Alvin Greene Unveils Comic Book Of Himself After Losing Senate Election

Democrat Alvin Greene lost badly on Tuesday to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and will probably be remembered for running one of the strangest campaigns in recent memory, in addition to being one of the most unexpected candidates in modern history. Nevertheless, he will forever live on as a superhero -- at least in his own comic book.

Greene was snubbed by the South Carolina Democratic Party and not invited to their celebration party on election night, but he insisted that he wasn't at all unhappy because his party was going to be "bigger" -- around 200 people.

But South Carolina journalist Deja Knight attended Greene's party on Tuesday and said that there were only a handful of people there. In fact, members of the media outnumbered supporters. There were also a few people there doing documentaries on the former candidate.

Although the election for Greene is over, he lived up to his reputation for surprising journalists and creating a spectacle by focusing on his comic book called "Ultimate Warrior," in which he is a superhero who saves people from foreclosures. Greene described the character as someone who can "can see into the future," "leap higher than Michael Jordan" and "take on the Hulk."

Some pictures by Knight of the comic book:

Knight noted that Greene was generally trying to avoid reporters, and when asked if he was going to run again, refused to say anything other than "maybe."

He did, however, have some words about DeMint's win.

"He said that he was disappointed that the people re-elected DeMint and he was the reason that South Carolina was in so much -- he said a 'recession,'" recounted Knight. "He basically said that DeMint took all the money from the families in South Carolina, took it away from the schools, and that's the reason our education system isn't top-notch."

Comments

[Bj Goode]

02:03 AM on 11/20/2010

alvin greene is my hero :)

[JoeBoy254]

01:53 AM on 11/12/2010

Alvin Greene is better than Jim DeMint even on a bad day.

[eolufemi]

08:10 PM on 11/03/2010

Well this is what happens when you tell folks to get out and vote with no information about the person they are "supposed" to support. You give a primary away and in turn an election.

[Dr. Jonathan David Farley]

06:56 PM on 11/04/2010

The South Carolina Democratic Party officers went out of their way to attack their party's nominee. That is called "giving away an election."

As for not knowing anything about the nominee, why don't you look at his webpage.

[timm]

07:03 PM on 11/04/2010

I have. Its weak rhetoric, and it pales in comparison to the astoundingly empty things he actually does and says in person. Such as putting all his campaign effort into comic books and action figures.

[timm]

06:58 PM on 11/04/2010

the problem is.... knowing information about alvin greene doesnt help.

[PNOGUY]

04:23 PM on 11/03/2010

Don't forget that he also recommended awhile ago that to create jobs, someone should make action figures of him in various outfits.

[Dr. Jonathan David Farley]

06:56 PM on 11/04/2010

And some companies have actually expressed interest in doing that. Still consider it crazy?

[timm]

07:07 PM on 11/04/2010

Extremely. Really really crazy. A suggestion that the economy would be fixed by selling toys of himself? About as crazy as it gets. Am i surprized a company sees an opportunity to make some profit off this crazy gimmick? No. Do i think action figures of al greene will boost the economy? No.

[Supersteel]

02:21 PM on 11/03/2010

not a bad looking comic book.

[jsgaetano]

02:04 PM on 11/03/2010

If Greene actually cared, maybe he should have allowed someone to run as a challenger to DeMint.

What a loser. But it's really the DNC's fault for not running someone serious in SC.

[Dr. Jonathan David Farley]

06:57 PM on 11/04/2010

Greene supports free, universal health care, which you don't have. Obama does not support that. Who's the loser?

[timm]

07:09 PM on 11/04/2010

how was he going to fund this health care? By syndicating a saturday morning cartoon starring alvin greene?

[csnl]

08:38 PM on 11/09/2010

the winners would be all the tax payers that dont have to pay for the 'free universal healthcare'

[dwedge]

02:00 PM on 11/03/2010

We can all wonder at the fact that Greene was even a candidate. But SC voters do not redeem themselves by electing a clown like DeMint.

[whyputaname]

01:49 PM on 11/03/2010

Now that the election is over, someone should look into whether Greene was paid by the SC Reichwings and Jim DeMint to run.

