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Obama: Yes We Can … sell comic books!

February 6th, 2009, 12:10 am by Jayson Peters

Marvel is seeking a fifth printing of Amazing Spider-Man #583, which contains a five-page story featuring  President Barack Obama. Already in a fourth printing is IDW’s bio-comic Presidential Material: Barack Obama, which originally shipped in October, and the Savage Dragon book in which Erik Larsen had his protagonist endorse Obama for president.

Speaking of Larsen, he will appear Feb. 25 at Atomic Comics’ Mesa location, 1120 S. Country Club Dr., No. 105, from 1 to 4 p.m. to sign copies of Savage Dragon. Joining him will be Rob Liefeld, who will sign Youngblood #8, sporting an Obama cover and containing a six-page backup by the series creator in which a fictitious President Obama announces his very first superhero initiative: an all-new, hand-picked Youngblood team leading to a May shipping relaunch as Liefeld takes over the artistic reins. Read more about the event in its flier at Atomic’s Web site.

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Hail to the ‘Chief’ — you

January 20th, 2009, 7:00 am by Jayson Peters

Commander in Chief computer game Barack Obama Inauguration DayThink you can do better than Barack Obama on issues such as unemployment, the environment, social security, or foreign relations? Here’s your chance! Commander in Chief, a new PC game that lets players make critical presidential decisions, goes on sale today, the same day that Obama is inaugurated the 44th president of the United States.

Just like the president, players immediately face the same problems and challenges as in the real world - the economy, controlling the military, national security and terrorism, natural disasters, alternative energy sources, and many others - all with the persistent threat of a terrorist attack on a major U.S. city. Read the rest of this entry »

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Help me Wolf Blitzer - you’re my only hope!

November 5th, 2008, 10:24 pm by Jayson Peters

Forget the election and CNN’s “Magic Wall” — did you see this?

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The journalistic value of such a tool is debatable, but CNN rolled out some pretty impressive 3-D hologram tech on Election Night. In the clip above, veteran anchorman Wolf Blitzer in New York carries on a real-time conversation with reporter Jessica Yellin in Chicago “via hologram.” It’s a feat of technical wizardry that takes dozens of cameras and computers to pull off. And Yellin bears no small resemblance to Princess Leia’s plaintive recording in Star Wars: “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi — you’re my only hope!” Read the rest of this entry »

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McCain campaign vs. the gamer geeks?

August 20th, 2008, 2:13 pm by Jayson Peters

Dungeons and Dragons dice (Associated Press photo)A blogger for John McCain’s presidential campaign recently took some shots at a liberal blog raising the possibility that McCain stole one of his POW stories from Gulag Archipelago author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died earlier this month. Michael Goldfarb for some reason decided to include fans of a fantasy roleplaying game in his retort — and because it’s the Internet, you can bet he got a geeky earful from players right away. Read the rest of this entry »

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