Posted on 08/06/2013 6:14:16 PM PDT by Bratch
Any male character that runs around in spandex with his "Boy Wonder" is going to be the target of a few speculative comments related to his sexuality. But a new novel has taken the speculation a step further, "outing" Batman and Robin as a gay couple.
Released in English this July in the U.K., Erotic Lives of the Superheroes has been getting attention from British tabloids because in the novel, Batman is outed as a gay man. The story shows that Batman and Robin are an aging, bickering gay couple whose sex life has gone flat, and the dullness spurs Batman to pick up young men for one-night stands.
But Batman isn't the only superhero whose sex life is explored in the novel: It also imagines the erotic obsessions of characters like Superman, Mister Fantastic and Mystique.
Set in New York, the book was just released in English, but had been previously published in Italy in 2008. The book's author, Marco Mancassola, told The Independent that "Batman has always had a very dark side. And it shouldn't be a shock that my version of this character indulges in weird forms of fetishism and extreme sex.
"Narcissism is his inner abyss," the author said. "He let his only real love story miserably fail because he is in love with the mystery of youth — that inacessible, fleeting kind of spirit that he sees in the eyes of his young male and female pick-ups."
The Independent article points out that lawyers from DC Entertainment may not like the depiction, but the author said, "There was no intention to shock or offend anybody: Erotic Lives of the Superheroes is just an attempt at exploring the complex humanity of a group of characters."
Of course, speculation about Batman's sexuality has been common among comic book fans for awhile, with even Batman writer Grant Morrison admitting "he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay." Actor George Clooney, who played the character in the 1997 film Batman & Robin, has said he played the character as a gay man.
The book's staging of Batman as a gay man comes on the heels of actor Andrew Garfield surprising fans in mid-July with the question, "why can't Spider-Man be gay? Why can't he be into boys?"
See, speed was all the Flash had going for him while Superman had a number of powers.
While we’re back in grade school ... Goofy. What was he? Micky was a mouse. Donald a duck. A dog? Some sort of man-dog? A werewolf?
“Gay” marriage accomplished — now comes the mainstreaming of pederasty.
Their goal is the “normalization” of a perverted lifestyle.
Same-Sex Marriage allows for same sex education in our schools.
The media and Hollywood can wait to dump years worth of content on us.
It’s different, it’s relatively new and now it is LEGAL.
To question this effort will label you as a bigot and judgmental.
I thought it very interesting that when “Ellen” came out, she didn’t want to make her show about her sexuality and rarely talked about it.
This is about to change.
Very sad state of affairs.
I’ll bet the Flash was depressed too. He had no super strength, couldn’t fly(?), no x-ray or heat vision.
Invulnerable? To heat generated by his speed, Ok. But all these guys seemed to have a specialty and that showboat Superman ties him on the one thing he does best.
Well? Did Superman save the trolley?
More queer sh!t .... of interest only the queer folks.
Supe shoulda had Jimmy Olson hold his cape. It might have made the difference!
Thanks for sharing that. Good for the kid. Usually age and treachery triumph.
....as little as possible.
If DC wants their characters to roll in this crap, then buy elsewhere.
If there is no elsewhere, the kids will do without.
I must note there seems to be nothing these perverts aren't compulsively urinating on. IMHO, that bespeaks a compulsion that goes far beyond two standard deviations from the psychological mean.
All the wheedling bullsh*t about "just wanting to be tolerated" has become a vile slime they insist on slathering over every iota of western civilization. Time for them to get back in the damned closet.
Yes, but only after a musical interlude where he dressed up in drag and belted out a rousing rendition of The Trolley Song.
Every mentor, every man who knows the brotherhood of facing mutual danger, be it in combat, on a fireline, on a fishing boat, wherever, has had their brotherhood cheapened by prancing faggots insisting there are far more queers than there are, trying to cast a shadow over fraternal relationships.
If Goofy was a dog, how come Pluto couldn’t talk, too? Never did figure that one out.
It's like the computer "shadow" added to animation since the 1990s. There was at least a point at which it didn't conform to actual motivated light and was unequally applied. But it was considered "more realistic" than the animation of old.
Computers don't make everything better.
Wally Wood put today's hacks to shame (he killed himself in the early 1980s).
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