Comments on: Amazing Spider-Man #583 Obama Story Review

By: Sean Whitmore

Sean Whitmore — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:52:02 +0000

If this was produced over a lunch break, I'm guessing the creators had plenty of time left over to let their food digest.

And the Waid/Kitson story was so good, too. Dastardly.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:49:05 +0000

I like how this going from a comic-art review to a political cat fight. Gotta love opinions.

By: Joe Rice

Joe Rice — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:23:38 +0000

People with the faculties to actually read things don't find him to be an enigma.

By: T.

T. — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:29:20 +0000

What people might have been expecting was Obama’s appearance to be woven into the main story, which at least stood a chance of being good.

No, that would have actually stood a chance of being worse, that's about it. Under no circumstances was this being good a possibility. Rushing a book in a week's time to hop onto the bandwagon of a candidate's inauguration who is still basically an enigma that no one knows much about except he's biracial, eloquent and likes to say "Hope" and "Change" a lot? A rushed editorially conceived book forced to be written around the guest appearance of a walking enigma, stretching that flimsy premise into a full-length story would only have made the weaknesses more transparent, not rectify them. The fact it was only 5 pages was the only thing that gave the story a chance. Also, the Joe Biden joke is not really that good. It's just better than the rest of the story, but still corny.

By: Joe Rice

Joe Rice — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:19:45 +0000

"Love" and "Young Justice" in a sentence together without "making fun of" in between BLOWS MY ANDROID CIRCUITS!

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:26:08 +0000

I love Nauck on YOUNG JUSTICE & the like. Putting him on anything "straighter" (for lack of a better adjective) is ... ill-advised.

By: Joe Rice

Joe Rice — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:56:26 +0000

“What’s wrong with Spider-Man’s face?”

Todd Nauck drew it.

By: Mark Cook

Mark Cook — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:31:47 +0000

@me: The interview is discussing what happens in the next couple of issues (Thunderbolts 128 & 129), so I could still be proven wrong. Still, I like the odds that it was either:
A) a colouring mistake in Secret Invasion, or
B) a lame last-minute attempt at jumping on the fact that the President-elect is black without a clear understanding of the American electoral process.

By: Mark Cook

Mark Cook — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:23:36 +0000

It was not Obama who appointed Norman Osbourne. An interview with Andy Diggle, Thunderbolts writer, at Marvel.com contains this quote: "The new president has just been inaugurated, and he's a little concerned about the amount of power his predecessor has given to Norman Osborn." Presumably the next couple of issues of Thunderbolts cover how Osbourne convinces the new president that it would be a good idea to keep him on.

By: Anthony Cheng

Anthony Cheng — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:59:47 +0000

What people might have been expecting was Obama's appearance to be woven into the main story, which at least stood a chance of being good.

By: T. AKA Ricky Raw

T. AKA Ricky Raw — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:50:41 +0000

I don’t believe the internet has ever required a review to establish that something sucks. It’s efficient that way.

yeah, but on the internet it's usually done irrationally. this, however, is just common sense and has nothing to do with internet irrationality. whether you saw it on the news, were talking about it in person or in a coffeeshop or just read about it in the paper, no rational person should have expected this to be good.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:46:51 +0000

"What’s wrong with Spider-Man’s face?"

It looks like the Geico Cave-Man is under that mask.

By: Anthony Cheng

Anthony Cheng — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:12:27 +0000

@Sam: That does make a lot of sense since the Obama team is looking to shut down Gitmo and the other detainee-prisons. Of course, since nobody seems to know what SHRA actually *says* there's no way to tell what, if any, rights are being violated. But once Norman Osborn (inevitably) steps over the line, I'm sure we'll get another issue with Obama swooping in to declare SHRA null and void.

By: Ryan Day

Ryan Day — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:08:33 +0000

Did we really need a review to tell us this would suck?

I don't believe the internet has ever required a review to establish that something sucks. It's efficient that way.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:02:14 +0000

Hey, maybe Obama can reverse the Superhuman Registration Act. That'd be a pretty damn cool way to get out of it.

By: Oz

Oz — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:39:55 +0000

Stefan - Secret Invasion #8 showed the hand of the President making the announcement, with a quite obviously darker skin tone. The implication (I, and many others, believe) was that this was Obama

By: Frank Rook

Frank Rook — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:07:49 +0000

It's a little late to be trying to get the "Mephisto Wife Eraser" vote, there, Obie.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:36:34 +0000

Obama didn't put Osborn in charge, that was before the inauguration. Right?

By: Dan Felty

Dan Felty — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:44:10 +0000

This made Nightline tonight.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:52:03 +0000

This will be the best selling book of the year, probably selling 300,000 copies, and I wouldn't be surprised if it sold 500,000 copies.

My LCS sold 3 times as many as the previous issue, and is trying to get more. 70,000 copies is the normal amount for this book. 3 times that would be 210,000 copies, and my LCS isn't in a major city where it may sell in even higher percentages. I also think it may have to go to a fourth or fifth printing.