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/2010/07/11/glyph/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/07/11/glyph/#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:03:51 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=2699 #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; } Glyph is a cabin mate of sorts with Halo Jones and Toy Molto aboard the star ship E.S.S. Clara Pandy, by which I mean Glyph simply seems to have just barely come to their attention, as there’s a rather forgettable air and appearance. When Halo and Toy do finally address their “guest”, Toy (and later [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/07/11/glyph/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/06/25/toy-molto/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/06/25/toy-molto/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:58:17 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=2586 #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; } Toy Molto is a supporting character that appeared in the futuristic Ballad of Halo Jones strip written by Alan Moore. She has short dark hair and is seven feet tall and is Halo Jones’ cabin mate aboard the star ship E.S.S. Clara Pandy. Jones describes Toy as “the toughest woman [she] ever met.” She and [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2010/06/25/toy-molto/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/02/jack-phantom/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/02/jack-phantom/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:49:42 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=1238 #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; } Contributed by Ronald Byrd. Jack Phantom (real name: Jackie Kowalski, AKA Jacks) is a police detective at the Tenth Precinct of Neopolis, a city inhabited by a wide variety of superhuman beings. To date, nothing has been revealed about her origin, history, or private life. So far she has not been seen to experience any [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/10/02/jack-phantom/feed/ 2 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/09/30/cobweb/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/09/30/cobweb/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:48:52 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=1181 #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; } Submitted by Ronald Byrd Operating out of the disused Lakeland Ornamental Gardens and dressed in a sheer purple negligee with matching stockings and stilettos, Cobweb (the wealthy heiress Laurel Lakeland), assisted by her devoted chauffeuse Clarice, experiences a variety of adventures, many of them pastiches of pulp/romance material. Many in Indigo City (which is also [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/09/30/cobweb/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/07/rita-boyd/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/07/rita-boyd/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 18:03:45 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=723 #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; } In Alan Moore’s V For Vendetta, a great war and devastating broke out in 1988. In England, a militant movement called Norsefire rose to power with the promise to save the country. Its slogan was “Strength through Purity, Purity through Faith.” In 1992 it began rounding up LGBT people and political dissidents, and sending them [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/07/rita-boyd/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/07/valerie-susan-page/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/07/valerie-susan-page/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 17:20:16 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=719 #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; } Valerie was born in Nottingham in 1957 to a working class family. It was during her teenaged years that she first dreamt of being an actor. She also learned she was a lesbian when she became attracted to a fellow student named Sara. A Mr. Hird from the school persuaded Sara she was simply in [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/07/valerie-susan-page/feed/ 1 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/06/roger/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/06/roger/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 17:49:17 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=716 #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; } Contributed by Ronald Byrd Roger (last name unrevealed) is one of the Five Swell Guys, a quintet of adventurers or “science-heroes” who operate out of New York and clash with various menaces, most notably the “omnipath” known as the Painted Doll. The “muscle” of the team, Roger works alongside leader Bob, mechanic Stan, genius Marv, [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/06/roger/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/06/promethea/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/06/promethea/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 17:09:25 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=711 #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; } Contributed by Ronald Byrd In Alexandria, Egypt, 411 C.E., a hermetic scholar is killed by a Christian mob. His young daughter, Promethea, flees into the desert and is ushered into the Immateria, the dimension of myth and fiction, by the god(s) Thoth-Hermes. Transformed into a “living story,” Promethea sometimes enters mortal imagination and is channeled [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/05/06/promethea/feed/ 2 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/04/30/joey/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/04/30/joey/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 00:54:21 +0000 Joe http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=691 #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; } Joey, a cab driver for the Promethean Cab company, first appears in a crowd scene around a newspaper vendor, an older man who remains unnamed. She asks for a copy of the latest Gazette so she can look for apartments because she’s broken up with Aline. In issue #10 Joey is seen talking with the [...]]]> http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/04/30/joey/feed/ 0 http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/04/28/john-constantine/ http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/2009/04/28/john-constantine/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:06:03 +0000 Joe Palmer http://www.gayleague.com/wordpress/?p=677 #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; } Please note this entry focuses on a very specific part of Constantine, and does not deal with the fictional character’s entire history. Refer to Wikipedia’s Constantine entry for a much more detailed account. 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