1 - Trina Robbins' "Queenie Hart" is so. Good. Will have to start reading more Trina Robbins.
2 - Steve Leialoha's "Corrective Surgery" was really weird, and beautiful, and off-putting, and great.
I'm going, it seems, to have to track down the rest of the series. These last few days of comics have been some really wonderful science fiction, and that's not one of my favourite genres to read. But these stories are, importantly, very varied. I never feel like I'm reading an entire anthology book of the same story over and over again. Some are funny, some are serious, and some are just weird. It's easy to see how something like Vortex grows out of the undergrounds, and publications like Andromeda. In some ways it's like the undergrounds "genre-fied" in the late 70s. Something like this title, or Andromeda, are the science fiction bastions, the sex of the undergrounds is focussed in the adult comic industry, publishers like Fantagraphics give a home to the more literary parts of the underground.
Having these kinds of specific venues for specific genres is great, but there's also something to be said for genres feeding off one another, and that's something that is lost in this diversification. Or, at the very least, it's something that becomes more muted.
More to come...
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