Hillary Clinton To Appear In Valiant's Faith Election Special

Hillary Clinton is making a campaign stop in the Valiant Comics universe. The presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee will appear in the fifth issue of Valiant Comics' Faith, which will be an "Election 2016 Special" releasing Nov. 2. Clinton will appear on the issue's cover, by Paolo Rivera, alongside the titular hero, and will be a part of one of the 48-page issue's three stories

Pairing Faith, Valiant's most popular female hero, and Clinton, the first female presidential nominee of a major American political party, seemed like a natural fit for Valiant's editorial staff.

"Voting is important. Society picking a new leader is something to celebrate," Faith editor Tom Brennan told The Washington Post. "This is a historic candidacy with Clinton and we just thought, [this is] something comics [have] done many times before and with [Valiant] starting to come into our own as a company, we wanted to join that proud tradition."

The tradition Brennan refers to can be tracked back as far as President Richard Nixon, who appeared in a Captain America story, as did President George W. Bush years later. Most recently, President Barack Obama was seen on an Amazing Spider-Man cover.

The creative teams for Faith #5's three stories will include Jody Houser and Meghan Hetrick on the issue's main story, which continues Faith's ongoing story. Rafer Roberts will tell a backup story leading into the debut of Valiant's Harbinger Renegades. The Clinton story will feature art by Pere Perez and will be written by industry veteran Louise Simonson, whose career includes creating the villain Apocalypse at Marvel Comics and being one of the core writers of the "Death of Superman" story for DC Comics, in which she included both President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton at the Man of Steel's funeral.

"[Faith] is so positive and she's very much what I think a hero should be," Simonson said. "I wrote Superman for a while and — she's almost in her soul, she is like the female Superman. [Writer] Jody's work is wonderful on this book, but I was glad they would let me play just a little bit in this particular sandbox."

Faith #5 hits stands and digital devices on Nov. 2.