Sometimes you wonder why certain search terms bring people to your site, until you realise that having a blog that’s old enough means that almost every possible combination of words in the English language will occur in it at least once. (Also, that doing a post on weird search engine terms is very easy and brings more attention to those terms hence luring more people here. Profit guaranteed. (I learned that from Splintered Sunrise.)) So no wonder even such an unlikely combination of words like superhero porn gets results here. Unfortunately for whoever was looking to get their rocks off to some hot ‘n sweaty superaction, you won’t find it here. Apart from the image on the left, of course.
If you don’t know what’s going on, that’s next month’s Playboy, featuring one Tiffany Fallon bodypainted as Wonder Woman, which has become the latest crisis in the comics blogosphere. It’s supposedly sexist and demeaning and not worthy of a great female superhero like Wonder Woman blah blah blah. It’s all a bit silly, considering Wonder Woman is easily the most purposely kinky superhero title of all time, created by a man with a serious interest in bondage games. (William Moulton Marston; look him up.) Having a model painted as Wonder Woman is only as troubling as you find Playboy to be in general. Which to me is not very. I don’t believe porn is inherently demeaning to the people who appear in it, Wonder Woman has long been a fetish object to all kinds of people and this cover is a lot more respectable than some of the stuff Wonder Woman and other heroines have been subjected to in the comics themselves. I mean, at least it’s not Greg “all my characters look like they’re in the throws of orgasm” Land.
Meanwhile, to the hapless seeker for the forbidden superhero flesh, remember this nugget of wisdom from Evan Dorkin’s Eltingville Comic-Book, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Role-Playing Club: “it ain’t no good without the costume”.