Why is Spider-Man holding this issue of his own comic book with President Barack Obama on it? 
Everyone need a hero to look up to sometimes, and yes this also includes important new president's elects as well. Read on to find out how Marvel's number one super hero helped our first African American Prez boost his own ratings with the over all hoopla at the time of Barack Obama inauguration.... 
Weather you are one of many whom support the "Brand New Day" storyline that now after twenty years of Spider-Man being Married that's from 1987-2008 folks so I want you all to know in the "Brand New Day issues, Spider-Man is now single." All this "New direction" is totally wrong by Marvel in this fan's heart & soul for the character of Peter Parker. The editor in chief of the company a cretin "Mr. Queasda" thinks new readers can't & shouldn't see their hero inspired to do what he does because of what the character's motivation was through honor, respect, & most importantly through love the character was aging or at least he was because he was Married & we couldn't have that, could we?" Well you all know how I feel about the whole thing like I've said before in many other posts on the subject. This is about an issue of Amazing Spider-Man that came out when our country got it's first African American as President.The story about the new President is really short but it's about him meeting his own hero that he grew up reading. 
The president no matter what saw himself in a small way like Peter Parker the little guy who tires his best to represent all the hard working people of this great nation of ours. 
He may not always have the right answers to everything he tries to pass into law as much as when he was a senator from Chicago Illinois, but he does try to make it better than whatever it was before as to what methods/tools he is strongest with: Debating. The thing he and the democrats are working with most a year and a half into his presidency is what this whole country is overly wanting for all a health care plan that will benefit all Americans from the poorest to the richest. Most Americans me included would rather be seeing Mister Obama working to constructing more jobs for everyone, perhaps his first year and half would've been better spent working a joint bill of Job creation/Health reform. I won't go any further into how I condone politicizing for that is not the point of this blog, rather it is about a comic book story short as it is. The Amazing Spider-Man issue number five hundred and eighty three had this as it's original cover 
with this binging a hopeful collectible on Marvel's part because of the new Prez appearing with their biggest iconic character they had planed at least two different alternate collector covers here is the first variant 
in each corresponding reprint Spidey had a word balloon with a funny quip in some relevance to the new president. Let me remind all of you most comics are shipped out to retailers two months in advance of the coming month that is printed on the cover so this very cover was dated March,2009 even though it really came out in January 2009 it was for the month of January not March as printed on the cover. Originally up till now (February, 2010) I had thought the back story to issue five hundred eighty three was only three pages long come to find out it is really five pages long, (So all I'm saying from in my post of "What is the meaning of this Spider-Man tease?" that I'm capable of mistakes as much as anyone) . As we talk about this story which is by writer Zeb Welles and artist Todd Nauck who is now finishing art on the true way the "CLONE SAGA" of the nineties was suppose to be resolved in "CLONE SAGA" issue six of six, I will include most of this back story of this issue that I've found on the internet. Before that though here is the second reprint of Amazing #583, which is really the third printing out of all together six printings. 
One quick side note here, when Stan Lee the writer half of Spider-Man had envisioned the character as he wears the mask can/could be anyone underneath it NOT just a Caucasian, but Spidey could be an Asian, or even an African American it doesn't matter that his characterization is always fraught with troubles
. Spider-Man could be even you was the point that Stan was trying to make when he put on the mask. I myself think that as a boy that this was one of a "young Barack Obama's ways like it is for most children to aspire hope for everything he has done in his life and never letting other people just keep a person from achieving their hopes/dreams in his or her life. Marvel spared no expense in making sure everyone had a copy of this historic moment they had released a third print in February of two thousand and eight
here is how Mr. Barrack Obama met his comic hero on the day of his inauguration according to Marvel comics anyway. Peter Parker happens to be on assignment for the Daily Bulge in Washington D.C. on the day of the newest President elect is taking place 
which as you can see here like Peter sees are there "two" Mister Barrack Obamas, hey what the heck was going on here? Spidey as you can see here joins in the foray and congratulates Barrack on his own endeavors at get to where he is at this point in his life. When the second Obama shows off some hostility towards himself Spider-Man may know who this fake Obama is, even though the real President elect would like to help
his buddy the wall crawler in dealing with his phony self he relents and gives the web head fair go when it is revealed that the flexuous impostor is really the
Chameleon. Spider-Man's first major foe was this guy after catching his uncle Ben's killer as seen in Amazing Spider-Man # 1. So the new president elect gives Spidey the go ahead to 
, after knocking the stuffing out of the Chameleon and he is carted off to prison Spidey hangs around to make sure nothing else will go amiss for the Obama as he is sworn in as our forty fourth president. 
When Marvel saw the impact of this new president's inauguration and how much the ordinarily people wanted to wittiness it, but couldn't they put out a fifth copy of this collector's item with a fourth variant reprint logo in the right hand corner of the book. 
Now to shift gears a little bit early on when I was deciding how I was going put this whole blog together about a commander in chief who liked comics growing up and liking Spider-Man most all out of most of them. I had wanted to just focus on the special Spidey issue he was in at least at first I did. I got to thinking about who would support this new President during the time he campaigned against his running mate. It hit me like a ton of bricks while searching the internet back then and came across the thirty ninth San Diego comic con where one of the booths there had this
upcoming presidential elections in a comic book project by a unknown publisher as I know/knew. Also when I found this image of the artist who'd 
done the above promotion art I finally learned that most comic creators are Democratic in how they vote. His name is Joe Scott Campbell and he mostly does comic covers art, he's done a few Spider-Man ones as well. In fact before placing his vote Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen made his voting known by having Barrack Obama appear in Savage Dragon issue number one hundred and thirty seven here is a page from that very issue 
Obama in fact while on the campaign was seen in front of another S related superhero. Where he explained in his own words why he could better relate to the Web Slinger (Spidey) or The Dark Knight (Batman) because of their more human qualities than the comic character behind him. 
