Fan Art Friday II - Aang's Yoga Revenge

Just wanted to point everyone to the blog of my first yoga teacher. She just taught a Halloween-themed yoga class and one of her yogis rocked an Avatar Aang costume!
Amazing, right??? What are you going as for Halloween? I know Jason has some spectacular plans!

Fan Art Friday: Jason Todd

Yet another great piece by Jemma Salume. Some of the most innovative use of lettering I've seen It's really quite beautiful. I've never been a fan of Jason Todd as Robin or after, but this makes me want to read more bat books. Click to embiggen. [source]

SuperQueeros! for October 27th, 2010

X-Men: Curse of the Mutants - X-Men vs. Vampires #2

KARMA STORY! The traditional annual collection of X-Men character vignettes has rolled around to it's requisite queer story, and it's about KARMA! I've definitely been missing my monthly Karma-inclusive stories ever since New Mutants started ignoring its X-men to focus on Project Purgatory, so this is going to be like a rainstorm in the desert for me! And it's about her being in Weight Watchers (BEST NOD TO THE 80s EVER) and having a metal leg (THANK YOU FOR FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGING IT) and checking out the sexy ladies! So basically it's amazing. #getit

X-Men: Legacy #241

The conclusion to the Dubai story! Anole + Loa + butt-kicking = AWESOME. I can't wait to see what happens to Luz (is she going to become a cast member for the new book? Is she going to be an X-Ally, thereby mitigating or ending the threat of the Children of the Vault?) and how Magneto and Rogue end their trip together. I figure that they won't hate each other, given that Magneto is getting his own continuing series, but I'm also hoping they don't hook-up. Now that Rogue can control her powers she should go find some GOOD love interests! #Anole!!!

Wildcats #28

So the world is basically exploding around our heroes right now as Gaia tries to kill everything, Ladytron has resurrected a robot army to take on the Spirit of the Earth, and those not on damage control are trying to find a new Doctor quickly who can cure the planet and set things to rights. Midnighter has so far been MIA in this new storyline, but Apollo is at ground zero, fighting to keep Gaia at bay. Hopefully we'll get some character development for him this issue? #notlikely

JSA #44

New creative team!!! Obsidian isn't featured on the cover or the variant cover, so I'm not holding my breath for his inclusion in this title, but it was his last known team affiliation. Hopefully he's included and used, and the spotlight he and his father had last issue wasn't a farewell issue to placate fanboys and fangirls. #fingerscrossed

Wonder Woman #604

AWESOME! Another story arc resolution this week as JMS's first Wonder Woman tale closes out. NewDiana faces down the man who re-wrote reality and turned her world (and ours!) upside-down! I don't usually advocate misandry but, Diana, KICK HIM IN THE BALLS!

Madame Xanadu #28

It's the last of the Five Senses as Xanadu helps a chibopath (see Chew) who's starving from all the stories she's eating! MX continues to be a very entertaining read, though I'm not sure what aspect made it a GLAAD nominee last year... ALSO: next month is THE SIXTH SENSE!!!!!!!!

Fan-Art Friday: Lady Dazzler

Erica Henderson who is a Project Rooftop frequent contributor recently did a series of Lady Gaga inspired Dazzler fan art. I've been of the opinion that Dazzler has desperately needed an update from her rollerdisco past, and Henderson knocks it square on the head of the nail!

Funnily enough, I recently ran an X-men themed role playing game where the player characters attended a Dazzler concert in Mutant Town, where we all called her Lady Dazzdazz informally. haha! Great minds think a like, eh? [source for more]

Bullying, Suicide, and Superheroes

The January 2011 solicitations are out and Marvel's shows a very interesting development: two X-Factor books in one month, one of them dedicated to bullying-related suicide! With teen suicide the current rallying cry of queer-related politics, it will be especially interesting to see what the details of this story are. Will the bullying have been homophobia related?

X-Factor has

the highest percentage of queer characters in a single book on the market today, so it has heroes who would be personally affected by a queer-centric soryline. The only thing I know for certain is that, with the consummate Peter David at the helm, this is going to be a seminal comic book no matter how the story unfurls:

X-FACTOR #214

Written by Peter David

Penciled by Emanuela Lupacchino

Cover by David Yardin

The suicide of a high school student triggers X-Factor's most personal case as X-Factor is hired to learn the identities of the bullies who drove the student to take his own life. But once they have the names, do they turn that information over to the authorities...or to the student's angry family, who may well take punishment into their own hands?

And remember:

Homophobia Literally Kills

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Kevin Keller Gets Mini-Series

Our boy, Kevin Keller over at Archie Comics just won't quit making news. It was announced at the Archie Comics panel at New York Comic Con that the new gay character in Riverdale has been so popular and well received by fans that he's receiving his own 4-part mini-series due out in summer 2011. Kevin's profile has been steadily rising and has been getting great press exposure for Archie Comics as a whole. I'll say this, I was the last person who expected to be excited about an Archie Comics announcement, but I can't wait to read Kevin's mini series. Hopefully we'll get to see Kevin with this mysterious "William" he's been texting back in his home town.

Sidebar: My crossover-slashfic brain immediately imagined William being Billy Kaplan aka Wiccan. Someone please write me some Billy/Kevin slash! #awesome

Also, check out Feast of Fun's interview with Dan Parent about Kevin Keller [source].

SuperQueeros! for October 20th, 2010

It's evidently X-men week for the queers; both queer-inclusive titles this week are X-books!

X-Factor #210

So Rahne came back and told Rictor that he's the father of her baby even though the father is actually a Norse wolf-god and nobody seems to have done the math on the conception date. MEANWHILE, everyone else (read : Shatterstar) is in Vegas fighting Hela and some other Norse godlings and ghosts (read: working through the rage of being slighted for a pregnant ex). But what's M up to? Evidently, a stranger comes to town this issue, and he's got something to tell Monet...

New Mutants #18

Fall of the New Mutants continues! The Hell-raised hellions of project purgatory get the last chapter of their back story revealed and start the New Mutant smack-down that will result in some serious casualties. This is the beginning of defeat! Will Karma survive? And will she keep all her limbs???