Charles Barkley Vs Godzilla Comic
At the beginning of the commercial godzilla is rampaging through tokyo when he hears barkley dribbling a basketball.
Charles barkley vs godzilla comic. Released in 1993 while the commercial was still fresh in the minds of. Barkley is the infamous radioactive tongue in cheek adaptation of the equally infamous nike television commercial from the early nineties and nike is never mentioned once throughout the story. Charles wade barkley origin. Tv spot produced by industrial light magic for weiden kennedy.
Silly as godzilla vs. Edited by bob sarles. A reddit for fans of comic books graphic novels and digital comics. Written by mike barron and alan smithee with art by jeff butler and keith aiken the 1993 comic strip features barkley stopping godzilla on the beaches of california.
Produced by clint goldman. Quite possibly the oddest godzilla comic ever published in america godzilla vs. Barkley during the 1992 mtv movie awards nike premiered a commercial featuring nba all star charles barkley as seen here. In 1993 the commercial was adapted into a comic book by dark horse comics.
Barkley as a kid. Charles barkley is a 1992 nike television commercial in which a giant sized version of nba star charles barkley challenges godzilla to a game of basketball in the streets of downtown tokyo the commercial was later adapted into a comic book. I had a t shirt depicting godzilla vs. Long time fans will remember godzilla s victory dance at the end of monster zero aka invasion of astro monster 1965 where he jumps up and down waving his arms in an aerobics style routine after beating up.
29 at the time of the story 1992 56 currently born in 1963 classification. The commercial was later adapted into a comic book by dark horse comics. Charles barkley is a 1992 nike television commercial in which godzilla plays basketball against a kaiju sized version of nba star charles barkley in tokyo. Charles barkley is a 1992 nike television commercial in which a giant sized version of nba star charles barkley challenges godzilla to a game of basketball in the streets of downtown tokyo.
Barkley might appear the comic actually follows in the footsteps of many godzilla films that establish the king of monsters is a huge sports enthusiast. As in dark horse comics his real life is a canon entry to the comic where thanks to a magical coin he was able to face godzilla in a basketball game. Shaq s 22 million 12 bedroom mansion is hide and seek heaven a year after the barkley nike television commercial aired dark horse comics decided to release a one shot comic inspired by it called godzilla vs.