In fact before Marvel started promoting issue five hundred and eighty three a prominent newspaper I believe it was in a Los Angeles or a New York paper this tease for the issue came out
. I did happen to say that there were six covers to the Obama President issue of that issue of Amazing Spider-Man before I show you the last one which came out in February (2009) saw two prints of this the one above with the American flag and Spidey saying he'd like to go inside. The sixth reprint of Amazing Spider-Man five hundred and eighty three was very different in how it came out the first five prints came about celebrating our first ever African American President but this one came out to celebrating the one American president whom gave ALL African Americans a chance at FREEDOM from slavery Abraham Lincoln. If Lincoln were alive when this was released he'd be the oldest living human being at the age of two hundred years old in the year two thousand nine, so hence the reasoning of why the Lincoln memorable as the back ground on the cover.
Marvel had a cover prepared for if John McCain won for the Republican party, boy I wonder if their would have been a back up story featuring the new President if McCain did win, most likely NOT. I'm supposing there would have been a back up story none the less but what would it have been we will never know. I did happen to find this McCain comic cover I'm talking about in my internet searches on the issue itself by accident 
, although to me for some reason the guy pictured isn't John McCain but the late Republican President Richard Nixon. Your all probability curios as to why this blog is in violet purple huh?, well I was thinking of all my nieces who love that very color is why I choose it. I know there is a lot of tension right now with how a lot of people see the direction of our government for the time being and this is the one thing I know I can say without taking heat for it being said. "We have been through our shares of hard times and at certain times so has our governing system as well, but what matters most is that we all stand for our each and own believe system in our hearts that will put everything right one day, because we are not all Rich or are we all Poor. We are all part of that governing system that we know is broken and picking sides to point a finger at just goes to show we need to respect ourselves more for hopefully we can reach that day where status in the ways of "WANTS" and NEEDS"or better yet "Wealth" vs "Poverty" is the last thing to really matter to us, or at least we can always hope for that!" I hope that whatever problems President Obama faces on a daily basis he can swing over them like his comic book hero: Spider-Man
"CLONE OF ME,"Chapter IV
by Matt B.
While enjoying a "Thank you" type of dinner from his mentor & friend George Mc Rain at the Ranch House with his new friend Sasha Evermore present as well Jonathan Ryder received a call from his mom. The call was concerning his father Max Carter the fourth, & weather or not he was alive at all, or was he killed moments ago in one of two places in Manhattan, New York. With sweat on his brow Jon wasn't wanting to chat about his father, Sasha mouthed "what is it?" as she could now see his hand shake.
"What are you sure?"
Jon's own eyes as Sasha & George looked at him could see them start to water with tears. Samantha Ryder had truly only seen a few minutes of the National news on channel nine, while talking to Sasha's mother Rebbecca she would be the first & last person to admit that because she was frantic of hearing of where in Manhattan that she wasn't thinking straight, she went on her feelings at that said moment: fear.
Sasha handed Jon a napkin as she could see his nose dribbling snot, she once again mouthed to him "Here you go" he smile at her slightly realizing himself his need of the napkin.
"Okay Sam tell me of what you know of this, and it's alright to compose yourself as you tell me
so if your still crying as you tell me it's alright too"
Samantha was doing her best as to keep herself composed while she was trying to recall everything she'd heard from the tube.
"All that I really know is that I was chatting with your new lady friend's mother & making a apple pie for you, because I know of course it's your favorite type of dessert & while I was starting to making the pie's crust..." she started to get the need of needing to wipe her own eyes & nose before continuing on. "Excuse me a minute dear I need to clear my eyes as I think of how the news caster said it", Jon exhaled just a little as he waited for Sam to return to the phone.
Their waitress had appeared with a huge oblong tray with their steak meals, the restaurant's dress code was a white dress with the employee name plate at the top right for the waitresses, for the male servers they wore leather vests over a checkered black & red denim shirts, denim black jeans with a black cowboy hat with their name plate as well on the right. A male server was helping the waitress by setting up a wooded four leg tray for her to set the oblong one down onto.
"I seem to remember hearing the "Forever Movement" that was the terrorist group's name I
believe the newscaster called them, were placing c4 explosives at Madison Ave & east 59th,
where of course you know is where Interlude Energy Enterprises was loca..."
Jon interrupted Sam and asked, "Sam do you know if the Forever Movement had the explosives on the building structure of Interlude Energy Enterprises or in the street of 59th somewhere like on a mail box near there or on a passing vehicle somewhere nearby?"
"I'm not sure they didn't go that far into detail for right now, I'm sure it will be in the late news
later tonight though."
"You said that you were making an apple pie for me, & talking to Sasha's mom while you saw
this right, was there anything more that they said on the tube at all?"
"They had said that Carnegie Hall is nothing more but a smoldering mess now too as well."
" When was the last time you & Max talked last Sam?"
"Last Friday at noon he said he had to go because he was getting ready for a seminar at.."
"Don't tell me Carnegie Hall please don't say that was where the seminar was held.
There was a moment of slience once again from Sam's side the phone, Jon figured that by her not saying anything at all he knew he was right about Max Carter being at Carneige Hall.
"Yes he was there, & I feel so bad for you Jon because now that he's gone you'll never be able to tell or show him how far you, yourself have come in you knowledge of being a scientist in your own field of study."
"Yeah I know Sam I feel like a heel in that way myself for not sharing my work with Max since
he was my father..."
Sasha was really getting irked by Jon's disrespect of talking to his mother by using her first name she wanted to know why he showed this while talking to her. So to get Jon's attention she just stopped eating her dinner.
Jon noticed her while continuing his conversation with Sam on the cellphone, so he pulled the cellphone from his ear & held both hands palms out.
"What's with you Sasha?"
"You and your disrespect to your parents, Why don't you just call them mother & father like
I do with mine or how George here does?"
"I have my reasons why I do that right, Sam?" Sam could hear her son voice even though he
didn't have the phone near his ear now.
