Sainted Love #1 by Steve Orlando and Giopota. Cover by Giopota. Variant cover by Vic Regis. Out in September.
“New York City. 1907. Malcolm Irina is the greatest inventor the world’s never heard of, and his lover, John Wolf, is the toughest bare-knuckle boxer in the city. Irina’s crowning invention, the Chronocorridor, is nearly complete. He dreams of whisking himself and Wolf away to a time when they can live and love freely. But when crazed Detective Felt raids Irina’s lab, the couple dive into the freshly powered up portal to escape capture.
Steve Orlando (Eisner+GLAAD Nominated writer of Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man 2099, Wonder Woman) and Giopota (artist+creator of beloved webcomic Mothersea) hurl you across time with Irina and Wolf, as they encounter famous queer people throughout history and fight back against all who would see their names and love erased!”
Republicans are running on a “common ground” 15-week abortion ban in Virgina. But they ran on similar “moderate” limits in North Carolina and Florida, only to pursue a total ban as soon as they were elected. Don’t let them fool you in Virginia. VOTE DEMOCRATIC TO PROTECT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS!!
Here’s a link to what Republicans signed into law in Florida ahead of the last elections:
A 6-week abortion ban complete with abortion pill restrictions. Virtually no debate, no accounting of polls despite them showing almost the whole state opposed it. They rammed it into law and are now attempting to implement it in court.
Meanwhile in North Carolina, Republicans passed a 12-week abortion ban this summer:
This despite several newly elected North Carolina Rs saying they wouldn’t touch the state’s previous 20-week law before the last election only to vote for the 12-week limit. But that’s not all. NC Republicans control the state House and Senate, and their gubernatorial candidate next year has already come out in favor of amending their 12-week abortion ban to a 0 week abortion ban:
That’s right, a total ban. As the campaign really gets underway there, he’s softened his rhetoric to a holy compromise of a 6-week ban, which is a total abortion ban in fancy writing since most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at six weeks.
Another problem with these “common ground” abortion bans has been that their exceptions beyond the allotted time period for things like the life of the mother have been comically vague, and with draconian penalties such as years in prison or life-crippling fines imposed for any doctors found guilty of an abortion that violates the bans, medical professionals have struggled to treat women under these exceptions clauses, leading to horror show instances like this:
This is the world Republicans now want to impose on Virginia. This is what their “common ground” compromise looks like in practice. It will cut thousands of mothers adrift and force them to suffer gruesome complications with no assistance, and they won’t stop with whatever “moderate” position they claim to want to impose on you this election. It’s just a starting point.
Folks, don’t let Virginia become the next Florida. The time to fight back is NOW to prevent it from happening in the first place, not after Republicans gain the Trifecta and start imposing these changes on the population whether they like it or not (and almost certainly roll back the state’s voting laws so it’s harder to vote them out in future).
If you want to safeguard reproductive rights and say no to religious extremism, make sure to VOTE DEMOCRATIC on Tuesday!!
Love how Lower Decks did a “bottle” episode, even though they don’t actually have any sets, and a “flashback” episode even though none of the flashbacks were to things that we had seen.