antipopper

If you could have one superpower, what would it be and why? (Assume you also get baseline superhero enhancements like moderately increased strength, endurance and agility.)

I tried to think of something interesting, but here’s something real instead: when I worked in advertising, I used to walk to work from the train station in the morning, muttering to myself about how shit my job was. I fantasised about having retractable claws like Wolverine. SNIKT! Instant evisceration, yuppie scum! I know it’s not really a superpower, but life’s too short to quibble.

Which, if any, ‘existing’ superhero(es) do you fancy, and why?

I have a huge crush on the female members of X-Force/X-Statix: U Go Girl, Dead Girl and Venus Dee Milo. Okay, I have the hots for the guys, too: Mr Sensitive, the Spike, the Anarchist, Vivisector, Phat, El Guapo and, uh, Doop. (Is Doop a guy? Or is Doop outside the sex/gender system altogether?)

Which, if any, ‘existing’ superhero(es) do you hate?

Cyclops. He’s a dick. And a boatload of gloomy Vertigo-types.

OK, here’s the tough one. What would your superhero name be? (No prefab porn-name formulas here, you have to make up the name you think you’d be proud to mask under.)

Well, obviously it’d be The Antipopper — not the enemy of pop, but a pop-star from another universe.

For extra credit: Is there an ‘existing’ superhero with whom you identify/whom you would like to be?

Well, there’s Whoreboy and his everlasting, inhuman desire, mixed with streetsmarts that I’ll never have. Is it okay that I made him up?

Pass it on. Three people please, and why they’re the wind beneath your wings.

Katy, Bowb and Battlecat, who are all a lot indier than I’ll ever be. But for youse, I’ll even start listening to That Dog again.

[ tags: comics, pop-culture, superheroes, x-statix ]