With Great Comedy, Comes Great Potential for Comic Book Tie-Ins
In the day’s really important political news, Steven Colbert will be coming to a Spider-Man book near you in the near future:
While “Colbert for President” signs have been popping up in the background of random Marvel comics lately, the publisher has announced that Colbert himself will show up working side-by-side with Spider-Man in October.
“Well, it’s kind of a team-up,” laughed comic book scribe Mark Waid, who wrote the eight-page story that will appear in Amazing Spider-Man #573. “Let’s put it this way: Stephen Colbert thinks it’s a team-up. Spider-Man keeps telling him it’s not a team-up.
“Without giving away too many of the surprises,” Waid continued, “essentially what’s happened is Stephen Colbert has been convinced by J. Jonah Jameson that the people of New York don’t love him enough to swing the election. And he needs New York as a state, so he throws his suit and his tie into a trash can and stalks up from an alley proclaiming, ‘Stephen Colbert no more!’”
Pretty awesome. That’s via reader J.S. who speculates that perhaps a DC crossover is also in the works wherein Colbert will take on the Green Lantern Theory of international relations.
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September 29th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
One day, Matt, you’re going to grow up.
You’ll have a house (or condo or apartment you own) and a wife and kids and bills. Who knows? You may even do some reporting (rather than, you know, just ignorantly pointificate.)
Anyway, you’re going to look back at your utter assurance and total oblviousness this week and be very, very embarassed.
Well then . . . I’ll let you get back to posting lame rock videos (the Raveonettes, btw, are ripping off J&M Chain, but, hey, that’s the least of our worries) and talking about comic books.
September 29th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
One day, C.R., you’re going to realize that fondness for certain cultural ephemera — one whose relation to juvenilia is generically intermittent at best — doesn’t preclude maturity. Anyway, at least he’s not hyping that awful-looking Tek Jansen book.
I think we agree, however, that JAMC are bad enough that modern music should be divested of all signs of their noise-pop influence.
September 29th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
DC is doing the really lousy “Decisions” event. A 4-issue mini-series where, for the first time EVAR!, DC heroes get involved in politics.
It’s lousy after the first issue. Not because of the political stuff. But because the DC characters are written as naive idiots who are jerks to each other and are awful at being superheroes or solving crimes.
September 29th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
CR: GYOFB
September 29th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Your publisher should book you at one of the big comic conventions to speak about your Green Lantern theory. More people read comic books then read policy papers so if you want to effect the debate (and sell books!) go to your people. You could even write a quicky book just on The Green Lantern Theory coming to a comic book store near you in 2009. Maybe even a graphic novel on politics! Forget the posh Aspen wankfests, go nerdcore.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Matt, any comments on Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin sharing your concerns about “gotcha journalism” ?
September 29th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Those drawings of Stephen Colbert scare me very much.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
great post, matt.
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September 29th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
@joejoejoe
That might be the best comment in the history of this blog. DO IT, MATT! I can hook you up with an illustrator if needed.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
C.R.–
One day you might realize that Matt’s dad got paid more money than you’ll earn in your life time due to a “comic book”
September 30th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Those drawings of Stephen Colbert scare me very much.
It’s nowhere near as creepy as the guest appearances of Don Rickles in one of the the early-70s Jack Kirby books. I forget exactly which one it was–”Mr. Miracle” or some such. Anyway, it took illustrative celebrity-fellation to new and giddy heights.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Hey, remember that 1970s issue of Marvel’s Super-Villain Team-Up with Dr. Doom and Henry Kissinger?
September 30th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
James Gary @ 11,
That’d be Jimmy Olsen
September 30th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Kirby’s Rickles is kind of scary with the smile and all but at least he doesn’t look like an animated wax sculpture.
September 30th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Oh, yeah! I remember “Goody” Rickles! AND the Doctor Doom meeting with Kissinger!
The real question is: when will Colbert deal with the Skynet menace and get his ass kicked by Cameron?
Last night it was revealed, as many people suspected, that Cameron was built to emulate a woman close to John Connor. Close how, we don’t yet know. Cameron killed that woman and took her place, but evidently failed in her mission and was reprogrammed to protect Connor.
And now that reprogramming is so glitched we never know what she’ll do next. Worse, neither does John Connor.
Summer Glau turned in an incredible performance last night playing not only two people but two people in one body as she was “locked into human emulation mode” and “channeled” another woman from the future. This girl is going to have an awesome career.
Not to mention the near up skirt shot when she was walking into the homeless shelter in her short, tight skirt and boots! Yum!
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