Marvel Comics' new Max-line is just in time for deconstructing Western-myths with the "Rawhide Kid" by Ron Zimmerman and the original artist John Severin, who must be in his eighties now. It's the revival of an old series from the fourties which continued within Marvel's old Western-line until the seventies. Max-Editor Axel Alonso has been successfully relaunching titles with some sort of controversial direction for quite some time now. Some were brilliant and some were boring. This one is a joke and it doesn't seem like the author has any sort of understanding of homosexuality.

There is that annoying big sticker on the cover saying "Parental Advisory-Explicit Content". I didn't find any explicit content and they're probably not talking about the lame brawl inside the saloon in the middle of the story. Is it meant the way that kids are not supposed to read a book with a gay protagonist? What's wrong with that? Concerned parents of America, you're full of shit! Fuck your 1887-family values!

Didn't you know that Captain America is gay as well? Haven't you heard of Batman and Robin?

Just look at the costumes! Would anyone who is not a faggot read crappy superhero-books? Your kid is probably jerking off while thinking of that hunk Daredevil right now!

And let me tell you that Marvel will put out a series about a lesbian couple next! I can see your daughter burn her cheerleader-uniform already.