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Who is that mysterious black person in a business suit who looks absolutely nothing like Barack Obama, your new president? It’s COMIC-BOOK Barack Obama, that’s who! Jesus fucking christ, could Marvel Comics maybe hire somebody who can maybe draw something vaguely resembling the president-elect, rather than “random negro dude in a suit who also seems to have neck tumors”? [USA Today]
No Spiderman song lyrics, please.
OHHH they all look the same.
Spiderman, Spiderman, friendly neighborhood Spiderman….
Doing the “terrorist fist bump” no less.
I wonder if we are going to see scenes of World Leaders holding the pose of a fist bump with Obama while thousands of cameras flash away.
Why does Barry’s suit have muscle lines?
1) Why does Spiderman have his left hand depicted, as this is not necessary for a terrorist fist bump?
2) And what kind of disease results in deformed fingers?
Unless of course that’s Larry Craig dressed up as a second Spiderman doing a reacharound.
Why is Obama wearing a 3-piece-suit, like some kinda fat cat republican?
And in this episode, Spiderman fights his arch nemesis, the Bathroom Goblin.
AfghanVet: Count on it. It will be just like how everyone gave Bubba a saxophone or a beejer.
Barry’s been doping! Oh Nos!
The Dark Knight would have been more appropriate, no?
He actually looks like Mark Trail in blackface, except with a menacing expression on his face (Mark never menaces, even when he is beating up bad guys who are trying to kidnap his dog).
The shape of Spiderman’s head is a little scary, too. Does he not have any skin on his skull? (His neck is also really long–like those women in those tribes who stretch out their necks).
OMG…is that Michelle?!? I now have more insight into the President-Elect’s twisted sex life than I ever wanted.
AfghanVet: I am hoping its just The Bump
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_(dance)
Cause that would be too cool. Soooooooooooooooul Traaaaaaaaaaaaain (on Air Force One).
Cape Clod:
That’s Knob Gobbler
Hopey Sense is tingling!
I’m holding out for the “Shaft” remake. Cuz Obama’s one baaaad mothafuck-hush yo mouf!
And really, it’s not just Barry that the artist can’t draw. What’s with the malformed skull and fingers on Spidey?
Wait — which one of them is palling around with the terrorist?
In theatres next summer.
If it’s any consolation, Spidey looks pretty off-putting too.
‘Fuck outta here! That’s Mr. Dubois from Boondocks!
It totally sucks, but for the last panel. “Oh, Oh. I think Biden sees me.” Hahaha.
Instead of drawing a random negro dude, they need to draw a half-breed muslin
SayItWithWookies: I guess it depends whether you’re asking Sean Hannity or J. Jonah Jameson.
Jokes on Hopey. That’s Joe the Plumber under the Spidey suit, judging by the phrenology…
shanemacgowan: There’s a difference?
Tommy Says Soooo: The left hand is demonstrating the unendurable agony of being required to stand so close to a person of color, let alone forcing one’s self to play out the mockery that you are “down” with him. Basically, black people seem to have debilitating Kryptonite-like effects on members of the super-powered community.
As a sop to the younger set on Inauguration Day Spiderman will be riding with the Obama family in the Hope-ty up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Cape Clod:
How ’bout if The Knob Gobbler is the good guy portayed by Larry Craig
who defeats his arch enemy The Iridescent Naugahyde Python by luring him
into his super secret underground airport bathroom cave and swallowing him
hole….er, whole.
Hold on a second, I thought Stephen Colbert was running for president of Spider Man?
bitchincamaro: “At one point, Spider-Man says he mistook Vice President-elect Joe Biden for the Vulture (a vintage Spider-Man villain).”
Spidey makes a funny!
“the story has Spidey preventing the Chameleon from ruining Obama’s inauguration. Here the archvillian is escorted away by a security detail.”
The Chameleon is a PUMA?
Yeah, and why does he have blue eyes? WTF!!??
Mr Blifil: Including Luke Cage and Black Panther
Turning over the page (ahem) we see Larry Craig as the Riddler…I mean Diddler….
That’s not Spiderman. It’s the Red Skull in a Spiderman mask.
Eh…there are weird Biden jokes in the strip…
http://www.usatoday.com/life/gallery/l090107_obamaspidey/flash.htm?gid=842&aid=3995
Schadenfried: Tom always did remind me of Barry. I can’t wait for next season, if there is one.
Theodorick Of York: Norman Osborn was the Green Gobbler. His son, Harry, was the Knob Gobbler.
Obamaton: “I’m Don Cornelius and I will be your head steward for this flight on Air Force One…”
Carmelo Junior on January 3rd, 2009 1:54 pm
Our new president was not only a party animal but a crack head, pot head, drunk, and there are rumors that he is bi…well the bi part has never been confirmed!?
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AND NOW HE’S HOBNOBBING WITH SPIDERMAN, TOO? OHOHOHOIHEW O(U @!)($J( ()MM !!!!!1!!!!!!
