Blogs Against Humanity - Adventures in Sympathetic Misanthropy

  With Zuck tucking-tail and deciding to improve Facebook by transforming it from a "frustrating social-media platform" to "a wretched hive of scum and villainy" I've decided to move my usual posting shenanigans to Bluesky, and to make more frequent use of this blog and make it something other than a repository of long-form thoughts on horror-flicks. We'll see how that turns out, but in the meantime, have something new and non-horror related. So, I've been a fan of Superman (and comics in general) since I was a young child. I've also drawn since I could hold a pencil in my hand, and I'm mostly self-taught.  However, I've been dealing with slowly worsening Carpal Tunnel Syndrome over the past 15 years or so, which has made drawing a tiring experience. And even before that years of chronic depression slowly but surely chipped away at my desire to draw at all, but I managed to refocus my creative energies into Transformers customizin...

So, there are gonna be some spoilers . Let me sum up the overall plot just a bit. At Superman's urging, the Justice League, fearing an all-out invasion by Darkseid, decide to strike first in an attempt to destroy Apokolips itself. The attack fails utterly, and Earth is devastated by Darkseid's forces. Two years later, with the planet facing complete annihilation, a now-powerless Superman, alongside Raven of the Teen Titans, has a plan to defeat Darkseid for good. To do that, they're going to need the aid of John Constantine, who seems determined to drink himself to death. Hoo boy. That was definitely a thing that happened. The Apokolips War is a relentlessly-grim action-vehicle that out-Snyder's Zack Snyder, and asks the all-important question, "How many recognizable characters can we kill with extreme brutality?" Add the odd bit of humor here-and-there, and some (largely stilted) touching moments, and there you go. The whole thing is driven by what the plot-...