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After making appearances in Savage Dragon, Spider-man, Youngblood, Barack the Barbarian and numerous other titles, Obama will be making his Manga debut. How does everyone feel about Obama being thrown into virtually every comic book out there? Depicting American presidents (past and present) in comic books is nothing new but in the short time Obama’s been in office, he’s made more appearances in comics than every other president (fictional and real life) combined.

Personally, I feel if his appearances are harmless and don’t detract from the quality of the story; I don’t mind him being in there too much. However, it’s getting tiresome seeing him popping up everywhere in what is clearly a transparent marketing scheme to cash in on his celebrity and the historic nature his presidency.

Relatively harmless stuff. Don't really care. It does seem to be a bit much, but numbers wise, if you totalled up the amount of titles on sale each month and divide by Obama appearances, I'd reckon the numbers pretty low. Saturation point hasn't been reached just yet.

When Obama starts appearing more that Wolverine, we have a problem.

I don't really see it a big deal, them wanting to depict the current US President in comics, to give them a more real feel, kind of like in Thunderbolts.

Just to sell issues however, is somewhat annoying. I can't even blame them that much though, with the economy as it is.

Him being in them doesn't bother me all that much, because I'm not reading any books he shows up in. However, the constant news attention about it, from articles and reports on 'Rama, CBR, etc, all the way to CNN is what's annoying me. The Amazing Spider-Man issue selling out day of Just because he was in it is somewhat annoying because it doesn't do anything for that book.

They get a huge spike in that one month, then a massive drop off with the following issue, so it really looks like the title's in trouble. They want to put him in books fine by me, but the constant attention it gets annoys me a bit, when other articles could be done about other titles, artists, writers, etc, instead of quick publicity stunts.

Yes, definitely very gimmicky and overplayed.

and I have only skimmed through them.