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Announcement: Syndicandi, by Joanna Krotka and Roberto Iolini

Syncandi

Joanna Krotka and Roberto Iolini have a new FF science fiction romance adventure project out: REAL LOVE IN A SYNTHETIC WORLD Studio Syncandi Kyoto proudly presents SYNCANDI – a new science fiction romance adventure story told through comics, songs, videos and more! Sync is an elite military assassin infected by a viral weapon. Sync’s body is mostly synthetic – only her heart and brain are original. She’d rather die than have the state corporation which owns her body turn her into a fully synthetic immortal killer. She decides to exile herself to an abandoned experimental zone codenamed Genies Res, a … Read more

Preview – Midnighter and Apollo

Apollo and Midnighter

A same-sex superhero gay couple will be headlining a mainstream comic book for the first time net month. Midnighter and Apollo, the leather-clad ass-kicking team, will be back together in the groundbreaking DC Comics book. The Midnighter solo, written by gay author Steve Orlando, ended in May. He will return to write the comic about the superhero couple. By Joe Morgan – Full Story at Gay Star News

DC Comics LGBT Anthology to Benefit Pulse Victims

DC Comics anthology

DC Comics will be releasing a special 144-page anthology comic book to benefit victims of the Orlando shooting. Love Is Love will contain more than 100 stories featuring many of the show’s LGBTI heroes, like Batwoman and Midnighter. The 144-page comic book, released in December, was organized by gay comic book writer Marc Andreyko. By Joe Morgan – Full Story at Gay Star News

Iceman Goes Into a Gay Bar

Will a same-sex romance come to bridge the gap between two warring factions of the X-Men universe? Iceman, aka Bobby Drake, looks like he could be getting his first boyfriend after coming out as gay last year. Joining teammates Oya and Genesis to a gay bar in the new issue of All-New X-Men 13, Drake screws up at first when he ices up and runners the bar out of shame. By Joe Morgan – Full Story at Gay Star News

Announcement: The Young Protectors: Engaging the Enemy (Kindle), by Alex Woolfson

The Young Protectors

QSFer Alex Woolfson’s queer superhero graphic novel, The Young Protectors, is finally out on Kindle: Evil can be seductive… Kyle–a closeted, teen superhero who can control fire–has finally summoned up the courage to enter a local gay bar. It’s his very first step towards accepting himself. Unfortunately for him, his very next step out of the bar places him face-to-face with The Annihilator, “the most dangerous supervillain in the world.” And the price that The Annihilator demands to keep Kyle’s secret will lead Kyle down a path fraught with danger, adventure and unexpected romance. It’s a path that will force … Read more

Jeff Baker—Boogieman In Lavender

The View From Worldcon, or Down On The Swanwick River by Jeff Baker A stack of autographed books and a head full of memories. Those are the souvenirs from a few days at MidAmeriCon II, the World Science Fiction Convention, held in Kansas City, MO August 17 through 21, 2016. We got there Thursday the 18th in time for me to drive over to the Crown Center (the vast convention facility where the convention was being held) and see it all for myself. I had been to Bouchercon (the Mystery Writers of America Convention) in Cleveland in 2012 so I … Read more

Dispatches from Hogwarts G.S.A.: In tribute to a Hero: Perry Moore

Perry Moore

For this month’s dispatch, we thought we’d write about an innovator and an activist in queer fantasy who left us much too soon. Perry Moore (1971-2011) was an author, screenwriter, and a film director. He was probably best known for The Chronicles of Narnia franchise. Widely regarded as smart, influential, and not incidentally a handsome guy, Moore accumulated an impressive Hollywood resumé by his mid-thirties. Though his work was behind the scenes, he seemed to fit the moniker “golden boy” in a lot of ways. Moore was also an openly gay man in an industry where, if being gay was … Read more

Legion of Superheroes Coming to CW?

Legion of Super Heroes

With this week’s revelation that Chris Wood will be playing longtime Legion of Super-Heroes member Mon-El in the second season of The CW’s Supergirl, the question on everyone’s mind is whether he might bring his time-tossed teammates with him. The clues are certainly there: besides just Lar-Gand/Mon-El being the one who landed in National City at the end of Season One, there’s the fact that longtime Superman supporting cast member Maggie Sawyer is coming to the city as a member of the “Science Police.” In the pages of DC Comics, Sawyer worked in both the Metropolis Special Crimes Unit and … Read more

New TV Show to Feature Gay Superhero

The Ray

There will be a new show on the CW featuring a gay superhero, following hit series like Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. And this time, there will be another show from the DC Comics universe: The Ray. It will take inspiration from Grant Morrissons Multiversity, which took superhero team Freedom Fighters and updated them to better reflect modern America. It will also be different from the comic book origins of the character. Instead of being born with superhero powers, Raymond Ray Terrill is a reporter who discovered a group of government scientists working on a secret project … Read more