SuperQueeros! for October 3, 2018

Shatterstar, Valkyrie, and Hecate! Oh my! SuperQueeros: all that's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer in comics today!

Shatterstar #1
Shatterstar gets a gritty mini-series to close out twenty-gayteen! That's right, this former champion of mojoo's gladatorial battles has become... a landlord?

Asguardians of the Galaxy #2
Valkyrie, Frog Thor, and the rest of the team have their work cut out for them as they take on a super charged Nebula!

Wonder Woman & Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour #1
It's October, and that means that DC is giving us a weekly series where Hecate, the witch-goddess, is activating all the stores of eldritch power that she has kept across the earth so that she can battle the monsters from whom she stole that power! Her first stop?/ Diana, Princess of the Amazons!

Steven Universe: Harmony #3

It's Pearl's turn to take on Steven's role at band practice!

Archie #699

Archie looks back on the last few storylines as the series prepares to celebrate issue #700!

Harley Quinn #51
Harley's time-tossed anti-fascist charge is running amok in the present day! Can she return Captain Triumph to his original timeline, or will he take his fascist punching to the next level?

Justice League #9It's an issue of quiet moments as Diana helps expand the League HQ.

Deadpool #5Deadpool fights zombies at the mall!

SuperQueeros! for September 26, 2018

Diana saves everyone, Xena looks into the future, and Iceman gets closer to going back into the closet! SuperQueeros: all that's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer in comics today!

Justice League Dark #3

Diana discovers a new power, just in time to save her team!

Wonder Woman #55

Once Diana sorts out the wayward Amazons, will she take it upon herself to change the Amazonian world order?

Xena Warrior Princess #8

Xena and Gabrielle shake down the Oracle at Delphi!

Transformers: Lost Light #24

It's the end of the universe as we know it! How will this story end??

The Wicked and the Divine 1373

It's the final historical special!

Extermination #3

Shatterstar joins the fight!

X-Men Blue #36

Iceman and the team tie up loose ends!

Harbinger Wars 2 Aftermath #1

Find out where the cards fall and how the survivors pick them up!

SuperQueeros! for July 25, 2018

SuperQueeros: all that's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer in comics today!

Lumberjanes #52

The underground half of the team finally breaks the surface, while the board gaming group is hostage to unbroken tension!

Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #22

Aphra's exes meet in a junkyard filled with monsters! Can Aphra save her exes without sacrificing herself?

X-Men Blue #32

Can the OG five stop Magneto's descent into villainy? Solicits for October say no!

Transformers Lost Light #21

Something wicked this way comes!

Wonder Woman #51 and Justice League Dark #1

Steve Orlando pens a story of transformation for Diana, and then James Tynion IV gives her a team of misfit magicians!

Hellblazer #24

John decides to die so that he can save his ex.

Infinity Wars Prime

What's Loki up to now?

Deadpool: Assassin #4

Deadpool continues to clean-up the mean streets of Marvel!

SuperQueeros! for July 24th, 2013

I don't know about you, but I am totes excited for Uncanny Avenger's rebirth of a 'queero! Plus, the next issue of Young Avengers, Morning Glories, and more! Dang, it's a good week to be... SuperQueeros: all that's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, transgender, and queer in comics today!

Uncanny Avengers #10

Look who's baaaack!!! Its Daken!!!! I wonder what his cool new Horseman of the Apocalypse powers will be? Think his pheromones are toxic now? Or his healing factor can turn into a spaceship? Maybe he has projectile claws!!! Anyway, Im pretty sure we won't be getting any assimilationist rhetoric from the son of Wolverine; hopefully everyone else will follow his lead too!

Young Avengers #8

With Prodigy now in tow, the team is ready for their dimension-hopping escapades to begin! The solicit says the "Journey into Mystery fans are going to squee their tiny heads off. I wonder what that could mean for the team's first blunder across space-time barriers?

Morning Glories #29

Now that Casey is back/dead, it's time for a NEW ASSIGNMENT! What is the status quo this season???

