This is Drafted: One Hundred Days, the latest in a long...long...long...line of comic books to feature President Obama in a blatant attempt to goose sales.
I've already discussed why this trend is a horrible idea. I had no idea it would actually find a way to get even worse.
It's weird. I'd naively figured that if Power Girl's costume couldn't make me embarrassed to read comic books, nothing could. Wow, was I wrong.
Yes, you just saw a panel where Sasha and Malia Obama get disintegrated by an alien attack. All for the sake of dramatic tension in a third-rate comic book from a fourth-rate publisher by a creative team I've never heard of. I mean, if it had to be in there for the sake of the story (and I use that term loosely), did we have to see it? It couldn't have just been implied? Or mentioned in dialogue? This was actually supposed to elicit some sort of emotional response? Other than disgust at the people behind it, I mean.
I like to think that in general, I'm fairly difficult to offend. In fact, I kind of take pride in it. But Jesus fucking Christ.
I like to think that in general, I'm fairly difficult to offend. In fact, I kind of take pride in it. But Jesus fucking Christ.
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Mark Powers was the X-men editor during the god awful Scott Lobdell years rife with editorial interference. I'm not surprised to see this bit of hackery attributed to him.
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