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Language English Media type Print (hardcover) Originally published 1 May 1994 Genre Humour Country United States of America | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publication date 01 May 1994 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 20 Publisher Dutton Penguin OCLC 29312496 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 288 pages (1st edition) ISBN 0-525-93772-2 (hardcover edition) Similar Robert Rodi books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What They Did to Princess Paragon is a humor novel by Robert Rodi, which tells the story of what happens when a venerable comic book superheroine is retconned as a lesbian.
Contents
Plot summary
Gay comic book creator Brian Parrish is hired by Bang Comics to take over Princess Paragon, a superhero comic book that's been around since the 1940s, but whose sales are slumping badly by the 1990s. Parrish decides to reimagine Princess Paragon as a lesbian, a move which causes quite a bit of excitement and publicity for Bang, but also causes consternation among some of the fan base. One deranged fanboy in particular, Jerome T. Kornacker, is so outraged that his favorite superheroine is being "perverted," that he takes radical steps to stop the change.
Major themes
What They Did to Princess Paragon is a tongue-in-cheek look at the comic book industry, the artists who create comics, the corporations that publish and sell them, and the fans who support and consume the books. The story is also an exploration of 1990s lesbian feminist thought.