Marvel Comics was so touched by the fact that President-Elect Barack Obama has stated on several occassions that he is a big Spider-Man fan, they added him in to special Spider-Man comic story:
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.
The Obama story is a bonus in Marvel Comic’s Amazing Spider-Man #583, available in comic book shops nationwide on Jan. 14 for $3.99 and is expected to sell out, with half the covers devoted to Obama.
So, Comic Book Heads out there.. are you getting a copy?
im not a comic book person, but i will be copping this. im collecting obama memorobilia for my grandkids and great grandkids.
everything about obama is the hotness.
YES!!!
Never collected Spider-Man, but this one is a guaranteed buy!
Oh, I’ll be getting this. A copy for me, and one for my guy, who is an uber Spider-Man nerd.
cant: i was looking @ ur pics on FB…thats your son?
This is what a wingnut had to say about the event:
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/16035.html#comments
If I may add, since FDR it’s been a tradition for U.S. Presidents to make cameo appearances in comic books, so it’s really not just a Marvel “shout out back.”
Karrie, the bday pics? That’s our cousin’s son. His sister is our goddaughter.
@ wilfredo: yea, thats cool and all, but i think this is the 1st time ppl give an eff about a president’s appearance in a comic book.
obama is the man.
if they put his face on a thong, there’s a 99.9% chance im buyin em.
@ nonot: ohhhhh ok. i was bout to tell cant her son is cute but he got a grapefruit hear
Aww, Karrie!
Hopefully he’ll follow in his father’s footsteps and grow into it. He ought to, ain’t nothing of his momma in that boy.
@karrie - that head is courtesy of one of his uncles, cause his mama and daddy’s heads don’t look like that. *lol* He’s still cute as hell, though.
Karrie: This is me not taking anything away from Obama, but Quesada is acting like he’s doing the prez-elect a favor, when it’s actually tradition. That is not to say that it’s not a savvy business decision, because that issue will fly off the rack. They still sell them in racks, don’t they?
Spider-Man uses basketball to tell which is the real Obama? Why does that feel racist to me?
@ Anima - I saw that shyt too, but thought maybe I was being oversensitive.
ummmmm, yea. you can still catch comics in SOME stores…
ppl just wanna rain on that man’s parade tho. *shrugs* oh well.
Anima: Risky.
anima and tina: if spider man waved some crispy fried chicken wings in front of them to be able to see determine which was obama…id have a problem. yall just bein all sensitiiiiiive
Rain makes for one soggy comic book.
@ karrie - why can’t spiderman use a library book or a college education to figure out which is the real Obama?
Or ask a question only Obama would know the answer to. Something about his childhood in Hawaii or Indonesia or something about his father’s village that isn’t in the book, Dreams From My Father.
Or even an assist from Michelle with a “terrorist fist bump.”
To answer the question about deciphering Spiderman’s efforts to identify Obama…
BECAUSE IT’S A DAMN COMIC BOOK. Let’s not get too heavy here. And it’s not a stereotype. The man does have a mean hoop game.
dontchall know obama plays basketball?
thats what im sayin robin!
i really think yall would be makin somethin out of a BIG nothin if yall went hard on spider man using a b-ball. that’s some shit spider man would do anyway! this is a comic book!
A.) I’m joking
B.) It’s a fuckin comic book.
C.) If that’s the most racist thing we hear about Obama, you can color me surprise & shove a 4th of July sparkler up my butt.
D.) I’m joking
I’ll head the the comic shop and pick this ish up most def.
but im not a devoted colelctor anymore. I stopped collecting comic books when they started caring more about drawing chicks that look liek dolly parton in 0 gravity, than actually tell a good story.
If Obama didnt have a mean hoopgame on him, I’d personally stab Joe Quesada in the dick with an ice pick
Ha, ha. I once saw Quesada in a bar, I swear I was tempted to punch him in the forehead. This was in the ’90s. And that Billy Tucci is a dyck too.
i’ll buy that for a dollar.
I saw Obama play for a while on Real Sports. In my opinion, he’d get mauled in the streets, but he’s ok for a casual pickup game at the local liberal arts college.
cool.
That pic of him on the cover just screams :: don’t let this suit fool you, I will still f*ck you up::
It just does lol
“…local liberal arts college.” LOL!
A good way to start off the morning.
RACIST!
Rubin: I’m curious have you read it? I haven’t, and I’m curious if it is racist or not.
uh…are u Wanna be Black panthers serious? REMEMBER it is not only a comic book…but it’s SPIDERMAN which in my opinion was pure comedy anyway (traditionally).considering the big deal the media played about his (Obama’s) love for b-ball it makes sense spidey (or atleast he writer) would work that into the story. If it were Caribou Barbie…somewhere in that story that bitch would be shooting a moose.
@ minista - basically.
Remember, It aint racist if it’s true
LOL@ “Wanna Be Black Panthers.”
I’m going to put on my geek hat now. Yes, lately Spider-Man has been on the lighter side –thank goodness– but comic’s history with racial matters are not exactly, well, enlightened. The proof is that very few artists, to this day, still can’t draw black folks. In some instances, the only difference between Luke Cage and The Black Panther is the body type.
I digress.
In this case, I’m willing to give the writer the benefit of the doubt. More than anything, I’m curious about the basketball.
There is a comic book store right around the corner from Mama Fusion’s in MD where I shall be copping this when it drops during my Inaugaration travels.
Spidey giving Obama Dap?!? Can’t beat that with a stick.
Well, Bishop kicking Cheney’s ass would rank slightly above that…
Fusion…u better not come to Bmore and not give me a shout.
Hey there Minista,
I’ll have to hit folks up for real for real - will be in Southern MD and DC most of the time, but am trying to swing by B’more and see what’s good.
what other pres you know gets a Marvel comic book?
seriously.
i love Obama.
Paix, Asia dee
I really like to see a manga syle comic or movie made with obama in it like this –> http://www.zazzle.com/drop_it_down_shirt-235329729921789834
Marvel Treatment sounds like something you’d get at a spa or the Cathouse.
Hummm I Think of him more of a Batman When it comes a superheros are concern, The Batman always investagates then takes the best course of action.