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The most important birthday of your experience is your twelfth, or at least it certainly seems that way when you are twelve years old. It’s the year when the concept of a birthday is still novel enough in your existence that it feels like a national holiday, but it is also the year when you receive dire grown-up warnings of impending changes, andthe year when it feels the most certain that, by the time you mark your next birthday, you will not recognize the teenager you are about to become.
My twelfth birthday was spent with family on Cape Cod, and it was the first summer vacation when I was allowed to wander off on my own recognizance down the beach. It was cloudy and cold, about to squall, and just as the first raindrops fell I found a horseshoe crab in a tidepool. This felt like a very magical encounter with a wild animal, and I gingerly approached the crab, then prodded it to see what wisdom it might impart. The shell flipped over — it was void , the crab having molted and fled its old outgrown shell. It was time for me to do the same.
This week’s comic books lean heavily on the changes associated with returning to school at the start of your teens, with a helping heaping of mi
How The Recent Gay Aquaman Is Being Reintroduced By A Black SoCal Writer
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DC Comics superhero Aquaman has been subject to generations of easy jokes — he’s the superhero that (allegedly) talks to fish. But he’s been getting a recent evaluation with blockbuster movies, animated appearances, and now a reintroduction of a younger version of the character. Aquaman: The Becoming features Jackson Hyde, a young Black homosexual superhero currently recognizable as Aqualad. He’s part of DC Comics' efforts to diversify their publishing line, creating a new generation of diverse heroes, from a Black Batman to a gender non-conforming Superman.
While the Jackson Hyde character has been around for a while, including a version of him playing a major role in the popular Youthful Justice cartoon Southern California writer Brandon Thomas had the chance to compete with him for the first moment as part of DC’s Future Mention crossover. That was meant as a look at potential futures for DC’s characters. But it wasn’t
The Case For A Bisexual Aquaman [Pride Week]
Superhero comic books acquire a long way to travel when it comes to standing for LGBTQ people in a way that reflects the beauty and diversity of the real earth, and the genre would benefit from more experiences being displayed and more stories being told. For Pride Week here at ComicsAlliance, we're looking at some of the established characters who could be used to explore LGBTQ identities, and I want to talk about why I think that Aquaman should be bisexual.
I am a bisexual man with the privilege of passing for straight. I didn’t admit to myself or to my friends that I was bisexual until I was a year and a half into a relationship with the woman who is now my fiancee. Odds are that I’ll stay with that person forever, and I can’t wait, but it doesn’t make me any less bisexual, and by standing up and letting people grasp that, I can do my part to fight back against bi erasure.
My situation, and that of many of my friends, is one I do not expect to see represented in superhero comics anytime soon. We’re still fighting for scraps with the few gay and queer woman characters that publis
DC's Gay Aquaman Lands His Own HBO Max Series
HBO Max is working on a new series starring DC's Jackson "Jake" Hyde, an openly gay comic book character who is perhaps best known as the second Aqualad -- and who recently became the second Aquaman.
According to Variety, HBO Max is currently developing a live-action adaptation of You Brought Me the Ocean, the GLAAD Media Award-nominated YA graphic novel written by Alex Sánchez, illustrated by Jul Maroh and lettered by Deron Bennett. The series will consist of hour-long episodes and is being described as a "dramedy." Charlize Theron, A.J. Dix, Beth Kono and Andrew Haas are attached as executive producers.
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"The series will investigate the life of Jackson 'Jake' Hyde, a lgbtq+ teenager living in Modern Mexico," Variety explains. "All his life, he has had a strange attraction to the water and yearns to escape his desert surroundings for the ocean. As he explores his abilities, including breathing under and controlling liquid, he also finds himself falling in love with his classmate, high educational facility swim