Celebrate the vibrant spirit of Pride Month with a dazzling selection of romance comics that beautifully embrace LGBTQ+ themes. These six enchanting titles will sweep you off your feet with heartfelt love stories and diverse characters who navigate the complexities of romance, identity, and acceptance. This week's What's Trending is a delightful celebration of love in all its glorious forms.
Fine Print, 188 pages - Published by Top Cow, (cc/ @vincelongo)
How do you deal with a broken heart? Junk food? Excessive drinks? Dubious contracts with ancient gods? When it comes to Lauren Thomas, the queen of bad decisions, the answer is always the worst possible choice. She finds herself in a rare opportunity to have her broken heart patched up by the highest-rated god of desire. The problem is, it’s a contested title. Join us in this tale of gods and mortals, love lust, and death, and one woman's bad choice that starts it all with a simple bite on a golden apple.
Story and Art by Stjepan Sejic
Solanaceae, 390 pages - Published by DarkChibiShadow, (cc/ @DarkChibiShadow)
(18+ ONLY) Sal, a thief, concocts a get rich quick scheme to try and make Battam, a witch, fall in love with him. But, upon learning him and his target share more in common than he originally thought, Sal starts experiencing feelings he’s never had before and must make a decision between money or the potential for love. Gay, romance, pinning, slow burn, BDSM themes, enemies to friends to lovers. Warnings for: sexual themes, light alcohol/drug use, light blood, body horror and death imagery.
Story and Art by DarkChibiShadow
PRINCESS, 9 pages - Published by Starr Publishing, (cc/ @prince-samsiess)
A young trans girl is kicked out by her religious parents, and she's taken in by a star demon named Asteria. She soon discovers that she has a special ability; she is a human capable of performing demon magic. Her entire worldview, including the morals she was raised with, is flipped, and she has to face off powerful angels in battle to save her loved ones. But it's not the angels she fears, not even the most dangerous and intimidating. It's the people who raised her that she truly fears.
Story and Art by Starr Publishing
Beneath the Camphor Tree, 456 pages - Published by byleahgracie, (cc/ @byleahgracie)
Eun-ah is a woman who disguises herself as a man in order to earn a living as hired protection. When she by chance saves a young nobleman from being robbed by some crooks, she quickly learns that the young nobleman was actually the Crown Prince of Joseon, and he wants none other than for her to be his personal bodyguard! Trouble is, no one in the palace, least of all the crown prince, knows she's a woman, so she has to keep pretending to be a man...
Story and Art by byleahgracie
Hearts a Mess, 172 pages - Published by ihaveatoaster, (cc/ @ihaveatoaster)
After a recent breakup, Eric would rather avoid a new relationship and just watch his crush Myles from a distance. As fate would have it these two get thrown together anyway. BL
Story and Art by ihaveatoaster
Wanderlust, 101 pages - Published by Cryptid Shadows, (cc/ @CryptidShadows)
Sophie, a young woman embarking on the first leg of her independent life, finds herself falling for her quiet and reserved coworker, Ace. While lost in thought deep within the Appalachian mountains, Ace finds himself forced to confront his inner demons as they manifest themselves in the form of something he can no longer hide. Story and lines by Jay Miller, color by Peri Pendrake.
Story and Art by Cryptid Shadows
Franklin 2 years ago
Awesome!