In May 2025, the news dispersed in Runet: a comic book in which the presidents of Russia and Ukraine turn into animals on the shelves of American stores. We checked the reliability of such messages.
According to posts in Russian-speaking Telegram channels, the comic book about the Russian president is called the Incredible Putin-Bear, which translates as “incredible Putin-Medical” (however, in most publications the name brought With a mistake with the first word - “unacceptible”). It is reported that according to the plot, a politician may either Get angry, Either Open turn into a bear - almost like the title hero of the series "Incredible holk". Among other comic book heroes are US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Telegram channel "Tsargrad-TV"(79,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) specified that the latter was also given superpowiality - in the plot, when Zelensky is afraid, he turns into a lemura and hides in garbage tanks. The channel added that it is not known whether such a book appeared on the shelves of American stores, but emphasized: “But the situation described in the comic book looks quite believable.” According to some bloggers, the appearance of this comic proves that in the West of Putin Respect And heroize.
According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, about 120 similar records appeared in Telegram, which collected more than 900,000 views in total. Among others, the channels reported about the comic book about the comic book about Putin.Uncle Glory"(182 000 views), Voblya (115,000), "Evil journalist"(44,000),"In fact in Kharkov"(33,000),"Russia 2.0"(31 000),"Boiling water"(26,000) and others. The news is also found on VKontakte (examples here, here And here), Livejournal, "Classmates"And on some news sites.
None of the publications mentioned above was specified in which exactly the store or at least the city of the United States is sold "incredible Putin-Medved." “Verified” did not find mentions and evidence of the existence of such a comic book on any specialized site. At the same time detect In stores Similar works, for example, about Trump was not difficult.
Two pictures are usually attached to viral posts that cannot be determined where they were made. The first captures the cover of the comic book, on which there is no name or logo of any American publishing house. The image contains only the name of the alleged author - Harvey Baker (apparently, he acted both a screenwriter and an artist). However, the commander with such a name and surname is not mentioned on thematic sites and in the databases of comics. He lived in the USA and worked Harvey Picar (in some translations Bakery, and Baker is translated from English as a “baker”) is a writer, most famous as the author of the American Splender autobiographic comics series, but he died back in 2010. However, it can be assumed that the “incredible Putin Medvet” is samizdat released under the pseudonym.
The second photo shows a couple of black and white pages from the “Incredible Putin-Medved”. It is noteworthy that they are almost completely absent Speech-Babblah - A cloud with remarks or thoughts of characters characteristic of comics. The entire text is assembled in three narrative blocks - The rectangles where the narrator shares the exposition with readers and other important information.
"The fourth hour of negotiations was going on when Putin Medveta noticed ... Zelensky in the neighboring office! Putin-Medvet immediately took a combat uniform.
However, Zelensky has an ace in the sleeve. He can turn into ... cunning lemur.
This ability has repeatedly saved Zelensky life. But this time he was unlucky, and he turned out to be buried under a heap of smelly garbage. ”
In Western tradition, comic book artists Use Panels with drawings so that the reader moves on the page in the same way as when reading an ordinary book: from left to right and from top to bottom. Of course, sometimes authors for one reason or another Complicated The structure of personnel, but this can create problems with an understanding of the sequence of events. In the case of the “Incredible Putin-Medvede” the panels are located in a chaotic manner uncharacteristic for the comic book. In addition, two drawings and one narrative block are at the junction of pages.
With a careful examination of the panels, questions arise to the drawings themselves. For example, at one of the frames Zelensky is represented without a mustache and in a shirt with a tie, although before and after this moment it is depicted unshaven and in other clothes. In addition, it seems that Trump and Putin’s shocking hands do not have enough fingers, and on one panel the tail of the lemur grows directly from his neck. Such errors are characters for images generated by a neural network.
“Verified” analyzed the photo cover of the comic book using five detectors to determine the AI-images. All of them appreciated the probability that the drawing was created using the neural network as extremely high. At the same time, checking both a complete picture with the pages and its fragments in the same services gave conflicting results. It is possible that this is due to the lower quality of this photo and the fact that part of the drawings there is darkened or distorted due to the bend of the paper on which they are printed. In addition, detectors like Show Studies can sometimes give both false positive and false negative results.
The earliest post about the supposedly American comic book (among those that managed to track "verified") appeared on May 23 at 13:29 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Batkovich"(33,000 views). Previously, this channel mentioned as a fake distributor in ten of our analysis. Shortly after Batkovich, Medved also told about Putin Fine familiar Our regular readers "New 🅉 Ukraine"(40,000 views) and"Shaman Rahu"(7000) - there the viral pictures were published after 3 and 11 minutes. respectively.
Thus, there is no convincing evidence that in American stores they sell a comic book where Putin turns into a bear, and Zelensky into Lemura. Initially, Russian Telegram channels wrote about this, bringing two photographs taken in an unknown place as confirmation. The pictures themselves capture the cover and only two pages of the comic book, in which some basic rules for creating such works are violated, and signs of AI are noticeable in the drawings.
Photo on the cover: social networks
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