Politics are everywhere! You can't escape them! This week, iFanboy looks at IDW's Obama and McCain biography comics, and some other series dripping with the business of politics.

There is no shortage of politics creeping up in the world of comic books. This week Ron, Josh, and Conor show off some different ways politics have shown up in the pages of our favorite books.

This past month, IDW Publishing released two bio comics titled Presidential Material Barack Obama and another about John McCain. We take a look at these issues, and let you know if they're worth reading, and if they're actually good comic books. You can even watch them on your iPhone or Touch.

Then we go over some comics where politics are central to the story, including Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson's Transmetropolitan and Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris' Ex Machina. Both of these excellent books come at politics, but from different angles entirely.

Finally, we talk about politics in the Superhero world, and how DC and Marvel deal with government in their respective universes.

We try to stay on message, and no once do we flip flop in the entire episode.

 

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