Weekend Random Links (Superhero Edition)

Writing Journal: I've been stuck on The Adjusters #43 until this morning. I'm still somewhat stuck, but I think I see a way out. I'm having a lot of difficulty with the pacing. I don't want Book IV to be a sprawling 20 installments saga like Book II, but I also want to make sure I give it the room it needs to breathe. In comparison, Book III was pretty straightforward to set up and execute.

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Some late weekend random links, with a superhero theme—again, not that I'm particularly reading comics anymore, at least not superhero comics, short of keeping up with the world via Scans_Daily, but part of me still has affection for those crazy everything-remains-the-same-yet-changes-but-without-changing universes. (And yeah, I still have an idea for a DC-based smut story, but it's pretty low on the priority list.)

This is old, but Charlie Jane Anders talks about the history of superhero porn. (And I guess that while we're at it, we can look at modern superhero porn...)

It's not porn, but Alter Egos is a pretty good indie superhero comedy flick, and it has this one scene that really messes with my head.

Let's start slowly with the classics. Here's a stupefyingly innuendo-filled song by the Birds of Prey from Batman: The Brave and the Bold. (Warning: the song tends to stick in your head.)

You may or may not have heard about the latest Spiderman arc in the regular universe, the one about Superior Spiderman, but these scans where the new Superior Spider-man makes a move on MJ, my favorite redhead, are delightfully creepy.

A bit less mainstream, but still within the universe, there's Jessica Jones. Here's the last arc of the Alias series, where we meet the Purple Man, a villain with mind-control powers that does pretty much exactly what we would expect a villain to do...

I wanted to leave you with some good superhero smut, but I seem to have difficulty finding some that I have not already posted. Still, we have two about Supergirl (just don't ask me which incarnation): Supergirl Becomes Superslut, by LisaAnn, and Supergirl Fallen, by Citizen Bane. Both stories are about Supergirl taken down a notch, as you might expect given the titles. They're not great stories, but they're better than the crud that usually passes for superhero smut.