by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
The Brooklyn rapper appears on a second Marvel limited edition variant cover
Retailer hustl. has announced that Brooklyn hip-hop icon The Notorious B.I.G. is featured on an official Marvel 3 limited edition variant cover celebrating the release of Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII #3.
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Elliot Osagie, chief strategy officer of The Notorious B.I.G. Estate and CEO of Benin City said, “Comic book culture and the storytelling of Biggie go hand in hand. The characters fit, the cultural intersection works, and fans love seeing the two worlds together. That’s why we came back with another cover.”
In the current issue, B.I.G. plays the role of peacemaker between the two comic book characters. He appears to break up a fioght between Deadpool and Wolverine on the Brooklyn streets he grew up on. Biggie is not in the story or the series, but the special variant cover is a limited-edition collectible issue.
Source: Black Enterprise