A Distant Soil #41

Bringing new (ish) meaning to the word "flamer", this queer-positive book is entering a new chapter. Now that the hierarchy is defeated, the good guys have to navigate a world of factional conflicts. #justlikeSyria :(

Justice League Dark #22

The JLD fights other Justice Leagues in the Trinity War!

Teen Titans #22

The teens fight Trigon in Manhattan!

Army of Darkness vs. Hack/Slash #1

Cassie and Ashley team up to take on the Deadite masses!

SuperQueeros! for April 24th, 2013

The return of a classic queer comic and the beginning of the next chapter in one of today's hottest queer-inclusive series. Plus, more Young Avengers!! It's a great week to be... SuperQueeros: all that's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, transgendered, and queer in comics today!

A Distant Soil #39

I haven't ever read this series, but, according to it's Wikipedia page, it was one of the first comics to feature queer characters. Also according to Wikipedia, the debut of the series was with WaRP Graphics in 1983, its current run with Image started in 1996, and issue #38 came out in 2007, so it's been a long, sweet ride for this seminal comic. Looks like this is the week to see what the hype is all about!!!

Morning Glories #26

Season 2 starts here! Can Cassie save EVERYBODY?

Young Avengers #4

Hawkeye shows up and Marvel Boy's history gets "shamelessly ret-conned"!! (This series is AWESOME. Did you see that Miss America Chavez has two moms???)

Teen Titans #19

The solicit says that a Titan shows his/her true colors: looks like this terrible Red Robin story is shifting into high gear!

Justice League Dark #19

The Flash helps defend the House of Mystery!

Invincible #102

William probably won't be in this issue, but you never know!

True Blood #12

...and who KNOWS if Lafayette will be in this one!

SuperQueeros! for January 30th, 2013

It's only the last Wednesday of January, and already it's time for the Colt-est cover of 2013!

X-treme X-men #9

Hercules and Howlett kiss-wrastle! Well, maybe not, but the solicit says that the (former?) boyfriends do go "head to head." I'm just using fan-license to decide which "head" they're talking about. ;D Oh, and didn't Dazzler die last issue? Meh, I'm sure she'll recover. She is, just like Howlett, the best at what she does. And what he does is Herc, while what she does is revive, then kill her post-apocalyptic doppleganger and take her mirrored combat heels. #hot

Invincible #100

Speaking of killing people who look like you, this book started when Mark's father, Omniman, turned evil and killed a bunch of people. Now, in the final issue of "The Death of Everyone", Mark is faced with a similar choice. Will he follow in his father's human-massacring footsteps????

Justice League Dark #16

Trapped in a world without magic, JLD is a JOKE. Let's just hope they're not a killing joke!

True Blood #9

The werewolf invasion comes to an end!

Hack/Slash #23 

The final girl army continues to fight it's war on slashers!

SuperQueeros! for January 2nd, 2013

HAPPY NEW YEAR! And to ring in the new year, here's this week's queer-inclusive titles:

Teen Titans #15

While the Robins are busy with this "Death in the Family" tie-in, Arsenal takes over the Titans? That sounds bad! But Batgirl will be in this issue too, so it's automatically perfect!

Justice League Dark #15

The team is hopping dimensions to save Zatanna and that lil' Havok-esque Gary Stu they've been towing around. Hopefully Madame X can set everything to rights. (Lol, j/k, she's totes gonna Cassandra everything so it's way worse and much more exciting!)

Invincible #99

Dunno if William Clockwell and his boyfriend Rick Sheridan are in this epic battle (titled "The Death of Everyone"), but if not at least there's a giant mutant T-rex!

SuperQueeros! for October 24th, 2012

It's m'birthday! And it looks like the comics industry knew exactly what I wanted!

