This has been only slightly dramatized.
Maybe these projects are some sort of indicators of the zeitgeist. If you were a thirteen-year-old boy during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, I could see how you could get the impression that receiving oral sex can instigate a dramatic turn in your life. So perhaps I have President Clinton to thank for the several submissions I got like these this year. Or maybe that impression has always been there, lurking in the male psyche, and President Clinton’s antics merely confirmed it. And we all know that if something lurks in the male psyche, the comic book is the natural outlet for it.
So thank you, President Clinton.
And that’s really all I can think of to say about that.
November 14th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Oh, hell. There goes my next submission to SLG: “I Knew Him, Fellatio.”
November 15th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Notice the All-Star Batman #10-style opacity. Recall!
I was just thinking how sitcomically awkward it would be if some random person were to walk into the SLG office off the street during that last panel.
You could also thank The Pro by Garth Ennis, Amanda Conner, and Jimmy Palmiotti, although blaming Garth Ennis for debauchery in comics just seems too easy…
November 16th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Ah. I. Uh. Okay. I wanted to say something but I can’t.
I’m curious if you have updated your rejection check list to include “Plot hinges on oral sex.”
November 16th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
So less plot-hinging fellatio; more gratuitous fellatio. Check.
November 17th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Scarlet Witch? Moar liek Scarlet stuck-up.
November 17th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Back in the day, National Lampoon did a wonderful parody of the DC Romance Comics called “First Blowjob”. Great stuff.