Comics
I have found myself falling down the hole of binging comics on Hoopla.
There's a wide variety of stuff, involving non-humans and/or queer relationships.
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Save Yourself
By Bones Leopard and illustrated by Nichole Matthews, Kelly Matthews
Super cute, queer-filled story about magical girls who are bad guys and the monsters that fight them are, often, the good guys.
The story is about humans realizing the magical girls are evil, after a young woman saves a mysterious stranger from the superheroes.
There is a character death that takes place in the past and a death that happens on screen, but it's not bloody. Victim is just gone.
Art was bright and cheerful. Had a cartoon vibe about it, so nothing explicit or gorey. Again, super cute.
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The Me You Love in the Dark
By Skottie Young and illustrated by Jorge Corona
Definite monster fucker story. It's a horror story with gore and domestic abuse vibes.
An artist rents a creepy house in the Midwest to renew her ability to paint. An being (ghost, I think, but form is more eldritch horror) lives in the house that the artist makes contact with.
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Don't Call Me Dirty and Don't Call Me Daddy
Both stories created and illustrated by Gorou Kanbe
No monsters involved, but is full of gay characters.
Dirty is about a 26-year-old liquor store clerk befriending a houseless man. The clerk is known by those around him as gay and is even in a relationship with another man. Though that man ends up breaking things off with him. The concept of "dirty" is applied to both the clerk and houseless man, one in a homophobic sense and the other in a physical literal sense.
Daddy is actually about the clerk's father and a long-time friend. The long-time friend actually was helping the father raise his son for a time, but felt horrible that his son thought he and the father were married.
Both of these made me cry. Hiding your own feelings from yourself, apologizing to others for who you are, just wanting to be loved, being given kindness of facing cruelty for so long. Just oof.
I highly rec both of these, if you can get over some art issues. (Occasionally, the characters have, like, super tiny hands.)
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The Song of Yoru & Asa
By Harada
Gay relationship, but no monsters.
Oh my goodness, this had very explicit sex scenes. Haha. I was not prepared for that when reading.
This one is about two guys who are in a band together. Asa can be mean at times and Yoru can be pushy about sex. But it just feels more like a dynamic than serious problems.
TW for sex still happening even when one or other tells the other to stop. (They don't seem to mind or have problems with it, but in one instance it does result in pee, so... yeah. I kind of wish they talked about having a safe word so they know for sure to stop.)
Oh, TW for self-harm attempt, as well. There's a stalker fan who pulls out a blade to cut herself with when she's rejected.
Art was really good in this one.
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Kiss Me, Satan!
by Victor Gischler and illustrated by Juan E. Ferreyra
Yes, monsters are involved. No queer people, though. :(
Demon is trying to get back into heaven and is given a mission to help a witch flee the werewolf mafia. Interesting premise, but it falls prey to misogynistic tropes and art.
There's four women characters the demon guy is supposed to be keeping safe. Three of them die. The last one ends up fucking the main guy.
Art is relatively good, if you're into comics with more of a western feel. There are gratuitous shots of ladies' underwear during fights or unnecessary nudity.
Story is intriguing, but I kind of feel it was more of a guy power fantasy. You eventually see the guy's demon form and it's pretty kick ass.
TW for gore, death, and discussions of killing a baby.
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