If you suspected a few members of the Justice League of America were gay (hello, Aquaman?) and always wished they’d come out of the closet, there’s now a new ALL-gay superhero comic just for you. It’s called Spandex. What it lacks in artistic skill (visually speaking, this ain’t no DC Comic), it makes up for in fabulous gay pride. There’s “Liberty (glamorous transvestite superhero), Diva (a lesbian Wonder Woman), Prowler (absorbs the abilities of gay people), Glitter (male Dazzler), Indigo (beautiful French teleporter), and Mr Muscles & Butch (strong twins)” (see above). We would have thought there’d be at least one big buff or bearded super dude and one super butch without cleavage, but that’s just us (and we’re neither gay nor comic-book readers, so what do we know?). It’s available from the U.K. but you can download a pdf of the first 40-page comic in the series via Paypal here. More excerpts after the jump.

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Cartoonist Neill Cameron has been illustrating the alphabet “awesomely” from A to Z that is a hilarious mix of familiar pop culture icons and informative alliteration. He’s currently at Q. Here are a couple more examples that made me chuckle.

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Howard the Duck #8 art by Gene Colan. Trademarks & Copyright © 1977 Marvel Characters, Inc.

On Slate, Keith Phipps explores how the gruesomely bad film version of Howard the Duck almost destroyed the reputation of the excellent comic book that inspired it. The movie was finally released on DVD last month.

What little mystique Howard the Duck has earned over the years can be traced to its unavailability. That mystique is likely to fade soon after viewers drink in the film’s opening scene, which finds Howard lounging in his Duckworld apartment, reading a copy of Playduck beneath a poster for Splashdance. It’s ‘80 blockbuster filmmaking at its most thoughtless, all laser beams and quips. [Steve] Gerber’s original, which has been collected and reprinted a couple of times (including last year in a handsome, if expensive, hardcover), remains as crankily original as ever. More people may know about Howard from his misadventure in filmmaking than his genre-busting adventures in the comics, but, thankfully, the latter are still right there on the shelf.

Phipps’s entire essay is here.

Here’s an entertaining short depicting a thrilling grudge match between two pop culture icons, Iron Man and Bruce Lee. The rub? It’s all done in stop-motion animation using action figures. Of course if Aquaman was involved in this fight, it’d be no contest.

Actually, this was created by Patrick Bolvin, a self taught director. His other action figure stop-motion videos are also incredible, especially his parody of the “Evolution of Dance” (the second most viewed clip on YouTube of all time with over 117 million views) starring Optimus Prime.

View some of his other amazing works at his YouTube page, especially his interactive videos, like this BBoy contest between Batman and Joker.

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