Yesterday I wrote a post explaining that the politics of comic books are actually rather opaque in response to conservative outrage over Barack Obama appearing in an issue of Spider-Man. Today, I yield the floor to the experts at Newsarama, in particular J. Caleb Mozzocco:
In the article, Joe Quesada cites the inspiration of the story as the fact that Obama is a Spidey fan. I assume the phenomenal sales of the Obama issues of Savage Dragon, the amount of ink both Erik Larsen’s super-comic and IDW’s Presidential Material bio comics got and the fact that featuring Obama would land a story in USA Today or some other mainstream media source didn’t hurt either.
Clearly, markets have a liberal bias. As with MSNBC, the reason for the presence of liberals on the network isn’t a particular liberal bias, but rather that their liberal pundits, like Maddow and Olbermann, have proved to be commercial successes, while people like Tucker Carlson tanked. It’s not about bias. It’s about money.
— A. Serwer
