How To Find A Masculine Halloween Costume For Your Effeminate Son… I love the Onion. But I’m not sure. I can’t help laughing, but with them the question is never should I be offended, but just how much should I be offended. This “news” clip from the Onion News Network offers practical suggestions on how to keep your “lady boy” from prancing around dressed as a ballerina at Halloween.
The whole thing is just so wrong, but I still laughed my ass off. I couldn’t help it. And don’t forget when choosing a masculine costume to not choose one “co-opted by the gay community like fireman, cop or cowboy or you’ll just look like a stripper.” But part of me worries about those who don’t know it’s a joke and rush out to Barnes and Noble so they can look to Anna Stevenson, author of “Actually He’s a Boy a How to Manual for Parenting an Effeminate Child” for words of wisdom. Scary! Happy Halloween!
I love Peter David’s writing and with his milestone issue #50 he did an excellent job of tying up not only ALL the loose threads he’s been dangling not just for the past 8 issues or so (Summers Rebellion, unevil Fitzroy, Cortex, incontinent Doctor Doom), but also the ones that have been out there since the beginning of the series (finally the definitive answer to what IS the story with Layla Miller?). I don’t want to spoil anything, but I do wonder if that’s what happens to Layla, where does she go from there (or then)? I have to admit it felt a bit rushed and tidy to have it all dropped in our laps with a lovely anniversary bow on it, but I’m eagerly anticipating what happens next!
Worlds and times collide in this double-sized conclusion to the year long storyline that has revitalized X-Factor. Will the Summers Rebellion triumph as is supposed to happen…or will it be derailed? Will Madrox make it back to his own time? Will Siryn, Monet and the rest of the team have their final showdown with Cortex? Will we actually learn just how it is that Layla Miller knows stuff? Will someone die?
You probably remember the uproar the RicShatty kiss caused from character creator Rob Liefeld. At the time X-Factor writer Peter David handled Liefeld’s reaction with grace and aplomb. Peter David made a number of humorous comments aimed at Liefeld and he’s stuck to his guns on at least one of them.
In a discussion over at Robot6 (which by the way mentioned QueerSUPE yesterday!!!), Peter David decided that he would have Guido ask “Tell me Shatterstar… do you like gladiator movies?” as a reference to the classic film Airplane in which Captain Oveur makes similar suggestive remarks to the young boy visiting the cockpit. I suppose you should expect that when entering anyplace called “The Cockpit.”
In a preview of X-Factor #200 (due in December) which relocates X-Factor Investigations to NYC to find out why “the Invisible Woman has Vanished, he did just that.
Posted in Announcement on 10/30/2009 03:35 pm by fanboi
There are still a number of characters on the A-Z LGBT Comic Book Character Superlist for which I have been unable to find images. Thanks to additional reader submissions and more research on my part, the list now encompasses 245 characters and is still growing! Here are characters I need images for – so if you can lay your hands on an issue that has them – PLEASE consider taking it to Kinkos and scanning it.
Daybreaker and Kid Apollo (appeared in Gen13 as part of the Authoriteens), Panthalessa (Jack Phantom’s partner and girlfriend in Top 10), Carol Swanson and The Vamp (Sandman Mystery Theatre), Leander (Hero’s alien love interest from Superboy and the Ravers).
All readers who submit images will be listed in the special thanks section of the list. All submissions can be sent to fanboi@heroesnhunks.com
I’ve been a fan of Psylocke since she first joined the X-Men as prim and proper English lady Elisabeth Braddock. Way back when, I picked up Alan Davis’ trade paperback of her introduction in Captain Britain from the Marvel UK imprint. So I loved her BEFORE Jim Lee turned her into a dangerous scantily clad sword wielding Asian ninja – which only improved her! I was sad to see her die and glad to see her resurrected, but again bummed to see her Exiled and left in limbo. So when she returned to the X-Men after a brief mind-controlled flirtation with the dark side I was ready to see her take center stage again… I didn’t have to wait long!
Psylocke has returned to the X-Men! Following the defeat of Madelyne Pryor and her Sisterhood, Psylocke travels to Japan to re-inter her former body in its proper resting place. But when a swarm of Hand ninjas attack Psylocke and do the unspeakable under orders from Matsu’o—the assassin originally responsible for transplanting Psylocke’s mind into the body of an Asian ninja—Psylocke determines that Matsu’o is one loose end that can no longer be left unresolved. It’s a tale of carnage and revenge, brought to you by superstars Chris Yost (X-FORCE) and Harvey Tolibao (AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE)!
Also Psylocke #1 kicks off a 4 part backup story by Duane Swierczynski and Steve Dillon (Preacher, Punisher) that will set about the return of Cable and the girl known as Hope Summers to the X-Men in the present, just in time for X-Men: Second Coming in Spring 2010! A Girl Named Hope runs through Psylocke #1, Dark X-Men #1, X-Men Legacy #230 and X-Force #22.
X-Men: A Girl Named Hope begins the most shocking change to the X-Men you can imagine! Will Hope save or damn mutantkind? What is Cable’s agenda? The answers begin in X-Men: A Girl Named Hope!
But part of me worries about those who don’t know it’s a joke and rush out to Barnes and Noble so they can look to Anna Stevenson, author of “Actually He’s a Boy a How to Manual for Parenting an Effeminate Child” for words of wisdom. Scary! Happy Halloween! 
