I, uh… well, there’s really no good way of introducing this, is there?
No lie, I can’t really put these two icons together without feeling a little bit uncomfortable. But Marvel has done the impossible, making a two-part comic mixing Eminem and the Punisher! The book is due out May 5.
To me, however, this cover of XXL Magazine is additionally interesting because of the weird history Eminem has had with comics: anyone who has read Wanted will know that J.G. Jones specifically modeled the character of Wesley Gibson off of the Great White Rapper.
Yet when rumors swirled around Eminem possibly taking the role in the comics’ film adaptation, he flatly refused, as he accused Mark Millar of exploiting his name to garner hype for the film: as Rap Basement explained, “since the creator of the comic not only lied about Eminem being attached but didn’t even run it by Eminem’s people, his camp didn’t consider the project anymore.” Also, the genre film Jumper apparently also was considering having Eminem star. I can’t even imagine what that would have looked like.
And yet, at the same time, Eminem also wrote NSFW songs called Superman, and regularly references the superhero in other songs like Rain Man (granted, this was probably more due to the Christopher Reeve jokes rather than any affection for Clark Kent). And of course, in his song Real Slim Shady, Eminem has his own Buttman-style character, which you can see here.
Now discuss.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:04 am
I want to shoot myself now.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Big eyeroll at the Eminem stuff, but that one picture from Wanted made me forget the awful movie and its loom of destiny nonsense and want to go read the graphic novel again!
April 15th, 2009 at 11:40 am
I wanna vomit
April 15th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Eminem is so whack. I still wonder how he got so famous. Anything with him is a pass.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:05 am
page one, panel one:
punisher shoots blonde guy beating up his wife.
the end.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:28 am
must we be PUNISHED like this. the title “great white rapper” doesn’t mean shit to me. i can just see the PUNISHER as a skinny guy trying to shoot a gun and hold his pants up at the same time. marvel has hit it’s bottom.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I don’t understand the hate for Eminem. I’m not a fan of all of his songs but when he’s on he’s better than most anyone else. Hell of a lot better than most mainstream rappers these days in the past 3 to 4 years since he made his last album. Yes, even better than rap’s self-proclaimed “savior” Kanye West.
July 15th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
I’m a eminem fan and hes not right for comics but hes good at movies,mainly music,and other stuff but now this
January 17th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
The layout is what really caught my eye, then the i looked at the writing and i think you did a very nice job. Good work:)