Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man is entering the NFT arena with the launch of his own comic book series Tical World. The “Bring The Pain” rapper has revealed in the past that he’s a comic book enthusiast and currently hosts the weekly Marvel podcast “Marvel/Method.” A few of his guests have include Killer Mike and DMC as they discussed their infatuation with superheroes and comics.
According to Rolling Stone, the first installment of the rapper’s anthology series, “Part 1: The Origin,” features original characters, animations, artwork, apparel, and unreleased music available for sale as non-fungible tokens. Tical World will include a Killa Beez-inspired original artwork signed by Method Man and New York artist Alex Smetsky.
Other features will include a 3D-enabled digital animation depicting the origin story of Tical World and an unreleased audio recording with music and lyrics by Method Man. The sole copies of the first artistic renderings of the Tical World characters and a gold VIP card for Tical Athletics, Method Man’s athleisure line, will come with the purchase as well. Tical World also represents the first “community owned crypto-characters” to use Flow Blockchain, developed by Dapper Labs and secured by the patented TuneGO Vault.
“Open worlds continue to collide as incredible musicians make their move to blockchain. We can’t wait to enter Tical World with legendary emcee Method Man, a true comic book aficionado launching his very own comic universe of exclusive NFTs with Tunego,” the Flow blockchain Twitter account posted.