Sidekicks (multifandom fanzine)

Sidekicks is a 228-page mostly slash, with a tiny bit of gen and het, anthology of multifandom fiction. 
The cover was designed by Bast; interior art by Bluespirit.
The zine's focus is sidekicks in fiction.
A sister zine is Sidekicks at Sea.
==Contents: Slash==
* Tanith's Lament by Tavaran (Stargate SG-1 - Tanith/Daniel Jackson) ("I drifted closer, put my hand on his shoulder, still unthreatening. "Would you like a drink of something? To help you stay awake."") (4)
* Scaling New Heights by Tavaran (The Professionals - Bodie/Murphy) ("Talk about the luck of the Irish - it didn't seem to have done him much good this time.") (8)
* Fantasy in C Major by Elspeth Leigh (The Professionals - Cowley/Murphy) ("Cowley watched, silently admiring the beauty of this man revealed.") (12)
* All Right for Some by Pamela Prior (The Professionals - implied Bodie/Doyle) ("They always stood so close to each other, often touching. It wasn't fair.") (40)
* Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Margaret Turner	(Highlander - Methos/Kronos) ("Promises can't always be kept, no matter how much you mean them.") (46)
* Communion by Cinel Durant (Highlander - Duncan/Methos) ("Damn. I didn't think I could need him any more than I already do.") (54)
* Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade by Le Reine Bleu (Horatio Hornblower - Horatio/Archie) ("Archie Kennedy. The one bright spot in the dark unfeeling world I found myself thrust into a year ago.") (60)
* Tá Mé Caillte Gan Tú (I'm Lost Without You) by Nancy-Anne Davies (Horatio Hornblower - Horatio/Archie) ("If I have learned anything about love in my twenty-seven years, it is that we do not know how to feel it the way it was made to be felt - without boundaries, without reason, without thought.") (83)
* One Man's Worth by JennyB (Horatio Hornblower - Pellew/Kennedy) Acting Lieutenant Kennedy makes his report to Captain Pellew in the aftermath of the action at Muzillac.") (104)
* Archie: Muzillac by Calypso (Horatio Hornblower)(" He didn't mean to sound so cynical, but if there were ever a doomed mission, it was this one...and if there were ever a romantic idealist, it was Horatio.")(112)
*Moments by Sinistral (Due South - Fraser/Kowalski, Thatcher/Turnbull) Warning: Death story. ("Thatcher revisits memories of the past.") (138)
* Change of Shift by JennyB (Due South - Fraser/Vecchio) ("I don't know what the hell I was thinking, showing up for my shift on the stakeout a half hour early. I just thought maybe I'd be doing Vecchio a favor by getting him free of the Mountie a little earlier.") (144)
* Idol Hands by maxi (Anita Blake - Jean Claude and Asher) (""Will it always be thus?" the creature asked, kissing Asher's palm. "With you on one side of salvation, and me on the other."") (149)
* In His Hands by Ames (West Wing - Sam/Josh) ("Their first kiss was in the rain.") (162)
* Else by Sleeps With Coyotes (Smallville - Clark/Lex) ("Lex locks Dominic in the trunk and comes out of the closet.") (169)
* In The Flesh by Sleeps With Coyotes (The X-Files/Highlander - Alex/OMC (morph), Alex/Methos, Mulder/?) ("Keep your eye on the Rat. Where will he be when the music stops?") (176)
==Contents: Gen==
*Countdown by Sinistral (Due South) ("Dewey wants to know what's going on in Kowalski's head. (198)
* Children of the Corn by SarahRosie (Smallville) You never get a second chance to make a first impression.") (200)
* Free Fall by SarahRosie (Smallville) ("Lex has asthma and a lot of angst for an eight year old.") (203)
*It'll Never Work by Rhiannon Shaw (Highlander) ("Methos really didn't want to look up from a freshly vandalized grave - a priest's grave - into the face of one of Paris's finest.") (206)
==Reactions and Reviews==
==References==
Category:Multimedia Slash Zines
Category:2003 Zines