"Listen Sam can we come there & talk to you in person at home & can I bring along a friend
besides Sasha
George was waving his hands in a swaying way as if what he had to tell Jon what he had to
say could be at another time.
"Sure I don't see why not, how long will you be before coming over?"
"A half hour at most, why?'
"Great that will be just about time when the pie will be ready"
Jon was looking at both George & Sasha "Well you both heard my mom no dessert from
here then Ok with you guys I hope?"
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Cars were overturned all up & down Madison Ave and East 59th street, flames were spreading everywhere. People were screaming at what they saw when they looked across the street the explosion of the C4 bombs from under the street had blown a taxi cab onto a gasoline tanker, both were lodged at the base of Interlude Energy Enterprises, as the fireball shot up into the air from both vehicles it appeared that one floor was safely intact but only that floor. Both occupants of those two vehicles were killed by the impact from slamming into a solid structure, nothing could have saved them no one who was an onlooker could do anything at all but pray & be thankful that it wasn't them that had just lost their own life. The flames of the raging fire had blown out many of Interlude Energy's windows per floor as it was being fought by Manhattan's fire fighters, because of another fire not to far away but still within Manhattan's district the fire chief had to call on fire fighters from other boroughs of NYC. Suddenly the fire on the top of the building had heated the iron girders that held the signage of Interlude Energy Enterprises that the heat had caused the huge letters to loosen and start to fall towards street level.
"Look out" the fire chief said as he was directing a ladder from squad Engine 51 to the one part of the building that wasn't seemly burning. As to why this floor was safe from the heat of the fire was unknown to general populace of New Yorkers on the streets & specifically those fighting the raging inferno itself. While the ladder from 51 was being raised ever closer to that floor a fireman was hanging tightly on the ladder as a huge lower case e's smoking flames caught his coat on fire he hadn't a chance to do anything as his Oxygen tank exploded he feel onto the area of the engine of where the ladder he was on was an was paralyzed. The fire chief knew he had to think of something else to get to that floor but what the hell would it be he's brain was on overload of fear.
As more EMT ambulances, and finally city maintenance crews arrived to help the cops police to make sure no looting or loitering was occurring while fire fighters were busy trying to contain the flaming streets & the ruins of what was left of Interlude Energy Enterprises, no one saw the black stealth plane overhead.
The leader of the Forever Movement was pissed as hell at his employer he was aboard the stealth plane now passing a disrupted business section of Manhattan while on the phone to him.
"What Goddamn hell was the need to kill my men down there for Mr. Raven?"
"To show you McKnight, I mean business when I want something done I mean it at all cost,
where are you know by the way?"
"Just now passing a "certain Enterprises"in flames, continuing southward towards the south street seaport near the east river"
A groggy man that was just now waking up from having a tranquilizer shot in his right shoulder just moments ago was having his vision clear as he looked out of the tinted window of the stealth plane and saw below him his family company in ruins. He was thinking he had saved the world by not letting the terrorist group known as the "Forever Movement" know of the new satellite technology that they had developed to help control weather easier for agriculture uses, then all of a sudden he remembered what he was to be doing today giving a lecture about the system to new collage science engineers at Carnegie Hall then everything was a blur after willingly boarding this stealth plane.
"um where am I?"
McKnight whilst still on the phone to Mr. Raven saw him arose from his dreamland sleep, only to tranq him again. " What's going on McKnight is there a problem on the plane there?"
"No Mr. Raven it's nothing at all, just that Mr Carter woke before we reached our destination
was all"
"You have appropriately taken care of the matter as I've wanted & requested then?, he has no
idea where he's going, Yes."
"Yes" McKnight said all he could hear from his cell phone was laughter.
The smoking filled clouds gave way that something was high in the air, but what was nobody working on Madison & east 59th street knew what it was till they heard the sonic boom.
Hey There all,As you all know who know me know that I'm a very BIG COMIC buff, I've shared in another series of blogs who my fav is you wouldn't know it with the photos I've posted related to this one who that might be, huh? Well I had officially stop collecting comics in June of 2,000 I really didn't want to because I knew that the writing was starting to take all comics into a better form of characterization & also finally the comic genre itself had started producing quality motion pictures just a year or two earlier, But the real reason I stopped collecting was because of COST alone. Let me tell you when I started collecting back in the late eighties it went from seventy five cents to a dollar which was fine, the industry had the Artists supporting them into mid nineties. And in that time frame closer to the early nineties a new comic company came about named IMAGE as well. The stories back in the eighties and nineties also had a stable of general continuity within each main comic book that flowed well into the next arc of any given character even when a crossover came about stuff got shaken up a bit, but still paid off to most everyone's liking. Two years ago in my main comic book that I have loved since forever simply known, as the Amazing Spider-Man really decided to SHAKE UP EVERY BIT OF SPIDER History with a storyline called
this story REALLY HAS SPARKED flames of disgust among Spider-fans the world over. Why your asking right?, it's how the story was executed from the start that was fine I mean Aunt May yet may be dying for the umpteenth time, and Marvel wanted to get Spider-Man back to basics, and THEY DID IT WAS/IS SO marriageable WRONG! AT the end of OMD to set things right Peter Parker did the unthinkable he made a deal with the Devil to save his aunt by agreeing to ,
well I will let the panels speak for themselves, (I will get back to these in a moment). Before this was a story line called "BACK IN BLACK" here is a rare transnational piece of comic art
