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Tanya Tate: Superhero

We all know (and presumably are attracted to) Tanya Tate, right? She’s that dynamite blonde Liverpudlian who recently branched out from performing in adult films to directing adult films (Tanya Tate’s Runaways and Tanya Tate’s Tea & Muffin Party, anyone?), and the latest in a continuing line of adult performers immortalized in comic book superhero form. After Pamela Anderson’s and Stan Lee’s Stripperella, Penthouse Comix, and numerous “parody” publications filled with explicit Fantastic Four-ways comes Tate’s very own creation, Lady Titan launching this weekend at San Diego Comic Con.

After building a thriving fanbase with her combined careers in hardcore porn and cosplay modeling – the latter sending many geeks plotzing with her renditions of Emma Frost, a foxy female Green Lantern, Catwoman (the Julie Newmar version), Black Canary, and She-Ra – Tate now moves more directly into the world of genetic mutations, freak biological accidents, villainous monsters, and caped crusaders of justice. And she’s doing it at the world’s annual comic-fan clusterfuck: San Diego Comic Con 2013.

Created with artist Mikel Harvey and colorist Simon Gough, Tate’s titular heroine has an origin steeped in live-action superhero television lore. Lady Titan begins as an out-of-work actress finds her recently acquired vintage costume outfits her with the powers of the 70’s TV superhero that once wore it onscreen. Tate boasted, “The character herself is not a ‘Superhero’ but someone thrust into that role; partly because of her sense of what’s right, but also her own survival. I think readers will have fun with Lady Titan.”

Tate will be appearing at Geekscape’s booth (#3919) at Comic Con all weekend, so if you’re in San Diego for the festivities, be sure to stop by and check out Lady Titan in flesh, in print, and in limited edition 11×17 poster form (autographed by the lady herself, of course).

Christy Mack’s Cheating Scandal

Christy Mack is basking in the glow of increased web traffic and Internet buzz unofficially awarded to Miss FreeOnes, the annual popularity content run by the adult community of the same name, but some of her fellow performers and fans are not pleased with the title. Is it just jealousy or something a bit more sinister?

Miss FreeOnes is awarded annually to the adult performer who receives the most votes and votes can be submitted by anonymous visitors and registered FreeOnes members alike. A relative newcomer, Ms. Mack surprised by winning this year’s contest (and $10,000 in cold, hard US currency) after three rounds of tough competition that saw last year’s winner Vicky Vette drop to #4. According to FreeOnes, voters could submit only one vote per day, with those votes submitted by FreeOnes members holding more voting weight than anonymous votes. Mack also took home the title of best newcomer this year and is known as a rampant social media slut, so where’s the controversy?

Those questioning Mack’s victory (like this Luke Is Back reader) note her recent popularity in Twitter and Instagram and declare it suspicious – but why? Mack declares similar levels of followers (and therefore popularity) to superstars Tera Patrick, Teagan Presley, and Jesse Jane, all of whom have held a high-profile contract with a major adult studio. How is it that Mack made her way into such prestigious celebrity company so quickly without, you know, cheating?

The accused chalks her popularity up to knowing “what to post and at what times,” boasting “within one hour, I can expect over 60 retweets, and over 200 favorites” of a single Tweeted utterance or image. FreeOnes also notes that Mack was in the top 50 performers within three months of adding Mack to the site, and that she currently tops lists of ‘most liked’ pornstars on Bang Bros, Wicked, Naughty America, and Team Skeet networks. Mack initially told FreeOnes she was worthy of the Miss FreeOnes 2013 crown because she likes “puppies, cars, rainbows, and tattoos!” Could it be that the prevalence of humorous cat videos and flashy body art in recent years alone took Christy to the top?

We were all in high school at some point, and we all know those jerks who won “best eyes” didn’t really have the best eyes in the entire senior class, they’d just mastered the art of seduction in a very subtle way. At Luke Is Back, Mike South pointed out the obvious: it’s all about who sends the most traffic to FreeOnes. FreeOnes agrees with South because, after all, this is and always has been a popularity contest. Even though there are measures in place to ensure fraud is detected and avoided, there are always new methods of cheating the system, methods that will always be exploited before they’re stopped. In past Miss FreeOnes contests, winners Vicky Vette and Sophie Dee were also accused of padding their votes by the same crowd of malcontents in disbelief that someone other than their favorite could take the crown. as FreeOnes noted then, whenever someone is chosen as the best of anything, there’ll always be a sore loser. Or, behind every hot girl there’s another fifty with knives at the ready. Or, maybe Christy Mack is just, like, shit-hot right now!

Three Years of Cumming Loudly

One of those porn networks easily passed over in favor of the Brazzers and Bang Bros of the industry, Cum Louder recently celebrated its third birthday with a very special scene that, as this shot from its early moments clearly shows, couldn’t be anything but incredible.

From left to right, that’s Portugal’s NoeMilk, France’s Anissa Kate, Romanian Jasmine Black, and from Bulgaria, Claudia Shotz. And yes, they all appear in the scene, taking on three very lucky gentlemen in an orgy scene that trumps the four-minute clip compilation ‘Best of 2012’ that celebrated Cum Louder’s second year. NoeMilk and Anissa Kate, both powerful and compelling performers in individual scenes, seem especially thrilled to be given the chance to get properly acquainted, grabbing each other by the shoulders and making out passionately while Jasmine and Claudia seem entranced by the poundings they’re receiving.

Cum Louder might not have the 1080i HD videos (720p) and thousands of scenes it promises to prospective members, but for all its faults, any network that can gather talent like this to celebrate its third year of pornographic accomplishment achieved by following is well worth paying attention to.

Kelly Shibari Runs New York

Kelly Shibari, the Japanese American BBW pornstar who recently thrust her debut headlining feature, Kelly Shibari is Overloaded, into the world, has embarked on a promotional tour of New York that sees her hosting, guesting, and otherwise involving herself in a variety of no doubt erotically charged situations.

By the time you read this, however, there’ll only be a few appearances left. So, if you want to meet, greet, and (for foot fetishists) ogle the feet of this pornographic trailblazer and tireless self-promoter, get yourself down to Anthology Film Archives at 2.30pm on March 2 for CineKink’s Feminist Porn Panel, which sees Kelly join Tristan Taormino, Candida Royale, porn scholar Mireille Miller-Young, and performers Courtney Trouble and Sinnamon Love for a discussion focusing on their collective contributions to The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure.

The last appearance, also on March 2, that Kelly Shibari plans on making in NYC is set to blow roof off one of the city’s most eclectic nightclubs, The Cutting Room. As a guest on The Robin Byrd Show Live!, Kelly will join cable television legend Robin Byrd, chanteuse Broadway Brassy and handful of other performers for what promises to be a riotously sexy time. Tickets are available now.

For those outside of NYC, you can catch Kelly on The Down and Dirty Show, broadcast live at 9pm EST on February 28 via Aquanet Radio, TuneIn, and IHeartRadio, where she’ll trade stories with hosts Rich & Ellis before getting up relatively early for a shoot with the legendary Ellen Stagg.

Until then, you can always find Kelly on Twitter and on her award-winning adult site, Padded Kink.