[kaylar]

See my reply 34. I wish I had time to track down some jpegs of the BHO crapfests cranked out between 10/2008-03/2010-the "art" in the Previews catalogs has to be seen to be believed.( And the anti Sarah Palin comics were as insulting as the BHO comics were laudatory.)I agree with the premise of your OP : The liberal bias HAS to be at least a small part of the comic industry's financial troubles. You cannot insult the views of so many readers before they decide to stop being readers and stop paying money to be insulted. In all the years I've bought comics, I have NEVER seen anything like the 'celebritization" of BHO as a comic book character, never mind the multiple autobiographical comics (which were to be expected).

I do think the industry's main trouble is, it's hard to find comic book stores within easy distance of prospective readers. So many have shut down, Previews will only sell to dealers not readers, and subscription services are a PITA (and not all readers even know about Westfield or similar services.)

[Martin Tell]

I think the real reason behind the Bamy love-fest is that so many of the comic artists are gay.

[Stonewall Jackson]

My opinion of the best Presidential appearance in comics:

Back in the mid-1980's there was an issue of Uncanny X-Men (I think it was back before the Mutant Massacre) where they are playing a game of baseball. Colossus hits a fly ball into the upper atmosphere and Rogue goes zipping up to get it.

She manages to catch it up around 30,000 feet and looks over to see Ronald Reagan staring at her through one of the windows on Air Force One. She flies over, kisses the outside of the window, waves, and disappears. Reagan looks over at his aide, tells him that they'd best keep this to themselves, and then continues their previous conversation.