I Though He Already Was Mainly Fiction
Apparently Spider-Man is going to meet Obama in the comics. To keep comicbook Obama congruent with real life Obama, will he be a long time friend with the Green Goblin?
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January 9th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I thought that’s where the t-shirt ad with the one tearing his shirt open to reveal the superman (costume…no, outfit….no..)uniform came from…. What a coincidence!
January 9th, 2009 at 11:23 am
I always hated comics.
January 9th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I am so completely disgusted with Marvel for the past year. They were really running on a hot streak. Dissasembled and House of M were great, then Civil War was just crappy (good concept, poor execution) culminating with the Death of Cap! Come on! Secret Invasion looks OK, especially if they use it to explain away some of the worst parts of Civil War.
January 9th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Mama was right. Comic books will be our ruination.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Spidey and Obama team up and go to Africa to look for Obama’s one half-brother who’s NOT eating chicken shit off a dirt floor – the king of mysterious Wakanda, T’challa – better known as The Black Panther!
Obama convinces T’challa that his real duty lies in America – to help his people’s communities organize fellow Black Panthers into the cop-killers that social justice demands. Excelsior!
January 9th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
The image of Obama that most people hold is largely fictional, so I don’t see the problem.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Sooooo… what secret are we going to find out about Spidey that causes BHO to throw him under the bus?
January 9th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
He can’t really fly, but he SAYS he can, and that’s all that matters. The “O” logo on his tights is a good one for a comic book character: it’s a large, impressive letter but with nothing in the middle, and pronounced by rounding the lips as a White House intern might …
January 9th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I realize that comics are somewhat mainstream now because people who would never venture into a comic shop will see a big budget action flick, but at the core, many comic fans are the very same basement dwellers who wear costumes in their mom’s basement, haven’t seen their dad since they were zygotes, are saving their allowance for a RealDoll, and post on the Daily Kos.
Not ALL comic fans, but rather a lot of them. The authors of successful comics are probably bent left because they are spawned from this pool, are remedial artists who would rather draw in class than learn or socialize with actual girls, probably have personality issues that function as coping mechanisms so that they think they are special rather than socially dysfunctional, and out of this and much labor over drafting tables in fantasy worlds, they eventually get some fame, money, and notoriety with the sort of women who CosPlay at sci fi conventions.
I used to say that if you don’t think sci fi conventions are freakshows you don’t stay up late enough. The last few I spoke at about space technology a few years ago didn’t seem to have any inhibition about showing off S&M welts out of leather costumes at two in the afternoon.
So yeah, I’m sure they love Obama.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
“Green Goblin? He was just a ghoul in my neighborhood”
January 9th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Is Spiderman stocking up on web-juice before The Empty Suit imposes a 500% tax (for the children!)??? Instead of the normal POW or ZOK, will we get onomatopoeia like TAX or UNILATERALLY NEGOTIATE or SANCTION? Will a group of Illinois garbage collectors try to “massage” Spidey? Will Peter Parker lose his White House press pass when the Daily Bugle mildly criticizes Obama?
January 9th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
What a stupid idea for a comic book character.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Well, that’s all I need to see. Obamuhhh is really a Skrull!
Time to call the Fantastic Four!
January 9th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
I pretty much grew up on Marvel comics (mainly Thor; most of my blood is Scandinavian, which explains that). The problem is that I quickly got sick of all their “firsts” (First hispanic super-hero, and the topper was the first gay super-heros about a decade ago). Since I found out that Stan Lee was part of Hitlery’s league of evil marxism supporters, there is no way I’d give another cent to Marvel. Aside from wanting to be a comic book illustrator in my youth, I learned long ago why God didn’t allow it…aside from the dweebs that run comic book shops, the convention geeks and the fact that many of the people in the industry are far-left, I probably would have cracked and would now be serving a life sentence for a mass murder spree.
I doubt, with the Marvel political leanings that Obama gets thrown into a vat of toxic waste and becomes the evil “Red Menace”, so I won’t miss any sleep over skipping this adventure. I wonder though…will “The One” turn out to have god-like powers and convince the Marvel universe to fight for socialism?
BTW…back in the mid-’80’s, there was a great underground comic called “Reagan’s Raiders”, where Ronnie and his staff put on red, white and blue mercenary outfits to blast commies, hippies and liberals at night…I wish I still had it. Hmmn…perhaps I should illustrate something like “The Patriot”….a war vet fighting the “League of D.C. Marxists”. Even if it doesn’t make a lot of money, it would be worth it to blow off some steam, and fun to take down the likes of Obama (The Antichrist), Reid (The Living Corpse), Pelosi (The Scarlet Bitch), Barney Frank (The Flamer), Byrd (The Grand Dragon), Michael Moore (The Rancid Blimp) and Sorros (The Evil Overlord)!
January 9th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I have a feeling a Japanese manga of Obama will be next.
January 9th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
It will be “Not the Green Goblin that I knew”…
– MuscleDaddy
January 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Stephen’s comment made me LOL.
January 9th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
#9 Kent – Do you have cameras in my room?
January 9th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Spiderman faces villains and monsters every month. What’s the big deal? I remember Reagan’s Raiders. I still have issue 1 and 2 somewhere. Any offers?
January 10th, 2009 at 12:28 am
All kidding aside, the more I think about it, the less I have a problem with it. Comic books, despite the mainstream movie treatment, are still a geeky hobby. Apparently the president-elect mentioned on the campaign trail that he liked comic books. Can’t really blame a comic book guy for picking up on that and deciding to put him in a comic.
Of course, I reserve the right to go back to my original snarky position if Obama gets anything more than a brief cameo and/or gets the Chris Matthews leg-tingle treatment.
January 10th, 2009 at 3:00 am
I remember “Superman Meets Mohammid Ali”.
To save Earth from an alien invasion, Superman and Mohammid Ali are forced to fight. Since the fight takes place on a world orbiting a red sun, Ali beats Superman like a rented mule, then goes on to knock the alien world’s champion, a genetically enhanced 9 foot monster, out of the ring.
(Superman, apparently in a coma, is allowed to return to Earth aboard a loaner starship, where he instantly regains his powers and wipes out the entire alien battlefleet while they are distracted by the Ali/Monster fight which was being broadcast as a sort of cosmic pay-for-view event). Yay! Earth is saved!
Ali and Superman shake hands and teach the youth of America a valuable lesson about cooperating in the face of adversity.
Obie wouldn’t stand a chance against Spiderman.
January 10th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Parker? I barely knew her.
January 10th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Obama’s in a comic. whoopdee freak’n doo! Reagan did it first and better than “The One” ever could hope too!
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