Rise of the Pink Ninjas!!!
Last summer, I heard Maggie Gallagher say the most reprehensible and simultaneously twee-est (if I’m using the word right; it means “cutesy”, correct?) thing to ever come out of her voluminous pie hole: “Marriage is not a civil right. In fact, it’s a civil wrong.” Her ability to turn a phrase aside, Mags’ head should have by all rights exploded from just the uncut rage I was sending her way (to say nothing of the other people I’m sure were doing the same thing). Ah, “Scanners,” you disappointed me once again. So, what’s a guy to do?
Easy: write her as a blobby (well, “blobbier”) hulk with swaying tits in league with all the other hating low-lifes and get friends to help make it into a comic book.
I now present to you the fruits of our labor – Rise of the Pink Ninjas: A Gay Fantasia (click on the hate to get the fun):
(Go ahead. It’s free.)
SEE Mad Gallagher throw her weight around!
STARE IN WONDER at the mysterious Bastard Baby Doll!
CLENCH your butthole when P & M, the Night Bears, cruise by!
But most of all, enjoy and keep fighting. I want to start buying gay wedding gifts.
Rise of the Pink Ninjas: A Gay Fantasia
written by Sean McGrath
drawn, inked and colored by Benjamin Ruth
lettered by Christopher Moshier
cover graphic by Scott McGrath
UPDATE: For those who prefer their comics paginated instead of stacked, I’ve made a CBZ file available. It’s my first time making one and it was stunningly easy. Why have I never done this before?
UPDATE the SECOND: Joe Jervis of the excellent gay blog Joe.My.God posted an entry about Pink Ninjas on his site, which thrills me in ways I can’t explain. One decision early on was to have the real voices of the LGBTQ movement supplant the tyrannical Solomon when they discovered he wasn’t working in their best interests. Joe is definitely one of those voices.
The readers had some affirming comments about the comic, like:
“That there was ten shades of wonderful.” from JD.
“Wow. That is just too fabulous. And it catches the relationship between the professional gay and anti-gay forces to a T.” from Smartypants.
“I love this comic for that reason someone finally had the GUTS to call out the traitors in our own midst for who and what they are!” from Daveinsf.
“I think I have a new wallpaper for my computer.” from art.
And “As a lifelong comic book fan I loved it, loved it, loved it! Kudos to all involved.” from Ken Berg.
JMG is probably one of my favorite blog communities. I’m glad the folks over there enjoyed the comic.
UPDATE the THIRD: Oh WOW! We were mention on After Elton!
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Hey Sean! I put up the first two pages of Pink Ninjas as a file on my DeviantArt account with links to OrthoComics! Hopefully you’ll get some traffic from all my Watchers.
http://rebelcomx.deviantart.com/art/Rise-of-the-Pink-Ninjas-152809284