SuperQueeros! for October 7th, 2015

It's October, and you know what that means! Pumpkins Autumn PSLs Secret Wars is over! SuperQueeros: all that's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, transgender, and queer in comics today!

Avengers #0

Can't wait for your new 'queero-inclusive titles to hit the shelf? Well then pick up this preview of the new post-"God Doom" Avengers line-up. Why are Billy and Teddy joining A.I.M.? What could bring together Galactus and Ms. America Chavez? Find out in this issue!

Midnighter #5

The comic that is blowing up your Tumblr continues as Midnighter and Grayson continue their vampire-slaying vengeance date across Russia! What bon mots and steamy steam room scenes will this book throw at us next?

Detective Comics #45

As the new Batman, Gordon gets to fill a time-honored tradition: joining the Justice League!

SuperQueeros! for March 7th, 2011

So comixology has a preview of Avengers: The Children's Crusade, but no issue seems forth coming. What we do have is new installments of some of the best Queer-inclusive books on the shelf today!

EDIT: AVENGERS THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE CAME OUT TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! READ IT!!!!!!!!!

Stormwatch #7

Last issue ended with the Projectionist revealing the coming of the GRAVITY MINERS! I don't know what that means, or how it will play out (Well? Crappy? Gravity-well?), but it expands the universe of Stormwatch while we wait for the Planetary-esque storyline they established last issue to pick up, so I can't be against it.

And speaking of last issue, I love Paul Jenkins' Midnighter! He's... such a bad-ass! Like, really, truly, the explicitly gay Batman! He even says, "I'm the damn Midnighter!", as if Paul Jenkins were an awesome-r Frank Miller! And Apollo really doesn't suck as much either. In the earlier incarnation of the character he became a sort of shadow to Midnighter, a sub-y muscle bunny good only for kisses and deus ex machina. He's still a little directionless (if he hates superheroes why is he joining Stormwatch???), but I've done stupid things for a boy before, and this cocky Midnighter is seducing ME. What chance does 2-D Apollo have if Midnighter's appeal works on three dimensional people?? Basically I'm loving this reboot, especially now that they offed Adam One.

But, anyway, gravity miners. And stuff.

Avengers Academy #27

The Runaways!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, Chase is alive and Gert isn't. Who KNOWS what Kathryn Immonen's cliffhanger even meant now, but we get an issue of Striker vs. Victor (HOT) and the first reunion of Karolina and Julie Power since the Loners debuted in volume 2 of Runaways! Also HOT!! #fangasm

i, Zombie #23

It's Gwen vs a mad scientist. Maybe some Spot too?

SuperQueeros! for February 22nd, 2012

It's an Avengers assault this week! Avengers: The Children's Crusade wraps up, the who-killed-Jocasta story in Avengers Academy comes to a close, and the JLD take a breath and collect themselves before next month's vampire-apocalypse!

Avengers: The Children's Crusade #9

This is it! The last issue of the Young Avengers series that took the Marvel U from Decimation to the doorstep of AvX! Last issue ended with the supposed death of Stature, but the cover of this issue features every team member except Tommy... With the promise of a new Young Avengers line-up by the end of the issue, and with a reality-warping sorceress in their midst, who knows what fates will befall our heroes!

Sorry, this is next month!

Avengers Academy #26

Jocasta's back to set the record straight: she's not dead! Evidently she faked her own death so that she could join Veil in working for Jeremy Briggs to create an alternative to the Avengers Academy. (Golly, that's a mouthful!) And now she's back to downgrade the systems at the Academy. You know all those cool upgrades she gave to the Windows Professional suite? Yeah, that's her code, and she wants it back. That'll rock the Academy back to the Stone Age, though... think Giant-Man will let her take it back?

Justice League Dark #6

With Enchantress brought back to sanity, the team goes their seperate ways to process the events of the past five issues. Oh, and also they hate each other and are not a team. Hopefully Xanadu will be able to corral them back together before next month's issue though: the team has to help the cast of I, Vampire fend off a vampire-apocalypse!!!

