AP: Obama and Spider-Man appear in comic together

[tuvor]

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.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090108/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_spider_man

[KittyWampus]

1. Comix-Obama looks considerably beefier.

[Lithos]

2. LOL

Now how to get this autographed by Obama....

L-

[Fleshdancer]

3. cute!

I have a feeling Obama's family will be stuck hearing him talk about this for years to come. I know my husband wouldn't be able to shut up about it if he was featured in a Spider-Man comic book. :D

[Captain Hilts]

4. The cult of the personality is getting kinda creepy....nt

[ZombieHorde]

5. If you ever see Obama, yell; "Hey, its that guy from Spider-Man!"

[whirlygigspin]

6. I thought Spiderman was a liberal?

It might be bad if Obama is pictured with him, wouldn't be prudent.

--just sayin'