DC President

[foxfire]

Can anyone tell me who the American president is currently in DC USA? Luthor's reign ended in Superman/Batman, then Pete Ross, who was his VP. So who's it now?

[SuperManny]

Can anyone tell me who the American president is currently in DC USA? Luthor's reign ended in Superman/Batman, then Pete Ross, who was his VP. So who's it now?

Can't remember the name off the top of my head, but it's located in Superman: Secret Files and Origins 2004, or the more recent collection, Prelude to Infinite Crisis.

Hope this directs you to it.

[D_bot]

Jonathan Horne is his name.

[grendel824]

I think the time is right to put "Prez" back into office - who's with me?

[foxfire]

Jonathan Horne is his name.

Any background on who he is? Does he have any connections to superhumans or is he a new character?

[JolietJake]

I think the time is right to put "Prez" back into office - who's with me?

I'm with you! But only if DC promises to publish wonderfully stupid stories like this one:

http://ape-law.com/GAF/Page04/prez4.JPG



(Link courtesy of Gone & Forgotten)

[Captain Jim]

Would you believe that Prez was created by Joe Simon, the co-creator (with Jack Kirby) of Captain America? Seriously!

[knight16]

Somehow i get the feeling that Pete Ross/Ruin and Jonathan Horne are being manipulated by Checkmate. And that Luthor is organizing Villians United against Checkmate.

[Captain Jim]

Somehow i get the feeling that Pete Ross/Ruin and Jonathan Horne are being manipulated by Checkmate.

That's certainly the impression one gets in the Superman Secret Files story recently reprinted in Prelude to Infinite Crisis.

[JolietJake]

Would you believe that Prez was created by Joe Simon, the co-creator (with Jack Kirby) of Captain America? Seriously!

Prez is easy to ridicule, but consider this. It was the Watergate era. The 26th Amendment had just been passed, ostensibly giving youth a greater voice. While it may not be Simon's best work it certainly isn't inconsistent with the everyman quality certainly present in the early Captain America mythos.

[JolietJake]

Prez is easy to ridicule, but consider this. It was the Watergate era. The 26th Amendment had just been passed, ostensibly giving youth a greater voice. While it may not be Simon's best work it certainly isn't inconsistent with the everyman quality certainly present in the early Captain America mythos.

Which doesn't change the fact that Prez was still wonderfully stupid

[Bored at 3:00AM]

Which doesn't change the fact that Prez was still wonderfully stupid

Neil Gaiman used Prez in a wonderful little story in Sandman that proved that even the most stupid ideas can still make for compelling reading.

[Simon Garth]

This is the 5th (or 6th, if you count Return of Donna Troy) Infinite Crisis tie-in that DC should have done - they've got magic in DOV, spies in OMAC, space in Rann/Thanager, Villains in VU - they need another one for all the offbeat stuff: Prez, Inferior 5, Angel and the Ape, ....

It would then set then up for a storming I5/JLA crossover event to follow crisis

[knight16]

Remembering Prez,Inferior 5, Angel & theApe perhaps we can include Brother Power,Lady Cop,Green Team,Dingbats, Stanley & his Monster in that mini-series

And some really oldies like Ray Ramond TV Detective,Congorilla, Hop Harrigan Mark Merlin could make cameos in the current mini-series like DOV.

or in scifi Tommy Tommorow & the Planeteers,Space Ranger, Space Cabby and so on in Thanagar/Rangar War

[JolietJake]

Neil Gaiman used Prez in a wonderful little story in Sandman that proved that even the most stupid ideas can still make for compelling reading.


A fair point. I've regretted not picking that one up.