The story features the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama as a Conan the Barbarian-style figure.

[2] It also features other politicians like Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney in fictional roles.

[7] The idea for the series originated with Devil's Due publisher Josh Blaylock who explained that "We didn't want to be completely slapsticky.

It is definitely partly a gimmick, but we wanted to do something clever with [the Obama comics trend].

"[2] He contacted Larry Hama with his idea for a series called Obama the Barbarian, and Hama described how the idea developed during the course of the phonecall: First off, you should change it to Barack the Barbarian, and second, I'm not interested in writing a Mad Magazine style parody and that it would have to be more in line with the more polemical stuff of Swift, Twain and Voltaire (not that I can pull off anything like they could,) and third, that my own leanings are towards Barack and that would be reflected in what I write – and Josh said 'fine'.