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2 queer comics
Nov. 4th, 2018 04:07 pm(x-posted to goodreads)
Heathen vol 1 by Natasha Alterici
https://vaultcomics.com/comic/heathen/
I really enjoyed this story. Aydis is a young Viking warrior woman who was cast out of her clan for being gay. She has an animal companion, a horse named Saga. The horses are drawn so beautifully in this comic! Aydis is on a quest to free Brynhild, a Valkryie, from a curse.
What I didn't like about this comic: everyone goes around with no shirt on, despite winter weather, despite the need for fighting in battles. The women are very thin and sexified. Now, as a lesbian myself, you'd think I'd be here for that. But it just made me constantly think about how cold Aydis must be in her little bikini top, with zero body fat. There's a goddess who walks around with her boobs out and it's just like... is this necessary? There don't appear to be any fat women or even big and muscular women in this universe, which makes no sense to me. Warrior women should have some heft to them.
I did like the women-positive, "heathen"-positive, message of this comic.
HotBlood! by Toril Orleski
I think I'm not the target audience of this book. I did enjoy the colors and the drawings of Western landscapes. (Note: i read the collected issues in book form. this is a webcomic that was kick started.)
My problem is that I did not like the characters. Both Asa, the human, and Rook, the centaur, seem to be amoral people. Asa is the manager of an iron mine, and is responsible for 2 deaths in the mine. He admits this to Rook and he justifies it to himself. Rook doesn't seem to care either. Later they try (and fail) to rob a train and I wasn't even sure why. The train crashes spectacularly and Rook shoots some one in the shoulder. People who don't mind or even like reading about bad people, will like this book more than I did.
Rook and Asa fall in love, and we see them kissing and cuddling, but the mechanics of centaur/human gay sex are completely elided, so don't look here if you are trying to figure that one out.
Heathen vol 1 by Natasha Alterici
https://vaultcomics.com/comic/heathen/
I really enjoyed this story. Aydis is a young Viking warrior woman who was cast out of her clan for being gay. She has an animal companion, a horse named Saga. The horses are drawn so beautifully in this comic! Aydis is on a quest to free Brynhild, a Valkryie, from a curse.
What I didn't like about this comic: everyone goes around with no shirt on, despite winter weather, despite the need for fighting in battles. The women are very thin and sexified. Now, as a lesbian myself, you'd think I'd be here for that. But it just made me constantly think about how cold Aydis must be in her little bikini top, with zero body fat. There's a goddess who walks around with her boobs out and it's just like... is this necessary? There don't appear to be any fat women or even big and muscular women in this universe, which makes no sense to me. Warrior women should have some heft to them.
I did like the women-positive, "heathen"-positive, message of this comic.
HotBlood! by Toril Orleski
I think I'm not the target audience of this book. I did enjoy the colors and the drawings of Western landscapes. (Note: i read the collected issues in book form. this is a webcomic that was kick started.)
My problem is that I did not like the characters. Both Asa, the human, and Rook, the centaur, seem to be amoral people. Asa is the manager of an iron mine, and is responsible for 2 deaths in the mine. He admits this to Rook and he justifies it to himself. Rook doesn't seem to care either. Later they try (and fail) to rob a train and I wasn't even sure why. The train crashes spectacularly and Rook shoots some one in the shoulder. People who don't mind or even like reading about bad people, will like this book more than I did.
Rook and Asa fall in love, and we see them kissing and cuddling, but the mechanics of centaur/human gay sex are completely elided, so don't look here if you are trying to figure that one out.
