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Barack Obama, Campaigning at the San Diego Comic-Con?

  • This would rank among the all-time most unusual campaign stops: Rumors abound that a certain presidential hopeful may show up at the San Diego Comic Con. Allegedly, members of Barack Obama's camp contacted organizers of the show to inquire about the Senator making an appearance. That would be a most insane and decidedly cool move for Obama…no one has ever reached out to the comic book community in such a way before…embracing the "geek" vote would be a stellar move.

    The convention is July 24-27, about one month before the Democratic convention.

    Insert your own comic-related joke here...My attempt: "Obama may not get such a warm reception, as video of surfaced of Obama's mentor Jeremiah Wright declaring that in his mind, Jean-Paul Valley will always be the real Batman, and that his armor design was the best Bat-suit."

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If only Youtube had the old SNL skit where the '88 candidates attend a Star Trek convention.


whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules.
It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness.
This is true both in politics and on the internet."

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Maybe he can bring Pastor Wright with him and they can recreate the ""Fuck Lando Calrissian! Uncle-Tom nigger" scene from "Chasing Amy."

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Only fun moment in that movie.


"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller

"Conan, what's the meaning of life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!"
-Conan the Barbarian

"Well, yeah."
-Jason E. Perkins

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I don't know. I enjoyed the bit with the Easter bunny and way that the Jason Lee character got more and more pissed off because people thought he was a "tracer."

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The guy who was the inker? I don't re-call the tracer bit, but I do remember when the fans didn't want his autograph because he wasn't the "real" artist. I saw that movie years ago, and already then I understood that inking is a more difficult - and important - work than people generally think.

Maybe because I've dabbled in art and comics myself.


"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller

"Conan, what's the meaning of life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!"
-Conan the Barbarian

"Well, yeah."
-Jason E. Perkins

"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents."
-Ultimate Jaburg53

"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise."
-Prometheus

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Yeah, that was joke, at least in the English language version. The inker got pissed off because the fans all thought he didn't do anything but trace over the original art with a pen. They called him a tracer.

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Aha, I got confused because I didn't remember the dialog (in English or subtitles). Maybe I should rent Chasing Amy some time.


"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller

"Conan, what's the meaning of life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!"
-Conan the Barbarian

"Well, yeah."
-Jason E. Perkins

"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents."
-Ultimate Jaburg53

"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise."
-Prometheus

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Yes. It's Smith's best movie (with Dogma in a close second)...


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