Superqueeros! for April 6th, 2011

Secret Six #32

The story you've been waiting for continues! Ever since issue #6 we've been waiting for Scandal Savage to use her "Get Out of Hell Free" card to bust her sweetie out of the afterlife. But things have gotten a wee bit complicated: Ragdoll stole the card and proceeded to get himself killed, so now, in order to resuscitate Knockout, Scandal and the rest of the Six are going to have to fight a vengeful Ragdoll and an equally irritated demon army! I'm hoping that being in Hell means that the usual consequences to gratuitous violence are suspended and that this will liberate the pen of Gail Simone so that our favorite dastardly villains can be as cruel and inhuman as they brag they are. And that we'll end the story with a hot lesbian kiss over a mountain of corpses! #dreamitbeit

Avengers: The Children's Crusade #5

OMG, it's been 8 months since this story started! Remember when Magneto kidnapped our heroes from the Avengers mansion? Yeah, me neither. This book is like the anti-Brightest Day! It has characters who are not straight white men but it is NEVER published! Come on, Marvel. Jim? Allan? Can't you think of adding some tie-ins at least? That Iron Lad-centric one shot last month was AMAZING! Why can't we get a "Generation Lost"-type story to run parallel to this one? Seriously, just publish one shots of Billy and Teddy's dates every other month and my pay check is ALL YOURS. But until you get to publishing that certain-to-be-GLAAD award-winning series I'll just have to stick to re-reading Children's Crusade over and over again and then googling up some fanfiction... sigh... #BOOKOFTHEMONTH!!!

House of Mystery #36

A lot of cool stuff is happening with Fig and Cain, but they're lost in comic-book-space-time and in need of rescuing. I'm predicting that Tursig will be rallying Fig's friends this month to form a rescue party! 'Cause he's like this rockin' general and stuff now! And maybe he'll find a hulking gay ogre friend! #fingerscrossed Anyway, it's a good title on its own merits too, so even if it's gay-goblin-deficient this month it's still a good buy!

Jessica Jones Getting Her Own TV Series

So I may be a little late to the game with this information, but I just came across the news that our favorite interracial married, journalist, gay fanboy fave super mom Jessica Jones of Avengers fame will be getting her own television series on ABC, under the title AKA Jessica Jones [via G4].

Created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, the character was introduced in 2001 as super-powered private investigator with a retconned origin loosely connected to Spider-Man's, as a woman who gains super strength, durability, and flight after a car accident that killed her family exposed her to radioactive material. However, after a less than successful stint as a costumed hero called Jewel, her present was shown as a gritty career in street clothes as owner of Alias Private Investigations. With a relationship to Marvel hero Luke Cage (who is rumored to be in the running for a movie,) that results in their marriage, as well as a stint with the New Avengers, Jessica's ran quite a gamut in just under decade. As the report describes her TV character:

"Jessica, now in her early 30s, decides to keep far away from others gifted with superpowers and to open her own detective agency. But once she settles down, she realizes she still has a drive to help people -- and finds herself assisting other superheroes."

We could possibly be in store for a show with a bad-ass female who, unlike the others we see on TV and movies, isn't all that self-assured and carries an ambivalence with which audiences might identify. While she'll undoubtedly be gorgeous and sexual, and her superpowers may be larger than life, her day-to-day problems may not necessarily be the hybrid of the plot of some Bond film and a Penthouse forum letter. In fact, Rosenberg describes her new show's character as "deeply flawed but with a biting sense of humor."

I'm really excited at the news that Jessica is getting her own series. Jones was one of my favorite characters in the early days of Young Avengers when she was a surrogate mom of sorts to the super powered teenagers (and the object of much fanboy love from Billy and Teddy). Now that she has a kid of her own, her supermom priorities have been focused on keeping her super baby safe and returning to the superhero life as a part of the New Avengers. Particularly interesting with this announcement is that Marvel is choosing to shine some focus on some of its tangential characters who aren't the big hitters of the Marvel Universe, but nevertheless have strong fan support.

