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Batman plugs for U.S. government...

He got away with it in the sense that there was no one in his chain of command who could call him on it, and there were no repercussions afterward that affected him.

Including the fact that he didn't achieve anything, of course. Which is why I modified it with "sort of".

I guess it's easy to get away with doing nothing.
 
It's hard to believe after this shit showing that he got his business together by the time the Guardians put together the Mosiac cities on Oa.
 
Hey, you accidentally blow up a planet on top of all that, and you've got nowhere to go but up.

It's hard to believe that part of "Cosmic Odyssey" remained in continuity considering how screwy the rest of the series was.
 
Fatality, if you are familiar with the character is from that world John blew up.

Wikipedia places her in GL Comics mid 2013, which means that a "version" of Cosmic Odyssey still happened in the new 52 too.
 
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I think there was a scene in the series (or the movie?) where Batman talked to the president on the phone, and showed the respect due to the office.

We could do with some of that today.

Has there been a single mainstream comic book or superhero product that hasn't been, not just respectful, but completely solicitous of the current president?

Hell, Marvel practically made him a supporting character in Spiderman for a while there. ;)
 
I think there was a scene in the series (or the movie?) where Batman talked to the president on the phone, and showed the respect due to the office.

We could do with some of that today.

Has there been a single mainstream comic book or superhero product that hasn't been, not just respectful, but completely solicitous of the current president?

Hell, Marvel practically made him a supporting character in Spiderman for a while there. ;)


True. I remember in the 80's Reagan was CONSTANTLY turning up in various titles.
 
Has there been a single mainstream comic book or superhero product that hasn't been, not just respectful, but completely solicitous of the current president?

Oh, hell, yes. In 1973, during the Watergate scandal, Steve Englehart did a storyline in Captain America that culminated with the following:
After several issues, Captain America defeats the organization and in July 1974’s issue #143 unmasks their leader—then-President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon.

Note that this was not a clone, not a robot, not a shape-changing alien imposter or mirror-universe doppleganger. This storyline suggested that the sitting President was a supervillain seeking the overthrow of the United States.

At the height of the confrontation Nixon commits suicide rather than face arrest. He is replaced by a double, and the Watergate scandal is engineered to allow the imposter to “resign” rather than let the public know how close America came to Armegeddon.

Not to mention The Dark Knight Returns, published during the Reagan administration, which featured a scathing caricature of Reagan as a reckless and incompetent warmonger.


EDIT: Looking at your post again, I suspect you meant "the current president" to mean President Obama, not "whoever was the current president at the time the comics were written." Still, just in case, I'll let my comments stand.
 
A couple years ago John Byrne did a Gary 7 comic, where Gary and Roberta outed Nixon as an Alien spy and then brainwashed him into thinking that he was Nixon and then engineered Watergate to kick him out of office in case his programming failed.

Grant Morrison did a couple multiverse stories where Obama was from Krypton, and Superman and still the POTUS.
 
Has there been a single mainstream comic book or superhero product that hasn't been, not just respectful, but completely solicitous of the current president?

Oh, hell, yes. In 1973, during the Watergate scandal, Steve Englehart did a storyline in Captain America that culminated with the following:
After several issues, Captain America defeats the organization and in July 1974’s issue #143 unmasks their leader—then-President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon.

Note that this was not a clone, not a robot, not a shape-changing alien imposter or mirror-universe doppleganger. This storyline suggested that the sitting President was a supervillain seeking the overthrow of the United States.

At the height of the confrontation Nixon commits suicide rather than face arrest. He is replaced by a double, and the Watergate scandal is engineered to allow the imposter to “resign” rather than let the public know how close America came to Armegeddon.

Not to mention The Dark Knight Returns, published during the Reagan administration, which featured a scathing caricature of Reagan as a reckless and incompetent warmonger.


EDIT: Looking at your post again, I suspect you meant "the current president" to mean President Obama, not "whoever was the current president at the time the comics were written." Still, just in case, I'll let my comments stand.
They never said or showed it was Nixon in that Captain America storyline. They never even said the villain was the President. It was more of a "read between the lines" situation.
 
^Yeah, but the implication was pretty clear, so it's an example of comics not being overtly respectful to a then-sitting president.
 
I liked it when President Reagan stepped in and told the Commission on Superhuman Activities that Steve Rogers is the real Captain America, and that he really should get his old job back and no one should wind up in a secret CIA prison (which is where things were heading.).

Ronald seemed like he was just wandering through random rooms in the Pentagon looking for secret star chambers diverting power form the people and finally found one: Surprise!

He was so understated, didn't threaten anyone, didn't say anyone did anything wrong by firing Rogers and giving the shield to John Walker, but because he was the most powerful man in the room, when he started saying that up was down and black was white, everyone agreed with him and world reset back to sane.
 
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