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19 Apr 2012
He was. Back in the 1980's poor Bruce Banner was having a shower in a YMCA when two headband-wearing, muscular, dastardly, nasty homos attemted to rape him. A terrifying ordeal of course, but Bruce can't even fathom the fact that anyone - viscious rapists or not - could possible ever want to do... that! The mere idea of... that... makes him want to "throw up", and the "revulsion" and "horror" sweeping through him triggers his metamorphosis into THE HULK! Raaraaggggh! That'll teach them homos.
Apparently the writer, Jim Shooter, has caught a lot of flack over the years in the comicbook world for this storyline.
(via io9)
(thanks Paddy)
And it turns out it wasn't just the Hulk who had to deal with unwanted sexual advances from leering men. Spiderman (well, Spiderboy I suppose) was inappropriately touched by an older boy in 1984. You can read the whole thing HERE.
Sheesh! The 80's were a bad time for attractive superheroes.
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02 Feb 2011
Angelo's New York Nelly News
RIP Brenda Starr
Back in the 1970s the Sunday comics were full of long-running strips like Dick Tracy and L'il Abner, which still carried a whiff of 1940s-style glamour that seemed exotic and mysterious when I first discovered them. And none was more glamorous than Brenda Star, Reporter, a raven-haired bombshell with a dramatic beauty mark a la Eve Arden who zoomed around the globe chasing after hot stories and foiling schemes for world domination and such. (She bears more than a passing resemblance to Panti, if you ask me - right down to her trademark saucy smirk.) She was a proto-feminist vixen: Strong, courageous and a hot tamale to boot.
And despite being an independent woman and all, she was not immune to the masculine allure of the dashing yet slightly dangerous Basil St. John, her tragically doomed one-eyed paramour (think James Bond with an eyepatch). Brenda wasn't the only one who was smitten! And though I hadn't read the strip in years, I loved the idea that she carried on, a link to a more innocent pop culture past. So it was a sad day indeed when, on Jan. 2, after over 70s years, Brenda finally walked off into the sunset and off the comics pages for the very last time.
Hardbound compilations of the collected strips are apparently on the way, which is a relief, and in the meantime, you check out clips of the rotten 1989 film version on YouTube. Despite starring the ever-lovely Brooke Shields in the title role, It's a misbegotten mess with little to recommend it other than Timothy Dalton at the peak of his hotness as Basil and Brooke looking adorable in those 40s polka dot outfits.
(Posted by Angelo - nynellynews@gmail.com)
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