When the lead in your comic book is Vanilla Ice, it's safe to say you have one of the worst comic books of all time. And yet, publishers and musicians have been teaming up for bizarre comic book mash-ups for years.
We've all seen one: a sign advertising a restaurant with the featured meat inside hungrily getting ready to eat itself. On the surface, it's supposed to indicate, "Yummy meat here!" But the more you think about it, the weirder and more disturbing it gets. So prepa
Written and drawn by members of Gwar, 'Slavepit Funnies: Featuring Gwar' is exactly what you think a comic book version of the over-the-top punk band would be, complete with people being sliced in half, monsters and general insanity
This comic book series is infamous for being one of the most ridiculous books of all time, including, but not limited to, the time Lois turned herself black to find out how the other half lived. And then there’s the time she wrote a song with Pat
A promotional comic published by Marvel, the eight pager is actually one of the more fun items on this list, with a script by classic writer Jim Salicrup and solid art by June Brigman. But it also tries to tell the story through Cheap Trick lyrics, which resulted in one weird comic
Most of Marvel Music’s output actually strived for authenticity, like a three part Alice Cooper story by Neil Gaiman. When it came to country/honky-tonk artist Marty Stuart though, the Spider-Man publisher thought it would be a great idea to turn the pen over to Stuart himself
Another entry in Bluewater’s FAME series profiles Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. At least 50 has a bit of a story, right? He’s lived through some stuff, and has a tale to tell? Yet, somehow, this book kicks off with a Ninja Turtle and Mr
There’s only one thing you need to know about this, and no, we’re not joking: this was a three issue long mini-series. Somehow, someone figured out enough stories bringing together Richie Rich and the New Kids to fill three entire comic books
In 1991, DC Comics briefly launched an indie comics imprint called Piranha Music, mainly so they could publish Prince Comics (okay, maybe not totally true, but we like to think that was the raison d’etre)
We’ll be honest, we haven’t actually read this one. But the 'Slam' and 'Judgement Night' auteurs' first and only graphic novel courtesy of Marvel's short-lived Music line has the following description on Amazon that doesn’t give us a lot of hope that its any good: “WAT DO YO DO WHEN YOU ARE RAPPERS IN POST-ATOMIC HOLOCAUST NEW YORK? FIGHT!”
We would have gone with rap, but I guess that’s why we’re not in the Onyx Graphic Novel business