![]() (Well, if you ignore his unofficial starring role in Wanted, of course.) Not content with the usual round of interviews, videos and various promotional appearances, the one-time Slim Shady turned himself fictional and teamed up with Frank Castle in the two-part Eminem/Punisher: Kill You, which ran in XXL Magazine and on, marking Marshall Mathers' first appearance in comic books. Rapper Eminem went to surprising lengths to promote his 2009 comeback album, Relapse. ![]() Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen has a unique comic book history even outside of this issue - Kirby's run on the title launched his legendary 'Fourth World Saga.'īuy: Amazon Sonic the Hedgehog, Spawn, and more Image characters Quite how Kirby and DC managed to get Rickles' permission not only for this treatment, but also to put his photograph on a cover during the storyline is a mystery, but considering the result is one of the more enjoyably gonzo comic books of the era, it's a good thing that they did. The Don Rickles two-parter is made all the more weird by the fact that (the real) Rickles is pretty much entirely incidental to the story the bulk of the action goes to Goody, who looks like the famous comedian but otherwise shares no particular connection. Here's how good Jack Kirby was during the '70s: Not only could he bring Don Rickles into two issues of his Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen run without breaking a sweat, but he also created Rickles' fictional alter-ego, Goody Rickles, got both involved with the behind-the-scenes machinations of Darkseid and the burgeoning Fourth World saga, and knew that it was so breathtakingly audacious that he told readers on one cover "Don't Ask - Just Buy It!" ![]() Sadly, the crossover took place four years too early for anyone to make a reference to Professor Xavier looking like a future Enterprise captain, but you just know that it would have been in there if it was even vaguely possible.Įven this misfire wasn't enough to convince people not to try again there were two sequels to this one-shot - a Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men one-shot, and a 1998 novel called Planet X - and, undeterred, the crew of the Starship Enterprise teamed up with DC's Legion of Super-Heroes in a DC/IDW limited series that launched a few years ago. In theory, a team-up between Marvel's mighty mutants and Gene Roddenberry's optimistic space opera might seem like a strange but not ridiculous idea after all, Star Trek has traveled back to the present day more than once, and the X-Men have been going into space ever since Charles Xavier realized that he had a crush on Lilandra.īut in practice, the resulting 1996 one-shot (by Scott Lobdell and Marc Silvestri) was a tangled mess, mixing old continuity from both series - Proteus, an X-Men enemy who had last appeared during the Chris Claremont/John Byrne era, and Gary Mitchell, from the second Trek pilot with some admittedly great Easter egg moments (Spock defeats Wolverine with a Vulcan Nerve Pinch! Gladiator punches the Enterprise to prove a point!).
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