Barack Obama will appear in a Spiderman Marvel Comic. Yes, you did read that right. The soon-to-be president and the anti-arachnophobic college photographer (I think that is the correct comic-book-hero-backstory) are friends from way back. According to an Associated Press article, Obama read Spiderman comics while he was growing. Now Marvel has decided to pay the president-elect back with his very own comic book cameo.
Hey, I read Archie comics as a child, does that mean I can hang out with Betty, Veronica and most importantly, Jughead? Probably not, after all I am just an Associate Editor at a community newspaper.
Now to the most important question — if Barack Obama is Spiderman's sidekick in ink, does that mean the red-tight wearing superhero will make a trip to Washington D.C. to save the economy? I hope the answer is yes, because then we (Americans) could have a classic theme song to sing each time a smarmy politician is taken down or the national deficit drops. Here's the jist of it: (I know you know the melody) "Spiderman, Spiderman come to save the economy; the market drops that's okay, it was saved in Spiderman's web; Wherever there's a market crash, you'll find Spiderman."
— Angela Weatherford, associate editor
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