>Army of Darkness. The final movie of the Evil Dead franchise. As you may or may not know, Army of Darkness is also the name of the comic book that follows Ash’s (Ash is the protagonist of the films) further adventures and dealings with the Necronomicon. The Necronomicon finds it’s literary origins with HP Lovecraft, as a book written by a man who worshiped deities known as The Old Ones. That’s the bare bones version of that story. Anyway, in Ash’s case, the Necronomicon always seems to find him and cause major problems in his life. He was deemed the “Chosen One” by the book, and it seems that he will forever be bound to the book and its games.

Some of the adventure’s that Ash has had, deal with the portals that are often created by someone speaking the magical alien words of “Klaatu Barata Nikto”… or was it “Klaatu Verata Niktu”? (Bonus Points for anyone who gets the reference) Ash’s confusion of the words seems to have confused me as well… Moving on, these portals have led ash to the Dark Ages, to the Xena: Warrior Princess universe, to the future, and even to Marvel Universe Earth-2149 (the Marvel Zombies universe). His visit to Earth-2149 was hilarious, as well as a precursor to the creation of the Marvel Apes Universe. And while I’d love to keep talking about Ash’s portal antics, I think it best to get on with his latest adventure. I present to you, Army of Darkness: Ash Saves Obama.

Yes. Ash Saves Obama. That is the title of this story. And after reading it, I must say that the title is misleading. Yes, it does feature Ash and President Obama, however, I’m pretty certain that the two never actually meet in the comic, despite some of the awesome covers to the miniseries. The story is set around a massive comic book convention, where Obama drops by to meet the people and pick up a few comics for his daughters. Meanwhile, Ash is stuck filling in for a co-worker at his department store, making deliveries to the Con. One of the comic vendors happens to have comic book versions of the Necronomicon for some strange reason and ends up giving one of them to Obama, not knowing what it was. So Obama leaves the Con and flies off the DC, and Ash is now stuck fighting Deadites (Necronomicon possessed people) at the comic convention.

So where does it go from here? A lot of wise cracks and Boomstick (Ash’s shotgun) shots later, the world is on the verge of destruction… SPOILER ALERT!

The Deadites’ plan is to possess the President and cause the destruction of the world with Obama’s power. The only thing they need to happen is for Obama read the comic. And at the revelation of this vile plan, when all seems lost. Our president, not knowing any of this is going on, tosses the Nercronomicon comic into a fire. Obama saves us all with a heavy look upon is face, almost as if he knew all along that every decision he makes can break or save the world.

END SPOILERS!

So, yeah. Way to go Ash. But in all seriousness, this was an interesting read, and if this mini is anything like the other Army of Darkness minis, be sure to expect a trade collection of is soon. But to be honest, this is really for fans of the Army of Darkness comics, the Obama angle isn’t really the selling point here. However, there is an interesting bit with a Deadite-possessed Bo Obama. That’s probably why you should pick the book up. Bo is becoming quite the comic star. First being kidnapped by Doctor Doom, and now attacking Ash of Evil Dead fame, it’s been quite a year. That little dog is gonna be huge. See ya next week.

-Fleet

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