News of the Right

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!

Photo via LATimes

I know I know I know I know I know I know I said I wasn’t going to get into the political arena here

BUT

this is totally relevant to my favorite hobby: comic books). Strewth! Hayden Panettiere of Heroes (see?) did a PSA telling Americans they should “…smoke, vote for John McCain and not wear safety belts.” Really, I could also say here how much I admire her ability for parallelism. It’s the English nerd in me.

See more Hayden Panettiere videos at Funny or Die

I swear I would post something bi-partisan if the GOP came up with something just as funny and true. Oh, and related to comic books.

I had decided to leave political musings off the website because there was too much going on changing form day to day, and by the time I thought to put up news it was already olds. Not only that, but that’s not what I want to do with this blog. There are plenty of other places to get wry political insight.

HOWEVER

The English nerd in me loves this and can’t resist posting it. From 236.com, I give you

Diagramming a Sarah Palin sentence broke our heads in half
Easy, girls, bad grammar ain’t contagious.

Sarah Palin’s command of the English language is suspect. Her unscripted answers to Katie Couric’s questions suggest the she has memorized 15-20 prepositional phrases, and is only capable of repeating them in no particular order. But, ya know, incomprehensible run-ons are her style. At a debate during the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial race, one opponent, Andrew Halcro, called her responses “political gibberish.”

Exhibit A: After Halcro asked how she would pay for health care, Palin said this:

“I can’t tell you how much that will reduce monetarily our health care costs, but competition makes everyone better, it makes us work harder, it does allow reduction in costs, so addressing that is going to be a priority.”

Whoa. After watching about five videos by Yossarian the Grammarian, we diagrammed that Sarah Palin sentence. Gibberish or an endless parade of subordinate clauses? You decide:

In other Diva news, the spiritual mother of all gay men, Lynda Carter, had some choice words for Philadelphia Magazine about Sarah Palin this week.

Okay, last question. I’m sure you’ve seen all the comparisons in the media and among Republicans of Sarah Palin to Wonder Woman. How do you feel about that?

Don’t get me started. She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives. And a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hillary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin. She did it all, didn’t she?

No one has the right to dictate, particularly in this country, to force your own personal views upon the populace — religious views. I think that is suppressive, oppressive, and anti-American. We are the loyal opposition. That’s the whole point of this country: freedom of speech, personal rights, personal freedom. Nor would Wonder Woman be the person to tell people how to live their lives. Worry about your own life! Worry about your own family! Don’t be telling me what I want to do with mine.

I like John McCain. But this woman — it’s anathema to me what she stands for. I think America should be very afraid. Very afraid. Separation of church and state is the one thing the creators of the Constitution did agree on — that it wasn’t to be a religious government. People should feel free to speak their minds about religion but not dictate it or put it into law.

What I don’t understand, honestly, is how anyone can even begin to say they know the mind of God. Who do they think they are? I think that’s ridiculous. I know what God is in my life. Now I am sure that she’s not all just that. But it’s enough to me. It’s enough for me to have a visceral reaction. And it makes me mad.

People need to speak up. Doesn’t mean that I’m godless. Doesn’t mean that I am a murderer. What I hate is this demonization of everybody but one position. You’re un-American because you’re against the war. It’s such bullshit. Fear. It’s really such a finite way of thinking about God to think that your measley little mind can know the mind of God. It’s a very little God that way. I think that God’s bigger. I don’t presume to know his mind. Or her mind.

–via tygrlad on the GLA Yahoo! group

Whereas I can’t disagree with anything that Ms. Carter is saying, I’m beginning to think that with all the picking on Palin going on (fish in a barrel, to be sure; one might even say “a red herring”), that there’s some surprise out there that’s going to gobsmack the more progressive side of the political spectrum. She’s too easy a target, already wounded prey, if you know what I mean.