I wish I could have, but alas since the story is so wide known as the most controversial Spider-Man story in the past decade "One More Day" that is that cover shown above has sold out at comic retailers even online sites don't have access to it now either. Back to a real quick sum up of "One More Day" Aunt May suffers a gunshot wound from at the end of "Back in Black" storyline meant for Peter her nephew who is Spidey and is on the run from the law with his wife Mary Jane as well has tried to find any kind of help to save May's life. As shown in those panels above both he and Mary Jane give their love or Marriage to the devil, before they agree they see their future child known as "Baby May" (which is who the on/off Spider-Girl: series is based on) is "non cannon now" because editor in chief Joe Queasda wants the Spider-Man character to relate more to younger children than all spider-fans combined. He wants to have the character of Peter Parker act stupid and never grow up and be looking at adult related material and type of jokes while living with Aunt May (This right here alone, was the reason I gave up on the character when I read the reviews of his directions after hearing of where "One More Day" was headed. I in fact have all but part 2 of the story and I still will/would refuse to read it at all because I think this is poor treatment of any comic character. Maybe someday I will tell my own version of how Peter and Mary Jane get back together and still have fun while they find out where Baby May is for in regular continuity Peter and Mary Jane believe that their daughter is dead at birth, but is she really?) So now after a year of telling you of why I like and loved the character of Spider-Man you all know why I can't stand to look at another Spider-Man comic story till one of two things ever should happen but I know that they won't at least for a very long time anyway and they are this: #1, Hopefully the originator of Marvel Comics main heroes yes including SPIDER-MAN himself, none other than comic genius Stan Lee who for now seems to be following a single Peter Parker in the newspaper daily strip as well for the moment
,but even pretending that the marriage wasn't real was hard enough as you can see here as Stan puts Parker and the fans through what can only be a "Time Slip" or perhaps a "It a dreaming nightmare that Peter is having?", I don't know yet. Tells Queasda that he is fired NOT only as a comic editor, but also as entertainer in everything or anything relating to comics, hopefully one day Stan will be pleasing the fans with the marriage yet again the the newspaper strip soon. And #2 would be if Marvel sales plummet in all other characters that they own wouldn't that be grounds for TERMINATION on the spot alone, but will that happen as well only time will tell for sure? Now what Pray Tell brought me back to liking comics again was a tale that brought all hell loose on every Marvel Hero not just Peter Parker's alter ego: It is known as Simply "CIVIL WAR"
as to what it is completely about all I can say is I am VERY EAGER TO FIND OUT and when I do you know I will let you in on the aftermath some given day, but for now I can tell you this it is my reintroduction into all things MARVEL.
"CLONE OF ME," Chapter III
by Matt B.
The four groups of mercenaries were spread out all over throughout Kings county in New York, one group was under the streets planting C4 along the dry parts of the sewer system along Madison Ave & east 59th which was the location of where Interlude Energy Enterprises stood. Two more groups were at the south street sea port on water street waiting for the next freighter from Interlude Energy to dock they had already taken out the port's watchman & dock freighter checker, they had them tied up for now in a unmarked building not far from the port itself. The last group was on West 57 & 7th Ave hiding in the rafters of Carnegie Hall, only one of the four there was on the auditorium floor wanting for the "National Weather & Inventions of your lifetime" seminar to begin. He was the leader of the "Forever Movement" a group of mercenaries that was invading the seminar from the other side of the country his name Ben McKnight he wanted the speaker of the event, in his brief case he had a laser pistol. The speaker approached the podium, ready to speak about Interlude Energy's newest satellite technology that he was hoping would improve incoming weather data for tracking incoming weather conditions, he'd also hoped to see a certain someone in the crowd of all these young people, but that person wasn't here.
The speaker gripped the podium as his thoughts of that person were pushed aside while he
spoke.
"Welcome future inventors of tomorrow my name's Mr. Carter the fourth, I run Interlude
Energy Enterprises here in Manhattan & I'd like take this time to talk about our company's latest satellite
programs in greater detail."
As Ben continued listening as Mr. Carter's ramble on with meaningless dribble as far as he was concerned he remembered from a couple days ago being in Los Angeles listening to another man rant on about hearing about a Interlude Energy Enterprises seminar in Manhattan New York from the conversation with the man known as Mr Raven, Ben gathered he wanted something done with Interlude Energy Enterprises to mess up their plans for a short while at least.
"Ah Mr McKnight I presume right?"
" Ben sir leader of the Forever Movement right" he said as the man poured him a glass of red
whiskey in a pint shot glass along with some for himself.
"No first names McKnight are we understood, I have a special assignment for you & the
Movement it's in Manhattan do you have a fucking problem with that?"
" None what so ever Mr Raven but I'd like to remind you we play for keeps"
" So do I McKnight, so do I"
"If you will all open your brief cases & pull out your general satellite data from NASA
we will beg..."
Ben did as he was told by Mr Carter as everyone else did as well, reaching into his brief
case he pulled out the only thing in his the laser pistol. With the laser pistol pointed at
him Carter froze. Carnegie Hall's security guards were already taken care of by Ben's
buddies in the Forever Movement just minutes ago with canisters of nerve gas.
"Nobody fucking move, especially you Mr Carter"
Ben fired the pistol into the air as if his intentions weren't unclear, as he approached the podium & Mr Carter.
All of the young people attending this seminar had gotten up from their seats to try help Mr Carter in his moment of startling shock of fear of such a important disruption during his announcement for the NASA & Interlude Energy Enterprises greatest venture in over the last decade. Ben waved his laser pistol as if to fire it at all them, but instead it was a signal to his other two team mates to let themselves be known, everyone heard what sounded like M-16's being cocked.
"All right now Mr Carter I want two things from you or those M-16's you just heard will open
up blasting Carnegie Hall's last event for years to come..."
"What could you possibly gain by blowing up such a landmark Mister?" Carter asked the
mercenary while still holding up his arms over his head.
"Never you mind who I am Mr Carter is it kali blewhee for this landmark or will you agree to
hear out the Forever Movement."
"I know that whatever happens here I'll loose that bet in the end, so why don't you give me
your bargaining chip whatever it is & I promise to play your game Mister?"
"I'm so glad to see that your a team leader & player when your life along with so many others are at stake Mr Carter, now as to what those "two things" the Forever Movement with you are the formula for the TRI-Lex format..."
