The greatest Spider-Man comic ever

[tomwaits]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95J4H900&show_article=1

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.

I have to buy this.

 

[Kthulhut Fhtagn]

Obama thanks him with a fist-bump.

NOOOO the terrorists got to Spider-Man too!

 

[HarryKeogh]

Hopefully this will heal the rift between African-Americans and super-heroes that has been around ever since the 70's.

 

[dudalb]

And I thought from his Superman remarks that Obama was a DC guy.

 

[dudalb]

I have to buy this.

Then get there early the day it comes out or have a comic book store reserve a copy, because with this publcity it is going to be gone in about five minutes.
Great move by Marvel. They could not afford this kind of publicity.

 

[dudalb]

And Obama might have one uped Sen. Leahy and his cameo in "The Dark Knight"...

 

[ImaginalDisc]

Better than "Kraven's Last Hunt?"

OK, maybe.

 

[Dr Adequate]

And I thought from his Superman remarks that Obama was a DC guy.

Nuh-uh:

"It was a natural after we learned the new president is a Spider-Man fan," says Marvel editor in chief Joe Quesada about reports that Obama once collected "Spider-Man" comics. "We thought, "Fantastic! We have a comic-book geek in the White House.' "

The White House transition team did not respond to a question about the extent of Obama's comic-book geekiness, but Obama did mention Spider-Man during the campaign, primarily at children-oriented events. And during an "Entertainment Weekly" pop culture survey, Obama said Batman and Spider-Man were his top superheroes because of their "inner turmoil."​

He's also a Trekkie.

I always thought that when geeks finally took over the world it would involve some sort of space-borne death ray. That was my plan.

 

[dudalb]

Better than "Kraven's Last Hunt?"

OK, maybe.

I KNOW it will be better then the Clone Saga.

BTW apparetnly Kraven's cousin, The Chamellion, is the heavy in the inaugural issue.

I love Howard Kurtz's of the Washington Post's comments:

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."

Just another media institution in the tank. What would J. Jonah Jameson think?

 

[dudalb]

I always thought that when geeks finally took over the world it would involve some sort of space-borne death ray. That was my plan.

It's all a Democratic plot to sew up the geek vote. Obama can get the Marvel fans, and Senator Leahy, head of the Senate Judiciary Commitee, can sew up the DC Fans with his cameo in "The Dark Knight" and his reputation as the country's most prominent Self Admitted Batman fan.

 

[tomwaits]

I KNOW it will be better then the Clone Saga.

I don't care what anyone says, I absolutely loved the Clone Saga. It seemed like every week there was some new twist that put everything in a different perspective. Maybe it wasn't "classic" Spider-Man, but classic SM was boring anyway.

 

[Upchurch]

It's all a Democratic plot to sew up the geek vote.

Or perhaps to make up for their part in the 1954 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency.

 

[dudalb]

Or perhaps to make up for their part in the 1954 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency.

Don't get me started on Frederick Wertham and how he set comics back 20 years.
I will never forgiving him for killing off EC Comics.

 

[Upchurch]

Don't get me started on Frederick Wertham and how he set comics back 20 years.
I will never forgiving him for killing off EC Comics.

The important point is that the juvenile delinquents are now grown up and in charge.

 

[Monketi Ghost]

I thought the black cover issue they did after 9/11 was moving.

Looking forward to this though!

 

[Ausmerican]

But will it measure up to the classic issue of Spider-Man that guest starred one Stephen Tiberius Colbert as a POTUS candidate and had him web swinging alongside Spidey?

 

[Nova Land]

Those interested in the intersection of comic books and presidential politics might also enjoy picking up copies of IDW's recent biographical comics about Barack Obama and John McCain. Both are quite well done. (These are available either singly or in a combined flip-book edition.)

There are also related comic books about Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton which (judging by the covers) are part of the same project, even though these are being published through Bluewater rather than IDW.