Comic Book Mix Tape

With the holiday season in full swing, its always helpful to have a good suggestion of a meaningful gift to give to your loved ones. So with the spirit of do-it-yourself gifts in mind, I suggest making a comic book mix tape to go along with all the graphic novels you give out.

So here are the directions. First, you are going to need to buy a blank cassette tape (a blank CD will work but it's not nearly as cool!) Then write a list of superheroes that might have songs about them, or that refrence them, and try to find those songs in your collection to put on the tape. Its as simple as that.

O.K. so making a full tape of songs about superheroes is harder than i'm letting on and you are going to have to put a bit more effort into it, but isn't that what makes do-it-yourself gifts so great. If you're having trouble let me get you started. Here are five awesome comic related songs that should go on the tape:

1. Weezer - In the Garage (X-men Kitty Pride and Nightcrawler)
2. The Ravonettes - Attack of the Ghost Riders (Ghost Rider)
3. Gnarls Barkley - Transformer (The Transformers)
4. Veruca Salt - Spiderman\'79 (your freindly neighboorhood Spiderman, all 70's out)
5. Donovan - Sunshine Superman (Superman and Green Lantern)

If you are still having trouble here is a helpful website that list tons of songs just about superheroes.

So when your loved ones unwrap their Dr. Strange and Howard the Duck Essentials books make sure they can also listen to T-Rex and the Pretenders sing songs about them as well.

And feel free to post your favorite comic songs and share in the trivial fun.

Rock on comic readers!

-Jon