![]() ![]() In Episode 210 of QAF, Captain Astro's character is killed when his nemesis Morphisto infects him with an incurable virus. Michael's commentaries on Captain Astro often parallel real-world perceived or explicit gay themes in a number of comic books. Michael's attachment to Captain Astro recurs in references throughout the QAF series. Michael remained a huge fan as an adult and bought a comic book store in Season 2 of QAF. Captain Astro is the name of a comic book superhero in a fictional comic book of the same name within the television series Queer as Folk (also known as QAF), which ran on the cable channel Showtime from December 2000-August 2005.Ĭaptain Astro was the boyhood hero of character Michael Novotny (played by Hal Sparks), in part because of what Michael perceived as a gay subtext in the comic.
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