David Mann

@davidmann95.bsky.social

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Writes about comics semi-professionally, blue-skies-es about them sub-professionally. They/he/she.

A deliberately way too close zoom-in of an image of Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl with a smile on her face in the cartoon My Adventures With Supergirl.
A Funko Pop of Absolute Superman after he switches to his blue costume.
The Rise and Fall of Axiom Mark Waid Ed Benes
MARK WAID IS STILL EVIL
A Frank Quitely illustration of The Utopian, a Superman pastiche created by himself and Mark Millar for the comic and later TV show Jupiter’s Legacy.
A funeral, accompanied by a passage beginning with “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” In the final panel we see the tombstone reads PAUL RABIN REST IN PEACE ETERNALLY
Posters for the most recent seasons of Invincible and The Boys next to "KIDS HAD THEIR FUN ALREADY", then Superman (the My Adventures With Superman/MAWS version) getting his dopey face smushed by his mom next to "NOW ITS REAL MEN'S TURN".
Posters for the most recent seasons of Invincible and The Boys.
Kris Anka Jor-El design for My Adventures With Superman
Superman and Supergirl by Zoe Thorogood.
Cyborg Superman
Eradicator
THE FINAL DAYS OF SUPERMAN The original “Death of Superman” saga was one of the greatest Superman stories of all time, capturing media attention and an entire new generation of comic book readers. But when it was decided to gradually phase out the New 52 version of Superman, the death would be handled with much less pomp and circumstance. Because it wasn’t this younger, inexperienced Man of Steel for which the fans were clamoring. They were eagerly awaiting the return of the classic post-Crisis Superman, almost as much as they had been after he was first killed by Doomsday.
A triumphant Curt Swan Lex Luthor proclaims “AT LAST!! After all these years of vainly trying, I’ve finally succeeded in killing SUPERMAN! I’ve destroyed the mightiest man in the universe! What a glorious achievement!”
Ultra-Humanite declares “No freak of nature will stop me from achieving my goal! The human race shall be blotted out so that I can launch a race of my own—-and no one—-nothing—-shall prevent it!”
Superman in 2025 Fuck You: Superman (comic), Superman Unlimited oh dear: Absolute Superman ok: Action Comics (Superstars), Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Supergirl, DC K.O., Jimmy Olsen’s Supercyclopedia, Jon Kent: This Internship Is My Kryptonite, Superman: Red and Blue 2025 Special, DC’s Kal-El-Fornia Love ok!: Action Comics (Superboy), Adventures of Superman: The Book of El, Superman: The World lmao what: Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor shit made me choke up man, unfair: Krypto: Last Dog of Krypton holy shit: Secret Six Yeah! Yeah!!!: Superman (movie), Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum To Be Hero: X
BTAS Batman nursing a gunshot wound to the arm watches Joker squirm beneath the New Year’s bell that fell on him, the gun that clearly shot Batman feet from his hands, as he mutters “Ouch.” The Gothamites behind the scene of the just-concluded action cheers “HAPPY NEW YEAR!”
A series of forwarded Discord messages reading: NOBODY wants this to do a World's Finest I've never seen this before For the World's Finest in a new universe to have no shooters no fans no anticipation whatsoever Nobody's even making yaoi of them Irrecoverable loss "Well what's wrong with Abs Wonder Woman, why wouldn't-" buddy **nobody** wants Batman and Wonder Woman team-ups Not Batman fans, not WW fans, not Justice League fans, nobody but a couple shooters from the DCAU. This would not be the self-evident first team up here if Superman wasn't radioactive
An edit of the classic Will Sennett/@Senn_Spud now reading Your Pal Jimmy Olsen/@Boy_Reporter, with a profile pic by Steve Lieber. "I would strike Carnage out on 3 pitches. Slider outside. He feels like hes drowning. Curveball in the dirt of course he's chasing it. Maximum Carnage sucked kill yourself. And Bang 97 inside corner. Youre out. You were was always out. Youve been out since the day you were born."
GET READY TO JUPITER YOUR LEGACY BUDDY
The ‘Squidward watching SpongeBob and Patrick playing outside’ meme with the Superman logo imposed over Squidward and the Avengers logo over the latter.
Could not ask for more scientifically provable hard evidence that The Juice exists in finite quantities
Dick Grayson as Future Batman who is also Nightwing punches real Batman in the face while declaring “I’m a better Batman than you! Because I trust people. I don’t lead with fear.” Titans Tower looms over the Gotham skyline like a god damn gravestone.
