So, My Nephew Gave Me This Spider-Man Drawing He Had Spent All Day In Kindergarten Putting His Soul In

Originally made in March for a friend, updated 2023-11-25 for the 60th Anniversary cause I had no other ideas that would have been able to be finished in time

Aaand 7/7

Belated Jack Kirby-Tribute! Late Happy 105th! Don’t really feel he gets as much recognition as the Co-Creator of many characters among fans as he might deserve. Not as many talks about him as they do Stan Lee Yeah, due to his many apperances, everybody knows and loves Stan but he just did half of the work, maybe less. Sometimes, he just left the a note ”make them fight this guy” and Jack had to evolve the plot from there. With dynamic poses and impressive amount of details, Kirby drew many classic characters and designed big names like Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man, Ant-Man and The Wasp, Thor and The Hulk and even the one that got to assemble them all as The Avengers in their first fight against Loki. Or design the first ever big Cosmic threath, Galactus, the planet-eater. And the nine realms of Asgard or the mysterious Negative Zone! Or introduce Black Panther, Marvel’s first black Superhero and the nation of Wakanda. Even back in the 40s when Stan Lee picked up lunch or refilled the ink, Jack together with Joe Simon were the ones that created Captain America AND the one to draw his return to the modern times. And during his time at DC, he created and wrote the New Gods who happens to involve Darkseid himself, who has the held the title of DC’s Big bad ever after and together with fellow New God Metron, the inspirations for Marvel’s Thanos. After that, he returned to Marvel and not really effected but created the lore of the origin of Marvel Universe with Eternals and Celestials, who had a hand in creating the universe itself and giving mankind the ability to develope superpowers. TL;DR fans of these characters and their stories have a lot to thank this man for . Open for Commissions! If you thought this was good, please leave a like, check out my other stuff and why not leave a comment. . #fanart #digitalart #jackkirby #jackkingkirby #theking #tribute #captainamerica #eternals #newgods #orion #mrmiracle #bigbarda #darkseid #hulk #thor #ikaris #xmen #cyclops #jeangrey #marvelgirl #fantasticfour #mrfantastic #invisiblewoman #invisiblegirl #antman #thewasp #antmanandthewasp #blackpanther (på/i Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiAAceksT2R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

So! Finished Double Exposure!

Well, I liked it. I really enjoyed it! It was super fun to play as Max again and I plan to play again and hunt for all achievements.

But damn, I don’t want to sit and complain and make it out that I hate this and “they ruined Max” “they ruined Life is Strange” but it felt like too little, too late.

I had such an emotional journey playing the first game and well, I was heartbroken afterwards. Cause well, the first game is about Max reconnecting with her childhood friend as they investigate together. And you get to learn Chloe alongside Max as they spend time together. Stuff like, hanging out in her room, break into the school and mess around in the junkyard. So when the final decision arrives, it becomes more personal and feels emotional and intentional that you have to choose between two awful options for this town you have come to know or the girl you come to know.

And after that, I needed closure, which I found throughout the comics. Double Exposure could have been that… if it came out sooner.

Double Exposure feels smaller. You spend all the time at any of the buildings around Campus and you get to know Safi in the same chapter that she dies. The rest of the game is more of a detective story on how she will actually die but when that moment comes, I know more about her and the context, but I don’t actually feel that much closer to her cause an amount of that time between, you never get to meet her and when you do, she’s pissed at you.

I wasn’t as invested in Max’s, Safi’s and Maya’s story. I didn’t get to spend time with Safi until they worked together to expose Lucas which wasn’t satisfying as it was for… a handful of students. "No, my career is over!" Is it tho...?

The stories felt similar in yeah, you help Safi get revenge for Maya the same way as Chloe and Rachel but it felt that Rachel’s disappearance had more of an effect. You learned what she meant to Chloe an you saw her reaction to finding the body as well as Max going through the same torture. Here it felt more like, you’re told what happened to Maya, you kind of saw how people felt but it was so long before Max arrived so they have calmed down about it and I never got dragged into the emotional pull of it.

Well, you understand it was wrong, Lucas stole her work and got famous and she ended herself which is really dark, mature and grounded but when the story wraps up, the end-result ends up being of something that happened without you around so it just felt like Max was an outsider all the time solving other people’s problems.

Max was an outsider in the first one as well but she was closer in the sense as Rachel became this replacement for her and she learns how her appsense hurt Chloe and she works to make up for that lost time during the game. She’s an outsider to everyone except Chloe, where she instead got pushed out of her life and slowly tries to get back in and I was curious on how the relationship would change once they found Rachel.

It didn’t feel Max had anything to lose in this story. She was at the right place at the right time and the right skills to fix it. She also had the maturity of a 28-year old instead of an 18-year old so the climax wasn’t the same emotional rollercoaster. She met her friends, she discovered how to help and crossed them off her to-do-list.

It was fun, I will play it again, I will draw it alot and curious on Max’s next adventure but my opinion in the end can, once again, get summarised in “too little, too late”

And yet another Saturday-upload that was planned as a Friday. And the one thing this week that was planned for a set deadline and didn’t actually meet it.

But last year I did a random Winter-Max-thing and I thought it was fun how much I got right with the release of Double Exposure. That green jacket (even if a lot less detailed, I had just discovered my interest in fashion), those yellow-ish gloves, the overall winter-theme and cosy forest.

Not the scarf tho, and she apparently still kept the sweatshirt… which she only uses under the jacket… so a LOT of layers to keep herself warm. I did plan to make the hat yellow as well to match the glow but thought it would be fun for her to just borrow Chloe’s blue one.

But yeah, just me once again wondering how I became a gardener and not a professional… concept artist? Brainstormer? Coffeemaker? Chair? IF I HAD A COIN for every random thing I find myself predicting to my interests, I could buy myself a singular chocolate bar.