Barack the Barbarian takes on the world

Updated on: 07 April,2009 08:21 AM IST |
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Comic shows US prez's alter ego as mute superhero clad in fur loincloth

Comic shows US prez's alter ego as mute superhero clad in fur loincloth

Barack Obama's never had more foes or less clothing than in two comics about to hit the stands. The real life US president faces his share of challenges, but none that compare to those troubling his muscle-bound alter

ego in The Righteous Retribution of Barack the Barbarian.

Clad in a fur loincloth and armed with an ax, Obama is "destined to save the great republic of America and dethrone the overpaid despots", says Chicago-based publisher Devil's Due on its website.

Teaser pictures from the comic book, due out in June, show the president confronting a near-naked, blonde female assailant. "All new! Death-duel with the Screeching Enchantress!" promises the blurb.

Another volume, titled Drafted: One Hundred Days, features a more sombre Obama one who didn't reach the White House. He's a "man the world never got to see achieve his true greatness when a race from beyond the stars drafted our planet into intergalactic war", Devil's Due says.

And unlike the silver-tongued real president, this one "is mute".

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