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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: But overall, you're happy with how it turned out?
METHOD MAN: Yeah. It's cool. Me and Sanford went back and forth. He wanted to go for some new style of artwork; I was kinda thrown off by it because I thought it looked sketch-y. But all in all, when you put it all together, I can see his vision of what he was trying to do.

Is this something you'd like to do more of in the future?
Yeah! I'm already trying to write my next one. But I'm trying to write it myself, and then [I'll] bring a writer in to bang out the kinks.

Can you tell us anything about where you're going with that?
I'm working on my first superhero team. But this superhero team is definitely expendable. In every issue it's new people.

I read that a couple of the other Wu-Tang guys, Ghost and GZA, are working on graphic novels too — is that right?
Yeah.

Do you know anything about those projects?
No, I don't know anything about their books. But I know they don't really know anything about the comic-book genre. Neither one of 'em. I don't know why they even jumped into it like that. I guess they're getting their feet wet in a little bit of everything. We'll see when the product is done. Maybe it'll be better than mine.

So you see yourself as the true comic-book believer in the Wu?
Absolutely. If you'd seen my collection, you would know.

How many comics do you have in your collection?
I can't count [them all], man. But it has to be over 25,000.

As a big fan, what do you think of all the comic-book movies this summer? You mentioned Iron Man, there's the new Incredible Hulk...
I think they're prostituting the game. I won't mention any names, because some of these studios I'm planning on working with in the future. But it's like they sacrifice storyline for time and seats in the movie theater, you know? If you're trying to appeal to 13-year-olds and 12-year-olds, that's cool — make a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie! Which they did, and I liked that movie. But the real fanboys, we're Generation X-ers. We're in our mid-to-late 30s now. And we're not going to sit there — knowing the origin of our favorite comic-book hero — and see it butchered and spit out there 15 minutes into the film. Or [see] our favorite villains thrown all into one movie, as if that's even possible, and then made into a fight scene that doesn't even do the villain any justice — or the hero, for that matter. It's not done in the book like that! I wish they would learn lessons from people like Robert Rodriguez, who actually had the person who created the book [Frank Miller] sit there with him on the set [of Sin City] and tell him, frame by frame, ''This is what this looks like.'' He copied the comic book damn near perfectly, and the movie was a great success. 300 was the same thing. I can't see how they don't see it. I want to see what happens to this Wolverine movie [X-Men Origins: Wolverine]. I'm hoping not to be disappointed. I won't talk about Fantastic Four because there's not a person on this planet over the age of 15 that liked those two movies. I'm serious. Let me stop, that's mean. But you can't do that to the most powerful team on the planet! The Fantastic Four, and then you turn it into a comedy, damn near?! No! Stan Lee, stand up! But I'll tell you this much — whenever they come out with a comic-book movie, I'll still go see it, whether to complain about it or to praise it.

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