Sainted Love Vol. 1
A Time to Fight
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Publisher Description
THE TIME MACHINE meets MIDNIGHTER & APOLLO in SAINTED LOVE Vol. 1: A Time to Fight - a steamy, genre-blending gay, science fiction, era-spanning, adventure-packed graphic novel!
A SEXY, TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE TOO POWERFUL TO BE CONTAINED IN A SINGLE ERA!
New York City, 1907.
Malcolm “Mac” 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.
Sainted Love is a steamy time-traveling adventure series, equal parts romance and science fiction as two heroes fight for their love while journeying across centuries of history. It’s sexy, it’s exciting, it’s fast-paced. It’s a gay romance that sees queer heroes become legends themselves as they explore and adventure through iconic times in queer history, from the passion of gay saints Sergius and Bacchusto to the Lavender Mafia of the 1970s, and in between. Irina and Wolf first think they need to return home, but they soon realize that their real calling is elsewhere in time, to places where they’re free to love and exists as who they are and eras that desperately need their help.
Steve Orlando (Eisner and GLAAD Award 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!
SAINTED LOVE Vol. 1: A Time to Fight collects issues #1-3 of the acclaimed series and successfully-funded Kickstarter!
For fans and readers of: Doctor Who, Black Mirror, Quantum Leap, The Time Machine (H.G. Wells), The Star Rover (Jack London), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Mark Twain), Check, Please! (Ngozi Ukazu), Paper Girls (Brian K. Vaugh/Cliff Chiang), Moonstruck (Grace Ellis, Kate Leth, Shae Beagle), The Prince & The Dress Maker (Jen Wang), Bingo Love (Tee Franklin, Jenn St. Onge, Joy San, Genevieve FT) Sunstone (Stjepan Sejic), Money Shot (Tim Seeley), Midnighter and Apollo (Steve Orlando)
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Orlando (Scarlet Witch) teams up with Italian cartoonist Giopota for a giddy mashup of sci-fi adventure and queer romance. The story opens in 1907 on heroes Malcolm, who has just invented a time machine he calls the "Chrono Corridor," and his lover John, a hunky professional boxer. When a homophobic detective attempts to arrest them for "public safety" violations ("You smell like sex, and not a woman in sight"), they flee in the time machine, landing in Hollywood circa 1954—only to find they're being pursued, across time, by an organization called The Pilgrims that has been persecuting gay people throughout history ("You grow like weeds in every age, but weeds can be plucked," one member taunts, before John punches him in the face). When the pair journey back to the year 307, they befriend fabled Roman lovers Sergius and Bacchus for more adventures and erotic exploits. While Orlando earnestly addresses the victimization of gay people throughout the ages, he also offers up plenty of fight scenes and several tasteful and semi-explicit sexual encounters, ably depicted in bouncy art by Giopota. This is slick comics storytelling and lots of fun.
