I'm pleased to announce the first glimpse at Applesauce, the original animated series that catapults queer storytelling to new imaginative heights. Produced by yours truly and Dex Craig, the love of my life, Applesauce will take you throughout space and time in an epic tale spanning from modern-day gay ghettos to the end of the universe.

The series follows Unity and Identity, a pair of 18th century dandies who must protect the universe from threats arcane and wild. Reality is fundamentally unstable, and they must continually mend it to prevent the end of everything.

Without further ado, here's the first two adventures of Unity and Identity! In the first, they must prevent a Celtic legend from ripping apart the galaxy:

And in the second, they must prevent an existentialist from taking his tragic out on the universe:

We're thrilled with the way they turned out. We weren't sure if we had enough computing power to render the sort of visuals we had planned, but the shots came out great. And I love the performances by the voice talent. Unity and Identity are played by the fabulous Don Hardy and the effervescent Brandon Grimaldi. Both worked with us in our previous production, Pandemonium, but unlike that project, we're able to redo the takes dozens of times until every line is exactly right.

Which is just one of the liberating things about animation. There are no limits to the visuals. We were always obsessed with trying to make the effects in Pandemonium "look real", as though objective reality were somehow desirable. In an animation, the audience just accepts that you have two pretentious fags bobbing in space -- and one reclines -- next to the giant BDSM god ripping apart the sun with his bare hands. It's not supposed to look real.

We have two more minute-long teasers on the way, and then we'll begin production on the first full-length episode. We'll be posting our progress right here on DoorQ, so stay tuned!