Impromtu Gay Comic Being Written: Ideas?

[ursacorwin]

hey queer folks:
so a friend of mine and I are writing (that is, typing the outline and story ideas) a queer comic narrative based on (of course!) our fantasy selves. we're readers of x-men from days of old, not too snobby or knowledgable about the new or more-hip comics but appreciative, and are open to ideas about the storyline.

we've given ourselves fun abilities that are part tounge in cheek takes on the Scene and Life, part our unrealized childhood fantasies and desires. it's all queer all the time, in that all the characters are specifically gay, bi, lesbian or trans, although the world is still populated mostly as it is in real life. action takes place in chicago, lots of parts in clubs and bars and in the 'hoods in general.

we've got a group of nemeses (i think that's the right plural ;-) ) and we're looking for help with costumes and backdrop. it's not as "out there" as superfriends of x-men, but lots of fantasy is involved.

i'll check in later if anyone wants to share ideas or get in on the drawing...ha ha, so far none of us have the artist's hand for that.

[TrogL]

1. Have been watching Queer as Folk?

It's been done. The character is called "Rage" based on the QAF character Brian and drawn by Justin.

[pasadenademocrat]

2. The characters names should be

Ace and Gary.

[xchrom]

3. fabulous

i don't read much in the way of comics -- but i love the idea.

[SweetZombieJesus]

4. Please don't

As a comic fan, I HATE any comic that's based on one aspect of a character's personality as the driving issue of the comic. When Green Lantern had the storyline with his gay assistant, I just tuned out because it got so fucking Afterschool Special on us (mostly because Judd Winick was writing it at the time), and it just dragged an otherwise fine storyline down due to the maudlin handling of the "issue". It was like a comic book version of those "very special" episodes of TV shows.

If the characters are gay, that's dandy, but do you really want to write a comic that's mostly about being gay, and have the superheroing sidelined?

I'd much rather see these things handled like Willow and Tara on Buffy, they never made a huge issue out of it, it was just kind of there, and I think that's a symptom of the great, layered writing of that show.