Husbands #1

OKAY. Everyone stay calm! It's here, it's happening, and it's $0.99: the first issue of the six-issue Husbands cross-time caper! Buy it at digital.darkhorse.com. The limited series starts with Cheeks, Brady, and Haley getting a mysterious wedding present that whisks them off to the first of six different parallel universes, Exiles-style. And since it's written by Jane Espenson and Brad Bell, you know it HAS to be awesome! #justwhatIalwayswanted!

X-treme X-men #5

The second half of the Howlett-centric adventure continues! At the end of last issue, Dazzler, Nightcrawler, BalloonXavier, BabyHowlett, and Mr. and Mrs. Howllet were holed up in a shack in the middle of the desert as evil, cowpoke versions of Cyke, Sabretooth, Colossus, and Danger charged toward them! And where's Howlett in all this you ask? Riding with the baddies! Since his adamantine skull protects him from psychic assault, how did EvilXavier get James to switch sides? And will he be able to find his way back so that the crew can off EvilXavier, save lil' Howlett, and scoot? (Also, did you see Greg Pak's awesome #SignsYoSonIsGay tweet? And the cover for issue #9???)

Astonishing X-men #55

Karma, Northstar, et al. continue their fight against Karma's evil half sister Hitachi. But is Iceman really dead, or was his untimely demise in a vat of molten metals simply a ruse by Northstar to rid his body of Hitachi's nanobots? And is Tiger Tyger for realsies going to let these X-n000bs take over her island??

National Comics: Xanadu #1

Finally, a new solo title for my fav Cassandra! Madame X is an all-seeing attorney in this re-imagining of the awesome, occasionally bisexual character. And while following her exploits here is a bit like following DCnU Constantine ("Well the character is explicitly queer in SOME universe."), I'm still going for it! Plus, I really like the concept of a shifting anthology that publishes one issue of each story every four months. #itsmyparty

Justice League Dark #13

The House of Secrets vs. the House of Mystery! That's all you need to say for me! I'm all in!

Teen Titans #13

Cassie continues to kill her armor-stealing ex. I wonder what bunker is up to?

Hack/Slash #19

This story APPEARS to be less "Class Comics" and more "thoughtful reversal of horror tropes", but I'll let you be the judge.

SuperQueeros! for September 26th, 2012

Last month saw the birth of a new SuperQueero in the form of Captain James Howlett (what's up with these space-time-jumping captains, eh?) and this month we (hopefully!) get to find out if DCnU John Constantine has as fluid of a sexuality as his Vertigo counterpart!

Cowboys Are Frequently
Secretly Fond of Each Other

X-treme X-men #4

After last month's reveal of Captain Howlett's feelings for his dimension's Hercules I have a lot of questions! Luckily, it looks like this week we're going to get some answers: The X-treme Xavier Hunters (too soon, Marvel) are heading to a dimension that looks a lot like Howlett's past, including a younger, twinkier version of himself. With the opportunity to show baby-James that it really does get better, will the Captain help his younger self vanquish some foes? Or maybe capture someone's heart??? Hopefully we'll get both!!

Angel and Faith #14

Hey, guys, have Angel, Faith, and Connor ever met Dark Willow? I mean, Angel has definitely met Vampire Willow, but there were no crossovers in Season 6 and Angel was a baddie in Season 8, so... I don't think anyone of these n00bs knows what "their Willow on magic" looks like. Well now that they brought Wills to a hell dimension and juiced her up on some native pixie juice they are definitely going to become very well acquainted with the dark master of the Buffy-verse! The only questions are: Will they be able to bring back good Will?  Will she regain her new magics when she leaves Quor'toth? And will she manage to kill off Connor before she becomes a goody-goody again???

Justice League Dark #0

THIS IS THE DECIDING ISSUE! Yes, I have drawn a line in the sand. This issue focuses on John Constantine's origin and to me this story can only have one of two possible outcomes. The first is that they drop some sort of reference to John having a past same-sex relationship, or a queer identity, and I become a life-long DCnU-Constantine fan. The second option is that they make no mention of John being anything other than straight, or dismiss it with some sort "it was a phase" line, in which case I'm droppin' JC-fandom like a hot, surly potato! So, Mr. Lemire, in the words of RuPaul, "Don't f*** it up!"

