Boxer & Twink Dicks, Butts & Tragic Love in “Torpedo 1972”

Happy Valentine’s Day! In the spirit of inclusivity, we’re featuring this tragic gay love story in the ultraviolent comic book Torpedo 1972.

To borrow Stefon from SNL, this book has everything: an older-younger gay relationship; a supermasculine older man; a twinky, nonbinary-coded younger man; love; death; a hitman; a gun.

The blurb:

From the co-creator & artist of Eisner Award- winning series 100 Bullets comes a reimagining of Torpedo 1936!, a crime noir classic of sequential art!In the 1930s, Lucas Torelli, known as “Torpedo”, was a legend of the suburbs of New York. A tough, trigger-happy Sicilian who only knew how to make friends-anyone else is no longer here to say otherwise. Nearly forty years later, the Big Apple has changed quite a bit. Torpedo, not so much. As a persistent journalist prepares to write an article about the Caputo family, the demons of Torpedo’s past resurface, along with his dirty old habits…

Original title: Torpedo 1972
Writer: Enrique Sánchez Abulí
Artist: Eduardo Risso
Letterer: Vibrant Studios
Publisher: Ablaze (English/2024)


Dollsexposed documents full-frontal male nudity in comics and cartoons from mainstream and independent creators. The project was created in response to the longstanding imbalance in how male and female nudity are depicted in popular media.

Outside of Nerdcore, Dollsexposed creates mixed-media and miniature photography. Their work has been included in several juried exhibitions and festivals, including Tucson Erotica Art Show, Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Los Angeles Kinky Art Show, and Los Angeles Leather Getaway.

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