Pride High
Comic Series
Pride High is an award-winning independent
comic book about a gay-straight alliance at a high school for super-powered youth,
it is produced in colour with high quality art and an engaging storyline. The story takes place at the Poseidon
Preparatory Academy for Heroic Youth, a boarding school for super-powered teens
located in the fictional West Coast metropolis of Pacific City, California.
Pride High is produced in both a print and
digital format and as a way to encourage those on limited incomes and the
expansion of LBGT comics, is available in web comic format from their website.
Pride High also likes to encourage reader participation and includes superhero
cameos in each issue, while everybody obviously cannot be featured; there are
cameos in each issue, as well as recurring guest star roles. In fact, as of
Issue 3, one of the main characters is a reader creation. His character also
graces the cover of Issue 4! All you have to do is register on our forums,
introduce yourself, then add a character to the Student and Faculty Registry.
The high point of the Pride High series is
the ability to develop believable characters. Each one is carefully fleshed out
in a way that is very credible, their individual life experiences, joys and
difficulties as well as their relationships are handled in a authentic manner.
Significant issues such as oppression are handled well but we are “not beaten
over the head” with long dialogue and discussions, each word is well used and
the images themselves are allowed to tell the tale and entertainment is not
sacrificed for ideology.
Pride High is unusual in that while it may
seem focused on LBGT teens, it really reaches out to a wide and diverse range
of readers.
Previews can be found at: http://pridecomics.com/previews.html
This review will appear in Volume 2:1
(2009) of the digital and print edition of Synergy Magazine.
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