Coming this May is a story featuring a President Superman. I hope this will be a fun little story except being wtitten by comic hack Grant Morrison. I sure he will have a perfectly stupid reason why Superman needs to be black for the story to work. Unless Obama really is the ultimate illegal alien.
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I don't think Clark would even want to be president. he would realize that he would be negligent in the role. I think, character wise, Superman has to be his own man and can not be beholden to one nation more than any other. I am not advocating for Superman as world president, but for a Superman that is answerable only to what is right. Governments will always hate it, but what are they going to do, he is superman.
Obama as an alien. I can't see any unfortunate implications in that idea...
It does remind me of webcomic I worked on a guest strip for in which Lex Luthor demanded Superman show us his birth certificate. It was a parody of Donald Trump's interview on The View. Sadly a lot of other things got in the way, so that the project was never finished.
If you want to read a story about a superhero becoming a politician, please read Brain K Vaughn and Tony Harris' excellent series "Ex Machina".
I agree about Ex Machina, fantastic series. The last panel of that first issue is one of my all time favorites.
In 'Red Son' he took over Russia and made it a communist paradise. No way they would ever let that kind of belief system stand in America.
I love on Modern Family how Jay compares Manny's Columbian father to Superman - "The only think that he has in common with Superman is that they are both in this country illegally."
Captain America almost ran for President in a great 1970s Marvel run (I can't remember who wrote or drew, but Klaus Janson did the inks: I always remember Janson's badass lines). Cap got as far as the convention before announcing "I cannot be your candidate." The last page was a zoom-in of a discarded delegate's placard on the littered floor of the convention hall, moving in on "CAPTAIN AMERICA FOR PRESIDENT"(juxtaposed with a Lincoln quote) until the final panel simply read "AMERICA."
I remember that run well. It was all good until he got to the real dirty business of politics which was even too much for the great Patriot to defeat. Pretty gloomy but great.
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