Next for Arnold Schwarzenegger? New 'Governator' Comic Book

By Christine Fenno Posted Apr 2nd 2011 08:26AM

The comics world is buzzing over news, straight from Arnold Schwarzengger himself, that the action star and former California governor is plotting a super-size comeback by launching a new superhero cartoon and comic book series called 'The Governator.'

Schwarzenegger's partner in crime? Comics legend and Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee.

The Austrian movie star, 63, opened up in the new Entertainment Weekly about the animated TV show and comic book, which will take flight next year.

"When I ran for governor back in 2003, and I started hearing people talking about 'the Governator,' I thought the word was so cool [and] combined two worlds: the world of politics and the movie world," he says, adding that the new cartoon character "brings everything together. It combines the governor, the Terminator, the bodybuilding world..."

The world of the Governator will include not just super stunts, super suits, super sidekicks (including Zack, a 13-year-old cyberexpert), super-villians, and a super-secret underground lair, but -- according to Lee -- will also feature elements of Schwarnegger's personal life. That's right, expect wife Maria Shriver and the kids to pop up in story lines.

Schwarzenegger says, "I love the idea of a control center below my house with a path so that boats and submarines can go right into the ocean....In the cartoon, my house is much closer to the beach than where we live, but, you know, it's a cartoon."

So far the funniest ingredient in the mix is shaping up to be the bad guys: a dastardly crew called Gangsters Imposters Racketeers Liars & Irredeemable Ex-cons. Of course, they'll be called the G.I.R.L.I.E. Men.

"The Governator is going to be a great superhero, but he'll also be Arnold Schwarzenegger," Lee says of the character. "We're using all the personal elements of Arnold's life. We're using his wife. We're using his kids. We're using the fact that he used to be governor. Only after he leaves the governor's office, Arnold decides to become a crime fighter and builds a secret high-tech crime-fighting center under his house in Brentwood."

After a phenomenal run in Hollywood ('Termintator,' 'Total Recall,' 'Kindergarten Cop,' 'True Lies') Schwarzenegger -- who emigrated to the U.S. at age 21 -- took a hiatus from his film career to follow in Ronald Reagan's footsteps and run for governor in California. The former bodybuilder and longtime Republican triumphed in a recall election to replace Gray Davis. Schwarzenegger was first inaugurated in 2003, he went on to win a full term in 2006, and his last day in office was January 3.

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Saturday 02 April

By CMG

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NO ARNOLD WE NEED TO YOU TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012, GET THIS COUNTRY BACK ON OUR FEET, YOU CAN DO IT WE AMERICAN'S HAVE FAITH IN YOU, GET RID OF HIGHYELLA IN THE WHITE HOUSE, HE HAS MESSED THIS COUNTRY UP MORE THAN STUPID BUSH DID............

By ben

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I'd like that, but currently you have to be a natural born citizen to be president. Even though Arnold spent many years earning the right to be a citizen and pays millions in taxes, even his powerful friends and relatives through marriage havent changed the law for him. But he could be considered the next Reagan if the law was changed so he could run.

By Reg

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Are you stupid or just woke up after 39 years? Arnold can't run for president and "high yellow"? That was just ignorant. GROW UP!!!

By Crystal

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No No NO!!! You don't want him for President. After what he did to California I can imagine what he would do to the USA. He needs to just go away. Him and his wife!!!

By joann

I live in Sacramento California and I agree with Crystal. If I have to see his face one more time I'll scream! He says he is going back to acting, the only time he was really acting was when he was play acting as the Govenor of the State. He's worthless, he does need to just fade away into the sunset.

Sunday 03 April

By maddogg

Chystal;
You got that right just go away and hang out with your wife, I agree with you 100% We are getting a real beating now with Obama
and the two Muslims appointed to Homeland Security what's next.
Oh, yesI feel safer already.

By pierre

Shut up you racist ignorants. What has he done that the ones before him didn't do?

Thursday 07 April

Why am I racist because I think Arnold was a horrible govenor? OMG, I get so tired of people pulling the race card over everything. He didn't do anything different than any other govenor thats my point!!!

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