Here's hoping AKA Jessica Jones is also known as a great tv show!

SuperQueeros! for November 10th, 2010

It's all Natalie Imbruglia up in my mind: on the one hand, the third issue of the hex-annual Children's Crusade ships this week!!!!! On the other hand, it's the only comic book out this week that features LGBT characters. So, we definitely have all our eggs of awesome in one basket. But it's a really sexy basket!

Avengers: Children's Crusade #3

The Scarlet Witch has been found! Now it's time for infighting while we get the back story of what the heck she's been doing and how she ended up with Doom! At least, I hope that's what we're in store for... The solicit just talks about Wolverine fighting Wonder Man (is that awesome? It sounds kind of awesome...), Quicksilver fighting Magneto (...why?), and the Avengers fighting the Young Avengers (again: hunh?). I understand that good-guy-only battles are a mainstay of the superhero genre, but this book only comes out once every two months. If there isn't actually a story to tell, why is it taking so long to tell it????

Counterpoint: Billy x Teddy.

Objection sustained, case rested, verdict: Avengers: Children's Crusade is #awesome. #buyit

Whedon to Direct Avengers Movie

Holy shit balls, it's official: Joss Whedon is directing The Avengers movie. It was just recently announced at San Diego Comic-Con that geeklebrity director/writer/producer most famous for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and most recently Doctor Horrible's Sing-a-long Podcast (we're going to collectively choose to forget that Dollhouse ever existed... just like how they only made three Star Wars movies... right? right?) will be directing Marvel's pan-franchise megapic about the giant super-team.

While the team roster is still up in the air, with Joss on board we should be assured at least a few strong, well-written, female characters. As we had previously discussed on Scarlet Betch, the current Marvel film franchises eligible for Avenger status is nearly exclusively male. Mainstream American audiences have only just been introduced to Black Widow in Iron Man II, with no other canonical female heroes being featured in current Avenger franchises.

Gender politics aside, i am so flippin' excited. Ever since Whedon parted ways on his much publicized early attachment to the perennially rumored Wonder Woman movie, we haven't seen much on him in the movie world. He seemed to have disappeared from the face of the planet for a series of months when Eliza Dushku was also suddenly unaccounted for... but we are all pleased to hear that the master has returned.

Now, the big question is... which main character is he going to kill off? My guess is Jarvis. It's always the unassuming morale core that gets killed in Whedon media.

Whedon to Direct 'Avengers' movie, Fanboys Across the World Squeel in Unison

It's all over the interwebs, geeklebrity director and writer Joss Whedon is close to being tapped to direct Marvel's big blockbuster gamble, "The Avengers". The film is intended to bring together Marvel's upcoming superhero franchises together including the wildly successful Iron Man franchise (Robert Downey Jr.), and several big-budget films in development including Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and the recently announced Captain America (Chris Evans). The film is also likely to feature a black Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) as he appears as SHIELD head honcho in Iron Man 2.

While I'm thrilled that Joss Whedon is getting his chompers into a comic book film project after the unfortunate fate of his Wonder Woman project, I'm less thrilled about the starting line-up of Avengers. So far the successful superhero movies that have been produced in this resurgence in interest in the genre has largely been male heroes. Spiderman, Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Captain America, Iron Man, Daredevil, The Spirit, the list goes on and on of male characters making it to the silver screen. Attempts at breaking this glass ceiling for leading ladies has been a mix bag. X-men was fairly diverse with women often taking central roles in the films, but directorial falters led to an unfortunate wasteland of mutant drivel. And I won't even dignify Jennifer Garner's Elektra with more than a passing mention.

Joss Whedon's shtick since his entree with Buffy the Vampire Slayer is kick-ass girl power. So here's hoping that we get some lead females into this line-up of Avengers. Scarlet Johanson's turn as the Black Widow in Iron Man 2 looks intriguing, but I'm hoping for some of the other Avengerettes to come out of the woodwork. Here's my wishlist:

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