Carter knew he had to be very careful here because he didn't want the truth known that in fact he'd never heard of such a formula known as what this mercenary said. He had known of something called Dire Lore Xnoir -12 from a person on the Internet known as sci_fanboy who had seen on the Internet a job offer from InterEnterprise@busniess/comp.com, he didn't know who sci_fanboy was, but he was sure he wouldn't mind sharing what Carter had hope would save his life & of course these innocent collage students. "Alright I'll tell you something about any formula you want damn it, but I need to be assured by you sir that they won't be harmed at all." Carter pointed out to all of the attends that had just tried to help him, "Now what is the second thing you'd like from me?" Ben shook his head as if to agree with Carter for the moment about no harm coming to the collage students, Carter knew something was wrong for sure. "Look along the walls here Mr Carter don't you see that we the Forever Movement are going to help these poor collage punks out of here but in our own way of course.." Carter's eyes started to tear up as he saw the C4 bombs along the walls of Carnegie Hall, "As for the second thing I want from you Mr Carter is for you to climb up the ladder above your head", from where McKnight had shot a hole in the ceiling of Carnegie Hall just moments ago a shadow now loomed, it was a black stealth plane with a white raven on it's bottom wings span. Carter climbed the ladder followed by Mcknight, once the stealth plane was on the move away from Carnegie Hall it blew up, at the same time this had occurred the C4 on Madison Ave & 59th blew as well both men knew that the shit had just hit the fan Carter's vision started to get fuzzy. "Take us to the freighter Goddamn it" McKnight told the pilot.
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"And now in the National news Today in Manhattan, New York a terrorist group known as the Forever Movement has made the city into a cherry apple inferno by planting C4 explosives at Madison Ave & east 59th where the famed Interlude Energy Enterprises once stood & along with the destruction of Carnegie Hall as well as to the reason why is still unconfirmed. More on this story as it comes about, I'm Kell... Samantha Ryder just turned off the news on her Television set when she'd heard of Interlude Energy Enterprises brought up, She was just talking on the phone with her son's new friend Sasha Evermore's mother Rebbecca of how much she likes Sasha herself while making Jon's favorite dessert apple pie, for when he next comes to dinner with Sasha.
Her thoughts of while prepping the crust of the pie, were of Jon's father who runs Interlude Energy Enterprises.
"Oh Max you darling fool of a business man I just hope that you were not at work today, or if you were.." She suddenly recalled when she talked last to him on Friday he was to have a seminar at Carnegie Hall,
"Hey Rebbecca listen I have to let you go dear do you mind if I call you later" "Sure Sweetie is there anything I can do to help, if I can please let me know Ok?"
"There is something that's happened in New York with Jon's father that I 'd like you to know he was killed today and I'd like for you not to tell your daughter of this & let Jon himself share it with her, please Rebbecca?"
"Sure I agree with you whole heartily Sam, And I'm so very sorry for yours & Jon's loss"
As Samantha hung up her phone with Mrs Evermore's mother & started to dial her son's Cellphone she started to cry.
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At the Ranch House restaurant in Los Angeles Jon Ryder & Sasha Evermore were sharing a complimentary dinner with their science teacher George Mc Rain because he had truly wanted to tell Jon how very much he was impressed with his "About my theory subject" from earlier today.
"Hey Jon I wanted to let you know Your "About my theory" was & is very neat, also besides that your ideas are great of how your methods of use would be practical in what cloning practices can be useful to all people of human kind & this dinner is the best way I can think of in saying thank you Jonathan Ryder."
" Why thank you George, but is this dinner really a way to say "thank you" as you wish & want or is there something your wanting from my idea, because as Sasha here was saying you know any type of use of cloning is Illegal no matter what?"
Sasha who was sitting next to Jon at their table nearly choked on her red wine as she slapped his hand for the very remark he had just made.
"Hey" she said clearing her throat as she slapped his hand, "Don't be rude or look a gift horse in
the mout.."
At that very moment Jon's cellphone was varbriting in his shirt pocket, he put up his pointer finger to indicate that he needed a moment to answer this call whoever it was from?
"Hello" he said, he could tell whoever it was on the other end of the line had been crying.
"Jon honey, it's your mom dear can I speak with you please?"
"Sure you can Samantha what's up?"
Sasha hadn't yet gotten to talk to Jon about his relationship with his folks yet it was still just a week of themselves knowing each other at that. She just remembered meeting Samantha when they went out for the first time when she brought Jon home.
"It's about your father Jon now listen careful to...." Jon cut her off, "No Sam you & Max hurt me real bad so I don't care what's happens to him!" as he pulled his phone from his ear he heard her say he was killed today. He put the phone back to his ear. "What are you sure?"
"Clone of Me," Chapter II
by Matt B.
Science classes at Cal Tech University were in the Mathematics & Science division of building 1124, Krystal knew she was late for just fifteen minutes ago she was outside on the track with Sasha & while talking to her opportunistic father on a company phone of Raven Enterprises about finding help with a personal project of his own. Now as she was heading through the hallway to where the class was in room 342 that had a simple black plaque with writing & numerals in roman text under 342 on a wooden door that had a four by twelve window that could see into the classroom from the hallway. She was sweating just a little.
She had just about reached the door, when a guy that had blond hair & a crazy shirt on that was Navy blue with a slogan around a light bulb on it. The slogan read "Clone science, it's right for me, but is it right for you?" in sky blue colors, she had suspected the shirt was homemade. Had surprised the heck out of her, his hand had covered hers as she was grabbing the door handle.
"Ah Shit" it took her a moment to realize who it was her favorite nerd."Hey Nerd I'd better
let you go first okay?" Krystal said.
"No way my dear lady you got here first, so let me open the door for you & we'll go in together,
if your okay with that?"
Krystal didn't know what to say expect "Okay?, Well Thank You"
Today since they were still studying medical science of the human body the class room had six elongated tables with the front center one clear of anything on it. The other five tables have on them plastic chest cavities that have a plastic human heart that are disassembled for the four groups of five students to reassemble the inner working of the human heart, & when all four groups are done they are to put their plastic chest on the front center table.