Journalist's wasted their time on this person, most people with a brain wouldn't have voted for him!

[redsoxr4]

02:20 PM on 11/03/2010

LOL, You caught us! We tried to get an Alvin Greene type on all the ballots but in only worked in SC. PLEASE!

[whyputaname]

07:26 PM on 11/03/2010

Please what, that Greene was a plant of the Reichwing/Fleabaggers, yee-ah, Palease!!!!! It wouldn't be the first time something like that wasn't set up by the Reich!

[PNOGUY]

04:21 PM on 11/03/2010

Even Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC admits that Greene raised his own money to get on the ballot. Look for the interview on YouTube.

What's funniest of all is that over 300K Dem Dunderheads voted for him.

[whyputaname]

07:27 PM on 11/03/2010

Back at you Reichtie!!!! Or should I say comrade!!!

[Alien Nation]

12:54 PM on 11/03/2010

The comic actually has decent production quality from the look of it. Not that it's my taste, I'm more of a Darkhorse / Vertigo fan myself - but more power to him hah!

[Justjack1]

12:34 PM on 11/03/2010

Someone should ask him, now that the election is over and theres nothing that can be done about it, was he actually paid by the GOP to enter this race.

[tomterif]

02:59 PM on 11/03/2010

That's so simply a simply laughably RIDICULOUS suggestion [that "someone hould ask him" (Greene) this, with any expectation whatsoever of receiving some sort of actual affirmative reply].

The very idea that you would float this notion, as something someone should actually ask Greene this, and even conceivably expect an answer, "now that the election is over", suggest s you may well be even more COLOSSALLY stupid, Justjack1, than Alvin Greene gave so much major eidence of being, during the course of this campaign.

That's because Greene was asked about this very specifically, at the outset of his campaign, about this totally bogus notion that'd been floated about how this total non-entity had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and, being [as I recall] both broke [except for perhaps a small military pension he lived (in his father's house) on] and unemployed, had even been able to afford the relatively minor filing fee to run in the Republican Senate primary.

His VERY SPECIFIC statement I believe had been he'd very carefully saved up the necessary funds for that filing since his student days, as he'd been interested in political science major in school and running for high office had been a longtime specific goal of his.

And since he of course completely refused to admit ANYTHING about being any kind of "Republican plant", WHY then, simply because "the election was over, would he [unless he felt he was being "forced to", in the course of police questioning, or having... [Continued]

[tomterif]

03:31 PM on 11/03/2010

Correction to above :

Should've been "...the relatively minor filing fee to run, with Republican assistence, in the Democratic primary."

[timm]

07:00 PM on 11/04/2010

anyway, im sure he might be willing to "tell all" if he got a book deal.

[Justjack1]

12:33 PM on 11/03/2010

This is no surprise since he was a GOP plant to make sure the democrats lost that race.

[Gutts]

12:32 PM on 11/03/2010

Oh my.

[Nelle]

12:27 PM on 11/03/2010

Alvin Greene is one Democrat I'm not sad to see lose.

[Dr. Jonathan David Farley]

07:01 PM on 11/04/2010

Greene supports (1) universal health care, (2) free university education, (3) stopping house foreclosures and jailing bankers who defrauded people out of their homes, (4) ending free trade agreements that bleed jobs.

But you will vote for Obama in 2012 who is against all of these.

[Nelle]

11:32 AM on 11/05/2010

It's not enough to be for those things (most of which I am also in favor of). As a candidate, you also have to be able to articulate those ideas both to your constituents and to the media. Have you seen any of the so-called interviews Mr. Greene gave? They were just horrible! And his idea to spur job growth by encouraging people to make dolls of himself would be laughable if it weren't for the high unemployment in his state. I don't even want to start on his felony charge for allegedly showing internet porn to a 19-year-old college student. In short, Mr. Greene presented himself as a political joke, he wasn't funny and now hopefully he's gone and someone serious is inspired to run. Buh-bye Mr. Greene.

[rbchilds]

11:29 AM on 11/03/2010

Someone said "Well you lost the election, see you in the funny papers!", and Greene took them seriously.

[JacksonJones]

11:24 AM on 11/03/2010

Tragi-comedy at its strangest.