Gay comic store relocates to Inwood Everyone knows the Design District is an up-and-coming area for galleries, furniture stores and lately restaurants … but comic book shops? Well, it is now. About two weeks ago, gay-owned Zeus Comics — long located along Oak Lawn, then later moved to Lemmon Avenue across from Whole Foods — [...]
Turtle Creek Chorale plays it safe for the holidays — and it shows RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer lopez@dallasvoice.com Tradition is a funny thing, especially during the holidays. Christmas doesn’t feel like Christmas without Charlie Brown and his sad little tree, or driving through neighborhoods to gawk at the twinkling lights. But while changing routines [...]
DC Comics’ lesbian superhero gets her own imprint, a pantheon of new supervillains … and maybe a girlfriend. GIRL ON GIRL | DC revamps its comic world with an all-new updating of its lesbian Batwoman character. Following a hugely successful, starring storyline in DC Comics’ Detective Comics title, the openly lesbian Batwoman begins her own titular, monthly [...]
By Arnold Wayne Jones Life+Style Editor For the first time in 70 years, Detective Comics is led by a character other than Batman — a lesbian superheroine named Batwoman. Here’s how writer Greg Rucka turned an icon of one kind into another OUT, OUT! AND A GAY! Greg Rucka will sign copies of the new [...]
By Daniel A. Kusner – Life + Style Editor Gina Coffman guides uninitiated women into the fierce universe of graphic novels – Terry Thompson/Dallas Voice At Zeus Toys and Comics, Gina Coffman often notices sapphic customers wandering into the store and looking like they’re lost. Zeus’ aisles are bursting with illustrations of over-muscled male superheroes. [...]
