Aug 5 2008Presidential Candidates Get Own Comics

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Barack Obama and that other presidential candidate whose face looks like a gnarled tree trunk (EDIT: Wrong John -- I was thinking Kerry, this guy is actually McCain) will star in their own comics made by IDW Publishing, a San Diego comic book company.

Don't expect Captain America-versus-Superman hijinks or super-villains threatening the electoral process. Trading sound bites for word balloons, the books purport to tell McCain and Obama's life stories, independently researched and illustrated by a veteran team of writers and artists.

"We're not doing anything that is sensational here," said IDW special projects editor Scott Dunbier, adding that neither campaign was involved in the development of the books. "We're sticking to the facts."

Wow, these are gonna be the boringest comics ever. Sure McCain spent five years as a POW in North Vietnam, but that's about the only riveting detail. At least give the man a cape and anti-aging serum.

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McCain, Obama to star in their own comic books [msnbc]

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Haha these should've been comicon outfits in the last post.

Nice artwork though...

holy crap, can mccain look any more sinister?


oh hey, and he's on a comic too!

It bothers me that they made McIdiot look a lot skinnier than he actually is.

hahaha @ #3, mckidiot eh......... not that i like either of these jokers, but i kinda feel obama will screw the economy up pretty hard (not fix it), but hey! can't be worse than what we got right now! F*** YOU MR. BUSH!

@4

well at least we can agree on some things.

ahhh, just love the liberal BS in the comments b/c everybody wants to kiss Barack's ass. Look I honestly both candidates are poor choices, I just think McCain is the lesser of the two evils.

I think the Geekologie wants to make sweet sweet love to Barack Obama and dip into some of that presidential candidate chocolate.

BARF!

Since you bring up Mclame's Vietnam history, lets have the REAL history:

MCCAIN COOBERATED WITH COMMUNIST SOVIET UNION WHEN HE WAS CAPTIVE IN VIETNAM, BETRAYED US ALL

"The issue boiled over in 1992 after POW families and activists felt they had been mistreated by McCain during hearings before the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. In the video above (posted at Vietnam Veterans against McCain) which was apparently shot soon after the hearings, POW advocates and experts, as well as Republican politicians, including then-Rep. Bob Dornan of California, assert that McCain was stonewalling the release of POW documents because his own records included transcripts of interviews he gave to communist and other media outlets in which he said the U.S. military had deliberately bombed civilian targets in North Vietnam."
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/02/17/in-1992-pows-accused-mccain-of-collaborating-with-vietnamese/

Wow. I had no idea there were so many repulicans on geekologie.
And i thought geeks were supposed to be smart! Weird. My B.

#9 - that's tabloid BS and you know it

#10 - being a Democrat does not equal intelligence nor does being Republican. In fact I think both parties are out dated and out of touch. But McCain is a far better choice than an inexperienced 1st term senator with a silver tongue and nothing to back it up with.

haha... Politics is funny.

#9 - that's tabloid BS and you know it

Couldn't even bother checking link before you clowned yourself?? It was an actual hearing before the Senate Select Committee, and those statements were actually made and on the record. You can even watch some of them discuss it, here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g&eurl=

I'll run intellectual circles around your clown ass. Now take some sleeping pills and vodka so you can join the Mcsameinsomnia movement.

I love how those that are self righteous resort to insulting people so quickly.... haha, clown ass.... haha.... oh boy you really got that guy....

You are all Asshats!!!
Bob Barnes for Prez! Where's his comic?
Oh BTW - the President has very little to do with the economy, but feel free to keep bitching about Bush because your dumb-asses maxed out the credit cards and work a McDumbass

DUMBASS ASSSHATTERY - there, now I feel better

Hmmmm, why the hell are people talking politics and not talking comics...that is, after all, what this is about.

#11: agreed on the out-dated-ness.

@3: I'm not going to be a moron and pick sides in politics, because both parties are full of shit, but... McIdiot is the worst insult ever. You just make yourself sound dumb. At least think of something that rhymes.

PARTY POLITICS SUCK. THE US NEEDS A THIRD OPTION.

This is why I'm a Federalist.

However, I will say...McCain 08.

That is all.

Ron Paul baby girls. Ron Paul.

|=u<K /\/\ @n 1 \/073 f0r <H7|-|UlhU

smoking girl... will you marry me? lolBBQ!!!!!111oneone

"We're not doing anything that is sensational here,"

Now that's how you sell your product!

"the President has very little to do with the economy, but feel free to keep bitching about Bush because your dumb-asses maxed out the credit cards and work a McDumbass"

Are you dense? From the Iraq war, to his trillion-dollar tax cuts, to the bills he's signed into office (including the ones which enabled the subprime mortgage disaster and enabling rampant market speculation) Bush OWNS this economy

@#24.................... THANK YOU! I can't believe that guy said the prez don't have anything to do with economy.......... some kind of Bush lover, man f*** you! it's not like he's giving you shit! not all of us work at McF***ass, but we still feel the heat! so STFU!!!!!!!

"Are you dense? From the Iraq war, to his trillion-dollar tax cuts, to the bills he's signed into office (including the ones which enabled the subprime mortgage disaster and enabling rampant market speculation) Bush OWNS this economy"
@#24
Iraq War- I'll bet you were all for it in September 2001... Now just because isn't pretty and sometimes doing the right thing to rebuild a nation that will be a great ally to us in the future comes with a pricetag, you're bitching
Trillion Dollar Tax Cuts- Economics 101- when more money is available to be spent, more is... thus boosting the economy. Although, while he can authorize the tax-cuts, he can't follow you to the mall to make you spend it - so how is the result in his control?
Sub-Prime MTG- Starting in the late 1990's... I do believe you need to look to a Clinton for the start of that mess...
@#25
Would you like to wait for someone else to make a semi-intelligent remark and then jump on their nutz again, cuz it's cute.

@#26............................................. niiiiiice! BUSH HUMPER!

I agree with Bombeyo. We need a third option. I don't trust Obama, and McCain is nothing special. I'm so fed up with the US, but moving anywhere other than Mexico or Canada is too much work.

Bob Barr is a third option - but he's Libertarian (sp?). I don't think he has a chance though...
His views are on his website http://www.BobBarr2008.com

i was hoping for mike huckaby, but that ship sailed. . .

YOU DIRTY LIBERALS!!!!11!!oneone

vote McCain and end the pain... holy crap i just made that up. thats cool

actually make that "Vote McCain to end the pain

qwerty- you are the wind beneath my wings

If we dream, everything is possible.

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