I "swiped" this from another site, (CBR) but hey, it's free publicity for Image Comics, and I don't work for CV, so sue me....

Does this following tidbit give you reason to forget all the past Pres. Obama appearances in comics?  It sounds for once he has an actual justifiable reason to appear. 

However, do you think the writer should have created a fictional President for this story or did he just use Pres. Obama because of the "race" of the hero and to sell the book? 

Personally, I am digging the art.  It will be on the flipside of Youngblood #9.  If you want to see Obama, scroll all the way down.

I saw this.  It's a lovely cover, but the internal art looks like 90's steroid trash.  And I fail to see how the race of a blood thirsty character like Die-Hard (now known as Free Agent) makes Obama's appearance any more justifiable as in Savage Dragon or Spider-Man.

There's another page from CBR, where at the bottom of the page Obama & Free Agent are drawn oen panel under the other.  The way it is done is blatantly to make it look like they're the same person.  Whether it is to insinuate Free Agent is related to Obama, I don't know.. but it's bloody awful. 

Obama's from such a mixed background.  A white mother & an African father.  I can't see how his genetics could posibly make him look like Free Agent.  And that first panel, with Free Agent plunging a knife threw a random, generic Saudi is grotesque.  Personally... I'm amazed, but in a bad way.  I wonder whether the White House would ever intervene with these dreadful comic appearances, because the political message appears to be the opposite of what they're trying to achieve.

@xerox-kitty:  I will have to go back and check it out, I take your word for it, but I want to see.  I imported just a portion of the art for space's sake on the blog.

I'll have to look and see if the character was a random Saudi or an actual bad guy, or can we even tell without buying the book?  Regardless, now I'm curious.

@xerox-kitty:  I didn't see any random Saudi, looked like one of the bad guys to me.  However, it WAS hard to tell who was who concerning the action sequence, what was happening.  Also, I do agree that the whole Obama/Free Agent "morph" WAS a blatant attempt to insinuate they are the same person.  I think it was just an attempt to make Obama appear that he is a "hero". 

Thanks for pointing these out.   Oh, and there is STILL ANOTHER OBAMA APPEARANCE IN another Image book!  This is the last time I even post any info about Obama. *ugh*