Because I felt like it!

[alchemyprime]

 So, I will be posting some Love and Capes goodness here on SD. Most of what I will post will be from the webcomic site, as I don't have all the IDW compilations and this way is a lot easier for me. 

Now, where is that "make a cut" button? 

Well, I suppose I should start by explaining a bit. 

Love And Capes is the story of Mark Spencer, aka Crusader, a traditional flying brick (with the extra power of Magnetic Resonance vision, which is oddly like X-Ray vision), and his girlfriend Abby, a peppy young gal who owns a bookstore. It's a slice of life comic about superheroes, and verily, it is awesome.

Yes, we will admit, the heroes are not very original. Crusader, Darkblade, Amazonia, Golden Torch, Arachnerd... we can all see who is who. The fun part is that it focuses on the people, and it's pretty dark entertaining. So for now, I give you Abby finding out her boyfriend Mark the accountant is CRUSADER!






This is starting to remind me of Pre-Crisis Superman a touch... but it'll get better, don't worry.





Mark takes Abby home (back to HER apartment, despite the fact she went to visit HIM) and she begins to see the bright side of dating a superhero.



But this moment kind of made me keep reading. This one right here (then I'll hold off unless folks want more).




Yes Abby. Yes you are. But at least Mark and Charlotte love you. In totally different ways.

Man alive, if I didn't say that, the shippers would be on that like... insert totally appropriate euphemism here. 

THEY ARE SISTERS PEOPLE! COOL YOUR GUNS! 

Okay, and that's Love and Capes, pt 1. Should I keep going with series highlights?

Suggested tags: Love and Capes, Char: Crusader/Mark Spencer, Char: Abby Tennyson and Char: Charlotte Tennyson. 

Comments

[cainofdreaming]

THEY ARE SISTERS PEOPLE! COOL YOUR GUNS!

Like that's ever stopped the shipping. I've read classic literature, the dronking travels of Marco Polo even, which have had sister acts.

Yes, people were the same even before internet. They just couldn't get their smut spread out so far and wide.

But back to the comic. It reads well enough, but the art... well, I've gone on about the strong inks before but for some reason they just don't seem to work for me this time. It's like they aren't working with the line art, but trying to draw your eyes away from it. Or something. I don't know.

[alchemyprime]

I will admit, the art gets better after this. First issue was a little harsh on the inking.

[biod]

Smut! Give me smut and nothing but! A dirty novel I can't shut! If it's uncut! and unsubt-
le.
Also, Catullus 16. I do not recommend looking that up if you can't handle a little dirty wordplay.

[whitesycamore]

Martial is way worse than Catullus. I swear 'cunt' is like, his favourite word.

[gregor_asmadi]

Should I keep going with series highlights?

I love L&C, so yes!! :-)

[starwolf_oakley]

The creator of the series, Thom Zahler, explained in a podcast (don't remember which one, sorry) that part of the "hook" was the time between (post-Crisis) Lois Lane and Clark Kent getting engaged and him telling her he was Superman. Yes, they got engaged BEFORE he told he was Superman, AND didn't tell her The Secret right away.

Zahler also said the superheroics in "Love & Capes" is a lot like the jobs that sitcom characters have: you know what the characters do for a living, but the show rarely focuses on their jobs. Especially when the sitcoms take place at the characters' job, IMHO, like The Office or Taxi.

[cleome45]

This is pretty cute. :)

[lonewolf23k]

This comic is going to become a LOT more popular with Lois and Clark fans after the Reboot.

[blackruzsa]

Ohoho!
This was way giggle-worthy.