A provocative, or just presumptive title for a series? Either way the reader is forewarned. I read the comic books Sex #1-8 which covers the content of volume 1 of Sex. This has pretty graphic content - in the sexual acts obsessed world of Saturn City a retired superhero tries to rebuild his corporate empire. Despite his retirement, the world goes on and the super villains are still out there operating. Despite the highly graphic nature of the book, it has some quite innovative story telling, wi...

The start of the story is bretty slow, primarily with characters being introduced and the decadent setting being shaped. Saturn City is a place where crime families, sex and depravity feel at home, at least in the upper class. The artwork is sexy enough with occasional full nudity which is pretty uncommon for mainstream comics.Simon Cooke is the owner of a large company in Saturn City. He returns as active CEO after a long hiatus to fulfill a promise he made a long time ago to Quinn, a loved one...

Take the Batman, Cat Woman, and the Joker from a Frank Miller-esque future, apt up the violence and sex to 11, and rip the nob off: this is what Joe Casey and Piotr Kowalski do in Sex. Now, sadly, that sounds more interesting that it actually is: Kowalski seems mimic the art styles of 1980s Batman even down to some of the semi-washed out orange/blue color schemes. Simon Cooke's billionaire play boy turned superhero who has a strained relationship with an relationship with a retired catwoman anal...

I gave this trade 5 out of 8 issues to catch my attention, far more than I would if I was picking up floppies once a month.First, there is not a single female character in this book. There are set pieces and objects, but not a single character.Beyond that, there are barely any male characters. The main one, an ex-batman type, is so bland as to be invisible.Nothing in this is new, it's not even a fresh rehash of anything. I felt the most on the panels that were landscape views of the city. How ba...

Sex is probably one of the smartest books on the stands. The best thing about this book is that it treats the reader like an adult – and it is a book for mature readers. It does feature sex within its pages, as well as violence, cursing and all manner of adult-type situations. It is a book for grownups, or frankly, most comic book readers these days. It is also brilliant by the way. That was mentioned already, but it bore repeating. The book is honest and forthright and does not try to hide anyt...

So pretty much just add a bunch of sex to the 007 legend, to the superhero pastiche in its myriad tropes; to all these cartoons also add genitals, & highlight in exuberant exaltation the terrific act of coitus. Call it kama sutra for the 2010's; one nasty yarn with an ever winding plot and a bunch of memorable characters to boot. Several of them, well most of them, end up "doin' it", & this is just ingenious! Think of the countless times fantasies were created with your regular cast of TV player...

Joe Casey's Sex, follows retired Superhero Simon Cooke who returns to the city he used to once protect..This is basically an imagining of what would happen to Gotham and Batman if Bruce Wayne hung up the cowl. This makes Matt Fraction's Sex Criminals look PG so I wouldn't recommend this to the faint at heart but the first volume was worth the read. 3.5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ✨

You know those porn parodies with titles like 'pirates of the carribee-ass' or 'tits a wonderful life'? This is like that, except where those porn parodies fully embrace what they are, this takes itself much too seriously, creating a joyless, unsatisfying, weirdly unsexy experience.This is basically Batman, but *sexy* batman, with really no logical reason for graphic sex to be on every other page. We've got sexy girl sex, uptight dudes not turned on by the sex, old dudes doing the sexy sex, and

There is "slow burn" -- and then there is this comic. After eight issues (all collected in this book) we've only scratched the surface: we have gotten an introduction to this world and met some of the players, but any action has been only served as an introduction. An intro to a much larger story that hopefully will really kick off soon. Which explains my score; sure, there is plenty of intrigue and promise, but whether that will pay off... I really feel that this could and should have been furt...

What would happen if Bruce Wayne stopped being Batman - could he return to civilian life? You wouldn’t know it from the cheap, attention-grabbing title, but that’s what Joe Casey and Piotr Kowalski’s Sex is all about, and all it proves is what an unappealing storyline that is to pursue. Simon Cooke is a billionaire playboy who runs a global company and is secretly the superhero vigilante, Armored Saint, protecting Saturn City from criminals like Prank Addict and Shadow Lynx. Annabelle LaGravenes...

