It’s hard to be a superhero fan. Even the most devoted Marvel enthusiast has to admit that the movies can get formulaic, and the superhero films that try to veer from the norm are still engineered to be crowd-pleasers.
But the superhero landscape doesn’t have to be like this. Comics, more than most fandoms, rely on diehard fans, and those fans have their own stories that often go neglected. A few years ago, an emerging filmmaker took one of her favorite comic book characters and turned their origin story into a surreal queer coming-of-age saga unlike anything you’ve seen before. Once hounded by copyright issues, it’s finally streaming for free on Tubi.