Dick Grayson as Future Batman who is also Nightwing gives a monologue about how he decided to make an army of Future Robins trained by his loser friends the Titans because I guess he only has one idea ever these days.
Original concept for Sora from Kingdom Hearts as a little lion guy with a chainsaw sword.
New Absolute Superman cover where his suit is blue now as he flies over Metropolis.
A pair of women are being chased through a park by “the Creeps”, a gang of guys with dyed hair in tattered fetishy clothes including see-through bras, brandishing scissors and muttering the likes of “Hey baby girls be a lot sexier if you smiled”
Robert Pattinson in The Batman.
Superman The Movie | Superman II | Superman III | Superman IV The Quest For Peace
A pinball machine themed around Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
An homage by @wrens_art to a Rags Morales illustration, showing Absolute Superman in the New 52 Superman t-shirt and jeans look leaping over a tall building faster than a speeding bullet while hefting a locomotive one-handed
Frank Quitely’s depiction of Absolute Superman.
A bunch of dorks as ably portrayed by Jerry Ordway. “In their place, a short-lived Justice Alliance formed under the leadership of the mutant Captain Comet. Despite their valor, the team of Prince Ra-Man, Automan, Tiger-Man and Congorilla was unable to fill the void left by the JSA.”
A ticket for an IMAX showing of Superman 2025 opening day at New York's AMC Lincoln Square 13.
Batman/Deadpool cover by Dan Mora, as the two (with Batman in his new Jorge Jimenez costume with a blue bat-logo) charge at each other before a choir of angels both ‘classic’ and biblically accurate.
Spider-Man with a comically distended gurgling belly the size of his belly about to pop, muttering “No—don’t—I’m—nggg-Gwe-GWEN—“, from Marvel Zombies: Return #1.
Lewis Pullman doing God’s Work onscreen as Robert Reynolds The Sentry aka The Golden Guardian of Good.
Secret Six #1 (2025) by Nicole Maines, Steven Segovia, and Rain Beredo, starring Jon Kent as Superman, along with Gossamer, Dreamer, Black Alice, Catman, and Deadshot.
Me taking a bathroom mirror selfie in my faded Batman shirt, stubbly and with a shaved head. Haggard but rocking it imo.
A poster for To Be Hero X showing off the ten leads (X, Queen, Dragon Boy, Ghostblade, The Johnnies, Loli (why did they pick that jfc), Lucky Cyan, Ahu, E-Soul, and Nice).
Quite close picture of a duck below a drive-through window
Ramon Villalobos's take on Batman 666
The t-shirt and jeans young Superman flying upwards with an awed smile, while the older Clark of Superman and The Authority falls, set against the golden yin-yang S-shield of DC One Million's Superman Prime emerging from a starscape.
Reply with a DC Comics character and I’ll give a hot take
Punisher - the classic pre-Ennis 80s/90s guy, by Ron Garney - standing behind a bar, holding a giant smoking gun at the reader, with a shotglass knocked over. "REMEMBER, DRINKING AND DRIVING IS NOT ONLY DANGEROUS, IT'S AGAINST THE LAW. "YOU KNOW WHAT I DO TO LAWBREAKERS." - The Punisher [A Public Service Announcement]
The cover to All-Star Superman #1
The RWBY version of Superman.
Apparently Gwen Stacy in a purple Deadpool suit with her mouth exposed, snarling as she cuts the heads off S.H.I.E.L.D. agents with her one Wolverine claw on each hand that are like Deadpool’s swords.
Jim Lee X-Men #1 cover.
Panel 1: Wolverine, Psylocke, Namor, and a couple others are taken down by a Kree-Skrull Alliance. Narration: THE GREAT SOCIETY was formed four years after ARCHETYPES OF J.U.S.T.I.C.E. fell during THE INVASION. Panel 2: A Superman-type figure, identified later as Sun God, hefts like Atlas what appears to be a tiny sun by way of a Sprit Bomb over his head, vaporizing a Kree Sentry robot. Narration: Six heroes of THE ANTI-HEROIC AGE, The Society—outcasts all—banded together to repel the mad science of THE XENO-GENETICISTS. Panel 3: Sun God is joined by a Green Lantern-type (Doctor Spectrum), a Doctor Fate-type (The Norn), a Flash-type (Boundless), a Martian Manhunter-type (The Jovian), and a Batman-type (The Rider) in repelling the Kree and Skrull. Narration: Men were not meant to be remade by alien gods, and when those gods were cast out, the age of J.U.S.T.I.C.E. had ended and The Great Society had begun.
Mickey Mouse in his anime clothes says “Gosh…so that’s the power of a geek!” Kingdom Hearts characters Olette and Hayner both have cartoon nonplussed faces in the background, complete with sweatdrop; their joint word balloon is “……”
DC’s “We Are Yesterday”: The First Major Crossover of DC All In Starts This April!
Hans Moleman screaming RIP OFF! WE PAID FOR BLOOD!