This is a collection of short, some very short, stories of horny sexed up gay superheroes and their adventures battling queer super villains, who are equally sexed up with an unusual selection of incredible super powers.
Its very tongue in cheek and most of the superheroes and villains have ‘wink wink’ fun names and if you take it in that vein then you’ll enjoy it. It’s a froth of a book; the kind of stuff you read on the internet. 

There’s some interesting and frankly disturbing morality on show in this book (but isn’t that what superheroes are for, exploring our idea of morality?) and some of the supervilllans are as nasty as the meanest queens you’ve ever met, take ‘The Ice King Commeth’ by Tom Cardamone staring the Ice King who spends his time, bulging out of his Eau-de-nil outfits, stomping into backrooms and then freezing –literally- the action in the name of art. Ice-death-porno. Or in ‘Right Hand Man’ by Evan Gilbert we meet ‘The Pederast’ who’s wholly deplorable reign of terror is finally stopped by ‘Priapus the Pruner’ who hunts down sex criminals and prunes off their gonads with his superpower. He has a nice electric blue costume with capes (‘No Capes’ as Edna Mode says) and spends the rest of his time as an English gent in love with his butler.

It’s all like this, fun, flippant and with lots of oddly erotic sex, and some just plain odd sex. Like some of the hero’s – such as ‘Kosher Man’ by Milton Stern who returns to this second anthology and this time ‘gets porked’ and then saved by two other Hebrew heroes, this can be a bit hit and miss, but it’s fun enough for some junk holiday reading and there’s a good selection of authors in the book with 21 different stories.

I was left a little bemused by it, but I know there’s a big spandex underground with some serious superhero fetish kicking around (did I really just write that? Check out Patrick Fillions gay superhero comics here. ) so if caped, uncut crusaders with rippling muscles, metamorphic throbbing cocks and solid titanium butts are you’re thing then you’re going to love it.  Just leave the Kryptonite dildo at home, ok.

Out now £13.99

From the publisher’s website.

Or most good bookshops.