The women behind Agent Carter take Captain Marvel into orbit and Poison Ivy gets her own book! These two women take the lead in our new comic picks of the week.
Captain Marvel #1 Carol Danvers leads Alpha Flight?! The fan-favorite Avenger is the new head of S.W.O.R.D. with her own team and satellite headquarters. Danvers is Earth’s first of defense against alien threats in a new series by the team behind Marvel’s Agent Carter and Uncanny X-Men artist Kris Anka.
Poison Ivy: The Cycle of Life and Death #1 The Batman femme fatale in her own limited series. Dr. Isley gets a new start but when a fellow scientist is killed, all evidence points to Ivy. Writer Amy Chu and artist Clay Mann get the bad girl entangled in a new Gotham conspiracy. Continue reading New Comics Picks for January 20, 2016
This week Craig Kyle and Chris Yost kicked off World War Wendigo. When the leader of Alpha Flight goes missing, Logan goes to Canada to help Heather Hudson find James. The suspenseful issue ends with not one but an outbreak of the man-eating monsters. Can X-Men and Alpha Flight stop the beasts?
Amazing X-Men #8 is the first of a five part arc by Kyle, Yost and Ed McGuinness that feels new but nostalgic and reminds me of one the first times a comic book actually scared me! Continue reading AMAZING X-MEN INSPIRES UNCANNY Flashback
Craig Kyle and Chris Yost kick off their return to the mutant mythos with an exciting first issue. The team who created X-23 are back at the mansion with a chapter filled with action, suspense and humor in Amazing X-Men #8.
A new creative team takes over Amazing X-Men and bring a prodigal son home this week.
Chris Yost and Craig Kyle (New Mutants/New X-Men, X-Force) return to writing the Children of the Atom with Amazing X-Men #8.
This marks a second major homecoming in the series. After the Quest for Nightcrawler brought the Fuzzy Elf back now Colossus returns. Continue reading AMAZING X-MEN #8 Preview
The mutant reunions continue in Amazing X-Men #8 in this preview from Marvel. Following the return of Nightcrawler, an all-new arc begins in issue 8 from new creative team Chris Yost and Craig Kyle.
In World War Wendigo Colossus returns to find Kurt Wagner back from the dead and the team faces not one but an outbreak of man eating monsters from the Great North. Alpha Flight guest stars as Wolverine and the X-Men must fight this army of Wendigo. Continue reading COLOSSUS, WENDIGO In AMAZING X-MEN Preview
Happy One Year Anniversary to Northstar and Kyle Jinadu! It was one year ago the X-Man married Kyle Jinadu in Astonishing X-Men #51. The marriage was heavily promoted, protested and celebrated. Openly gay X-Man Northstar married Kyle Jinadu with the X-Men and Alpha Flight watching in New York’s Central Park. The big event inspired some gay X-men fans to tie the knot…in a comic book store on the day of the wedding issue’s arrival! The wedding of Jean-Paul and Kyle was huge for mainsteam comics but continued the tradition of diversity in the X-Men history.
Jean-Paul and Kyle are still together, still trying to cope with the pressures and dangers of being a super couple targeted by villains. Northstar’s wedding was a major milestone in comic books. Back in the 1980’s John Byrne (Jean-Paul’s creator along with the rest of the Canadian supergroup Alpha Flight) wasn’t allowed Continue reading X-Men Gay Wedding Anniversary
Attention Pacific Northwest geeks! If you missed out on Emerald City Comicon or just can’t get enough then get ready to head north on April 20th and 21st for Fan Expo Vancouver! This is the second major comicon for the beautiful British Columbia city where many sci-fi films are shows are filmed. Since my Comicon for Virgins helped some first time Seattle fans enjoy Emerald City Comicon here’s an updated version that might inspire you to head north!
An X-Man got married to a Man. A gay Green Lantern was born. A Riverdale teen met his geek (and gay) icon. A twist on who was a Slayer in Buffyverse. Those were just some of the GLBT characters and storylines that made mainstream headlines, boosted comics and possibly helped change our culture.
GLAAD revealed their nominees for Outstanding Comic Book. Congratulations to the writers/artists/editors and publishers for the recognition. The nominations reflect on the big year for gay characters in comic books and the impact they have on society.
Astonishing X-Men, Earth 2, Kevin Keller, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batwoman are great books by talented creators but which book should win and why?
Op/Ed:
Do I have a favorite? I admit I have a X-Men bias but it was my first comic book.
I have go to with Astonishing X-Men. Northstar’s wedding to Kyle Jinadu was not just a one issue stunt. Jean-Paul has been out since 1992. Jean-Paul an Kyle’s romance developed in earlier volumes of Uncanny X-Men and the most recent Alpha Flight series.
Astonishing X-Men #51 variant courtesy Marvel
In Astonishing X-Men #51 Jean-Paul and Kyle got married in New York’s Central Park surrounded by teammates. Marvel even gave the book 2 variants: one with Jean-Paul and Kyle kissing and one with the happy couple on the cover with some of Marvel’s most famous couple’s on their big day. You may call that smart marketing. It is. By looking at this special cover it sent a message that Jean-Paul and Kyle’s ceremony and relationship was the same as Reed and Susan Richards and other Marvel super couples. (Let’s hope they turn out better than Scott & Jean, Storm & T’Challa or Quicksilver & Crystal!)
The wedding was not the end of Kyle’s screen time in the book. After the honeymoon Marjorie Liu continues to explore the complicated life of being married to a superhero in every issue. Who would have thought Wolverine would be giving a guy relationship advice about his husband? Remember when Jean-Paul couldn’t come out?
Astonishing X-Men #54 courtesy Marvel
Northstar wasn’t the only GLBT character featured in this book. Former New Mutant Karma was central to the storyline of Liu’s thrilling arc. Liu didn’t touch on Karma being a lesbian just a conflicted character who showed why she’s a great hero and mother figure to her younger siblings. It didn’t matter than Karma was a lesbian but perhaps Shan may find love now that she’s survived the villain of Liu’s first arc.
