http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress Have a beverage and stay a while, won't you? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:33:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2012/02/10/gay-previews-for-april/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2012/02/10/gay-previews-for-april/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:33:39 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4716 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } OMG! There’s a lot to be excited about this month! Oz fans have another issue of IDW’s Dorothy of Oz prequel and a trade of Tommy Kovac’s Royal Historian of Oz! P. Craig Russel has a new volume of Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde and NBM re-offers the other volumes! Caitlin Kiernan brings Dancy Flammarion [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2012/02/10/gay-previews-for-april/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2012/01/17/gay-previews-312/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2012/01/17/gay-previews-312/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:52:53 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4617 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Kevin Keller has a secret admirer and I hope it doesn’t turn out to be a girl! Phil Jimenez fans can rejoice that he returns to art chores with Fairest #1 from Vertigo. Alpha Flight may be canceled (or just ended its 8 issue run as a mini, depending on how you look at it), [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2012/01/17/gay-previews-312/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/30/new-yorks-gay-night-life/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/30/new-yorks-gay-night-life/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:51:19 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4584 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } One of the many books that I’ve borrowed from my local libraries is The Simon & Kirby Superheroes hardcover. Published in late 2010 by Titan, it’s a hefty, oversized, and handsomely printed behemoth, weighing at least 5 pounds, that collects over 450 pages of Simon & Kirby’s superhero lesser known comics from smaller publishers. Check [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/30/new-yorks-gay-night-life/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/14/gay-previews-22012/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/14/gay-previews-22012/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:21:18 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4536 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Are you feeling frenzied right now with all the holiday activities? Then I know exactly how you feel! Just thinking about all the things to do on my list right now is making me kind of crazy! So on to the list! Yes, there’s some issue with formatting going on that I haven’ yet figured [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/14/gay-previews-22012/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/08/late-thoughts-on-teen-titan-bunker/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/08/late-thoughts-on-teen-titan-bunker/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:54:36 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4521 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Bunker recently debuted in Teen Titans #3. You heard about him already — the  gay teen who’ll join the ranks of this incarnation of DC’s post relaunch super powered teens. If you want to be technical there was a two panel, non-speaking cameo and cover appearance in issue #1. That is if you want to [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/12/08/late-thoughts-on-teen-titan-bunker/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/11/20/transgender-day-of-remembrance/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/11/20/transgender-day-of-remembrance/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:57:59 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4491 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } November 20th is the day marked to commemorate the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Thirteen years ago on November 28th Rita Hester, like Matthew Shepard five weeks before, was brutally murdered, more than 20 stab wounds to her chest, in her home. She was only 34 years old. Her name may be unfamiliar to you, unlike [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/11/20/transgender-day-of-remembrance/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/11/09/random-seduction-of-the-innocent-quote-for-11811/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/11/09/random-seduction-of-the-innocent-quote-for-11811/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:10:51 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4458 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } “It is not scientifically sound to narrow down the problem to whether the influence of comics is just ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ That cannot be a sound starting point. The question is, do they have a discernible influence, and if they have how does it work, how intense and lasting is it, and in what fields [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/11/09/random-seduction-of-the-innocent-quote-for-11811/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/10/25/random-soti-quote-for-1025/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/10/25/random-soti-quote-for-1025/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:06:09 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4423 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } “Flooding the market with love-cofession comics was so successful in diverting attention from crime comic books that it had been entirely overlooked that many of them really are crime comic books, with a seasoning of love added. Unless the love comics are sprinkled with some crime they do not sell. Apparently love does not pay.”]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/10/25/random-soti-quote-for-1025/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/09/09/the-comics-conspiracy-gd-superman/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/09/09/the-comics-conspiracy-gd-superman/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:59:53 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4263 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Rich Johnston over at Bleeding Cool writes about the owner of the Comics Conspiracy shop in Asheboro, NC being upset with Grant Morrison over a single panel in which Superman says “GD”. The Comics Conspiracy owner interpreted “GD” to mean “God damn” and decided his Christian sensibilities were offended. My first thought was that “GD” [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/09/09/the-comics-conspiracy-gd-superman/feed/ 7 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/08/17/kevin-keller-the-jock/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/08/17/kevin-keller-the-jock/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:20:26 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=4228 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: absolute; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Last week part two of the Kevin Keller mini series was released, making it the fourth Archie comic I’ve ever bought and read in my life. Dan Parent succeeded in keeping the tone of the issue consistently good with the debut chapter and in fleshing out Kevin’s character in particular as well as the Keller [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2011/08/17/kevin-keller-the-jock/feed/ 3