Pandemic 2020 hit our communities hard. Many at the frontlines caught and suffered through the contagion. Many lost family members. All of us teeter-tottered between pressure-cooker anxiety and beat-down malaise. #BlackLivesMatter wiped thickened film from eyes, showing the world that for BIPOC folx, the pandemic just made more visible legacies of living under colonial-cum-capitalist rule.…
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Health and Inclusivity: Sparking “The Fire Within” with Pryor, Kambadais, Birch, Franklin and Stewart
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Health and Inclusivity: Considering Identity in Okura’s ‘I Think Our Son is Gay’
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Truth-Telling: Tynion and Simmonds’ THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH as Art
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Letter from the Senior Editor: John Ernenputsch
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History of Violence: The Brief History of Erika Storn
Health and Inclusivity
Health and Inclusivity: Sparking “The Fire Within” with Pryor, Kambadais, Birch, Franklin and Stewart
This Black History Month hit a little different. There was a new spirit, and it’s hard to put a name to or to hold, but I could see it in the bright eyes of my skinfolk, in people’s determination to not just celebrate but spur on change. I know so many people in my community…
Health and Inclusivity: Considering Identity in Okura’s ‘I Think Our Son is Gay’
Health and Inclusivity: Through Blackest Nights to Brightest Days with Jessica Cruz
Health and Inclusivity: Exploring the Gay Journey in GIVEN by Natsuki Kizu
Health and Inclusivity: Breaking the Code in MY VIDEO GAMES ATE MY HOMEWORK
Transmyscira
Transmyscira: There Is No Safeword in SFSX
For my birthday this year I treated myself to a seven inch dildo in bisexual pride colors. It’s one of my favourite toys in my collection now, but the first time I used it the feeling of contact with my prostate was so intense that I could only keep pressure on it for a second…
Kirbyology!
KIRBYOLOGY!: Tom Scioli Tells the Greatest Jack Kirby Story Possible (His Own)
From the 1930s to 1990s, Jack Kirby created gob-smacking art and unforgettable characters, but he was mainly a storyteller. “The Pact,” “Madbomb,” the Galactus trilogy, Captain America’s origin, Silver Star, OMAC, and even Thundarr the Barbarian are among the thousands of tales he spun solo or with collaborators. But the greatest Kirby story is the…
The Comics Classroom
Truth-Telling: Tynion and Simmonds’ THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH as Art
I think it can be said without the ruffling of many feathers that “comics are art.” Still, one of the biggest philosophical issues we as a society tend to run into, much like Wile E. Coyote when he crashes headfirst into a stone slab he thought was a tunnel, is the question “what is art…
#MakeComics
Roar into Pride Month with Joe Glass and THE PRIDE Omnibus
When he was 13, Joe Glass was a “massive X-Men fan,” and while there is said to be an obvious analogy made between the plight of mutants and queer people, he didn’t see any at that time. The writer later learned there were queer characters in comics, but they were either rarely appearing side characters,…
History of Violence
History of Violence: The Brief History of Erika Storn
In 2021 I wrote an article that briefly talked about DC Comics’ first Pride-themed comic anthology. I listed over a dozen of DC’s earliest queer characters who received no mention or reference in DC Pride, such as Coagula, Wanda, Masquerade, and Shvaughn Erin. I regret there was at least one other character whom even I…
Learning to Love the LEGION
Learning to Love the Legion: FUTURE STATE: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #2
SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! Legion of Super-Heroes ends for the foreseeable future by wrapping up the story begun last month in Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 in a way that, if it isn’t wholly satisfying, is at least definitive. So… This is it. The final issue, so far as we know, of this run of…
Palabra e Imagen
Visual Stories to Face a Brutal World: Fuego lento
This is a city that is gradually becoming a ruin. This is a city which streets are constantly covered by puddles and its buildings are decorated with cracks. This is a city that carries a painful past and lives a brutal present. Its inhabitants move alone, but they share the same wish: the desire to…