Many of the drawings have a demonic flavor, or maybe just plain devilish -- in a good way. There's a black demon you'd swear is inspired by real life bad boy, basketball player Dennis Rodman, including belly button and eyebrow rings. His curly blond hair is the shade of freshly churned butter.
Heroes is a world populated by male images with only two penis options: extra long schlong and beer-can thick prick. There isn't an average dick let alone a pencil penis, nor an even mildly flaccid member to offend our size-crazed eyes! You can almost hear John Lennon's classic protest song, "Power to the penis, power to the penis, right on!" (Or was that something else?) Only one or two super heroes manage to "keep it zipped." But even they are sporting full hard-ons, or should we say, big bulges in britches.
Each uniformly well-hung subject displays subtle genital differences. Stephano, my least favorite creation with his face made up like the Joker in Batman (the TV series), has purple pubes and a red heart tattooed on his left nut.
Camili-Cat has brilliant lime green feline eyes, a black kittenish nose, sharply pointed Vulcan ears, and a long tufted tail as well as a monstrous boner with a bright pink mushroom head.
But Camili-Cat's ears aren't the only Star Trek inspired feature in Heroes. The freakiest character is a green, deep-space creature with Andorran-style antennae. Though the Andorrans debuted in the first Star Trek television series way back in the mid 1960s they've made a triumphal return on the contemporary psyche in the fifth, and current Trek series, Enterprise. Well, and in Heroes, of course, where see the naked "Andorran" (Locus), dripping pre-cum, sprawled on the floor as the subservient, chained slave of a kind of a Jabba the Hut character.
(LOCUS)
Frankly, let's toss out the plump and perhaps impotent Jabba the Hut and replace him with someone a whole lot like myself. For example, if I were in command of the helpless intergalactic slave at my feet, I would grab him by his puny antennae and force him down on my prick until he endured the Andorran humiliation of swallowing my erupting human seed. I want to hear my juicy load gurgling in his throat and him struggling to keep it down. I want to pump his alien stomach full of my warm man juice until I can feel his belly bulge. Oh -- sorry, a little detour de force -- take it as a sign of a great picture book. When the pics are good, I can't be responsible for my imagination.
Some other character renderings: Lucifer's copious snow-white cum sparkles in sharp contrast to his god-forsaken crimson skin. Lanor is a grey-skinned, yellow-eyed, wind-blown snow-white haired variation on the demonic theme. You might call him the silver fox.
Camili-Cat (spraddled)
Lanor (standing)Deimos is, perhaps, Devil Lite. He doesn't have a tail but he does boast a pair of abbreviated demi horns on his head, pinkish-purple skin and eerie pink eyes to set him apart from mere mortal men.
(DEIMOS)
There are several characters who are neither demonic nor space based, including a hunky lifeguard, a disc jockey with a Prince Albert in his prick, a couple of cowboys, even one guy in a snug-fitting Easter Bunny costume munching on a carrot!
Virtually every face, except Lanor and Camili-Cat who could be brothers, are completely dissimilar -- as if the artist based each face on an actual person. Nor can you confuse Lanor's cut dick with Camilli-Cat's foreskin-shrouded trouser snake.
Curiously, the most human face and body belong to a character you would expect to be the least normal. A modern version of Frankenstein's monster! You see stitch marks along his muscular arms, wrists, torso and legs, and metal bolts on either side of his neck. Dr. Frankenstein with his elfish assistant Igor, is standing alongside his naked creation, intoning those famous words, "Its alive!"
My favorite character is a very redheaded superhero named Naked Justice. I like his double, pink, half-dollar size nipples, as well as his neatly groomed red goatee sans moustache.
(NAKED JUSTICE)
If you admire the superheroes that Sunshine draws on Showtime's Queer As Folk, you will love these. In fact, they seem drawn by the same hand to me, but I could find no confirmation of my suspicion in the forward, nor accompanying literature.
Have we shallow gay males created a cult of the beautiful and the endowed? Do we worship the lean, the buff, the virile, the potent and the hard? You bet your sweet ass we do!
For the generation that venerated and idolized James Dean, Sal Mineo and Montgomery Clift, they had heroes who would never betray them (since these heroes died young) with offensive wrinkles and creases, creeping baldness. But then there was Marlon Brando, a double-crosser if ever there was one, and one-time heartthrob Jan Michael Vincent, who devolved into a hideous bloated toad by middle age, and a host of others. Out with all that human fallibility! The generations from this time forward have erotic gay male comics. Fillion's heroes will never be subject to the inexorable pull of gravity and their cocks will stay hard in perpetuity -- forget the little blue pill. Six packs stay eternally well packed. Rear ends never suffer from secretarial spread.
Often in this genre the only let down is the all too realistic photo of the artist himself. Not this time. Patrick Fillion is pictured on the inside cover in all his flesh-and-blood glory -- and he's delicious! Even surrounded by his self-drawn super hero buddies.
And speaking of Queer As Folk, Patrick looks like he could be Hal Spark's (Michael, the comic bookstore owner) younger brother. On my hard-on scale of one to ten -- with a (gasp!) limp weenie on one end and a gushing orgasm at the other end, I would rate Heroes a solid TEN hard-on. Heroes, is of course, a complete and total flight of fantasy. But it is also very humorous as well as sexual and positive.
But warning: if the Reverend Jerry Falwell condemned an innocent, gender neutral, purple, teletubby for holding a purse, just imagine the campaign of purification he will launch on Fillion's Heroes! Reason alone to rush to your closest adult bookstore and snap up a copy.
Patrick and his gang
Heroes by Patrick Fillion published by Bruno Gmunder in Germany. 64 full-color pages in a hard cover $29.95 www.patrickfillion.com or http://www.classcomicbooks.com
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