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After his initial success as a comic book character during the presidential campaign, Barack Obama is showing up with alarming frequency as the heroic protagonist in four-color fiction. Two from Devil’s Due Publishing: Drafted, “DDP’s original sci-fi drama returns starring Barack Obama, and Barack the Barbarian, which has a variant cover of “Red Sarah” Palin. IDW offers Barack Obama: The Road to the White House (right). And from Mercury Comics comes an Alex Ross poster showing Barack Obama ripping off his shirt in the classic Clark-Kent-to-Superman pose, disclosing under his shirt blue tights emblazoned with a giant red “O” the center of which is yellow. Now that the comic book industry has discovered the market value of political celebrity, titles in this vein threaten to become a cascade. Bluewater continues its exploitation of famous femmes with Female Force: Caroline Kennedy, a title conjured up, doubtless, when Caroline Kennedy was in the running to fill Hillary Clinton’s senate seat, but now — who cares? Then here’s Emotional Content comics with its variation on the celebrity theme, a 180-page “biographical novel,” Mother Theresa. I’m not quite sure whether this next title fits onto this band wagon, but I’m sure there’s a band wagon somewhere for it: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a 320-page tome, “the hit of the 2009 New York Comic Con, [featuring] the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action!” What’s next then? A zombie Barack Obama?

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