With Great Comedy, Comes Great Potential for Comic Book Tie-Ins

In the day’s really important political news, Steven Colbert will be coming to a Spider-Man book near you in the near future:

While “Colbert for President” signs have been popping up in the background of random Marvel comics lately, the publisher has announced that Colbert himself will show up working side-by-side with Spider-Man in October.

“Well, it’s kind of a team-up,” laughed comic book scribe Mark Waid, who wrote the eight-page story that will appear in Amazing Spider-Man #573. “Let’s put it this way: Stephen Colbert thinks it’s a team-up. Spider-Man keeps telling him it’s not a team-up.

“Without giving away too many of the surprises,” Waid continued, “essentially what’s happened is Stephen Colbert has been convinced by J. Jonah Jameson that the people of New York don’t love him enough to swing the election. And he needs New York as a state, so he throws his suit and his tie into a trash can and stalks up from an alley proclaiming, ‘Stephen Colbert no more!’”

Pretty awesome. That’s via reader J.S. who speculates that perhaps a DC crossover is also in the works wherein Colbert will take on the Green Lantern Theory of international relations.