‘Virgil’ Brings Earnestness to Exploitation
Virgil’s marketing description had me at “queersploitation.” I’m a casual buff of exploitation film history and genre and thought Virgil bringing the genre to issues of queerness was an apt marriage for 2015. The comic is executed with a sincere and serious commitment to its parent genre and sensitivity to the subject matter but lacks the campy sense of fun that many contemporary exploitation texts have.