So Super Duper

So Super Duper is the tale of a young, handsome, and somewhat clumsy superhero who just happens to be gay... or vice-versa. The main character, Psyche, is an empath for the superheroic team, the Amazin'naughts, and he and his teammates go about the city, protecting it from evil. Well, his teammates, mostly; Psyche prefers to squeal and gossip with his super BFF, Skip - the owner of the only industry-specific hair salon (for superheroes).

And So Super Duper creator, Brian Andersen, is so completely beside himself because none other than Perez Hilton posted a pic he drew of the blog diva on his gabsite that he had to send me a press release to make sure I mentioned it.

And he got interviewed by a drag queen.

So beside himself that he sent me a press release, but couldn't be bothered to draw a picture of me as a superhero to include with the post. But I'm not bitter. I'm so not bitter. We all know Perez Hilton is a Big-Time ProBlogger and I am just a lowly nobody, pushing pixels into the vast emptiness of the Web. A simple nobody who wastes his time in front of the computer, blogging away, while Perez Hilton meets big-time divas and makes shows on VH1 and flies around on airplanes and takes his top off on national TV and dates football people. So not bitter.

So Super Duper is actually a fun comic for anyone; it pokes as much fun at the gay lifestyle as it does Comicdom, resulting in a sociologically satirical romp through both cultures. I was actually impressed with the control of sequence Andersen exhibits, especially since So Super Duper so pointedly presents itself as having nothing pertinent to say and no real higher value above being super silly and fabulously fun. The art has a psychedelic, childlike feel that belies the insight into both worlds it skewers. Relying on stereotypes of both superheroes and the gay community, So Super Duper has absolutely nothing to say on the surface, but you can take quite a few things from it if you are so inclined. Absolute escapism on one hand, bitchy sociological monologue on the other... but more the former.

You can check out the first few pages from the first four issues at the website and get ordering information there, as well! And, of course, we will bring you more on So Super Duper whenever we get it... but no pictures, of course.

I'm just saying.

© C Harris Lynn, 2008