Magical Girl Goodness: ‘Agents of the Realm’ Back on KickStarter!

Magical Girl Guardians, Up For Round Two! Here at Black Nerd Problems, we love us some magical girls, we also happen to love us some queer and diverse characters in our favorite mediums. We have a fondness for creators who give us both and Mildred Louis is such a creator we love to see making moves. Lauren and I were quick to support the first Kickstarter campaign for Louis’ first collected volume of her Agents of the Realm webcomic. Running since 2014, it made the 2018 Cartoonist Studio Prize Shortlist for best webcomic and remains a fave due to its creator’s consistent work and detail that goes into the narrative each week. Norah, Adele, Kendall, Paige, and Jordan are college freshmen at Silvermount University. While they’re trying to maintain passing grades and a consistent sleep schedule, they’re given the daunting task of being magical guardians of their realm. Now the adventure continues in Volume 2 as we dive into the tension between their mentor Jade and her corrupted twin sister Ruby Blackwater.

For those unfamiliar this comic: this is a YA Urban Fantasy/Fantasy/LGBTAQ+ offering about some girls you’ll come to love who find that if juggling school, a personal life, and saving the world wasn’t hard enough, they find out that one of their teachers may be behind all the evil magic – and she has a twin sister in an alternate dimension who’s trying to reach into Earth to stop her! Agents of the Realm is a story geared towards being inclusive and providing young women of…