Teen Titans #0

Red Robin's new origin. Yaaaaaawn... But, we also get Skitter and Bunker's origins, which is a much more exciting prospect! I'm continually pissed that the Karmas, Xavins, and Skitters of the world get beaten up, "killed", and written off of books because people don't want to write them. So I'm hoping that this issue will shed some light on the mysterious origin of Skitter's powers and set the stage for her triumphal return to the Teen Titans! And, on the 'queero side of things, maybe we'll get the reveal of Bunker's boyfriend!!

Astonishing X-Men #54

Woooo! Karma's on the cover!!! Maybe she will even do something this issue! And by "do something" I mean "kick butt", not "be used like a puppet by a super-villain (even if that super-villain is another API woman)". Because I'm tired of it being otherwise!!! Oh, and Northstar will probs continue to be awesome while wrecking his marriage.

SuperQueeros! for August 22nd, 2012

Did you guys see the edits to last week's SuperQueeros? Oh my gosh, there were 'queeros pouring out of the woodworks! This week is a little bit more sedate (I assume!). It must be going for quality over quantity:

Astonishing X-Men #53

More Northstar-centric goodness! Also, I just tried to call Northstar "'Star" and realized that that is the nickname of another gay male Marvel superhero, Shatterstar. So, in the Marvel Universe Theory of Queerness, queer ladies are rainbows and queer gentlemen are stars! (And queer trans heroes, heroically scoffing at the chains of a gender binary, are written off of their books. #notbitter #bringbackxavin) 

Also Karma! And did you guys catch New Mutants last week???? Yeah. Horrible. Alternate-Universe-Face FRIED HER. UGH!!!!! But she's kicking butt in this book! (I pray...)

I, Vampire #12

Stormwatch guests! Apollo shoots stuff with his hands!

Justice League Dark #12

The team is split up! "Blackbriar Thorn" is the name of a character!

Teen Titans #12

Wonder Girl's armor is still rampage-y!

SuperQueeros! for July 25th, 2012

Two of my favorite queer characters showed up again last month!!!! Willow and Daken are rocking new books and, with only one back issue to pick-up, we should all go check them out!

Angel & Faith #12

Willow's teaming up with the Angel-verse (Faith, Angel, and Connor) to go to a hell (Quor-Toth) to try and bring back magic! Meanwhile, it looks like Giles' nieces are going to have to take care of some unwanted vampire thieves before they can get back to their TOWIE marathon.

Uncanny X-Force #28
Last issue the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants revealed itself: AoA Blob, Sabretooth, The Shadow King, Skinless Man (uhh... gross), the Omega Gang (Omega Red + buddies????), Genesis (but I wanted Good-pocalypse!), and... MYSTIQUE WITH DAKEN AS THE LEADER!!!!! OMG,  this book just got amazing-er!!!!!!!!!!! Except that they killed Gateway, which is the crap-est thing anyone has ever done. #racialprofiling

Astonishing X-Men #52 
The honeymoon has to be put on hold! Last month Kyle and Jean-Paul were the first gay superheroes to tie the knot (on page -- unless we ever saw Apollo and Midnighter's nuptials? In which case I NEED THAT ISSUE!), but this month it's time to get back to the crisis at hand and find out who's making Karma crazy so we can help her kick its butt! And maybe her kick-as leg will kick some as too! (Also, has anyone noticed how often Karma just disappears only to get her brain taken over by evil psychics? You would think people would have started wondering if she were okay when she wandered off, rather than waiting until she crash landed back into their X-lives. Or maybe they should use her like a plot trouble detector to find evil psychics...)

Teen Titans #11
Wonder Girl's armor puts its plans into action and attacks the "teens"! (Come on, none of these people act or look like teens.)

