Barack & Spider-Man

[David Morris]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/08/obama-spiderman-to-team-u_n_156329.html


WASHINGTON — Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect.

Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics
wanted to give him a "shout-out back" by featuring him in a bonus
story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief.

"How great is that? The commander in chief to be is actually a nerd in
chief," Quesada said. "It was really, really cool to see that we had a
geek in the White House. We're all thrilled with that."

The comic starts with Spider-Man's alter-ego Peter Parker taking
photographs at the inauguration, before spotting two identical Obamas.

Parker decides "the future president's gonna need Spider-Man," and
springs into action, using basketball to determine the real Obama and
punching out the impostor.

Obama thanks him with a fist-bump.