{"id":2363,"date":"2016-01-31T09:08:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T15:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2016-01-31T09:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T15:08:54","slug":"gay-superhero-comic-and-kickstarter-hit-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2363","title":{"rendered":"Gay Superhero Comic and Kickstarter Hit, Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A web comic featuring a gay superhero exploded in popularity when it went to Kickstarter to become a print graphic novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.out.com\/popnography\/2016\/1\/27\/gay-superhero-graphic-novel-raised-133k-available-pre-order\"><em>Out.com reports<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Young Protectors: Engaging the Enemy centers around a young gay hero and a team of his super-powered friends pitted against an older gay villain. Author Alex Woolfson originally released the comic online and began a crowd-funding effort to raise $14,000 to bring his story to traditional comic life ended up raising over $133,000 at the end of its 30-day run.<\/p>\n<p>The book?s summary reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>?Kyle ? a closeted, teen superhero who can control fire ? has finally summoned up the courage to enter a local gay bar. It?s his very first step towards accepting himself. Unfortunately or him, his very next step out of the bar places him face-to-face with The Annihilator, the most dangerous supervillain in the world. And the price that The Annihilator demands to keep Kyle?s secret will lead Kyle down a path fraught with danger, adventure and unexpected romance. It?s a path that will force Kyle to question what it really means to be a hero and will ultimately thrust him and his young teammates into an epic conflict against vastly superior foes.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Young Protectors <a href=\"https:\/\/the-young-protectors-vol-1-0.backerkit.com\/hosted_preorders\">is now available for pre-order<\/a>, and is due out in February 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley R. Lierman A web comic featuring a gay superhero exploded in popularity when it went to Kickstarter to become a print graphic novel, Out.com reports: Young Protectors: Engaging the Enemy centers around a young gay hero and a team of his super-powered friends pitted against an older gay villain. Author Alex Woolfson originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[604,601,602,603],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","tag-alex-woolfson","tag-glbt-graphic-novels","tag-kickstarter","tag-young-protectors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}