REVscene Automotive Forum - Superhero Obama

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Barack Obama's never had more foes - or less clothing - than in two comics about to hit the stands.

The real life US president faces his share of challenges, but none that compare to those troubling his muscle-bound alter ego in The Righteous Retribution of Barack the Barbarian.

Clad in a fur loincloth and armed with an axe, Obama is "destined to save the great republic of America and dethrone the overpaid despots", says Chicago-based publisher Devil's Due on its website.

Teaser pictures from the comic book, due out in June, show the president confronting a near-naked, blonde female assailant.

"All new! Death-duel with the Screeching Enchantress!" promises the blurb.

Another volume, titled Drafted: One Hundred Days, features a more sombre Obama -- one who didn't reach the White House.

He's a "man the world never got to see achieve his true greatness when a race from beyond the stars drafted our planet into intergalactic war", Devil's Due says.

And unlike the silver-tongued real president, this one "is mute".