Comments on: Obama Meets Spider-Man (or Mr. Spider-Man Goes to Washington)

By: Voice of the Red Skull

Voice of the Red Skull — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:26:40 +0000

The Inauguration Day issue was sold out, so Red Skull bought Grant Morrison’s Doctor Who.

The Red Skull is pleased to draw a ‘competent’ rating, and adds “Where was a competent artist to draw Obama for the Spidey cover???”

Not bad, not bad… but not good either!

By: Sghoul

Sghoul — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:29:34 +0000

Erika, I ain’t knocking his brains. But being smart does not equal being a geek. There are plenty of geeks that aren’t all that bright (go to Dragon Con, you’ll meet them).

I think what it really is, is geeks have been caught up in the whirlwind just like everyone else. And they are trying to rationalize it but having something immediately identifiable that they can say “Hey, Obama’s just like me…he’s a geek.”

As for the whoring, yeah Bush was in comics. But I don’t recall any kind of special comic feturing him. Maybe 911? And that still wasn’t about him, that was about the tragedy. This comic is a blaitant attempt to sucker people into buying something they wouldn’t normally look twice at by putting a celebrity on the cover. And that is pretty much corporate whoring.

By: rob!

rob! — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:54:20 +0000

Chill out sghoul, it isn’t like “W” hasn’t appeared in plenty of Marvel comics too…or was that Red Skull? I get the two confused.

Bubba-

Easy way to tell the difference: the Red Skull is competent.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:13:44 +0000

I’ve been living under a rock then cause I haven’t heard about this. But, not under a rock in my parents basement.

By: BubbaShelby

BubbaShelby — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:03:14 +0000

lulz – this comment thread took a fun turn didn’t it?

Chill out sghoul, it isn’t like “W” hasn’t appeared in plenty of Marvel comics too…or was that Red Skull? I get the two confused.

ZING!

By: rob!

rob! — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:00:05 +0000

BTW, gratz Marvel. You win whore of the year. And the year just started!

Yes, Marvel, how DARE you try and produce a comic to appeal to the 66 million + minority that voted for Obama for President! Have you no commercial sense?!?

By: Erika

Erika — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:13:31 +0000

I couldn’t disagree more. It’s not about the comic thing so much as Obama’s intellectual geekdom, which is quite a breath of fresh air. He’s an intense, cerebral guy, which appeals to a lot of people in the geek community. I hear the comic isn’t all that, but I think this is pretty cool. I don’t think it’s something to be taken quite so seriously.

By: Sghoul

Sghoul — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:32:18 +0000

I am SO glad you didn’t actually say anything about how Obama is our geek pres. I am getting sick of this. The fact that he is willing to sucker geeks into believing he is…and more so that some geeks are so starved to be cool that they are willing to believe that just because someone collected 2 comic titles WHEN THEY WERE A KID…well, it really saddens me.

BTW, gratz Marvel. You win whore of the year. And the year just started!