September brings with it a new issue of the newly-controversial Comic Foundry, complete with interviews with Ed Brubaker, Brian K. Vaughan, and Marvel editor Aubrey Sitterson, alongside stories including a look at the Gay League:
“Thank you,” Batman mutters in a deep voice as he opens the passenger door. The rubber suit — with faux muscles lining his chest, abdominals, legs and arms — literally covers his 6-foot-5 frame from head to toe. Only his square jaw peeks out from beneath the black, rubber cowl covering his head and neck. The pale skin around his eyes has been lathered with a thick, black make-up and seems to blend with the dark mask.
The secret identity of the man in the batsuit isn’t Bruce Wayne of fictional Gotham City, but native New Yorker and local Gay League member, Ray DeForest… DeForest predicted that gay men would respond in awe to his statuesque form enveloped in black rubber and Lycra. “I expected gay guys to go, ‘Wow, wow, wow,” he says. Some men smile and check out the rippling abdominals and section below the bat-encrusted belt buckle, but it’s the female fans that surprised DeForest the most.
“Women are pigs,” he chuckles. “They grab my ass. They grab my [crotch].” During Halloween weekend, one woman howled in laughter as she reached under the batcape and dug her fingers into the rubber covering DeForest’s bottom. “She said, ‘That will make you smile,’” he recalls. “And I was like, ‘Uh, no, but it will make me sick.’”
September 4th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
OK, refresh my memory, wasn’t there some video podcast that the Comic Foundry guy was reduced to near tears thanks to among many things, the objectification of women in Wizard. Yes, I’m simplifying several larger points, but I was gonna be interested in an interview with Brubaker about Criminal without the “hey we’ll have a woman ’stealing’ or ’smuggling’ or however she’s oddly carrying an issue of Criminal” cover where people’s eyes will be naturally drawn to the cover because it’s right below her low-cut shirt. No, the shot is not an objectification of the woman. But really, wasn’t the color cover in a black and white shot eye catching enough without the woman. I’m sure the automatic defense is “we didn’t intentionally pick a woman or shot where she was wearing a low-cut shirt”. And I’ll even believe that. In a world with Vamirella, the woman is downright Amish in appearance. But if you’re gonna take Wizard to task (which I’m all for) then maybe you don’t have the “criminal” issue holding person not be an attractive female. Yes, now that I think about it, the guy from Brubaker’s video podcast homage would have been the perfect person to be holding the cover. That’s it.
September 7th, 2006 at 6:08 am
lol a batman suit is pretty tame compared to many parts of gay sex culture and doesn’t get a second look, but is so raunchy for a lot of boring straight women that they start molesting the guy
that’s pretty sad, for the women, i mean