I wasn’t sure at first just what side Marvel’s leftists would take, but now, it looks like any questions about their support for the president-elect have been answered:…

In any case, Marvel usually uses Spiderman for cultural crossovers in the real world. Heck, he even met the origenal ‘Not ready for Prime Time Players” of SNL back in the day.

But this Spidey thing, with himself as a hero, and probably some campaign cash from the publisher? He’s cool with that.

Nichevo on January 8, 2009 at 5:14 PM

Spiderman (or, more formally, Spider Man) was probably an official financial supporter of Team Obama, along with Mickey Mouse.

Avi Green on January 8, 2009 at 5:39 PM

Interesting analysis of the original Macross. Japanese politics are different enough from ours in many respects to make direct correlations difficult, but there are certainly such examples to be found if you look hard enough.

Of course there’s as much stupidity in the anime industry as there is in any other entertainment field. But from the sound of your tastes, I think you’d find the series Cowboy Bebop interesting and entertaining on many levels. One of the early episodes involves a completely and obviously insane group of eco-terrorists, with a pretty hilarious resolution.

Brainster on January 8, 2009 at 5:05 PM

I love everything about the trilogy but the stupid utopian “Lutherism” ending. That’s the problem with comics; even when someone manages to write a decent script, some liberal jerk editor screws it up.

Sorry, but I’d really rather both conservatives and liberals keep their damned opinions out of my comics.

SouthernDem on January 8, 2009 at 7:16 PM

Liberals foul-up comics because what little reality is in them naturally skews heroes toward bravery and sacrifice, instead of liberal equivocations and selfish cowardice. Nothing smudges a liberal’s mascara like the normal definitions of heroes and villians.

Second look at J. Jonah Jameson!

aquaviva on January 8, 2009 at 2:47 PM

SAME HERE! I MORE SUPPORT HIM THEN THAT WEB CRAWLING MANIAC AND HIS SKIN CRAWLING PAL DA ARAB ONE!

I heart John Romita Jr in conservative so I guess him and Willingham make 2…

Rip Ford on January 8, 2009 at 6:54 PM

Either DC themselves may have claimed it, or, it was on Chuck Dixon’s site forum that I read it. But frankly, if he was going to take part in such a foolhardy miniseries as DCU: Decisions, then I’m going to have to question his conservative credentials. Chuck Dixon isn’t perfect, but as a conservative, he’s usually impressed me a lot more than Willingham ever will.

I don’t suppose anyone might want to make the case of if it’s possible for a prominent conservative to buy the rights to the publishing arms of DC and Marvel comics, and then take to fixing them as best as possible? I’d sure like to see them being bought by people who really cared.
Avi Green on January 8, 2009 at 6:34 PM

Sorry, but I’d really rather both conservatives and liberals keep their damned opinions out of my comics.

Where did you hear that Bill Willingham is a conservative? I’m familiar with his older work but I stopped buying comics about 10 years ago so I haven’t read his more recent stuff. I loved Willingham’s Elementals but I have a hard time seeing him as a conservative considering that he also wrote Ironwood, an X-rated sword & sorcery series. I remember him saying he included the graphic sex scenes because his publisher, Eros Comix, required him to but it seems to me as if he could have found another publisher if he’d wanted to.

Jonah Goldberg noted in Lberal Fascism that JFK is still the only president to have appeared in a Superman comic.

That’s not true. Ronald Reagan has appeared.
Bill Clinton has appeared, albeit he appeared in the comic giving his endorsement to a Superman villain who would go on to kill millions of people.
I don’t believe George Bush Sr or Jr have appeared.

But from what I recall Reagan got decent treatment.

By the way, did you know it was the mecha cartoons from Japan that inspired the Transformers in the US? As I can see from watching some of these items, it’s clear that Hasbro must have gotten the idea from Japan’s products for starters.

But this Spidey thing, with himself as a hero, and probably some campaign cash from the publisher? He’s cool with that.

That said, comics writers, like most writers, are very liberal, and the comics of today (really the last 30 years or so) lack any kind of moral center.

The USA Today piece hints at why the comic companies were not anxious to place presidents in their stories; it backfired on DC with the President Kennedy story that came out after the assassination in Dallas.

On this, I could not agree more.

Cylor on January 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM

I’ll second that. Those two have been the best superhero movies I’ve ever seen.

I was minding my own business with my paperback compilation of the Batman “Death in the Family” story (the one where the second Robin, Jason Todd, gets killed), and out of nowhere, they take a shot at Reaganomics.

Hawkins1701 on January 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM

I heard about that once, that they just had to waste their time insulting Reaganomics with that one. Of course, you know what really bothers me besides that? Why did they have to kill off Jason Todd at the time (he was revived in 2005, even more pointlessly, I’m sad to say)? I know some bad steps were taken with his characterization (possibly by Max Allen Collins, who later revealed himself as a moonbat), but does that truly justify killing him off instead of taking steps to fix his characterization?

On a side note, anyone know anything about a writer named Bill Willingham, supposedly a conservative? Because after I found out what kind of negative stance he’s got towards women in his writing (he maimed Stephanie Brown/Spoiler during War Games), and after he took part in writing the crappy DCU: Decisions, where Superman takes the place of Capt. America in Civil War, and Lois Lane takes the place of Iron Man as depicted in Marvel’s monstrosity, the only conclusion I can come to is that Willingham is RINO. If you’ve ever been to Chuck Dixon’s website, one of the few conservatives who climbed the ladder successfully in comicdom, the forum’s posters don’t like Willingham there either.

Say! That reminds me: is it possible that DC editorial decided at the time to kill off Stephanie Brown, the teen vigilante named Spoiler, out of spite for Chuck Dixon’s being a conservative? There’s no way to be sure, but maybe there’s something to that suspicion.

The Bryan Singer X-Men films were ok up until the third one, when they completely destroyed the franchise, imho.

Bryan Singer did not direct the third X-Men movie and had nothing to do with it, which is why it sucked as hard as it did.

The Chris Nolan Batman films, however, are a shining glittering jewel in a sea of comic book movie fecal matter.

Comic book films have never been done better, in my opinion.

I knew The Dark Knight would be good, but even I didn’t think it could be that good.

Hawkins1701 on January 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM

On this, I could not agree more.