Review: Heartthrobs #1: ‘Genes and a T-shirt’

Artist(s): Phil Jimenez, Robert Rodi.

Heartthrobs was a romance-with-a-twist anthology published by DC Comics/Vertigo in 1999. It lasted four issues, and was never collected. The first issue included Genes and a t-shirt, a short gay-themed story written by Robert Rodi and drawn by Phil Jimenez (with a cover by Bruce Timm).

Is being gay only a question of genes? Is it easier to get a date when one’s het? Can you get the camp out of the fag? All these terribly serious questions are answered in a mere 8 pages by Rodi and Jimenez in this very funny story which shows what happens when a guy decides to stop being gay and gets his gay gene (the infamous Xq28, I suppose) removed.

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