Sucky work week but great end!
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I have had a long, long week with my day job that...pretty much sucked. However, with some clever wording, I am still employed. Which is awesome because I am nowhere near big-time author... yet.
So I don't have much for this week! However, I do have an interesting cool monster design to show, since I love unique and cool monster designs!
So this comes from Absolute Batman:
DC is pulling an Ultimate Marvel with an Absolute DC.
Ultimate Marvel is the (mostly) edgier Marvel with key differences between Marvel 616 (or the normal Marvel) vs Ultimate.
Absolute is apparently similar, with a darker what if tones for it's heroes. For example: Batman is missing his one true superpower.
...money.
He's a lower middle class guy who is childhood friends with Oswld 'Oz' Cobblepot (Penquin), Edward 'Geek' Nygma (Riddler), Harvey Dent (Two-face), Selina Kyle (Catwoman), and Waylon Jones (Killer Croc).
These, in the normal DC universe, are part of his rogues gallery. in Absolute, they are all misfit friends.
The Joker btw? He's the rich one now. Fuck.
Anywho, Waylon Jones and Bruce are both kind the big guys in the group, both training together and best buds, protecting the smaller guys and cheering for Harvey becoming a DA all that.
And Waylon is nice!
Like in the original DC, he is a boxer, but a normal guy. He and Bruce are tight.
Waylon 'Croc' Jones likes reptiles but overall he is a normal guy who gets kidnapped by a evil science org... called 'Ark M'
Look at my boy
My sweet sweet boy
And what Ark M does to him... goes beyond the original DC continuity. In the original DC continuity, Killer Croc looked like this
But... but... in Absolute Batman... they do something much worse...
Much... much worse
LOOK AT THIS NEW KILLER CROC
It's not only the most awesome Biollante, Gaping Dragon rendition of Killer Croc… it is also the most tragic. He was a normal, friendly guy whose humanity was stolen from him. But like Bruce in Ark M, he still has it. They did not BREAK Waylon.
He still knows who his friend is... which leads to the most badass Batman panel I have ever seen
"Do you think I can win?"
"Of course you can win! You're Waylon "Croc" Jones, so let's get up..."
"And Lets Get Back in the fucking ring."
BATMAN IS RIDING A GOD DAMN DRAGON KILLER CROC!
I am geeking so hard that this makes up for my entire shitty week. If ya'll wanna share any other BADASS monster designs, please share!
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A work trip to Fiji. A grumpy Italian pilot. A plane crash. And now… we’re stranded. Half-naked. Together.
I was supposed to scout Fiji for a resort location on one of its many islands, as directed by my New York law firm. Instead, I end up crash-landing on a remote island with Nico—the insanely hot, infuriatingly alpha pilot who makes brooding look like an art form.
My eyes are injured. I can’t see a thing. And now I have to rely on him.
He feeds me. Bathes me. Guides me through the jungle like I’m his to protect. His to touch. His to tease.
There’s no one around. Just the ocean, the heat, and the tension that won’t stop building.
We’re filthy. We’re wet. We’re always half-naked.
And we’re starting to lose control.
The line between survival and seduction? Yeah… that vanished days ago.
Now it’s just him and me—giving in, giving up, and giving each other everything.
This isn’t just a tropical escape. This is Blue Lagoon with bite. Dirty, delicious, and utterly savage.
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