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Is Queer Superhero Comic Spandex Actually One Giant Stereotype?

By Queerty Staff November 22, 2009 at 11:11am · 7 comments

In all our excitement about Spandex, the new all-queer superhero comic, perhaps we didn’t realize the new graphic series is “actually really cliche, harsh, and offensive,” as Essex-based vlogger Alex Day opines. Oh my, he is right!

And hey, people agree with him.

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7 Comments

  • Ian

    Good lord, I want to tell these PC people to stop getting their panties in a bunch, they’re not quite as bad but still annoying as the left’s version of the religious right types. It’s a tongue clearly in cheek comic, get over it! If they want more realistic portrayals of superheroes(!) in a comics, they exist in BOTH DC and Marvel comics, Spandex is clearly meant for fun only and is not meant to be any form of poster child for an entire community!

    November 22, 2009 at 1:11pm
  • Brandon

    I think he’s right. And I’m not saying that just because I may or may not want him to fuck me.

    Seriously though, he is right about the one white/one black twins.

    November 22, 2009 at 3:11pm
  • Joey

    The stoned girl from the Apple commerical is making video responses on Youtube. Nice!

    November 22, 2009 at 3:11pm
  • Mike in Brooklyn

    @No.1 Ian: Not so fast, dude: Don’t you think Alex Day’s video is also “a tongue clearly in cheek” video? Poking a bit of fun at the newspaper review and the comic?

    The video was hilarious!

    BTW, I checked out Day’s YouTune channel; The kid is funny; check out his Inside Alex Day video and you’ll see he pokes fun just as pointedly ironic at himself.

    November 22, 2009 at 5:11pm
  • Tyler

    He is funny. And hot.

    November 22, 2009 at 11:11pm
  • KyleR

    This isn’t new. There are several gay characters in the Marvel and DC universes. And they aren’t in the closest. One of the characters had a kissing scene in a Marvel comic. Of course, it’s not exclusively gay as this comic is. The 50 foot lesbian, the pink ninjas. LOL. I think the comic sounds funny.

    And if you don’t know, there is a comic series drawn by a Canidan man that is gay and totally X-rated. LOL. Patrick Fillion. He has several lines out. Camili-Cat, Naked Justice, the Guaridans of the Cube and a escort themed group.

    November 23, 2009 at 1:11pm
  • hardmannyc

    Why do British people have such bad teeth?

    November 23, 2009 at 1:11pm

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