, it was as good an excuse as any to get out of the house on the regular, but it’s definitely something that’s been helping me a lot as of late and will definitely do great things for my life, and not just as a creator and artist. I had already taken up singing lessons at the start of this year to improve my voice acting and, yeah, all things considered I may actually start to do singing for real. I’m definitely doing a lot better at it than I ever thought I’d be.
-The dancing lessons are definitely the roughest part, my body hasn’t exactly been in great shape for a while and unfortunately it has to be for me to carry my weight. I’m 6′3 and 230 pounds and a lot of the acrobatic exercises we’re taught are really harsh on my knees and feet if I’m not careful. I really need to go back to the gym, especially since I still desperately want to get back to Muay Thai practice. But, all things considered, still undescribably better off than I was last year.

-I’m still experiencing a pretty massive block when it comes to a lot of things I want to do, namely composing. It’s weird to me that now I have a much easier time singing for real than I do messing around with my keyboard and music programs, but I think it’s only a matter of time till I can get back on that.

Anonymous asked:  you have a link tot hat one post that talked about that old male garment that resembled the shadow’s cloak from back in the day?

I think you mean this one, where I shared a FB post Michael Kaluta did talking about The Shadow’s costume design

Anonymous asked:  Wait, there is a nazi doc savage? Who is this Sun Koh guy?

I’m linking Jess Nevins’ profile on the character here, I don’t like to talk about Sun Koh but the short version is, yes, he was the Nazi knock-off of Doc Savage. There’s been a couple of recent stories written based on the character, too, if you’re curious. 

Anonymous asked: Any thoughts on ogon bat or nyclatope?

Posted some thoughts onThe Nyctalopehere, may revisit these in the future by my basic thoughts on the character: VERY neat design, love his power set, love his origin, his adventures are quite interesting and creative, he’s a great character all-around, but there’s also the fact that his creator collaborated with Nazis and wrote the character (even retconned him into being anti-romani which directly contrasts an earlier adventure) as one, and while that in itself can offer a lot of ideas for the character, it’s also kind of a difficult subject to handle, and I’m not sure if I could personally ignore that when handling the character.

I love Ogon Bat, on concept he’s easily one of my favorite pulp heroes, and it helps that his characterization’s pretty damn great too. I wanna make a post talking about Ogon Bat’s history in Brazil specifically (where he was called Fantomas, yes, and his cartoon was pretty damn popular to the point I knew about him growing up) and I have a couple of story ideas for Ogon Bat since, I think he’s public domain? Not sure, but I love the guy, I think he’s one of those characters people would really love. 

More so than any other character, if I was gonna do a pulp superhero universe consisting of existing characters (”if” as in, “ofcourse I already have but I’m keeping most of it under wraps for now”), Ogon Bat would be my first and foremost candidate for “the Superman”, in the sense of him being this flying caped figure who’s always gonna save the day and is inspirational and kind and heroic to the point others can trust them and cooperate with him, but of course, Ogon Bat’s also a cackling skull-faced monster of unfathomable power who’s got little compulsions in how he deals with evildoers, and he also happens to be a time-displaced immortal sorcerer and “god of justice” summoned into existence by the tears of a child who formed a psychic link with him, who was also occasionally turned into a propaganda vehicle for Japan in WW2, also had a lot of other weird adaptations over the years.

You factor all of this history and some and suddenly the prospect of this guy potentially being the central “superhero”, in a world otherwise not really teeming with them, or equipped to deal with them, or maybe accostumed to a Western type of superhero completely unprepared for this godlike tornado of cackling justice/vengeance/chaos, suddenly starts to seem a lot more troubling and promising alike. So yeah, I really like Ogon Bat, and I definitely have plans for this character in my own writings.

@krinsbez​ asked:  It’s been awhile since I asked you anything, so I’ll ask something I’ve been thinking about for a bit, but don’t think I ever Asked you about before. Somehow, The Shadow ends up in the MCU. Who does he recruit as agents? (my other thought is Cap and/or Bucky having to explain to all the 21st Century people who The Shadow is)

I don’t really have much to say to this question because I don’t watch the MCU nor do I like it very much, as I said in my ask round-up at the end of 2021, I stopped watching anything related to it after Thor: Ragnarok. I only watched recently No Way Home, and I might watch the new Dr Strange movie if a friend asks me to /if word-of-mouth is good enough (though I don’t really expect much of it, I really don’t like MCU Dr Strange in the first place). So I’m afraid my answer here is going to be rather abrupt.

I mentioned, when asked if Wolverine would be an agent of The Shadow in a hypothetical crossover, that there’s a couple of caveats holding back Logan from working as an agent (in the more traditional sense, because sometimes “agent” is used as just a catchy name for anyone who works for/with The Shadow and that can be pretty cool on it’s own, but there’s a distinction and I do find it important), namely, that Logan cannot commit to being an agent when he’s got his hands full being in teams 24/7, he’s a loose cannon, he’s a danger magnet, he’s way too dangerous especially in a team where no one has superpowers or experience in dealing with his berserk episodes or him being mind-controlled, and The Shadow has no use for assassins among his agents (or even outside of them). I really can’t think of many MCU characters, at least among the big name superheroes, who wouldn’t have similar issues, or that would be particularly interesting as agents in the first place. Maybe Scott Lang as one exception.

That said, I’ve been rewatching Daredevil recently and it’s definitely reaffirmed it’s place in my mind as easily my absolute favorite thing the MCU ever did, by a margin that wasn’t even remotely close to anything else until No Way Home recently, and I definitely think Matt Murdock’s supporting cast, including characters like Claire and Mahoney and Melvin (and maybe the Defenders, although I haven’t watched their shows, although obviously Frank Castle’s off the table), could make great, dynamic additions to the Agents. Matt himself is a more contentious subject because he’s a loner by nature, I don’t see him really working “for” anyone, and because there would obviously be tension between him and The Shadow, but that’s a topic for a separate The Shadow x Daredevil crossover that doesn’t really have much to do with the MCU specifically.

Karen in particular would benefit a lot from having the support and guidance of The Shadow and his agents, to help direct and guide her in ways that Matt never could. Karen spends a lot, actually even most, of the show struggling in the dark to find answers any way she can, tasked with doing investigative legwork, and because she’s a normal person trying desperately to stay afloat in a world she has little to no experience in and not a superpowered fighting radar, she makes a lot of mistakes, resorts to desperate and dirty tactics, and ends up getting people hurt and/or killed despite the best of intentions, and ends up also deeply despised by a lot of fans because she’s reckless and bull-headed and driven to heroics in ways identical to the superpowered dude protagonist. I definitely think she and Margo would have a lot of common ground to bond over.

Anonymous asked: I heard you you wanted to move your content to other places as well. Would that include youtube?

Yes / maybe / definitely / not sure.

(I know there’s another bit to your question. I appreciate you reaching out to ask my opinion on it, but I must decline to answer. Suffice to say, I’m not a fan, and I will not be speaking more than that. Please respect my decision to do so.)

I already have a couple of Youtube accounts, I use the Squalonius Jones channel to post music (as “Doc” Squalonius Jones, who is one of the main characters in that project I keep alluding to), I’ve used a few other accounts to post stuff but nothing I’d care to link since I will be revamping/deleting them. I used to be pretty dead sure for a long time that I was going to make a Youtube channel to post video essays and whatnot, that was kinda the thing I spent much of the past months working on, but now, I’m not sure. I’m at a lot of crossroads right now.

See, one of the chief reasons why I made this blog is because I wanted to write stories about characters I’m passionate about, and I figured that I could start by talking and doing essays on fiction, on some of those characters or works, and get more eyes on me and then the stories and characters of my own. But honestly? I’m sick of waiting. I’ve spend my whole life waiting for stuff to happen and I’m sick of it. My desire to talk about characters and stories has become increasingly smaller compared to my need to TELL my own characters and stories. No reason I can’t do both of course but, I think everyone’s had a long time to get their priorities straight over the past two years.

This isn’t a “No”, by the way, I do think it’s very likely I’ll make a Youtube channel to host my future creations in the long run, Youtube’s where I spend most of my time after all, it’s just that as of right now, I’m not even sure what those creations are gonna be. Maybe I’ll finally make a permanent Youtube account, maybe I’ll finally learn to draw and take a crack at WebToon, maybe I’ll try my chances with TikTok, maybe I’ll become a [BIG SHOT] on whatever trendy social media comes next, maybe musical theater works out far better as a career choice than anticipated, maybe I’m gonna put this social media thing on the backfoot and really focus on my career as a filmmaker / editor (I really don’t want to depend entirely on social media to make money), maybe I’ll try the odds with all of these, who knows,

only The Shadow knows. 

Anonymous asked: Love your Street Fighter writings! Will you write one on Chun-Li sometime?

Thank you! And I already did. I really do want to get around to doing the other characters, even if that’s still a long shot for now given the size of the cast (and I’m including the EX characters) and *EVERYTHING else in the way, but I’m always glad to get positive feedback on my Street Fighter posts. 

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