And so Putin will manipulate the '60s-era cosmonaut who has returned to Earth from deep space with super powers and a desire to build a new Soviet empire.
The New York Daily News asks "still, there's enough here to run the risk of poking the bear. Is it really wise to antagonize a former KGB officer who was found guilty by a British inquiry of ordering the radioactive-poisoning murder of a Russian ex-spy in London?"
It seems not. And hey, it's not if they'e poking the Chinese…
Have a Putinless preview of the comic in question.
Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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