Tag Archives: Zeus Comics

Marvel’s Northstar is marrying his boyfriend

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Anyone who has been reading Marvel Comics for the better part of two decades, knows that mutant superhero Northstar bats for our team. But the big news this morning is that not only is he gay, he’s also off the market — or soon will be.

Marvel announced on The View what Richard Neal at Zues Comics on Lemmon has known for a while: That in issue no. 50 of Astonishing X-Men, out tomorrow, Northstar finally pops the question to longtime boyfriend Kyle. That makes Northstar the first major gay comic book hero to marry his same-sex partner.

Maybe if you don’t follow comics, that’s no big deal. But if you do, it’s huge.

“It makes me so happy to unite my community and my passion like this,” says Neal, who is gay.

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—  Arnold Wayne Jones

Zeus Comics mixer tonight at Dallas Eagle

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Bond over Marvel team-ups or Archie love triangles when Zeus Comics owner Richard Neal hosts The Return of the Mighty Zeus LGBT Mixer. The new Leap Year tradition features special guest Tim Fish, the out cartoonist behind such queer comic tomes like Cavalcade of Boys and Young Bottoms in Love. He’ll sign copies of his work at Zeus, but at least buy him a thank-you drink at the mixer.

DEETS: Signing at Zeus Comics, 4411 Lemmon Ave. Ste. 105. 5:30 p.m., mixer at Dallas Eagle, 5740 Maple Ave. 7 p.m. ZeusComics.com.

—  Rich Lopez

“The Variants” ends season with a little skin

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This season of The Variants ends with this quasi-cliffhanger as an investor looks into the viability of the store “going national” with its current staff. Plus, Richard takes his clothes off. And Vlad speaks! Take a gander after the jump.

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—  Arnold Wayne Jones

'The Variants' caps 1st season with 2-parter

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“The Variants,” the web-based series about life in a very gay comic book store, has debuted a new episode the first Wednesday of every month for nearly a year. This month, though, they doubled up on consecutive Wednesdays for the season finale. Seems times are dire for the guys at Zeus Comics, so they tap “30 Days of Night” artist Ben Templesmith to gin up business.

You can catch both episodes here.

—  Arnold Wayne Jones

'The Variants' up with latest … and best

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Because I am a male over the age of 13, I have never read one of the Twilight books. The gay part might throw you off, but trust me: Post-pubescent men have no reason to read that drivel. (This does not apply to the absolutely AWFUL movies, which I watch simply because of my unhealthy obsession with Taylor Lautner, which is perfectly normal for a man my age.)

So that may explain why the latest (eighth) episode of The Variants — the very gay Webseries produced right here in Dallas at Zeus Comics on Lemmon —  may be the best yet. It starts with a Tarantino-esque screed about the book series, that reveals tons of plot points not yet revealed in the movies. (The filmmakers treat the movie plots like nuclear plans or the Coke recipe, when anyone with a library card or Wikipedia account could tell you what happens at the end of the series.) For that alone, I love its spoiler factor. It’s the tightest writing yet.

But I can’t stand how the Zeus folks upload their videos — I can’t find the embed code for the latest episode on their Website or YouTube channel, so you just have to link it here.

Update: So Chris Williams at Zeus schooled me on how to do the embed link from TheVariants.com. So you can look at it here:

—  Arnold Wayne Jones

Zeus Comics' 'The Variants' up for two Comicpalooza Fandom Awards

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I just read on Zeus Comics’ Twitter feed that their homegrown Web show, The Variants, is nominated for two awards at this year’s Comicpalooza. The comic book convention happens this year in Houston and according to the tweet, the Variants will be in attendance. We’re hoping they walk away with both the Nerd-Centric and Wannabe Superhero Series awards they are nominated for.

You can vote for The Variants here although you have to go through a whole bunch of other categories before hitting theirs. If you’re in the comic-book-know, more power to you. But if you’re like me, as in out of the loop, just vote for what sounds cool.

—  Rich Lopez

'The Variants' is late

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So, this being the first Wednesday of the month, I logged onto TheVariants.com to get the latest installment of the locally-produced Web series about gay-owned Zeus Comics and … nothing. It’s usually up by midnight, but it’s already past 7 a.m. and no upload, no notice, no teaser … nothing.  What’s up, guys?

—  Arnold Wayne Jones