Raven - Blog Posts
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Well, crap. Raven is a great comic with lots of action, drama, and humor. I would be very sad to see it end. If you can’t or don’t want to buy it yourself, check it out from your local library! If they don’t already have it, please recommend it.
Raven the Pirate Princess is Sinking
I despise doing posts where I ask for help, but here we are.
About two years ago I started a new creator owned project. It began as a spin-off of Princeless, but the reality is this - Raven The Pirate Princess is its own thing altogether. I knew this from the first issue and if you’ve been reading, so have you.
Sure, the first few issues of Raven: Pirate Princess had that heroic lady feminist banter for which Princeless has become known both among its fans and detractors. I mean, Raven had this scene:
and issue 1 had this scene:
But perhaps much more importantly, the first issue of Raven had this:
but that wasn’t where that ended. This is a book about a community of diverse queer women actively claiming their place in the world and taking what’s theirs. It’s about Raven, who is desperately in love with her childhood best friend Ximena
It’s about Ximena, a girl who was held captive for years by a pirate king who pretended to be her liberator. Who fell in love with the pirate’s daughter, only to be left behind by that father when she outlived her value.
About Sunshine, the thief that chose the wrong target and ended up falling in love with a woman already hopelessly in love with somebody else.
It’s about Katie, the bisexual second in command who’s motivated by honor…and occasionally beating the snot out of a dude or two
Oh and in case I forgot to mention, Katie is also incredibly muscular:
And Jayla, the asexual science genius who’s tired of being treated like a little sister
and Cid, the deaf engineer who quietly keeps the ship running
and of course, these two:
The socially awkward poet and the angry sword fighter who couldn’t stand her who have somehow become these two:
But here’s the thing: this comic is failing. It has a very dedicated and exuberant but at this point SMALL fanbase. Today I had a hard conversation with Action Lab about the reality of the numbers on this book versus what it costs to produce this book and, suffice it to say, Action Lab isn’t ready to cancel the book, but they aren’t ready to greenlight year 3 either. After Year 2 #13, Raven is set to go on the shelf until numbers can support continuing it.
This is where I need your help
If you care about this book full of queer pirate ladies and you want it to continue, we need to find a way to spread the word about it. We don’t need to sell single issues (it would be nice) but ultimately we need the trades sales that back up the continuation of this big YA Pirate/Revenge/Adventure/Romance thing.
Digital copies can be bought instantly right on Comixology: https://www.comixology.com/Princeless-Raven-The-Pirate-Princess/comics-series/46971
You can buy the physical volumes on amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B01BF7U91Q
In fact, if you’ve already purchased volumes 1-4, volume 5 is available for preorder there right now!
Maybe you’ve bought all the issues already. Thank you! If you still want to support Raven, you can review the books on Amazon or other retailers, you can share, reblog or retweet this post. You can tell a friend about the book!
If you have a comics review site or, say, a blog where you talk about LGBT media, contact me for review links or interviews. Please, help us save our ship.
A couple of funny sketches from Wormwood
The raven flies in the evening. It will have bad luck, for it can not have good.
If a raven eats the heart of an unburied king or chieftain that died in battle, the raven transforms into a valravn. This transformation gives the valravn great intelligence and superhuman strength, but it often turns them evil and manipulative as well. They are terrible creatures.
from Danske Sagn: Som De Har Lyd I Folkemunde. Image source.
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Happy Ace Week!!! 🖤🤍💜
Raven and Terra: *run towards and embrace each other*
Terra: Did they hurt you?
Raven: No, no. I'm okay. Did they hurt you?
Terra: Who cares? *starts tearing up*
Raven: I do!
Cyborg: Let's go... *smirks* ...unless you want to stay here goofing around with your girlfriend.
Raven: Okay... *red as Robin's costume* She's NOT my girlfriend!
Terra: I am not your friend?
Raven: *at a total loss* Uh...
Terra: I am not a girl?
Raven: Maybe this isn't the best time.
Terra: *irked* If I am not your girlfriend, then what am I?
Terra: Happy birthday, Rae! Here's your present!
Raven: You've made a stone statue of me...
Terra: Whatcha think?
Raven: Something important here is missing...
Terra: What?
Raven: *hugs Terra* You.
Justice League: Injustice - Cast (Part 3)
Now it's up to the Teen Titans to save the Justice League & stop the Legion of Doom.
All the (New) Teen Titans have Daddy Issues…
Dick Grayson: Witnesses both parents dying in front of him. Then he was adopted by the most EMOTIONALLY CONSTIPATED MAN in the entire universe.
Koriand’r: Her parents sold her into slavery to save her home planet. THEN her Dad call her home only to say the enslavers have left BUT Tamaran is about to break out into civil war and they NEED her to marry some guy she’s never met. Even though she was dating Dick and her FATHER WAS AWARE BUT DIDN’T CARE. He pressured her into a union she didn’t want and she lost her lover because he refused to be a side piece to a married woman. Also her sister sucks.
Raven: Her dad is literally a rock in her head, AKA Trigon. Say less.
Garfield Logan: His father experimented on him, saving his life but turing him green and giving him powers. Then his parents promptly drowned in a river. Then he went through foster care. Brought into the Doom patrol and raised by yet another emotionally constapated father figure.
Victor Stone: Mom? Dead. Dad? Scientist who saved his life after an accident, but turned his own kid into a half robot. Painfully. And against his will. He couldn’t play the sports he loved anymore and he felt like a freak.
Joseph Wilson: His dad is the reason he is Mute. He comes from the most dysfunctional family in DC, with his dad being an assassin for higher who wants to kill all of Joey’s friends. An older brother who died, and a sister who his dad pretends doesn’t exist. His dad is “Death Stroke.” Say less.
Donna of Troy: Parents? Nope. She was saved from a house fire by wonder woman who brought her to live with the Amazons.
Teen Titans Cursed Memes 🐦⬛🤸♂️🐸🦾💫
Part 1: New Teen Titans Cursed Memes: https://www.tumblr.com/podado-t-art/716943872543064064
I feel like Sasha Calle, The Flash 2023 actress, would make for a good Rachel Roth
long time no see
just raven chilling with butterflies
Feathery Eugene??
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