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Arnold Schwarzenegger turns comic book superhero

LOS ANGELES: Action star Arnold Schwarzenegger,who recently stepped down as the governor of California,has turned into a superhero with an animated series penned by comic legend Stan Lee. The 63-year-old plays a crime-fighting ex-governor in The Governator,a combination TV series-comic book being co-developed by Spider-Man co-creator Lee,reported Entertainment Weekly. When I ran for governor back in 2003 and I started hearing people talking about the Governator, I thought the word was so cool8230; this cartoon brings everything together. It combines the governor,the Terminator,the bodybuilding world,the True Lies, said Schwarzenegger.