"Well I'm glad to see you two know where your suppose to be now Mrs Raven & Mr. Ryder!,
Please take your seat Mrs Raven, Jon you may ask your "About your theory" statement" George Mc
Rain said as he went to sit in his chair at his desk, Krystal sat beside Sasha. "About your theory" was George's question of the month, & now it was Jon's turn.
Jon had hoped he wouldn't flub this up. He'd been practicing all last week in his sleep & before hand while brushing his teeth in the mirror before coming to class.
"Okay well here goes nothing", he took a deep breathe. "Who here recalls "Dolly" from when last the Democrats were in office before now?" Jon was such an expressive type of person that he uses his hands while explaining almost anything while talking, today was no different his hands were right now like a certain red & blue character that swings from web lines from comics. His hands were flexed with his two center fingers in his palms while his first, pinkie & thumb are out stretched in a v shape. Someone raised their hand "Do you mean "Hello Dolly maybe?" The whole class broke out in laughter. Jon didn't recall who the new student was, but pointed a finger right at him, "Let's not be smart asses ok?, so I will ask again Does anybody here remember "Dolly?" still no one answered his question.
" Hey group isn't oblivious I could be wearing the very answer to my own "About your own theory" question here". Jon was pointing at his own shirt.
"Okay class" Mc Rain scooted his chair from his desk to start everyone answering Jon Ryder's inquiry. Now standing beside Jon he said "If no one can recite that they are blind in ten seconds the whole class will be flunked for the rest of the whole sermeter, Ok class you choose!"
"Thank You George" Jon said as he held out his hands palms up out towards everyone. Sasha actaully answered the question even though it really unnevred her as she said it.
"Cloning theatrics, which are Illegal to begin with"
"Actually what Sasha's saying about cloning theatrics or as it's known cloning technology is Illegal but my whole "About your theory" is based on "IF" which I think Mr. Mc Rain's discussions are "IF related anyway", for the most part great. So here's mine, what if cloning technologies are used for medical purposes such as curing cancers & not for mad men to threaten us with possibilities of slave hood as in most science fiction stories, again thanks for your time. Before going to his own table he gave Sasha a thumbs ups, even though he was hoping someone like the idiot from earlier would have tried to answer, since she knew him so well.
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As class proceeded on, Jon was thinking of how really lucky he finally was in his life last week at the end of track practice. He saw her tuscan red hair blowing in the wind. He'd always before been troubled by asking a young lady out for fear of having her say "NO!" but this time his fear was a part of him like a feather in the wind, it was gone as he approached her.
"Hey I wanna ask you something?" she turned around smiling back at him, thinking "What
could he want to ask me after all this time?, that he wants to quit track?"
" My name's Jonthan Ryder & I'd like to ask you out, if you don't mind, but I don't know who
you are anyway?'
"My name's Sasha Evermore is what your looking for Mr Ryder, what did you have in mind if
I may inquire please?"
" I was thinking maybe pizza if you'd like or coffee?"
"Pizza or coffee huh?, Well why not. Let's go change outta these suits we have on &
meet at the gym itself ok with you?"
"Sure that's good enough for me as well too, say fifteen to twenty minutes then?"
" Twenty to get showers & to be safe"
They went to a Pizza parlor named Geppetto'z they had a great time playing a game of pool before eating Pizza instead of coffee they had pitcher Geppetto'z Ale. They shared their "greatest first real dates" with each other. Sasha's version was being wined & dined at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris France. She was wearing a Cal Tech track team jacket with a shirt that was as red as her hair that at the collar to shoulders was black with denim jeans. Jon had on denim jeans & a denim coat with a white undershirt with the American flag on it, his "greatest first real date" would be that of being at a comic book convention in any big city in the world but especially Manhattan in New York. Still he had no known reason for going there? He just knew a possible part of him was there.
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Later that very night in his own home George was preparing a dinner for himself and his only daughter Kendra. He was making her favorite dish manicotti and Garlic cheese bread in his spacious kitchen. After pulling out both the manicotti and the Garlic cheese bread from the oven to start cooling them off, he heard his doorbell chime. He went to go answer the door. On the other side of the door was a young woman with sandy blond hair, she had on a white T shirt with a purple rainbow with a pink sun behind it. Around the image was a slogan "How is your day Sunbeam?, Bright I hope!" The colors of the letters were orangery yellow like a rising sun. She also had on a pair of denim white jeans.
As George looked through the peep hole he saw that both of her arms were behind her back. Had he forgotten that she was going to be bringing something with her?, He was so excited he must have altogether let it slip his mind.
"Hey Daddy I brought over dessert your favorite to a strawberry topped Key lime pie"
George had unhinged the deadbolt to his front door to let her in.
"You know I said you didn't have to bring anything over that I would be putting dinner together
tonight sweetheart?, Don't you remember from when we talked last I said "Any home cooked
meal is for you, when we get together?"
"Yeah I know, but I did wanted to do this time, since it has been a long time for we haven't had
"A Mc Rain family get together in quite sometime" besides how often do I get to spoil you?,
instead of the other way around?"
"Nothing wrong with that, because you are so right it has been a long time for our family time. Please won't you come in and put the pie in fridge. Take a seat at the dinning room table the manicotti and Garlic bread is just cooling off now."
As Kendra was putting her father's special pie into the fridge a thought had occurred to her, had her father like last time forgotten she better ask to be sure. George was now slicing up the manicotti for them to have with the Garlic bread he was ready when his daughter asked her inquiring question.
"Did you remember the cheese on the bread this time?"
George looked at her fully wide eyed as he answer her.
"Who me forget? shame on me, this time I did remember. I know that I forgot last time and yes
it was my fault."
George felt his cellphone vibrate as his daughter gave him a peck on his cheek, as he handed her the plates to serve up the gooey dish that he had just sliced into pieces to go with the Garlic cheese bread.
