Brimming with feeling and featuring a diverse cast (including a trans character, Beckett), it’s an effervescently entertaining story of finding community (and maybe love) in unlikely, even impossible places. Sygh captures the story’s interpersonal and supernatural dramas in lush, manga-inflected scenes. Genesius is so rife with sexual tension that characters nervously blush on virtually every page.) Romantic possibilities aside, there’s something seriously strange going on in the vast, ever-changing labyrinth of rooms and tunnels beneath the school, full of bizarre creatures, rope bridges leading to parts unknown, and (possibly) long-lost techies who vanished decades ago. New student Jory reluctantly gives drama club a shot, but he quickly realizes that he’s more at home with the stage crew: cherubic Sasha, no-nonsense Aziz, crotchety light board operator Beckett, and burly builder Hunter, who blushes every time Jory is nearby. James Tynion IV ( Detective Comics, The Woods) and artist Rian Sygh ( Munchkin, Stolen Forest) explore what it means to be an outcast looking to find ones place in an earnest story of friendship and self-expression. ongoing comic series written by James Tynion IV, originally published in single magazine form in The Backstagers 1-8 by DC. Genesius, a private high school for boys with a highly unusual theater department. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Backstagers Vol. In a comic that’s essentially Lumberjanes for queer theater-tech types, with some of the cosmic weirdness of Steven Universe mixed in, Tynion ( The Woods) and Sygh ( Munchkin) take readers to St.

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