True Blood #3
Vampires and stuff and Lafayette!

Justice League Dark #11
Yeah, I read last month's issue and I still don't understand the solicit. Evidently "secrets" are "revealed"? Yeah, riiiiight. Only if this is the last issue in the series! Duh!

SuperQueeros! for June 27th, 2012

Justice League Dark #10

So the cover of this issue shows five characters: Zatanna, Black Orchid, Deadman, Andrew Bennet, and Constantine. Together that's about 1.5 characters that I'm interested in (or CTIII. Also, is Constantine bi in the DCnU???). But the solicit says that Madame X(anadu) is still on the team, which would bump the CTIII up to around a 3.5. PLUS, their new HQ is House of Mystery. Not sure how that's going to play out, but HoM is one of my favs, so I'm 150% going to look at this book. #proveyourself

Teen Titans #10

Secrets 'n' stuff! Maybe we'll get to see what's happened to Skitter! Bunker stands up to Robin! Solstice gets some screen time! Speaking of Solstice, when is she getting her light powers back? But I am loving that they're staying with the costumes from The Culling! So cool!

Superqueeros! for May 23rd, 2012

It's one month until Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 come out in Japan and Pokemon Conquest comes out in the States! I am SALIVATING.

Meanwhile, the queers in comics this week are:

Astonishing X-Men #50

This title made news not only on the interwebs, but also The View! I have to had to the Marvel marketing team: if you want to start building a female audience (and a Marjorie Liu title is probably the best place to do that since she's (1) amazing and (2) writes a sexy Gambit) announcing a yaoi wedding on The View seems like a great way to go! So this must be the engagement issue... But if Kyle is going to off himself like we saw in the flash-forward last issue, how's he gonna show up to his wedding???

True Blood #1

The hit series (and multiple hit mini-series) gets its own on-going!

Justice League Dark #9

New writer, new team, and a new direction. I just wish Xanadu were along for the ride...

Teen Titans #9

The Culling ends! And leads directly into this month's Ravagers #1!

SuperQueeros! for April 25th, 2012

I'm giving two shout-outs to non-queero titles this week because the first book in this list has me SO ECSTATICALLY HAPPY!

Astonishing X-Men #49

X-Men fighting Mauraders, check. Connections to a character's shady past, check. Damsel in distress, che- Wait a minute! It's not a damsel, it's Kyle Northstar's-fan-favorite-boyfriend who's in trouble! And the charcater with the shady connection to the Mauraders is, for once, not Gambit! (Even though he is also in this title!!!) It's all Northstar, all the time in Marjorie Liu's newest homerun series and, if you've seen the solicit for issue #51, you can guess that that spotlight is not going to abate until we've got a happy ending for Marvel's first and foremost gay X-couple!

Justice League Dark #8 / I, Vampire #8

It's the end of the crossover! John's going back into Hell (remember, he was just there in his eponymous other-line title?) to get the vampire cavalry while Xanadu makes a deal with the powers that be and Shade and Zatanna struggle to survive the vampire hordes! To subdue this uprising, however, our characters are going to have to "change the face of sorcery forever!" Fingers crossed that that means getting Constantine a boyfriend again!

New Avengers #25
The Iron Fist finds out his magic kung fu can host the Phoenix Force! Or something. Will Victoria be in this issue now that she's a good guy again?????

Teen Titans #8
Now that they saved Superboy, it's time to save Wonder Girl! I love that they have rainbow Tron costumes!!!!

SHOUT OUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Archie Marries Valerie, Part 2!!! I've read those Life with Archie titles and trust me, Val's the best choice, Archie! (Besides Jugghead, of course)
Warlords of Mars! No reason and definitely not solely because of the cover! NOPE! Not because of that!

SuperQueeros! for March 28th, 2012

Soooo... MY GOODNESS! This is a very exciting week! Seminal pansexual solo title ends, amazing queer-team story arc begins, a crossover means I'm mentioning a new DC title for the first time... And that's only half of the books below!

