Comments on: 23 Below Zero in Chicago Today but at Least the Obama Spider-Man Comic Book Arrived

By: Chelle

Chelle — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:32:15 +0000

Yup, there’s some fine collectors items out there, linked to some of the best of stupid on ebay I found above. Makes the comic book seem like a much better choice for a piece of history! Maybe someday I’ll give it a read though I don’t think I want one for my kids to tear apart and scribble on, which they will undoubtedly find a way to do! I’ll have to see if I can find a PDF version online to check out.

We went up to 38 degrees yesterday for the first time after a week, just to come back to 8 degrees today…perfect to make all the snow melt into nice mini ice skating rinks everywhere!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:47:35 +0000

That’s great on the weather. i’m actually going to add a second weather image when it hit 30 below zero a few hours later, and it’s still dropping…

Anyway, great to hear from you Chelle. But that’s the double edged sword of the Obama thing; the strange commercial motives of people producing stuff about a president for people wanting to have some sort of collectors item for the once in a lifetime aspect of Black guy being elected. Money/history.

Now back to the comic book; did I mention that most of the issue was written by Mark Waid and drawn by Barry Kitson? 2 of my favorites.

By: Chelle

Chelle — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:15:15 +0000

It’s cold here also…we’re a balmy -20 degrees!

I am sick of all the propaganda too, it really makes you wonder what it says about our country when we commercially exploit our leaders just to make a buck or two.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:30:13 +0000

Yeah, but what did you think about the comic book?

By: susan

susan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:07:25 +0000

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