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Image Comics continues its seemingly week-long Avengers marketing parody today with the latest (and most insane) supposed member of "Guardians of the Globe" today with the least likely member yet: President Barack Obama, or his comic book counterpart anyway...

INSTANT CLASSIC - The Unwritten 9 I know that I've talked a lot about Mike Carey and Peter Gross' Vertigo series lately, and I'd normally be hesitant to cover the same book over and over again in this space. But issue #9 of "The Unwritten" is by far the best comic book to be released this week...

ComicsAlliance's Chris Murphy reviews the biggest -- and best -- books coming out this week. LEAVING ALREADY? Daredevil #500 If tomorrow I were to be crowned high king of all comics, given the royal scepter made from rolled up issues of "Action Comics" #1 printed on solid gold, had Stan Lee himself place upon my brow the crown sculpted from dried ink taken from Will Eisner's inkwell,

ComicsAlliance runs down the biggest -- and best -- books of the week. GRATEFUL FOR A STORY LONG OVERDUE IN Detective Comics #854. When DC reintroduced the character of Batwoman, the mainstream press had a field day with the announcement that she was a lesbian...

We've talked a lot about the Obama-as-superhero theme, and College Humor has the latest take -- and one of the most enjoyable. It comes complete with a catchy theme song and animated video where you can watch Obama fight the recession, global warming, giant robots, pirates, Al Qaeda, and bears...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/comics_animation/The_Best_Obama_Cameos_in_Comics'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; Since Barack Obama ascended to the highest office in the land, there's been a lot of joking about his comics collecting and political superheroics, and now every publisher in comics is scrambling to cash in on the Obama comics craze...

Given the enormity of the problems facing America right now, a lot of people are hoping President-Elect Barack Obama will turn out to have superhuman powers. He may not, but at least he's got a friend who does. In the upcoming "The Amazing Spider-Man" #583, Obama appears "palling around" (as Sarah Palin would say) with the arachnid superhero...