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When Will Barack Obama Come Clean About His Comic-Book Collection?
Published 11/12/2008 at Vulture
... ," and our friends at Publishers Weekly's Beat blog are wondering about one list item in particular: "He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics." Why did this never come up during the campaign? Is he hiding his comic obsession, like his smoking? Which other comics does he read? Is he into manga? Who does he like better, Frank Miller or Alan Moore? And if he's going to know our nuclear secrets, shouldn't he at least tell us how he feels about ...

A POTUS Among Us: In Obama, Comics Fans Spy a Fellow Traveler
Published 11/19/2008 at NPR Blogs: Monkey See
... from his childhood were floating around. He certainly wouldn't be the first non-geek who found himself induced to click Buy It Now by the heady mixture of nostalgia and Pinot Noir. Whatever the truth behind Obama's comic-book connections, I do understand why so many of my fellow comics geeks seized upon that article. (The tireless, unsinkable Heidi MacDonald, she of the go-to funnybook-industry blog The Beat, has been all over this. Some of her commenters have even gone all Doris Kearns ...