Superhero Sex: pt. 7

The eroticism of superheroes was always most evident in the expression of their powers; there is always such a lot of straining, groaning, and bursting when heroes and villains meet.
Cloak and Dagger was a shitty comic series in the eighties that combined liberal hand-wringing with a racist concept; Cloak’s powers were inherently sinister, and needed [...]

Superhero Sex: pt. 6

Is nothing sacred? Is no corner of my treasured childhood comic memories safe from this moral taint of perversion and smut?
Thankfully, no.
When I was a kid, I used to wonder how Casper became a ghost: who he was and how he died, etc. Lisa Simpson once theorized that he was the ghost of Richie [...]

Superhero Sex: Pt. 5

Supergirl takes a stimulating shower…

Superhero Sex: Pt. 4

Pretty much anyone who’s a serious comics fan has read Alan Moore’s Top Ten, which takes the themes that Wertham first spotted and expands on them in a very gritty, realistic narrative. This old World’s Finest cover shows how fond those old superheros were of their sidekicks.

Propaganda in Four Colors

Once again, Ronald Reagan comes to the rescue. Somehow, Ethan Persoff found this fine example of Reagan-era propaganda: a comic book, titled “Grenada: Rescued from Rape and Slavery,” which was produced by the CIA and distributed during the 1984 invasion by American troops. Reagan has a much more distant role in this one than [...]

BushWorld vs. RealWorld

George W. Bush, January 18, 2005:
Good evening. Three days ago, in large numbers, Iraqis went to the polls to choose their own leaders — a landmark day in the history of liberty. In the coming weeks, the ballots will be counted, a new government formed, and a people who suffered in tyranny for so long [...]

Cthulhu Christmas Carols

Merry Christmas From the Great Old Ones!

Superhero Sex, pt. 3

In which Superboy is bad, and both he and Pa Kent become equally frustrated.

A Warped Atlas of Fantasyland

Every so often, I have to go get all fanboyish and rave a little about Adam Lipscomb’s blog, A Violently Executed Blog, which among other things, will remain one of the most appropriately named spots on the web until construction ends on Bill O’Reilly’s new blog, Steaming Piles of Horseshit and Racist Slander. This [...]

Superhero Sex, pt. 2

Superman has never had a steady sidekick (unless you count Krypto… hmm) but never let it be said that he isn’t willing to comfort a young man in distress: