Can you recommend any good comics with lesbian leads with romance mixed with comedy, adventure, action or other genres?

susanptolemy:

Oh man where to start. I guess I’ll go in that order of genres for this list:

For sitcom-esque wlw comics I’d point you towards Giant Days and Jem and the Holograms. 

Giant Days is a gut-bustingly funny comic about university life, and Daisy’s coming out story holds a very special place in my heart. It’s my favorite thing ever just read it it’s good.

Jem and the Holograms is more soapy than comedic, about 3 rival pop bands. Kimber and Stormer are your friendly neighborhood red and blue gays, and Leah Dwyer is too good for this world, too pure.

If you’re looking for more adventurous content, Lumberjanes, Joyride, and Goldie Vance are my go-tos. 

Often described as a mix between Gravity Falls and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Lumberjanes are kick-butt girl scouts fighting cryptids and investigating the forest’s time-stopping properties. With a super diverse cast (Ripley is half Afro-Mexican and half white, Jo is Navajo, Mal is Korean-American, Jen is black, and Molly and April are white) and a metric ton of LGBT rep (Mal and Molly are lesbians, Jo is a trans girl, Barney uses they/them pronouns, and Rosie/Abigail was definitely a thing in the past), Lumberjanes really changed the game for comic books. 

Joyride’s about 3 teens zipping about the cosmos in a stolen spaceship. The eye-popping colors and linework elevate the already devastating plot and characters (issue #3 marks a highpoint for the series imo, and its what got me hooked) and the confession and cliffhanger at the end of issue #8 wrecked my life.

So far, Goldie Vance has less of a supernatural vibe, but there’s definitely mysterious ties to the space programs of the 60’s. Goldie’s a car-loving teen detective who lives and works at the hotel her dad runs (which apparently has a detective department for some reason, she’s supposed to be the valet but likes to help out). Brittney Williams also does the art for Hellcat, and you’ll fall in love with this idyllic world instantly.

For action, Motor Crush is the place to go. It’s only had two issues so far, but the art is fantastic, the sci-fi gang wars are captivating, and Domino’s a really compelling protagonist (she and her bubblegum-pink mechanic ex-gf are cuties too)

I’m gonna give an honorable mention to The Backstagers, which I adore. Pitched as “LETS MAKE A SUPER GAY STAGE CREW BOOK!!”, its about 5 students at an all-boys school fighting monsters and trying not to get their organization shut down. Word of God says everyone but Aziz is somewhere on the LGBT+ spectrum (1) (2), and a bunch of new characters from the rival all-girls school have been introduced recently, so keep an eye on it for wlw (and for great mlm and trans rep already)