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FUCKING COMICS GOD DAMMIT

So I have, actually, been doing better the last couple days, but "better" is relative and in this case means "not spending every waking minute wanting only to lie in bed, awake, existing as minimally as possible, forever." Which means I'm still burning through comics at a semi-horrifying rate, the latest being all of X-Factor v3 to date. This has been the final nail in my coffin of "fucking FUCK I'm in comics fandom AGAIN I hate my LIFE," because now I'm actually following an ongoing title. Like, to the point that from now on I'm probably going to buy it so I don't have to wait a week for scans. (Well, I'm also following Children's Crusade in this manner, or I will be, but minis don't count--though if YA ever gets another monthly book I'm totally screwed--and there's one other that I'm interested in enough to read regularly but wouldn't pay actual money for and don't mind waiting a week.)

I'm not actually going to get a pull box or anything, for the obvious reason that I no longer have the spoiled-rich-kid levels of spending money I had in 2004/05, and also I doubt I'm even capable anymore of loving at least five ongoing titles that much, after being burned so badly last time. I have a much, much lower threshold of shit I'll put up with for a story, now, at least if there's money involved. And of course much less trust. No trust, in fact. I will never trust again. But I will, apparently, spend three bucks a month.

(I'm definitely never going back to DC though. There's just too much pent-up festering rage there, even all these years later--though granted, everything I've heard through fandom osmosis over the last 5-6 years hasn't helped AT ALL. It's not that I think Marvel's overall any better, but DC was the first fandom I ever broke up with rather than just drifting away from, and some wounds never heal.)

--and actually, I might as well give in because I'll end up here eventually: any recs for Marvel books with f/f couples and/or really major f/f subtext (with relationships not just played for comedy, though IDK if pop culture ever even does that with queer women)? And also, you know, good. I seem to be gaying my way through the whole fictional universe already, and I wouldn't mind getting some ladies in there. (I'm not interested right now in anything outside said fictional superhero-based universe. I know what I like, and respectable indie shit is not it.) Also, can I just take a moment to express how ridiculously, earnestly happy it makes me that I actually can gay my way through the Marvel universe? Only just barely, of course, but it still feels amazing.

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This has been the final nail in my coffin of "fucking FUCK I'm in comics fandom AGAIN I hate my LIFE," because now I'm actually following an ongoing title.

... yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I said two years ago when I marathoned my way through X-Factor and completely fell in love with it.

I came for the queer but now I just love the WHOLE THING and want more of it, forever. I don't know how this superpowers-shaped easy-access cat door got installed in my id, but it's really inconvenient sometimes.

*nods*

That's what drew me to it originally. I've been 'shipping Rictor and Shatterstar since the 90s, and the moment I heard that Marvel had actually made them canon I jumped on the series. And, uh, haven't been able to escape since.

Have you read Runaways? It has Karolina/Xavin (who is a shapeshifter who shifts into a female form because that's what Karolina wants, though Karolina is not so sure about it). I would strongly recommend the Brian K Vaughan issues from the start and nothing past that. Over in New Mutants, Karma is a lesbian but I don't think they've done anything with it since she rejoined the X-Men.

I have not! Back when I was first reading comics, I always vaguely meant to, but never got around to it. For a while I had the impression it didn't take place in the main universe/continuity, which I realize now is false although it's basically its own thing anyway, right?

Exactly - it's at the edges of the Marvel Universe so there's some fun cameos but you don't need to know any continuity to follow it. Runaways has the occasional crossover with Young Avengers, too, but you don't need to read those to follow Runaways itself.

That...actually makes it slightly less appealing to me? I still want to read it because it's, you know, good (by all accounts; presumably much better than the YA crossovers I read), but I like my superhero universes and characters all tangled up in a ball, with a cast of thousands who all keep running into each other. Just preferably not in giant Crossover Events that Change Everything--I prefer the hopelessly intertwined relationships to build organically over decades; it's so much more satisfying. *g*

The cameos are *really good* cameos! Wolverine, Punisher, Cloak and Dagger, Julie Power, Doctor Doom...

I'm gonna read it, I'm gonna read it! Eventually. *g* Especially for the prospect of a Doom cameo, my goodness.

Are you just into superhero comics, or can I recommend some SF/F comics from small presses and self-publishers?

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