London, May 24 -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has got a new role to play- a comic superhero.
Putin has been turned into a martial arts superhero in a comic strip spreading on the Russian Internet, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as his bearskin-wearing sidekick. The comic strip, apparently the first in a series about 'Super Putin, Man Like Any Other" is set in Moscow "one year before the end of the world."
Although one of the strip's creators said it was drawn by pro bono artists, some internet users suggested that it may be a part of a behind-the-scenes campaign or was even commissioned by the Kremlin.
With a plot line resembling the 1990s US action film 'Speed', the strip shows a kimono-wearing Putin - described as a man "with a Nordic character" - save a busload of people from a bomb blast.
The strip's writer Sergei Kalenik said it took two weeks to create and was not a paid project.
"We wanted to stir Russia's depressing political scene and create some dialogue," the Telegraph quoted him as saying.
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