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]

Some folks have found a copy the CNN schedule for tonight’s Service Nation Presidential Candidates Forum at Columbia University, on 9/11. Following remarks from the president of Columbia University and the governor of New York and before remarks from 9/11 families, John McCain, and Barack Obama, the famous movie star Tobey Maguire will speak about 9/11 and Service. Sure, why not? Because Tobey Maguire did study physics at Columbia University, in the children’s comic book film Spiderman 2. [Cryptome, Radar]

Having decided that’s it’s just not funny anymore to have a heroic character called “Captain America,” Marvel Comics has killed off the famed comic-book “super soldier.” Created in the 1940s as a cartoon foe of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, the Captain has had some hard times. Nobody loves America and we aren’t exactly winning wars these days. Read the whole sad story, after the jump.

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