Feuer Frei!
05-27-11, 12:54 AM
That's right! New Super Heros are now fighting Terrorism and Public Protest!
Dictators are used to having their manliest poses carved into stone statues, or their most avuncular portrait printed on posters. But one Russian artist is bringing authoritarian iconography into the 21st century by drawing Russia’s boss-for-life Vladimir Putin as an ass-kicking character in an online comic book.
Radio Free Europe reports that Russian writer, Sergei Kalenik (http://www.rferl.org/content/comic_strip_casts_putin_medvedev_as_superheroes/24204858.html) has created a web comic that casts the Russian prime minister as a judo-chopping “Superputin.” Often portrayed in the west as a comically over-the-top villain (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/obama-gets-a-sense-of-putins-super-villain-soul/), Putin is instead painted as a superhero fighting the twin evils of terrorism and public protest.
Fresh from destroying a terrorist lair, Superputin is called into action to stop terrorists (inspired by the success of the action thriller Speed in Afghan cinemas) from detonating a bomb on a bus, designed to go off if the vehicle falls under 80 km per hour [50 mph].
American diplomats once claimed that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev “plays Robin to Putin’s Batman (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables-medvedev-putin-russia),” acting as second fiddle in Russia’s ruling duo. In Superputin, Medvedev plays the sidekick yet again, placing him in the diminutive role of “nanoman.” His “League of Superheroes” file reveals Medvedev to be a “gnome raised by bears” — albeit one with the ability to morph into Russia’s national animal.
And who can forget his various manly man action-hero photo ops? Like a Russian GI Joe figure, he comes in many garbs — each sold separately. There’s Putin the Beastmaster (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkt5G0uHO0g), Putin the biker (http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/07/putin_rides_to_biker_conventio.html), Putin the rugged outdoorsman (http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2009/08/russian_beefcake_putin_bares_c.html) and, in the role most like his comic book alter ego, Putin the martial artist — complete with Kung-Fu grip (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341038/Vladimir-Putin-shows-judo-moves-won-black-belt.html).
:haha::haha::haha::haha:
SOURCE (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/pow-zam-nyet-superputin-battles-terrorists-protesters-in-online-comic/#more-47901)
Dictators are used to having their manliest poses carved into stone statues, or their most avuncular portrait printed on posters. But one Russian artist is bringing authoritarian iconography into the 21st century by drawing Russia’s boss-for-life Vladimir Putin as an ass-kicking character in an online comic book.
Radio Free Europe reports that Russian writer, Sergei Kalenik (http://www.rferl.org/content/comic_strip_casts_putin_medvedev_as_superheroes/24204858.html) has created a web comic that casts the Russian prime minister as a judo-chopping “Superputin.” Often portrayed in the west as a comically over-the-top villain (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/obama-gets-a-sense-of-putins-super-villain-soul/), Putin is instead painted as a superhero fighting the twin evils of terrorism and public protest.
Fresh from destroying a terrorist lair, Superputin is called into action to stop terrorists (inspired by the success of the action thriller Speed in Afghan cinemas) from detonating a bomb on a bus, designed to go off if the vehicle falls under 80 km per hour [50 mph].
American diplomats once claimed that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev “plays Robin to Putin’s Batman (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables-medvedev-putin-russia),” acting as second fiddle in Russia’s ruling duo. In Superputin, Medvedev plays the sidekick yet again, placing him in the diminutive role of “nanoman.” His “League of Superheroes” file reveals Medvedev to be a “gnome raised by bears” — albeit one with the ability to morph into Russia’s national animal.
And who can forget his various manly man action-hero photo ops? Like a Russian GI Joe figure, he comes in many garbs — each sold separately. There’s Putin the Beastmaster (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkt5G0uHO0g), Putin the biker (http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/07/putin_rides_to_biker_conventio.html), Putin the rugged outdoorsman (http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2009/08/russian_beefcake_putin_bares_c.html) and, in the role most like his comic book alter ego, Putin the martial artist — complete with Kung-Fu grip (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341038/Vladimir-Putin-shows-judo-moves-won-black-belt.html).
:haha::haha::haha::haha:
SOURCE (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/pow-zam-nyet-superputin-battles-terrorists-protesters-in-online-comic/#more-47901)