So…just a random thought, but I think Hopey should get Dave Chappel to be his Press Secretary.
Which one is Barack Obama?
Part of the Spidey song goes “He’s got radioactive blood,” open hearing which the Secret Service tries to gang-tackle the webslinger. And all people should be drawn like Tony “Candyman” Todd, which recently appeared as an African warlord on that 24: Redemption movie.
Wait … that’s not President-elect Barack Obama. That’s Bizarro President-elect Barack Obama!
i am so buying this.
I have trouble believing Obama got elected in the Marvel Universe. The government there is even more facist than the one in ours.
Also, Barack’s insistence that he’d meet Doctor Doom without preconditions would totally sink his chances.
Chet Kincaid: Isn’t Norm Coleman the Green-Eyed Goblin and Mark Foley is the Knob Gobbler?
Troof: It’s not a three-piece suit - the comic is about villains trying to foil the swearing-in. So it must be an overcoat.
Artistic sense…tingling…
MrAgro:
Bah, they should have used The Vulture reference to take a shot at McCain. And then, they could have cut to McCain blabbering on about his ‘Nam stories to The Punisher. And then, an annoyed Punisher could have made a happy ending by using his bazooka to end the conversation.
Needs a crying Statue of Liberty.
His superpower is change.
Fly Over Girl: He was never accused of cocksucking but of groping, so Foley clearly was Dr Octopus
Given the yarmulke, I’d say he’s related to Sammy Davis, Jr.
Christ, I’m old.
actor212: Goddamit, I was just about to post that!!
What super powers does Barry have?
…I wonder which black super-hero Barack Obama is?
-BLACK Panther?
-BLACK Lightning?
-BLACK Goliath?
-BLACK Vulcan?
Hmmmmmmmm, Im starting to notice a pattern! Maybe we should name him the BLACK Unicorn!?
That guy doesn’t even have big goofy ears. Has anyone at Marvel ever seen Barack Obama?
EVERYONE in the marvel universe has roid-rage muscles, even a fat ass like the Kingpin. Not sure how that could possibly happen but, hey, it’s a comic.
you cannot be serious: Shoulda gone with that fat lady…Schadenfried: I thought the same thing, ha. Barry probably doesn’t fear “The Health Inspector” though.
So the sixpack Obama was photographed with in Hawaii was just drawn on?
Reminds me of those 1980’s GI Joe cartoons where every charachter - including the President - was drawn as an overblown steroid case.
Sassette: Strange how Jim Rhodes from Iron Man looks more realistically “black” than this Barry…what are you sayin’, Marvel!?
Schadenfried: Barry differs from Tom on the “should someone be locked up if she doesn’t get out of the way of your pee” issue.
Geez, Secret Service. I know we have plenty of cracka-ass racists in this country, but isn’t bullet-proof glass and buff guys with earpieces enough?
Barack has pretty shockingly Arian features in that cell… I don’t think the marvel comic animator’s hand would let him draw a black president.
Looks like a Skrull to me.
I think doing a fist bump would end up with Barry wrapped up in a silk cocoon.
GuyOnTheWing: That’s what I was thinking. This looks like a poorly drawn white person with an extreme tan. For that matter, it could be John Boehner, although the tan would have to be more orange.
Chet Kincaid: Snooze you lose, bro. Sorry.
actor212: Ah, thanks!
Why not start a political Marvel Universe? Kitty Harris can be the villainous Pink Sugar.
At the end of the issue, Ultimate Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) approaches George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton in a Washington bar to propose forming….the X Presidents.
That guy looks too nice. Marvel world needs angryblakguy.
So Spider-Man can save Obama in a comic before the actual inauguration, but he couldn’t prevent 9/11 in a comic AFTER the attacks? What good are you, anyway, web-head?
It’s OJ.
Cartoon drawing person should have stripped in “Inaugural Cookies Obama” and prevented this entire broo-haha.
It’s President Buffed Up Chris Rock. Everybody in this comic has an overbite.
At least it wasn’t Palin in the executive seat, because if asked what comic books she reads, she’d say “all of them.”
And yet the drawing of Obama on the cover actually looks like him, skin color, big ears, and all. Drives me crazy when they do that.
http://jaypinkerton.com/spiderman/17.jpg
Black person’s ears are not sicky-outy enough to be the O-man’s.
It looks like Spidey’s calling for /b/lackup. Honestly, this 4chan crap is getting out of hand.
Spidey can just back da fuk up! Hopey is bi! Bi-partisan! Wah da hell u thought?
Sussemilch: Totally Skrull. You’re absolutely right. Which is why the PUMAs and Freepers are going so apeshit: they’re the only ones who recognize that Barry’s a Skrull shapeshifter, and is therefore an illegal alien.
No need to worry until Marvel Barry puts Frank Castle in charge of Homeland Security.