I mentioned in May how Audacia Ray and I chatted about generational re-invention and sharing across age differences. In my daily life, no where is that more apparent than in the relationship I have with my young adult children. Case in point: During the summer, we often catch up on family television viewing while my daughter’s home. This summer, we watched Torchwood and are now indulging in the naughty pleasures of The Venture Brothers. In fact, my daughter bought me the second season DVD for Mother’s Day, prompting her college friends to say, “Your mother likes The Venture Brothers?” Evidently, she gets a lot of street cred via her mother’s open-minded.

What I like about The Venture Brothers is their send-ups of “adult situations.” They push the envelope often and the results are always hilarious. The NSFW Best Brock Beatdowns captures some of the best — brawls that center on rowdy, rough sex. And sometimes murderous fisting. Really, how many shows involves a glove and a henchmen’s hand up a brutish protagonist’s ass all the while keeping Brock’s macho power on top? I recommend Beatdown Numbers 6, 4, and especially the winning number 1. (Oh how I love post-cold war tension!)

If you’d like a ball-squeezing torture that ends in the discovery of a lump, try number 5. (Carpe testes!) Oh yea, and don’t forget the weasel of a wanna-be manager, introducing Metalocalypse, another adult swim offering, to
granny sex.

Not-so-guilty pleasures aside, my daughter came to me recently with some on-line comic books recommendations, namely Megan Rose Gedris’ Yu+Me and I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space. “I think you’d like them,” she said.

I guess all my tolerance messages hit home.

My daughter was a tad surprised I’d already found YU+Me some time ago, pointing her to Prism Comics as the source, but I was delighted she updated me with Gedris’ newest work. I love its retro look, its nod to pulp fiction from long ago. And pages 14 and 15 are to die for.

Golly!