Chayne: Comics, action figures, video games, cartoons, anime, giant-robots, and sci-fi fantasy. I'm really into very colorful and positive interpretations of humanity. I grew up watching Star Trek: The Next Generation and have always been inspired by it's portayal of humanity in the future. I don't care for stuff that is too violent and I don't watch very many "scary" movies. I love to collect action figures and have tons of Transformers, Star Wars, super hero and video game collectibles. Every week I pick up the latest comics of some of my favorite characters. (My absoulte favorite is Green Lantern.) I'm a huge fan of Star Wars and really love the mythology behind the Jedi. I'm really inspired by people who are heroic and selfless!
Music
Chayne: Collective Soul, Foo Fighters, Jason Mraz, George Michael, Madonna, Seal, Alanis Morrissette, Incubus, INXS, Information Society, Duran Duran, Erasure. Plus I really like movie composers Danny Elfman and John Williams.
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Russ: Pearl Jam, Kaskade, White Stripes, The Black Keys, Thievery Corporation, Fiona Apple, Rage Against the Machine, The Cult, Jamie Cullum, The Vines, CCR, SRV, DMB, The Pixes, Rufus Wainwright, Radiohead, Jamie Lidell, Jamiroquai, Counting Crows, Jellyfish, The Shins, and about a thousand more!
Movies
Chayne: Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Batman, Superman, Jurassic Park
Russ: Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean 1+2, V for Vendetta, The Matrix Trilogy, Trick, Kung Fu Hustle
Television
Chayne & Russell's Faves SITCOMS- The Office, Scrubs, Strangers With Candy, Frasier, Seinfeld
SCI-FI- Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY), Farscape
ANIME- Gundam Seed, Trigun, Outlaw Star, Cowboy Bebop
CARTOONS- Justice League, TMNT, Xiaolin Showdown, The Batman
Books
Comics that Chayne likes: Green Lantern, Young Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man, The Flash, and many, many more that are too numerous to mention!
Books that Chayne likes: Anything in the Star Wars Expanded Universe!
Russ likey: The Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin is AMAZING! Start with Game of Thrones and I guarantee you'll be hooked.
Heroes
Chayne loves Kyle Rayner, a.k.a. Green Lantern and Ion, Spider-Man, Wiccan & Hulkling (Young Avengers), all the heroes in the JLA.
We are artists who love comics! We started creating our own comics with Boy
Meets Hero, a web-comic about a gay superhero, Blue
Comet, his boyfriend Justin, and
the struggles a super-hero can have when he has more than one secret identity.
It is our intention to tell a fun and light-hearted tale that contains colorful
characters, action, adventure and a little sex thrown in for good measure!
Boy
Meets Hero is really a superhero fantasy on the surface only - as you'll
discover along the way, the real story is about self-acceptance, tolerance,
and
ultimately... love.
Although the full comic is no longer available to read online we are offering
it in a beautifully bound HARDCOVER published by Bruno Gmunder (Patrick Fillion,
Joe Phillips). You can buy it at Amazon or request your local bookstore to
order it BUT if you'd like a LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED AND SIGNED copy you can
only get that from us at WWW.BOYMEETSHERO.COM.
You can check out our comic online at www.boymeetshero.com CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT!
Now we're proud to present our brand new project featuring all the fun characters from BMH. It's a downloadable comic called BLUE COMET & FUSION and it's available right now. Just click below to check it out!
Who I'd like to meet: Other people interested in positive portrayals of gays in comics.
People who have open minds and appreciate others who are a little different. We are comfortable with being gay. We feel it makes us unique and special, but we don't feel it defines who we are! So if you are gay or straight, it makes no difference to us. We are especially drawn to people who share our interests of fantasy and sci-fi entertainment. We also appreciate thoses who believe in not just a positive portrayal of gays, but people in general. We are interested in people who are good-natured and compassionate toward others!
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HERE ARE SOME ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHAYNE!!
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