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How The New Queer 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 new evaluation with blockbuster movies, animated appearances, and now a reintroduction of a younger version of the traits. Aquaman: The Becoming features Jackson Hyde, a adolescent Black gay superhero currently known as Aqualad. He’s part of DC Comics' efforts to diversify their publishing line, creating a new generation of diverse heroes, from a Shadowy Batman to a homosexual Superman.
While the Jackson Hyde character has been around for a while, including a version of him playing a major role in the popular Fresh Justice cartoon Southern California writer Brandon Thomas had the chance to perform with him for the first time as part of DC’s Future Articulate crossover. That was meant as a look at potential futures for DC’s characters. But it wasn’t
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 scout 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 institution swim
The most important birthday of your life 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 life that it feels like a national holiday, but it is also the year when you receive dire adult warnings of impending changes, andthe year when it feels the most certain that, by the time you celebrate 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 freezing, about to squall, and just as the first raindrops fell I establish a horseshoe crab in a tidepool. This felt like a very magical encounter with a uncontrolled animal, and I gingerly approached the crab, then prodded it to spot what wisdom it might impart. The shell flipped over — it was empty, 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 initiate of your teens, with a helping heaping of mi
Writer: Brandon Thomas
Pencils: Diego Olortegui
Inks: Wade Von Grawbdger
Colors: Adriano Lucas
Cover art: David Talaski
A Day In The Existence Of A Queer Dark Superhero
In case you haven’t heard — and you probably have already but let me add another voice to the chorus, please, okay? – the first issue of Aquaman: The Becoming has so much to like inside its covers! Fresh, upbeat, promising, confident, happy, and sexy are words that come to mind while flipping through the story. Since the two part story by Jordan Clark, Marco Santucci, and Romulo Fajardo Jr from last year I’ve been left wanting more stories with Hyde. It’s finally happening and the wait has been worth it! Last year’s story by Clark, Santucci, and Fajardo packed so much into two issues that it felt like double the amount. Please don’t misunderstand there. What Clark achieved with his script and its amount of characterization, drama, action, quiet moments, and social commentary is something I think new writers in general could boon from studying.
As first issue set ups go, there’s a lot happening as Thomas and Olortegui examine Jackson’s relationship on multip
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