Not long ago, Comicbook.com brought you the news that an African-American Superman would be appearing in Action Comics #9, coming in May from DC Comics. The character, an alternate-earth version of Superman appearing in the backup feature by sholly Fitch and Cully Hamner, has now been solicited as “President Superman,” and the cover image released in DC’s May solicitations is strikingly similar to the one at left, painted by Alex Ross back in 2008 for the Presidential campaign of Barack Obama.Alex Ross, the superstar comics painter behind Marvels and Kingdom Come, is well-documented as being politically left-of-center, having drawn painted at least two popular images extremely critical of former President George W. Bush and his policies. the idea of a Democratic Presidential candidate who also self-identified as a comic book made a natural target for a piece by Ross.The image, which was available as an officially-licensed t-shirt and has found its way onto the backs (or at least into the hands) of the likes of Samuel L. Jackson and President Obama himself. It was also used as the cover of a special edition of Wizard Magazine when Obama was elected, featuring the caption “A comic fan storms the White House.”
