As for how he got elected, 18 year olds got the vote, they got a law passed that let 18 year olders be in Congress, which then passed the amendment letting the president being 18. Or something like that….been many many years since I read all that.

I saw the Vertigo one-shot in a back-issue bin once, but I didn’t pick it up, because I refuse to buy anything called “Smells Like Teen President”.

Just, as a general rule.

I’m sorry to say this for Simon’s fans, but the worst ideas from that era were Joe Simon’s stuff.

He had been disconnected from the comic book media for too long, and was certainly not connected to that generation of young reader. His ideas of what was hip were caricatures of the hippy mouvement and ideals.

The only Kirby stuff I don’t like from the DC Bronze Age was his single collaboration with Joe Simon on Sandman.

Kirby and Simon were the best of the 40′s. I love Simon inks on the Kirby art of that period. But when Mainline failed and they parted, Simon lost his magic touch… Just as Stan Lee lost his when Kirby left Marvel… Strange coincidences…? I think not.

Not quite. Electors cannot vote for both a president and a vice-president from their own state. So Hillary Clinton could pick Elliot Spitzer as her running mate, for instance, but New York’s electors could not vote for Clinton AND Spitzer; they’d have to vote for someone else for one of the jobs. Same thing with the electors from Prez and his mom’s home state. It’s a hurdle to getting a president and VP from the same state, but a very large one rather than an insurmountable one (especially if Prez was from a small state).

Our teens sure had come a long way since the early seventies.

But hey! I think having a new teenage Prez as the president in the DCU would be a great development. I thought that having Lex Luthor in 1600 was a masterstroke insofar as DC could show the president of the US being a devious self-serving villain and not have to worry about being arrested by Homeland Security goons! Meanwhile over in 616, poor old Captain America had to salute and fawn as if old draft-dodging W was in any way deserving of a WWII veteran’s respect.

So Prez for President in the DCU! People need some ray of optimism these days. Even if the world we live in is waaaay messed up, at least in Superman’s world those in charge of the US would be at least trying to do the right thing. There’d still be plenty of shadowy extra-government spooks and self-serving vested interests for both Superman and Prez to deal with.

Were *any* of the Vertigo Visions any good? The idea of Vertiginous reimaginings of DC characters was a good one, but “hey, let’s reimagine,” without a story idea, doesn’t seem to be enough.

The problem with early Vertigo was that they jumped on practically everyone who’d ever appeared in a ‘mature readers’ comic, so Prez, Brother Power, Black Orchid, Kid Eternity, Phantom Stranger etc all suddenly got given series’s or one-shots regardless of whether there were any good pitches around. Vertigo has grown up a lot into its own niche since then

Did it ever deal with the fact that the Constitution prohibits anyone under the age of 35 (I think) from becoming President?

“What?”

“Prez Rickard, man.”

“Huh?”

“Fucking Boss Smiley, man.”

“Huh?”

“You don’t know, man.”

“Don’t know about what?”

“Prez Rickard, man.”

“Fucked up.”

“Fucked up.”

All night.

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He may not know how awesome a lot of people think his creations are … and at 93 y’all might not have much longer to tell him.

And about Prez? 100% agreement on all points. I’d buy this over ‘Trials of Shazam’ anyday.

werd.

-f.

The guest shot in Supergirl, by the way, is bizarre. I don’t think it was ever referenced again because they would have to admit that in the DC universe the Executive Branch was run by an 18 year-old.

They held onto that 5th issue of Prez for a long time– Cancelled Comics Cavalcade came out four years or so after that issue should have been published. But then another comic in that CCC was an issue of Kamandi…that would have reprinted (with a framing sequence) an issue of Kirby’s Sandman from about the same vintage as Prez.