Obama vetoes Mutant Registration Act; puts Claremont out of work
Boy, is Chris Claremont going to be unhappy…
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Texas Bill Might Require Sex Offenders To Register Online IDs
From G4: A bill that passed the Texas Senate today would change sex offender registration regulations in the state so convicted sex offenders would have to provide law enforcement with each “alias, assumed name, nickname, or pseudonym, including a screen name, used by the person.” Presumably, the law includes gamer tags, twitter user names, MySpace names, and other…
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Dick Cheney: Now It Can Be Told!
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…
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ComicMix Six: Fictional Presidents in comics
We’ve had a lot of US Presidents show up in the comics, Jossip and the Chicago Tribune both hit on the major ones– Nixon in Watchmen, Bill Clinton speaking at Superman’s funeral, Reagan in The Dark Knight Returns, JFK impersonating Clark Kent. But there are many more that stick in t here are a few…
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ComicMix Politics: Obama’s Mad, Caroline Kennedy, and Editorial Cartoons with closing papers
A quick wrapup of the mix of comics and politics: Obama meets Spidey. Yeah, yeah, everybody’s covered it by now. But most people haven’t seen Mad Magazine asking what Barack Obama will do during his first 100 minutes in office. Indecision 2008 has the sneak peek. Hint: lots and lots of cigarettes in the Rose…
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Governor Batman, NM?
From Politico: Back in September Anne Schroder reported that actor Val Kilmer was mulling a New Mexico Governor’s run. And now that Bill "Bolo Tie" Richardson is Commerce Secretary to Be, well….there’s an opening. Folks in Albuquerque spotted the bloated star at a basketball game last night. The Albuquerque Journal’s caption: What was a movie star…
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Stephen Colbert wins Presidency! *
The Daily Bugle Reports That Colbert Wins Election in Marvel Universe! New York City, November 5, 2008—The early results are in and the Daily Bugle is reporting that Stephen Colbert has won the United States Presidency in the Marvel Universe. While many states still have yet to report their numbers, Colbert is already claiming…
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Obama Walks in Pettigrew’s Footsteps
A black man could be elected president today. But he would not necessarily be the first depicted in the media. After all, we’ve already seen black presidents such as Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact but even he was beaten to the Oval Office in 1976 by New York Governor Timothy Pettigrew. Pettigrew was the creation…
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Election Day, ComicMix style
Everybody else is watching the results come in, after they go out and vote. But we are a comic book / pop culture web site. We know what the real debate is: Get your own Poll! Vote, and give your reasons to the exit pollers in the comments section. (Hey, it beats hitting refresh on…
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ComicMix Radio: Palin In Four Colors
It seemed like it had to happen. The life and career of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin comes to comics, but with a twist ending. We’ve got the story, plus: Tomorrow is a bug day in Bedrock More Terminator coming from Dynamic Darwin Cooke explains just why Parker is so damn cool Do your civic…
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All in Good Fun, by Elayne Riggs
“Palling around with terrorists!” the Republican VP candidate chirped of her running-mate’s opponent to a hungry mob armed with the modern-day equivalent of torches and pitchforks, which would be ignorant shouts of “Kill him!” and signs reading “Obama bin Lyin’”. (Oh, they excel at the disgusting comparative pun, do members of this base. Who could…
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Moustache Wax, by Dennis O’Neil
My brother had a Sportsman McCain sticker on his car, but I wasn’t worried. The night before, a nice young man in a bookstore, a complete stranger, gave me a big peace button and with that pinned to my vest, I was pretty sure I was safe from the McCain vibes, even though we were…
