Obama meets Spiderman in comic
Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect.
Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics wanted to give him a “shout-out back” by featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel’s editor-in-chief.
“How great is that? The commander in chief to be is actually a nerd in chief,” Quesada said. “It was really, really cool to see that we had a geek in the White House. We’re all thrilled with that.”
The comic starts with Spider-Man’s alter-ego Peter Parker taking photographs at the inauguration, before spotting two identical Obamas.
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So, what should Obamaman’s super power be?
Marvel has a history of political engagement. Stan Lee, the founder of Spidey and many characters, was quite the activist at times via his “Soapbox” letter to the reader.
The X-Men is, among other things, an allegory about intolerance.
Iron Man was investigated by a familiar looking left-wing reporter called John Pillinger a few years back and the Civil War story arc was a barely disguised comment on the Patriot Act with the late Captain America standing up against his own government.
Both stories were written by Brits though: Garth Ennis and Mark Millar, graduates of our own 2000ad.
Is this something to celebrate? How long before is face is projected onto billboards – the personality cult – loved by all true socialists?
Celebrate? Don’t we all love to over-react!
Obama is a well-known comics fan: Alex Ross (who draws Superman) did this
http://www.stylinonline.com/barrackobama.html
And then there’s fan-made things like this:
http://kenmeier.info/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/obama_superman_awesome.jpg
SFX magazine has a good page on the Spiderman bit:
http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=spider_man_saves_president_obama
Both stories were written by Brits though: Garth Ennis and Mark Millar, graduates of our own 2000ad.
Indeed.
@Chavscum:
Thankfully comic fans are liberal thinkers and not right-wing losers.
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