Astonishing X-Men #38

First, the good news: Karma and Northstar, on a team together, kicking butt on the streets of NYC: AWESOME. And with Marjorie Liu scribing? CRAZY AWESOME!!! Liu is so good that she even makes me like Gambit, so I am unable to detect any flaws in this book. Honestly, I have been looking forward to this book for three months, three looong months of being starved for a good Karma storyline, and BAM, it's finally here and my life is complete! It really does get better... #tear #buyit #robotleg

Daken: Dark Wolverine #23

Now the sad news: it's Daken's final issue! I really hope he gets swept up into a team title, because he is just... so awesome. And if he dies this issue... right after Stature bit the dust this month... I'm going to have to go down to Marvel and propose "AvX2: Stature and Daken Return!" until I'm blue in the face (or until I spew out a sell-able storyline and they say yes, which ever comes first). But honestly, I hope this issue rocks as hard as Stephanie Brown's last Batgirl issue.

Justice League Dark #7/I, Vampire #7

CROSSOVER TIME: As of I, Vamp #6 the DCnU has been over-run by crazy vampires, and this crossover flows directly out of that. Madame Xanadu knows this sh!t ain't right, but what she doesn't know is how to survive in the new status quo. Will her she be able to lead her team to victory, or is she going to have to consult with a certain heroic vampire to right the world? (It's definitely the latter you guys. #spoilers)

Teen Titans #7

It's The Wall (and the Teen Titans) against N.O.W.H.E.R.E.! They have a super-boy to break out of the top secret, evil, child-altering organization and they're going to need all their psychic bricks to do it! (I would also like to take a moment to look at the Wall's powers: mind-powered strength. It's like the classic girl-power inside, classic boy-power outside. #subtle #butIlikeit)

New Avengers Vol 2 #23

This book is here for Victoria Hand, but I have noooo idea what's up with her these days. Evidently one of the Dark Avengers is going to turn good? My money is on the Hulk's kid.

Archie #631

And finally, what with the recent events regarding the Trayvon Martin case and the excellent point put forth in this Huffington Post article, I'm adding this comic to the list of recommendations. It doesn't have any queer content that I know about, but its focus is on legitimizing an few interracial relationships, and I think the world could use a good message like that right about now.

Plus, Dan Parent is my master. (Sorry, Joss.)

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 January 25th, 2012

So many books this week and this is the only day I'm in the office! Okay, here's a quick run down of the SuperQueeros in stores this week:

Alpha Flight #8

It's the end of the series and the resolution to the Master of the World's machinations! Will Northstar save his boo? Will Kyle have awesome robot powers now???

Justice League Dark #5

Now that Constantine is working with the full team of the JLD will they be able to take out Enchantress? And at what cost??

Daken: Dark Wolverine #20

Resolution for the Donna Kiel relationship! Will Daken be redeemed? Gosh, I sure hope not!

Teen Titans #5

TAKE DOWN SUPERBOY! Can the team beat their own powerhouse? And is Skitter going to be the deus ex machina???

X-Men: Legacy #261

Anole has a cameo AND a line! In a really cute Blindfold scene! And Gambit is a jerk (of course).

SuperQueeros! for December 28th, 2011

The last comics of 2011 are pretty rockin'! Though there aren't any superqueeros in it, I'd recommend checking out Sinister's views on nature vs. nurture in Uncanny X-Men. Also, I'd recommend these killer books:

Avengers: Children's Crusade#8

Almost the end! The solicits say someone dies... Is it Vision, so that Iron Lad can get his armor back? Or Speed, because he's boring? Or Wanda, because they're counting her as a Young Avenger and it looks like that's the way the story is turning? Or maybe it's Billy and then whoever currently has the reality warping powers that drove Wanda crazy will bring him back and then kick the bucket. Yeah, I'm going with that theory. Let's find out if I'm right!

