COMIC BOOKS & PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: MCCAIN’S IMAGE IS OVERLY GENEROUS

Barack Obama and John McCain will soon be immortalized in comic books.

On October 1, a group called IDW Publishing will release two graphic novels called Presidential Material designed to “take advantage of one of the true American art forms, the comic book, to explore the histories of both presumptive nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties.”

Since Lark and me get enough entertainment from the real-life events of this campaign, Meaningful Distraction will take a pass on buying the comics. But I must say, in terms of cover art alone, John McCain won out big time here — just look at the difference between the two men’s hands alone!

Leaving aside the fact that everyone knows Obama has much bigger hands than McCain, without question the illustrator took some creative liberties with the diminutive Republican nominee: he slimmed down McCain’s stomach, filled him out with a bulging chest and arms, and gave him Barack’s signature Colgate Smile — which everyone knowns McCain doesn’t possess.

Meanwhile Obama looks small and angry (dare I say bitter?) in a deceptively misleading cover that does nothing to showcase his enormous height advantage over McCain, which you’ll see in the upcoming debates stands at over half a foot.

(Presidential Material)

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