Barack the Barbarian: Coffee-table fare

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.

It’s been a year now since we first heard of the publication of the comic-book series ‘Barack the Barbarian.’

But it appears the Secret Service has done a fairly poor job of purging any copies from the trail that President Obama follows on his daily rounds.

As the president went through his morning workout Wednesday at the AspenActive gym near his hotel in Des Moines -- a Hampton Inn (Hilton bonus points) -- the reporting pool following him cooled its heels in a nearby coffee shop.

There sat the comic book, the third in a series.

The people at Devil’s Due are Obama fans.

Devil’s Due founder and President Josh Blaylock has explained that the company drew its inspiration for the series from a half-dozen other Obama comics, including the president’s appearance in Spider-Man, as well as from the president’s own fondness for collecting ‘Conan the Barbarian’ comics.

For more details and illustrations, see The Swamp.

-- Mark Silva