Teen Titans #4

More Bunker, more Bunker, more Bunker! I'm excited! And Superboy and Wonder Girl get in a fight! No doubt they will be in <3s and Robin will be mopey until the awesomeness of the Spoiler comes along! And Bunker will be in the story and punch Superboy! #nice

Alpha Flight #7

Wolvie! The most famous member of Alpha Flight returns to knock some sense into the fascist Canadian government!

Justice League Dark #4

The team comes together! But also, the Enchantress is supes crazy... Will they rescue her from her madness, or lock her up and throw away the key?

Hack/Slash #11

The end of the Women's Prison Breakout story arc!!!

SuperQueeros! for November 23rd, 2011

I give thanks this Thanksgiving for all the LGB boys and girl in comics this week!

Teen Titans #3

The WAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL! I am pretty sure I'm going to love this guy! While most of what I have seen from this comic is Robin's lust for Wonder Girl (Give it up, Cass, it's totes your name. [Also, Tim give it up. Your OTP is still out there {<3 <3 <3 Stephanie!}]), I think the internal conflict of a flaming 'mo from a traditionally macho culture has the potential to create a varied and interesting character. And how bad is it that I think his lack of boobs will mean that he'll be developed as both a person and as Robin's GBF? ... ... It's pretty bad.

Edit: Evidently Avengers: Children's Crusade #8 doesn't come out again until next month! Bi-monthly publishing schedules are the worst!

Daken: Dark Wolverine #17

KAROLIIINAAAAA! Yep, the only lady this week is the incomparable Karolina Dean, beating some sense into the drug-addled Daken. I have to say, I hate the drug-taking that Daken's been doing, but its effect on his healing factor has certainly upped the stakes! Now where's some Mutant Growth Hormone so he can self-medicate the side effects of Heat?

Alpha Flight #6

How bummed are you that this isn't gonna be a continuing series? So bummed, right? I'm all sorts of put out... but this storyline is so boss that I can't complain too much. And if Alpha Flight became a series of miniseries, like The Autority was for a while and like Young Avengers is now, I'd be so down for it! Fingers crossed that Van Lente and Pak can tie our fav canooks into the next event storyline!

Justice League Dark #3
I'm just loving the slow slouch that this book has been bubbling along. And Madame Xanadu! So mysterious! What is she up to??? Does she want to help or hinder the Enchantress? And when are all the disparate pieces of this team going to converge? #soon #excited

SuperQueeros! for October 26th, 2011

Have I ever mentioned how much I love making fictional characters bi? It opens them up for all sorts of storylines, so that they're not locked into being "the only gay in the village" and allows authors explore queer storylines with well-loved characters without changing canon. We've got a lot of ambi- boys and girls this week, and one awesome alien lesbian:

Daken: Dark Wolverine #16

Now that we know who the Claws Killer is and that he's got Donna Kiel we... well, we basically have a classic cliche: hero must save helpless blonde from maniacal homo. I mean sure, this maniacal homo is the ex of our hero, and all three of them are despicable killers, so we're not watching Steve Rogers punch Hitler or anything quite that well-tread, but this is a disappointing return to more archetypal comic book stories for Wolverine's son. Hopefully Karolina Dean and the Runaways will be able to set this situation queer! (Edit: I thought the Runaways were gonna show up at the end but... they didn't! But we WILL see them next issue!)

Hack/Slash #9

Bomb Queen (evil, hates clothes, loves implants), Dr. Weir (presumably also evil, but I've never heard of her. Her views on clothes and implants seem to be the same as Bomb Queen's), and April Fool (might actually like clothes) break out of inter-dimensional prison and attack NYC. Only Cassie Hack stands in their way, and it ain't lookin' like she's rockin' any full body armor this issue either. Oh, and she has to ask for help from Samhein. So... this is going to be one of those "empowering" comics, I guess. #bored

Justice League Dark #2

Madame Xanadu continues to assemble her motley crew to battle the insane Enchantress. Fingers crossed for more John this week!