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Wu-Tang's Method Man Gets Inked in Graphic Novel

Rapper Method Man, who has appeared on HBO show The Wire as well as films like Garden State, How High and Soul Plane, is gearing up to make his first cartoon appearance. The graphic novel features Meth as superhero alter-ego and titular character, Mosley Pain, a detective turned "murder priest" who hunts mystical creatures. DC […]

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Meth_2 Rapper Method Man, who has appeared on HBO show The Wire as well as films like *Garden State, How High *and Soul Plane, is gearing up to make his first cartoon appearance.

The graphic novel features Meth as superhero alter-ego and titular character, Mosley Pain, a detective turned "murder priest" who hunts mystical creatures. DC Comics and Darkhorse illustrator Sanford Greene is inking the artwork.

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch blog had a sneak preview of the first 8 pages of Method Man:

"There's an evil sea monster dwelling in the underground sewer system ... And man, did that thing pick the wrong kung-fu-obsessed rapper to mess with. In the excerpt, Method Man — er, his thinly veiled alter ego, mystical detective/'murder priest' Mosley
Paine — accidentally discovers it swimming around. Paine pumps a few bullets into the beast... and then the excerpt cuts off. Right in the middle of the action!"