Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow that, until we all got bored with that theme. I'd like to propose a theme of letters of the alphabet. So, for the remainder of October (only 5 days) and all of November, we post comic cover pictures associated with the letter "A". Then in December, we post covers pertaining to the letter "B". The association to the letter can be as tenuous as you want it to be. For example I could post a cover from "Adventure Comics" or "Amazing Spider Man". However Spider Man covers can also be posted when we're on the letter "S". Adventure Comic covers could also be posted when we're on the letter "L" if they depict the Legion of Super Heroes. So, no real hard, fast rules - in fact the cleverer the interpretation of the letter, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And it's not written in stone that we have to post a cover every day. There may be some days when no cover gets posted. There's nothing wrong with this, it just demonstrates that we all have lives to lead.
If everyone's in agreement I'd like to kick this off with one of my favourite Action Comic covers, from January 1967. Curt Swan really excelled himself here.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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Officially, none of the characters depicted on this cover were gay. Actor George Takei is but insists he never portrayed Sulu that way despite the alternate time line movies portrayal of Sulu. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Hot Stuff #18 and Wendy #18
A collection of Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking comic strip:
Sins of the Black Flamingo #1 (June 2022), first of a five-issue limited series.
Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (Ja'69): the first appearance of THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY which did nothing as they didn't reappear redesigned until Marvel Two-In-One #5 (S'74)!
Almost didn't make it today but here I am and, based on the scarf, rainbows don't occur in just Spring and Summer. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Batman #18
We're heaving a heatwave....
In 2020, Kitty Pryde, now called the Red Queen, was revealed to be bisexual. And Chris Claremont has said that he always intended her to be bisexual since at least the Excalibur days which I don't buy for a second. Kitty was supposed to be Colossus' true love until they messed that up with that awful wedding!
Just because the actor who played Kitty is LGBTQ+ doesn't mean that you change the character.
Dylan Dog #18.
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