PANEL ONE: Meet Dylan Croft, a young red-headed man who wears a ponytail and dresses like a thrift store pirate. He smiles at the audience.
NARR:
My name is Dylan Croft. I live in Prince Edward Island. This is my story.
PANEL TWO: A picturesque aerial shot of Coven Cove.
NARR:
First, let me tell you about the town I live in. It was founded in 1785, a while after the first settlers came here.
PANEL THREE: An antique photo of the town’s founders, dressed in 1785 garb. However, they’re all smiling. They are holding a painted sign that says “TOWN COUNCIL.” and the bottom of the picture frame is labeled “Our Founders.” There should be an equal number of men and women.
NARR:
But what makes it special is that the town founders were witches. Yup. All of them.
PANEL FOUR: An antique photo of people stepping off a small sailing ship onto the dock at Coven Cove, 1745.
NARR:
They’d come fleeing persecution for witchcraft; that horrible business in Salem, Massachusetts may have come and gone, but anti-witch sentiment was still high.
PANEL FIVE: The town founders holding a ritual around a bonfire. One of them holds what looks like a book of magic, and is reading aloud from it; the others all seem to be chanting with arms raised.
NARR:
So they decided to found a town where not only was practicing witchcraft allowed, but respected.
PANEL SIX: A picturesque sign, freshly painted and with old world charm, that reads “Welcome to Coven Cove.”
NARR:
And they named it, quite appropriately, “Coven Cove.”
In memory of those we lost at the Pulse nightclub, June 12, 2016
Hate exists. We can’t deny that it does. It is everywhere—and the reason is because hate demands nothing of you. It’s easy to hate, instinctive even, to shun or feel aggressive towards anything we find strange or “other.”
Hate took the lives of forty-nine people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, June 12, 2016. Hate, and I must assume, a touch of animal madness.
However, out of that hate, that tragedy, came love.
Outpourings of support, of coming together as a community, of condolences and well-wishes and aid in all forms; humans being their best selves. It was an uprising, not in terms of rebellion per se, but of people rising above fear and hatred and the other darker instincts we all possess, to show caring affection for those left behind.
Love is Love is a graphic novel project created to support the victims and their families, and it represents the best of us; our heroes, illustrated by their own illustration of love and service to us all.
It inspired me to have my own superhero, Thunder, appear in a two-page comic in the spirit of Love is Love to show my support for not only the movement, but the very concept of demonstrating love rather than hate.
Love is heroes; caring about us, saving us (even from ourselves), and shielding us from those lost to hate. Love is the bright, four-colour world of comics, creating magic on the page to be read and shared by all.
The third issue of SPECTRUM, my LGBTQ Superhero book, debuts today here at twogargs.com! Meet Richie (Spectrum) and his best friends Eddie and Kelly as they shred his secret identity right out of the gate!
SPECTRUM is about coming out, finding your own place on the sexuality rainbow, and finding peace within yourself–as well as figuring out how those pesky superpowers work!
“Twogargs” is an independent publisher of comic titles, including the genres of superheroes, comedy, horror, and urban fantasy… with more to come.
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