SEX LIVES OF SUPERHEROES and
Michael in Gregg’s Sex Lives of Superheroes is a comic book freak, obsessed with the adventures of ray-gun-toting supermen. Needless to say, Michael doesn’t get a whole lot of dates, so he passes his time lecturing a group of imaginary students about the sexual proclivities of Spiderman, Wonder Woman, and their ilk. In between lectures he eagerly awaits the weekly visits of his ex-girlfriend Lisa, who usually pops by on Wednesdays to snatch any belongings of his that strike her fancy.
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There’s a TV commercial out now for a nasal spray in which a man in need of a decongestant wakes up to find that his entire head has turned into a giant schnozz. Substitute “schwantz” for “schnozz” and you have the general idea of how Mardirosian’s protagonist Tom feels when he learns that he can’t have children. Subfertile is a 90-minute journey below Tom’s belt, parading every male fear of sexual inadequacy along the way.
