Our heroes find themselves in the middle of New York Comic Con to prevent a terrorist attack from the Morticana Order. While trying to prevent this tragedy, the team struggles with a possible traitor in their midst.
Tony Ortega, Alex Garcia
Standard Comic
Full Color
Page Count: 24
The Accords is an LGBT/Ally comic book series based in present-day America. It features a 7 character line up of individuals running the full gamut of sexual orientation and gender identity. It tackles political and metaphysical themes while maintaining humor and strong characters.
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Craig Hinch (verified owner) –
I usually love Alex Garcia’s art, but the photo/ drawn faces I find can be jarring at times; it can take away from otherwise great art. The writing can be very heavy handed. The character Grounded is a straight guy but he is obviously supposed to be stand in to ignorant fan boys. For those of us who aren’t straight, we generally know terms and definitions. For example, despite the team seeming to have existed for some time, another character has to explain “gender” to Grounded because of their teammate Sire, who is a trans man. If there is another straight character on the team that isn’t a jerk, we don’t know as of this issue. Grounded is looked at as a creep because he tells Sire that he should cover up their vagina. I’m not sure why that had to be included unless it was to single out Grounded for calling out a flying super hero to wear “panties” to show his disgust for a trans character. Sire also gets more powerful when someone is sexually aroused around them; I’m sorry, but why? This is the first issue but it feels as if the reader has missed a lot because of the established relationships, and that the traitor is a character who already left the team. There’s no build up, no surprise, it’s happened. We have characters discussing their ethnicities, yet the characters all seem to have known one another for some time, so I’m not sure why they would do that while in the middle of a case. The MAGA guy who is going to ***** SPOILER ****** blow up the comic convention because of diversity in comics seems too much of a stretch. Yes, the incels can be extreme, but it feels unrealistic to think that someone would be that unhinged to risk his own child’s life for that reason. I think the story would have been a lot more interesting if we had an origin story of the team, or editorial captions to provide greater insight. I know modern comics like to shy away from that, but it was effective for decades for reason. While the “who’s who in this diverse universe” for Grounded was appreciated, and I get that comics would do one character at a time, such as “Infinity Inc.,” it would have been nice to have all the characters available . I had to keep making sure I was reading the first issue. Despite this rather negative review, I do appreciate that someone crafted a comic book that has new characters who are diverse in ethnicity and sexuality and sex and gender, and offers the potential to a super hero team that aren’t just established characters with a token “queer” character or what usually occurs in established super hero comic books. I had fun looking at all the costumes people were wearing at the comic convention, seeing a Filmation Catra cosplayer, for example. I may purchase the other issues available.