It was with great unending horror that I read a preview copy of Moonstone's MILF Magnet. Full of naked people, sexual gadgetry, and outright bondage, I wept for the foundational creators of our great medium. Like Steve Ditko...
Jack Kirby...
and of course the forerunners of what would become DC Comics:
But more to the point, what has happened to Moonstone Books, who used to put out such wholesome entertainment as Johnny Dollar? Do they think that by publishing such an obviously ribald and offensive comic book, they will suddenly have all these people blogging about them and tons of publicity? Has that ever worked before?
However, the bulk of my sizable ire is reserved for Mr. Tony Lee, the writer of this monstrous stack of paper. Mr. Lee, this is the plot of your comic book: a superhero, Taser, finds himself irresistibly attractive to older women -- or MILFs, to use the common nomenclature. And so he finds himself having sex with one older woman after another. That is the plot of the book. No Cosmic Cube. No Anti-Life Equation. Just fucking.
As noted, there are many unclothed body parts in MILF Magnet. Plus: the word "masturbation." Do those elements have any place in our beloved superhero genre? Isn't this how civilizations fall? Comic-By-Comic?
Most disturbing was a scene where Taser is mostly naked and chained up while a sexy lady in a corset rubs her body next to his. This scene was so irrevocably wrong and immoral that I had to read it several times in order to fully give expression and understanding to the outrage I felt.
Is this the start of a trend at Moonstone? Isn't adapting public domain radio shows enough for you guys? Do you need to stick your collective toe into Howard Stern territory?
But again -- I feel the buck stops with Mr. Tony "Doctor Who?" Lee.
Mr. Lee, I am hereby "calling you out" -- give up your immoral scribing! Do not be a party to the downfall of the venerable Moonstone Books, a corrupting influence to the publisher who brought us the return of both Mr. Moto and Captain Action!
So I'm urging you all not to click on this link for MILF Magnet, and, if you must, to read the page quickly, skipping over all the unpleasantries.
As for me...I'm so disgusted right now I'm going to order a turkey burger -- hold the fries, extra ketchup -- and a stuffed baked potato with broccoli and cheese. And no, that's not a cleverly-hidden sexual reference. Not everybody has their mind in the gutter...like apparently Mr. Tony Lee!
