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The Opaque

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In 2018 I made a comic for For The Love of Monsters anthology! The rights to publish the story just returned to me, so I’ve retooled it to print as a two-color risograph, and I’m posting the whole thing here! If all goes well I’ll have risograph zine versions of the story available by ECCC (and maybe even Vancoufur if luck is on my side).

The story is heavily inspired by books like Roadside Picnic and the Area X Trilogy, where something unknown and/or alien happens to a localized area and scientists enter the unknown to understand what has happened. It’s not stated directly in the comic, but I set it in a fictional version of Cuba, Missouri, a town about 40 miles from my hometown that was, at the time, known for being the Mean Average Population Center of the United States.

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Did you miss our Kickstarters? All our LGBTQ comics are available in our store!

Fat positive LGBTQ comics in classic zine style!

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Look, this dude is basically Anti-Taako, right? You know I'm right.

Only 20 hours left for Bear Company 2: A Gay SFF Zine to reach its goal on Kickstarter! Head on over to check it out!

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Less than one day left to back Bear Company 2 on Kickstarter! Big fat gay Science Fiction and Fantasy comics by GBT creators! We also got some Ls in For the Love of Monsters! And more Ts in Monster Journey and the original Bear Company! Get all four of our diverse, transgender inclusive comic zines for only $30 ($10 for ebooks)!

Go to Kickstarter or look through this blog for the link!

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Bear Company 2: A Gay SFF Zine is on Kickstarter! Featuring am amazing wrap-around cover by DJ Kirkland, creator of Black Mage, and stories of fat gay masculine people! Head on over to Kickstarter and check it out! Search for Bear Company!

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In this comic by Blue Delliquanti, the crew of the Ursa Major must repair their ship in the middle of an asteroid field. The perfect time to talk about feelings!

Read this exciting bromance and more in Bear Company 2: A Gay SFF Zine featuring fat masculine people, now on Kickstarter! Also available are our other zines featuring trans masculine creators, non-binary creators!

Go to Kickstarter and search for Bear Company!

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In The House at the Center, by Jey Pawlik and Michelle Parker, a minotaur and his husband tend to their garden in the center of a labyrinth. What could it be that has interrupted them?

Read the rest and more in Bear Company 2: A Gay SFF Zine featuring fat masculine people, now on Kickstarter! Also available are our other zines featuring trans masculine creators, non-binary creators!

Go to Kickstarter and search for Bear Company!

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In Royal Smash!, by Vincent Batignole, a young luchador and a witch boy take a captured demon back to the underworld, only to meet their idol, El Principe! Can they save El Principe’s love from the demons?

Read this lucha rumble and more in Bear Company 2: A Gay SFF Zine featuring fat masculine people, now on Kickstarter! Also available are our other zines featuring trans masculine creators, non-binary creators!

Go to Kickstarter and search for Bear Company!

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In The Land Within, by Ziyed Yusuf Ayoub, the last two space marines left on a battleground planet defect to start a new life together.

See what happens and more in Bear Company 2: A Gay SFF Zine featuring fat masculine people, now on Kickstarter! Also available are our other zines featuring trans masculine creators, non-binary creators!

Go to Kickstarter and search for Bear Company!

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In The Best Cuts, by Val Wise, Vinny and Holland are two kids in a town located deep in monster country. Vinny works at the town food hole and Holland is training to become a monster hunter. But when Holland messes up on a hunt, the monster charges into town and right for Vinny’s shop!

Read this exciting bromance and more in Bear Company 2: A Gay SFF Zine featuring fat masculine people, now on Kickstarter! Also available are our other zines featuring trans masculine creators, non-binary creators!

Go to Kickstarter and search for Bear Company!

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In Ziyed Yusuf Ayoub’s The Land Within, the last two soldiers on opposing sides of an interplanetary war abandon their posts to start a new life. See where their lives go in this touching silent comic in Bear Company 2: A Gay SFF Zine, now on Kickstarter!

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Vinny and Holland work in the bulbasaur trade in this story from Bear Company: A gay Science-Fiction and Fantasy zine. Will Vinny be okay? Check out this and more body-positive, trans-inclusive, LGBTQ comics on our Kickstarter!

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Check out the first six pages of Royal Smash! by Vincent Batignole! Read the rest in Bear Company 2, now on Kickstarter!

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Check out Bear Company on Kickstarter! Sixty-four pages of Fat Fantasy and Science Fiction!

Check it out here!

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Bear Company 2 is now live on Kickstarter! Check it out!

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Happy Valentines Day from Pocket Bear Press! We've got some big things in store for this year! Look for our two new anthologies on sale soon! Or head on over to comiXology and pick up a digital copy of Bear Company for only $3 in the Indie Romance Sale!

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Only a few hours remain to back these queer comics!

Monster Journey is an anthology of trans masculine creators telling stories of monsters that range from cute to scary!

For the Love of Monsters is an anthology of monstrous creatures dating humans!

Bear Company is an anthology of fat gay men hanging out!

All three for $8 digital / $20 Physical!

Monstrously Queer Anthologies on Kickstarter!