"Who is that dad?"
"I'm not sure honey but I promise I will be only a minute alright!"
Kendra took a bite of her slice of manicotti as she set her father's plate on the dinning room table. She just was wondering whom her father was talking to?
"Clone of Me,"
by Matt B
Chapter I
Sunset was just beginning over Los Angeles California, the colors in the coming night sky were a vibrant pink & purple with a light reflection of orange red to yellow red as the sun was sitting on the hazy clouds. The glare of the sunset was reflecting off the glass window walls of Raven Enterprises penthouse & as Bruce Raven looked out the window walls he wasn't thinking of the beauty of the nice colors of the sun setting at all this Friday night.
Back in the 1950's his grandfather Mark "Ryan" Raven had started Raven Enterprises in Austin Texas. Simply put Mark had the company set up to help people in need of those type like hopelessness,homelessness, food for the belly & many others. Bruce's need it self was very hidden while growing up, in fact Bruce literally had such misgivings of how his Grandfather "Ryan" ran Raven Enterprises. In 1982 Raven Enterprises was moved to California in the heart of LA, under Bruce's father Jim Raven. Some way in the part of the transition he had under minded Mark's contracts to energy rather than continuity helping poor people of any way possible. Mark had tried to fight the changes his son Jim had put into effect in a court of law, since Jim was now the CEO the state saw that the change was more in company value than just net worth alone of past leadership control. It was to much for the old man he died in 1990 a sad & broken soul.
Jim had wanted to start with weapon invoices & contracts for the company's main new direction for it's future, But instead he had gotten several invoice lists of weather machine overriding codes. He put them in his personal safe in his home. What was wired about all the invoices was they all had a water smear of who was sending them on just the first letter. So they read ax carter interlude energy enterprises, Jim was always left guessing was it a real outfit or not. Young Bruce who had a slight crush on a girl named Samantha Ryder was also very interested in that too for "IF" his future held to being one day himself being CEO Raven Enterprises he wanted to know all the players up front.
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In the penthouse of Raven Enterprises as Bruce Raven sits in his leather chair he sips from his flute that held a very small amount Chateau St Michelle's Merlot, while on his cell phone. The Merlot was bitter sweet tasting on his tongue, his mood didn't help from who he was talking to on the other end of the line.
"Mc Rain what are you saying to me that you won't give me that list?"
George Mc Rain was a science Professor at Cal Tech, he was standing over his school owned PC screen looking down at his list of students he wished that this very conversation wasn't happening. The computer showed a picture of each pupil with a colored line with the pupil's GPA at the end. The colored lines represented who was going to help Mc Rain in the next subject the class was studying, this was his idea of how also he could see that said "student's" interaction on real problems as well. Still he knew being in Raven Enterprises paid pocket was his only hope for his family's well being, but he wished to Hell it wasn't.
"George you know we here at Raven Enterprises need your help to find another type of
TRI-Lex format to make the Carbo Ice. So I shall ask again who have you got on your list?"
George knew all of his students would never take part in helping a mad man like Mr. Bruce Raven willingly. He had a folder in the top drawer his desk that had every students infromation of what he was seeing on the computer monitor, so he hit the Delete button, since he knew he was right for now. With the slience on his cell phone, Bruce Raven did the only thing he could blood ran over his fingers for the glass of liquor was smashed out of pride if nothing else.
"No we don't have a single student here at Cal Tech, I'm so sorry Mr. Raven"
"So am I Mr Mc Rain"
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Sleeping over the rest of the weekend was rough for Bruce, he knew he could only start his plan of getting a Cal Tech student to rework the TRI-Lex process to Carbo Ice on Monday, it would only be that he could get in touch with her then. If he could only recall when she had a moment of free time. On Monday at midday Bruce knew he had one more ace in the hole, Maybe Krystal could find the hope in the failed TRI-Lex project. He had speck of hope as he made the call on his cell phone.
Out at Cal Tech's track the team was practicing for their next meet. Krystal Raven was running with her race team during warm up against their rivals from UCLA. She felt her leg vibrate as she stop to get some water at the center of the field, she reached into her sweat pants pocket to pull out a designer company cell phone the phone had a emblem of a "white" Raven against a black background.
"Hello Ms Raven"
It was her father on the other end of the line, he'd always addressed her as a non entity this way regardless of if he called her for business or pleasantly type of talk. She could tell this was the latter by his smooth voice.
"What do you want?"
"Daddy needs his little Raven to do her BEST work"
Krystal knew what her father meant by "BEST" work" & was sure without a doubt he wanted her to do this for her own future in the company not to mention for him as well, she just wondered who he was pressuring & what for at least a little anyway.
" OK who's needing my pressure or rather Raven's pressure enforced?"
"A Mr. Mc Rain my dear"
"That old science fart here at Cal Tech?"
"Yes that'd be the one", Bruce says as he approaches his oak cabinet to find a bottle his best
kind of wine "Damn"
"What is it Mr. Raven?"Krystal ask now hearing him on the other end of the phone Bruce
tells her to use her own discretion in the said matter.
Someone had come up behind Krystal & reached out for her shoulder from behind. It was
fellow student & assistance track team coach Sasha Evermore.
"Miss Raven is it?"
"yes, oh my God gotta go.." she'd not realized her father had already hung up.
"Sasha what's up?" Krystal asked, as Sasha grabbed her hand that held the cell phone
& closed it for her. "Class's dismissed" Evermore started to head off to the showers.
She had expected Krystal to follow her since they both had the same class next
Science.
"Thanks"
The president no matter what saw himself in a small way like Peter Parker the little guy who tires his best to represent all the hard working people of this great nation of ours. 
