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Beta Ray Ben
@betarayben.bsky.social
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Short fiction writer. Queer in his bones (menacing), not always safe for work. Nerd trash who reads too many (but not enough) comic books. White settler Canadian living on lək̓ʷəŋən territory (Victoria BC). He/they

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I originally got into Morrison’s Batman because JH Williams III doing the artwork for “The Black Glove” (which among other things involved him mimicking other artists) and I admit I still prefer his work to Tony Daniel’s, although I have grown to appreciate Daniel for his 70s Batman vibe.
JH Williams 3 page of Batman, depicting the dark knight standing in the door with six inset panels showing Club of Heroes members reacting to his arrival.
November 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Maggie Sawyer, my butch queen finally showing up on Superman the Animated Series.
A blonde butch in a black turtleneck and trenchcoat in the woods.
November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Popped down to the coffee shop to drink hot apple cider and work on a short story this morning.
A white man in his forties with a salt and ginger beard. He has a shaved head that is probably due for a trim, glasses and a pair of AirPods. He’s sitting in a warm, bright environment. He’s wearing a grey baseball tee with light red sleeves and collar. The front of the shirt depicts an eerie moth with MOTH MAN written acics it.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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This is painted on the side of a little building housing three different union offices. 💜
A bifurcated blue-green oil painted on the side of a building.
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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If you see this, post a comic cover you love.

(I have a copy of this framed on the wall)
Copy of a 1960s issue of Legion of Super-Heroes. “It’s zero hour for the Legionnaires when they face COLOSSAL BOY’S ONE-MAN WAR!” Colossal Boy, a giant teenager in a weird green-yellow-red space cowboy outfit smashes giant mech suits together while Superboy flies towards him and Sun Boy falls.
November 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Accidentally read all of Hobtown Mystery Stories volume 3, by @hobtown.bsky.social and Alexander Forbes. A gorgeous piece of work. Their work has grown by leaps and bounds. I’ll need to reread this again soon because I am still processing everything.
A book on a table: The Secret of the Saucer by Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes. A painted covered in the style of Nancy Drew, a young woman in load plans observed by a mysterious green ape as she holds a number of odd objects.
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Wandering the neighborhood, thinking loudly at Randy.
A flyer stapled to a ratty old telephone pole advertising “Psychic car repair,” a pair of ominous hands hovering over a very seventies looking car. A list of services offered includes suspension and demonic tire possession. Tags at the bottom read CALL RANDY with no phone number.
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Let’s start an over 30 selfie thread ✨

45. 🔥
A white man in his mid-forties with a scruffy salt & ginger beard. He’s got a shaved head that needs a trim and glasses. He’s standing in warm yellow light, wearing a light blue t-shirt with an exaggerated blond super-hero on the front, Stardust the Super-Wizard, with art by Jesse Lonergan.
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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The sexy lady robots who unhinge their faces to spew knockout gas when Lobo gets stuck in a cosmic petting zoo on Superman: The Animated Series are really unnerving.
Lobo, a beefy space biker in leather with chalk-white skin falls to his knees as knockout gas spews from nozzles in the mouths of blue-skinned robot women in little clothing.
November 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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If you see this, post a Comics cover you love.
Legion of Super-Heroes 38, depicting the Earth awash in yellow and red as it dies. THE END reads the headline.
November 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Mood.
Two caped super-heroes, Valor and Andromeda, stand atop a smashed building. Valor says, “True. But I prefer to help people avoid Armageddon, as opposed to cleaning up after it.”
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
Captain Billy Marvel in red and gold flies out of a cannon while saying, “Now I’m just a shell of my former self.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Happily I was able to book tomorrow off when I realized this week was going to feel like dragging myself over broken glass. To celebrate, I got out my cuddliest hoodie, the flannel. 🥰
White man in his forties wearing a red flannel hoodie over a loose olive green tee. He’s got a shaved head, glasses and a ginger beard with plenty of salt in it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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I love that every single woman who meets Absolute Wonder Woman has an immediate sexual awakening.
A spectral woman with short hair hovers —perhaps astral projects—over the unconscious form of the Absolute Wonder Woman. As Diana awakens, the woman says, “Wow. Those eyes hit like a Mack truck, huh?” Only her words are backwards.
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I’d want more the modern Paul McGann vibe, tho.
Paul McGann in tall boots, breeches, waist coat, medium coat.
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Robot itchy with an axe
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The way of all flesh.
Metallica, a cyborg with the flesh peeled off his metal body, clutches Superman’s suit and bathes him in pale green light.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Welp.
Superman chained to a pipe while the Parasite, a purple supervillain, crouches down in front of him.
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Meanwhile, an entire vibe.
A hand covered in rings attached to an arm in a frilly shirt sleeve caresses a giant green eye. “Yes,” the speaker says, “We can play a major role in this drama.”
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Well. I have reached a Significant Issue of the Legion of Super-Heroes: Number 31, wherein we learn that Shvaughn Erin, long-time romantic interest for Element Lad, is actually a trans woman.
Legion 31 cover, in the style of an old romance comic shows a redheaded woman weeping over a blonde man looking dramatic in the foreground.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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I am not in the mood to work but at least I wrote a paragraph of fiction before I started.
A white man in his forties leaning back on a couch with a dopey smile. He’s got a shaved head and a salty ginger beard. He’s wearing v glasses and a blue argyle sweater with grey squares and red highlights.
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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God, I love the Superman: The Animated Series design for Toyman, the creepy little fuck.
The Toyman, a little plastic-faced dweeb in a sweater vest, playing with a green ball.
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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It’s Bart Simpson with the head of a fly, or a fly with the body of Bart Simpson.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Isaac Chotiner’s vibe.
Jean Grey gripping Emma Frost’s hand and saying, “But the fire of the Phoenix burns through lies, you understand? The gaze of the Phoenix is like an x-ray tearing through every self-deception.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
Adventure Comics 247: teen future superheroes Cosmic Boy, Lightning Boy and Saturn Girl all vote to reject Superman as a teenager from joining the Legion of Superheroes because his powers are “too ordinary.”
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM