SUPER GAY: GAIL SIMONE'S (GAY?) MOVEMENT!!!
Linoleum Knife
Alonso Duralde
4.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Meet The Movement, legendary comics writer Gail Simone's QPOC community organizer superhero team whose remarkable (and short-lived) series was published by DC Comics, from 2013-14. Johnny and Prof Xtra also explore Simone's landmark "Women in Refrigerators." And they talk about John Byrne's penis -- the one he drew in an issue of Next Men, geez!
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| 0:00.0 | SuperK |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah, SuperK is time for fun and no one else can do it better |
| 0:08.0 | And it feels alright |
| 0:11.0 | Because the Super K time |
| 0:14.0 | Let's have the Super K fun |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, hello, hello, I'm Johnny Jungleguts. |
| 0:21.6 | And I am Professor Extra. |
| 0:23.6 | And you're listening to Super Gay, a podcast where we talk about all things gay in comics and more. |
| 0:31.6 | But mostly comics. |
| 0:33.6 | SuperKay! |
| 0:34.6 | And today we're talking about the movement. |
| 0:38.5 | But before we get into that, what comics have you been reading lately? |
| 0:42.1 | Actually, I've been reading John Burns' Next Men from Dark Horse, published in the early 1990s. |
| 0:47.9 | And Next Men is a meta-commentary about the commercialization of superhero comics. |
| 0:53.5 | It seems to be a critique of image comics and Marvel |
| 0:55.9 | and DC. And it's about these characters who were genetically engineered by a white supremacist |
| 1:01.7 | who becomes president. So that's that. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's insane. It's crazy. It's disturbing. It's |
| 1:08.6 | problematic politically. It's very violent. It's even trying to be sexually graphic. |
| 1:14.1 | And one thing I noticed was especially weird are the panels where Byrne draws a naked android's penis. |
| 1:20.9 | I always thought that John Byrne could draw anything until I saw this penis. I have a little clip of it here. What do you |
| 1:29.0 | think of this penis, Johnny? I'm looking at the penis. I'm going to push back on your penis |
| 1:33.3 | opinion here. I mean, it's not a great penis. It kind of reminds me of the way Dave Gibbons drew |
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