11 Comic Books That Shouldn’t Exist, But Do Anyway

Produced by independent comic studio Bluewater Productions, the Political Power series profiles the lives of political figures. I'm not sure if Bill O'Reilly is any less annoying in comic book form, though.

I probably shouldn't be surprised that a Britney Spears biography comic exists, and yet I still am. I wonder if her habit of not wearing underwear makes an appearance here?

I like to consider Mother Teresa a real-life superhero, so I'm pretty down with the fact that Marvel put out a comic featuring her in 1984. She'd totally whup Doctor Doom's arse.

This one isn't just your standard abridged-with-pictures version of a classic. It's the ENTIRE TEXT of King Lear-- all five acts-- drawn into comic book form. Way better than Cliff Notes.

Unlike Political Power, this Bluewater Productions series doesn't just focus on politicians (though Sarah Palin is among the women with a comic in this line). According to a blurb about the Twilight creator's comic, Female Force: Stephenie Meyer allows readers to "witness her story as being told by the most famous vampire of them all!" While I'd like to think this means the book is narrated by Dracula, something tells me that Edward Cullen is more likely. Sigh.

What is Pippa Middleton doing in a comic? Shilling for PS3, of course! To promote the game inFAMOUS 2 in Britain, a bunch of comic artists got together and made a series of comics starring a bunch of celebs. Why Pippa's comic centers around some skeezy old bloke recognizing her based on her arse, though, is still a mystery.

Is Bieber even old enough to have had a life interesting enough to profile in a comic book?

DC put out this bio-comic in 1991. It's a good thing it was a one-off; otherwise, they would have had to change its title to that weird symbol Prince went by during his Artist Formerly Known As phase, and that would have been kind of awkward. Also, does anyone else think this one would have been way better if it had depicted Prince joining the pantheon of DC superheroes?

Madonna is the next celeb to join Bluewater's Female Force line. Says Bluewater executive vice president Jason Schultz, "Our goal is to show the little-known events and influences that resulted in Madonna becoming the phenomenon she remains to this day, more than a quarter-century after she burst upon the scene." And by "little-known events," he actually means the day the Madonna-bot was activated.

I first heard about My Friend Dahmer in Chuck Klosterman's book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. Klosterman once worked at a newspaper in Akron, Ohio with a comic book artist by the name of John "Derf" Backderf. Normally, this wouldn't be worth noting; however, Klosterman discovered about a month into his employment that Derf grew up with Jeffrey Dahmer. He wrote a memoir of his years running with the teenaged future serial killer; this comic is that memoir. Spooky.

Okay, so Rachael Ray doesn't have her own complete comic book (yet)-- but she did make an appearance in a Blondie strip.