The life of the retired superhero is...boring? I'm not sure why this series is called Sex. I assumed sex had something to do with the main theme or idea, but it seems to be the background noise that's aimed to titillate as boring conversations are happening. In the end, I couldn't pay attention to the oft interrupted conversations, nor to the sex. It's not clear why our ex-superhero is resistant to living life to the fullest. Having dropped his perhaps more fulfilling superhero gig, you'd think

Reprints Sex #1-8 (March 2013-October 2013). Simon Cooke is accustom to living a secret lifestyle…as a super hero. When he gives up his mantle and returns to Saturn City, he begins to enter a different underworld. It is seedy world of sex and power that isn’t too different from the world of superheroes. Everyone in Saturn City seems to be hiding a secret, and Simon Cooke is finding his place in the world.Written by Joe Casey, Sex Volume 1: The Summer of Hard is an Image Comics adult post-modern

I had to give this a try because I love stories about sex, and I love new takes on superheroes, and pushing the envelope in comics, unfortunately, this one doesn't push it in any meaningful way. The premise is great: a retired, restless, and repressed Batman (thinly veiled) struggles with his id, in a superhero book where the flashy, often gratuitous action sequences are almost all of fucking rather than fisticuffs. Alas, the characters feel flat, the sex has no heat, the sex parties are clearly...

Probably the most literary and adult graphic novel I've ever picked up, Joe Casey's Sex is a very slow moving story about a retired superhero struggling to come to terms with the reality of life without a mask to hide behind. The references to HBO is obvious - adult storytelling with occasional hardcore sex scenes that serve to move the story forward - and I can easily see this as a high quality TV show if some plot happens in the next issue. That's it's one major drawback so far, there really h...

I like the idea behind this, but I don't think the execution was very successful. I like Joe Casey, but I think this book meanders a bit too much. The back cover has a comment calling it the HBO of superheroes, and I agree, it does strike me as a very adult version of superheroes, but not a very complete one. While the book is competent, I didn't have any urge for completion. I found it interesting but not very compelling. If I didn't read any more issues, I would be fine, though there is a part...

Like Batman and Catwoman retired in a city like Gotham....the title and background sex is a distraction maybe even an attempt to sell this book. Average read....don't think I'll continue series.

I wanted to read Sex Criminals and accidently picked this trade instead. It started out interestingly enough. A Bruce Wayne-like ex-Batman-ish millionaire returns home and vows not to take up the mantle of superheroism again. There's a Gotham-like town with a lot of bad people and a Catwoman-wannabe as a kind-of love interest. Ok. Interesting premise.This book, however, fails on execution. The story is sloooow, incohesive, and is filled with gratuitous sex and violence. By page 40 I was struggli...

Well, this certainly tried to be something profound, but failed on nearly every level. It came across as something that was trying so hard to be "edgy" that it came across instead as cringingly un self-aware. Terrible exposition, lifeless characters, abrupt scene changes, almost like it was missing pages, etc.This guy read Watchmen, and thought "I can do something like that, but only focusing on the batman analog character" and then didn't. He really didn't (but he thinks he did).The art was pre...

A Batman analog retires to run his huge corporation. Predictably, he has trouble adjusting to civilian life. It plods. I'm not sure why. Three big villains are set up; the protagonist struggles with his role as CEO; a humble dishwasher (slash-hacker-slash-badass-fighter) begins to fill the superhero vacuum; and the retired hero has a flirty will-they/won't-they thing happening with his equally retired Catwoman nemesis. There's a lot going on but I just found it boring.And what's up with the text...

I was quite disappointed by this. Whilst the 'retired/washed-up superhero' trope is well trodden, I thought this book would be an interesting and adult take on it. Instead, it's all a bit cheap and nasty. The representation of women is pretty archaic and there is precious little story. Won't be bothering with the next volume.