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... now that Spider-Man is outted as Parker, now that everyone knows and presuming the black costume hasn't made everyone forget, are there people out there in the MU making digital porn fakery with Peter and MJ or Peter and random other celebrities?
Considering how much digi-porn there is showing off super-heroes as it stands, living in a world of actual super-beings would mean that it would be an exponetially larger quantity in the MU. And it has been hinted at with references to mutant pornography being mentioned (although, there's an undercurrent there that mutant porn is a kinkier, more dubious niche of pornography versus Sue Richards invisible supersuit pictures) in passing -- I'm mostly thinking of New X-Men there. And yet...the pornography would be so bizarre in a world of unstable molecules and clothing worn by Emma Frost.
Maybe that's what Adam Warren's Empowered will end up looking like, but I imagine the satire there will be fairly laid back.
It was pretty light, yeah, although it had its moments -- Empowered and her buddy Ninjette looking up boy/boy and girl/girl super-hero slash fiction was pretty funny -- especially because in the story context the characters they were reading about were real people, people they knew and worked with. There was a lot of sex going on but a lot of it was concerned with Emp's pleasure as much as her partner's, although it's totally idealized cheesecake/beefcake sex with hot manga bodies. The book starts out with a lot of "Wonder Woman on Crack" bondage scenes -- it's hard not to take Golden Age Wonder Woman as a distorted, confused inspiration for the book -- but once Warren starts building characters a bit, he lets go of the very superficial lampooning. I like that it just takes all of the psychosexual implications of superheroes and just runs with them. And the characters are aware of it, Emp's never presented as being a positive figure while in costume yet at the same time she's humanized by everything going on around those scenes, and we're given a pretty decent view into her head. It's never about Emp learning a lesson but just developing her own confidence and sexual agency.
Actually, now that I think about it, the Wonder Woman bondage drops away for the most part (*not entirely) when Emp gets into a relationship and starts having decent, fun sex -- on a narrative level, clearly Warren's interest was going elsewhere from super-battles and lampoon a bit, but on a meta-level it's like a very rigid structure is being shattered (the one-note hilarity breaking under the strain of character growth), and it's the development of a fuller consciousness of sexuality that renders the need for subtextual sex moot*. It's not perfect or fully actualized but it's certainly a step in the right direction.
*- There's something problemmatic about the implicitly negative portrayal of bondage and BDSM, but I think it can be dealt with on a contextual level, and it *is* being imposed on her from others versus her own desires. The subtext is there, though, but possibly that becomes more of a plot or character point in the unpublished volume 2?
For supertights stuff, there was basically that Elseworld's Finest with Supergirl and Batgirl, and... the occasional point in something Grant Morrison or Gail Simone are writing, and that's it. A fair bit of Runaways.
There's something going on with Vic and Nico in Runaways and Nico's tendency to deal with depression by trying to make out with her friends. She's starting to develop some sexual hang-ups already and that's getting in the way of her and Vic actually developing a fully-fledged relationship (although I'm only going by digests, so maybe it's already on its way up into the sunlight). It seems pretty naturalistic versus contrived antisex and I've liked that some of the characters approach Nico and her actions in a very antisex "you're a slut" sort of way but the narrative itself doesn't judge her- and some characters, like Vic, don't view her that way, and it never impedes her status as leader. |
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