Never did the get the first printings of the Watchmen comics - for which i'm still kicking myself over - but I do have some nice gems in the boxes that rest in that warm and dry space in my closet.
No doubt that fans of Spider-Man, Barack Obama, and even his detractors will be itching to talk about next week's issue #358 of The Amazing Spiderman:
WASHINGTON — 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.
Parker decides "the future president's gonna need Spider-Man," and springs into action, using basketball to determine the real Obama and punching out the impostor.
Obama thanks him with a fist-bump.
No doubt this will be fodder for people like Sean Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and the Fox and Friends stooges. What these predictable, reactionary, prattle-heads will not likely realize is that Barack Obama collects comics.
He's already been in an issue of The Savage Dragon.
But, McCain hasn't lost out competely in the comics arena:
The question stands though - who would other superheroes endorse? The answers might suprise your or be rather expected.
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