THIRD EYE PRIDE 2024: LGBTQIA+ COMIC SPOTLIGHT
May 31st, 2024
Third Eye Faithful, Pride season is here! To celebrate our peeps in the LGBTQ+ community, we’ve put together a list of some of our favorite reads with great representation!! Ghouls falling in love during a Bite-ology project?! We’ve got it! Cases of mistaken identity leading to cross-dressing meet-cutes?! You bet! Whether you’re a fan of murderous lesbian vampires, heartfelt memoirs of gender exploration, or bisexuals fighting seven evil exes, there’s truly something for everyone here!!
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MONSTER HIGH PRIDE 2024 #1
Hi, Ghouls. Rainbow-striped flags are flying everywhere, which must mean it’s the best time of year: Pride Month. At Monster High, everyone belongs, and Pride Month is a time to skelebrate and show extra love to the LGBTQIA+ community. First, Hannah Templer and Siobhan Keenan conjure a story about expectations and role models. Clawdeen and Toralei are claws over tails for each other…but their summer DIY project, and a group of mischievous gnomes, is threatening the ghouls’ relationship! Meanwhile, Ghoulia is writing fan fiction and is on the verge of starting a shipping war! Then, Megan Brown and Bowen McCurdy brew a fang-tastic love story. Kieran Valentine thinks love sucks. He enlists the help of his (very cute) Bite-ology partner, Spelldon Cauldronello, to create a potion that will drain him of the feeling forever. But after spending time with Spelldon, will he have the guts to follow through? Get in from the start as IDW kicks off a whole new run of comics set on the most spooktacularly inclusive campus.
Crossplay Love Otaku X Punk
In this LGBT+ high school romantic comedy, a nerd and a delinquent find themselves attracted to each other, but only when they’re crossdressing at a maid cafe! Shuumei has a problem. He’s in love with a girl who works at a maid cafe, but he’s too cool to go into a place like that without being embarrassed. But girls can go to maid cafes without seeming creepy, right? When he dresses in feminine clothes and transforms himself into “Mei,” he can finally walk into the place to meet the girl of his dreams: the lovely blonde Hana. Meanwhile, Hanae is an introverted otaku who’s uncomfortable talking to people… unless he’s dressed in feminine clothes himself. While decked out in his best dresses, he works at a maid cafe, and finds himself crushing on a young woman who regularly comes to visit him: a cool beauty named Mei! In this delightful LGBT+ romcom, two young people in love are about to find out a lot about each other and themselves.
DC PRIDE 2024 #1 (ONE SHOT)
Written by Al Ewing, Ngozi Ukazu, Nicole Maines, Phil Jimenez and Others Art by Ngozi Ukazu, Claire Roe, O’Neill Jones, and Others DC’s Eisner and Ringo award-winning Pride anthology returns in the form of a universe-spanning travelogue like you’ve never seen! In its pages, Dreamer makes a first-time pilgrimage to her ancestral planet, Naltor! Poison Ivy and Janet from HR go spore-hunting on Portworld! Superman (Jon Kent) gets the boys together for a night out in A-Town, but things go sideways when The Ray vanishes into thin air! Steel (Natasha Irons) works up the courage to face Traci 13 at the Oblivion Bar’s Pride party for the first time since they broke up! Aquaman (Jackson Hyde) catches an unexpected ride to the Fourth World just in time for their annual Love Festival! All this and more in a volume celebrating how the LGBTQIA+ community is everywhere and belongs anywhere–even the very furthest reaches of the universe. Plus, this year’s anthology features a special preview of the upcoming YA OGN The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley, as well as an unmissable autobiographical story written by industry legend Phil Jimenez about the fantastical worlds that shaped him, brought to life by Giulio Macaione!
Superman Son Of Kal-El – The Truth
TRUTH. JUSTICE. AND A BETTER WORLD. Jonathan Kent, the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, is the new Man of Steel! When his father leaves Earth, Jon becomes the new Superman, striving to be a champion of real change. But when Jon finds himself in the crosshairs of Henry Bendix, tyrannical ruler of the island nation of Gamorra, he ends up facing evils even he might have trouble against. Luckily, his new Gamorran ally, journalist Jay Nakamura, could have the answers he needs. Presenting SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #1-6, this collection is the perfect starting point for readers to jump into an exciting new era of Superman.
WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE CASTLE
Like many before her that have never come back, she’s made it to the Countess’ castle determined to snuff out the horror… but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets, what unfurls under its fluttering flags. Emily Carroll has fashioned a rich gothic horror charged with eroticism that doesn’t just make your skin crawl — it crawls into it. Originally published by Koyama Press, this beloved Emily Carroll erotic horror comic is back in print with Silver Sprocket, featuring a new foil-accented cover.
Gender Queer – A Memoir
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
Loki – Mistress of Mischief
Loki reborn! When the Asgardian cycle of life begins again after Ragnarok, Thor’s brother Loki comes back as…Thor’s sister! Loki returns with a sense of purpose, seeking a fresh start to write her story anew. Loki first became the mistress of mischief in these epic tales from J. Michael Straczynski and Olivier Coipel’s legendary run, now collected in LOKI: MISTRESS OF MISCHIEF!
Scott Pilgrim – Precious Little Life
Scott Pilgrim’s life is totally sweet. He’s 23-years-old, in a rock band, “between jobs,” and dating a cute high school girl. Everything’s fantastic, until a seriously mind-blowing, dangerously fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties!