He may not always have the right answers to everything he tries to pass into law as much as when he was a senator from Chicago Illinois, but he does try to make it better than whatever it was before as to what methods/tools he is strongest with: Debating. The thing he and the democrats are working with most a year and a half into his presidency is what this whole country is overly wanting for all a health care plan that will benefit all Americans from the poorest to the richest. Most Americans me included would rather be seeing Mister Obama working to constructing more jobs for everyone, perhaps his first year and half would've been better spent working a joint bill of Job creation/Health reform. I won't go any further into how I condone politicizing for that is not the point of this blog, rather it is about a comic book story short as it is. The Amazing Spider-Man issue number five hundred and eighty three had this as it's original cover 
with this binging a hopeful collectible on Marvel's part because of the new Prez appearing with their biggest iconic character they had planed at least two different alternate collector covers here is the first variant 
in each corresponding reprint Spidey had a word balloon with a funny quip in some relevance to the new president. Let me remind all of you most comics are shipped out to retailers two months in advance of the coming month that is printed on the cover so this very cover was dated March,2009 even though it really came out in January 2009 it was for the month of January not March as printed on the cover. Originally up till now (February, 2010) I had thought the back story to issue five hundred eighty three was only three pages long come to find out it is really five pages long, (So all I'm saying from in my post of "What is the meaning of this Spider-Man tease?" that I'm capable of mistakes as much as anyone) . As we talk about this story which is by writer Zeb Welles and artist Todd Nauck who is now finishing art on the true way the "CLONE SAGA" of the nineties was suppose to be resolved in "CLONE SAGA" issue six of six, I will include most of this back story of this issue that I've found on the internet. Before that though here is the second reprint of Amazing #583, which is really the third printing out of all together six printings. 
One quick side note here, when Stan Lee the writer half of Spider-Man had envisioned the character as he wears the mask can/could be anyone underneath it NOT just a Caucasian, but Spidey could be an Asian, or even an African American it doesn't matter that his characterization is always fraught with troubles
. Spider-Man could be even you was the point that Stan was trying to make when he put on the mask. I myself think that as a boy that this was one of a "young Barack Obama's ways like it is for most children to aspire hope for everything he has done in his life and never letting other people just keep a person from achieving their hopes/dreams in his or her life. Marvel spared no expense in making sure everyone had a copy of this historic moment they had released a third print in February of two thousand and eight
here is how Mr. Barrack Obama met his comic hero on the day of his inauguration according to Marvel comics anyway. Peter Parker happens to be on assignment for the Daily Bulge in Washington D.C. on the day of the newest President elect is taking place 
which as you can see here like Peter sees are there "two" Mister Barrack Obamas, hey what the heck was going on here? Spidey as you can see here joins in the foray and congratulates Barrack on his own endeavors at get to where he is at this point in his life. When the second Obama shows off some hostility towards himself Spider-Man may know who this fake Obama is, even though the real President elect would like to help
his buddy the wall crawler in dealing with his phony self he relents and gives the web head fair go when it is revealed that the flexuous impostor is really the
Chameleon. Spider-Man's first major foe was this guy after catching his uncle Ben's killer as seen in Amazing Spider-Man # 1. So the new president elect gives Spidey the go ahead to 
, after knocking the stuffing out of the Chameleon and he is carted off to prison Spidey hangs around to make sure nothing else will go amiss for the Obama as he is sworn in as our forty fourth president. 
Now to shift gears a little bit early on when I was deciding how I was going put this whole blog together about a commander in chief who liked comics growing up and liking Spider-Man most all out of most of them. I had wanted to just focus on the special Spidey issue he was in at least at first I did. I got to thinking about who would support this new President during the time he campaigned against his running mate. It hit me like a ton of bricks while searching the internet back then and came across the thirty ninth San Diego comic con where one of the booths there had this
upcoming presidential elections in a comic book project by a unknown publisher as I know/knew. Also when I found this image of the artist who'd 
Obama in fact while on the campaign was seen in front of another S related superhero. Where he explained in his own words why he could better relate to the Web Slinger (Spidey) or The Dark Knight (Batman) because of their more human qualities than the comic character behind him. 
In fact before Marvel started promoting issue five hundred and eighty three a prominent newspaper I believe it was in a Los Angeles or a New York paper this tease for the issue came out
. I did happen to say that there were six covers to the Obama President issue of that issue of Amazing Spider-Man before I show you the last one which came out in February (2009) saw two prints of this the one above with the American flag and Spidey saying he'd like to go inside. The sixth reprint of Amazing Spider-Man five hundred and eighty three was very different in how it came out the first five prints came about celebrating our first ever African American President but this one came out to celebrating the one American president whom gave ALL African Americans a chance at FREEDOM from slavery Abraham Lincoln. If Lincoln were alive when this was released he'd be the oldest living human being at the age of two hundred years old in the year two thousand nine, so hence the reasoning of why the Lincoln memorable as the back ground on the cover.
Marvel had a cover prepared for if John McCain won for the Republican party, boy I wonder if their would have been a back up story featuring the new President if McCain did win, most likely NOT. I'm supposing there would have been a back up story none the less but what would it have been we will never know. I did happen to find this McCain comic cover I'm talking about in my internet searches on the issue itself by accident 
, although to me for some reason the guy pictured isn't John McCain but the late Republican President Richard Nixon. Your all probability curios as to why this blog is in violet purple huh?, well I was thinking of all my nieces who love that very color is why I choose it. I know there is a lot of tension right now with how a lot of people see the direction of our government for the time being and this is the one thing I know I can say without taking heat for it being said. "We have been through our shares of hard times and at certain times so has our governing system as well, but what matters most is that we all stand for our each and own believe system in our hearts that will put everything right one day, because we are not all Rich or are we all Poor. We are all part of that governing system that we know is broken and picking sides to point a finger at just goes to show we need to respect ourselves more for hopefully we can reach that day where status in the ways of "WANTS" and NEEDS"or better yet "Wealth" vs "Poverty" is the last thing to really matter to us, or at least we can always hope for that!" I hope that whatever problems President Obama faces on a daily basis he can swing over them like his comic book hero: Spider-Man
