Category: News

In what has to go down as the ultimate expression of bipartisanship in a new political age, Barack Obama brought Superman and Spider-Man together to work for the good of the nation.

OK, so maybe it was actually Tobey Maguire and Brandon Routh. They were on hand at Abram Simon Elementary in Washington DC to perform some community service as part of Obama’s call to community action on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. But still, if he can bring these two together, peace in the Middle East can’t be far behind..

MTV News had great coverage of the meeting, including this little snippet:

Though Maguire was kept busy screwing panels of the shelves together, a short time later, as Routh pulled books from boxes to stack them in the newly built cubbies, he happened across a — no joke — Spider-Man book, and walked it over to his super-brethren.

“I think this is yours,” he said, handing Maguire the book. The web-slinger laughed, and the actors shook hands and chatted for a few moments before Routh walked back across the room to shelve “I Can Read: Spider-Man 3, Meet the Heroes and the Villains.”

“I think I can probably beat them all up,” Routh said. “Just kidding.” Crisis averted.

MTV also got video of the meeting, shown here.

Watching the Presidential Inauguration – and I realize I’m making fun of a dude in a wheelchair, but heck, that’s just who I am – it occurred to me that our former (damn, it feels good to say this) vice-president Dick Cheney goes on to become… Davros!

No kidding. Look at the guy and imagine him on a diet, maybe 100 years older. Nosferatu trapped in the sun. Turns out this isn’t an original observation; the graphic is from seedsofdoubt.com.

Bye, bye. Dick. Don’t let the door knob slam you in the forehead on your way out.

"I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father Jor-El to save the planet Earth."
—Barack Obama, October 16, 2008

Good luck, sir.

The happy mutants at Tor.com– no wait, the happy mutants are at BoingBoing, the snarky geeks are at io9, and the ink-stained shockwave riders are at Tor.com– are running a Dan Goldman comic, "Yes We Will", in which Obama deals with the greatest problem of his first term, as predicted by Nostradamus. Or the Mayans. Or Timothy Leary. Or something like that.

Go read it, it’s fun.

Although I can deal with the idea of the singularity a lot easier than I can with Barack Obama not dressed nattily. I’m sorry, but that’s stretching credibilty too far.

ComicMix’s Frank McLaughlin is profiled in today’s Connecticut Post, talking about his career and new role as professor of cartooning at the Sterling House Community Center.

In discussing his long career, McLaughlin noted the change of emphasis from newspparer comic strips to comic books to the Internet.  "Comics and newspaper comic strips have been on the decline for years now," McLaughlin said. "The days of light-hearted comic strips are over. Now, the movies have made characters like Batman very dark and serious."

That allowed him a chance to plug White Viper, which ran here in 2008 and can still be read in case you missed out. The serial was written by his daughter, Erin Holroyd, and pencilled by McLaughlin’s long-time art partner Dick Giordano.