My Comic Valentine by David Horne

Ben Jones is a typical thirty-something-year-old nerd who works in a comic shop and lives in his mother’s basement. Ben is sweet and kind and mostly happy with his life, but he can’t help but feel like he’s not living up to his full potential.

This quickly changes when Ben is suddenly called in to work a special Valentine’s Day author event featuring the hottest webcomic creator in the land, Ethan Giordano. Ethan’s mega popular gay romance comic is secretly one of Ben’s favorites, and in talking about it, the two of them are able to flesh out an idea for a brand new comic; the likes of which has never before existed and is bound to take the industry by storm.

As Ben and Ethan’s comic skyrockets into popularity, Ben is forced to deal with many different issues and insecurities plaguing his personal life; namely his unrequited crush on Ethan and the fact that nobody in his family knows that he’s bisexual. These personal problems inevitably find their way back into the comic in hilarious and heart wrenching ways.

Told in alternating chapters of Ben’s life and his comic book scripts, this is a delightfully romantic tale about gay superheroes and the men who create them.