Comments on: Comic Review – “Superman: President Lex”

By: brain

brain — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:39:08 +0000

Evil Presidents "Maybe I'm just sheltered, but this is the first evil President I've seen."

I guess you must have been born after 1976 and not read the news then, because President Nixon was pretty darn evil, and our current president is moreso. A lot of the hijinks that President Lex is up to are references to real-life events perpetrated by the Bush Administration.

Seriously. Read Michael Moore's book and see if you don't notice similarities between how Bush siphoned insane amounts of money into Halliburton and how Lex Luthor uses the Presidency for personal gain.

Alternately you can surf Democracy Now or MoveOn and see what you've been missing in the mainstream news.

The comics writers are not making a lot of this stuff up; evil is real, and it's not just a bunch of guys flying planes into buildings. We don't have a Superman to save us- it's up to us.

By: fiziko

fiziko — Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:33:03 +0000

Re: Comics shops?

I presume you got this at a local comic shop, because I clicked through to Amazon and they say it's not actually available for sale yet.
Weird.

Yeah, I buy very few of my comics through bookstores. Diamond distributes to comic shops only, so Marvel and DC have to use alternate routes that cause delays. I'm buying Exiles Vol. 4: Legacy through a bookstore, and it'll take until August for me to get it, even though it was out in comic shops on June 11. (It's not a big deal, since I won't have volume 3 until July, or volume 5 until September.)

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:28:27 +0000

Comics shops?
I presume you got this at a local comic shop, because I clicked through to
Amazon and they say it’s not actually available for sale yet.

Weird.

By: y42

y42 — Fri, 20 Jun 2003 02:51:15 +0000

I remember the ad campaign for that
Those “Vote Lex” posters during an election year were pretty neat : )