This week's issue of Entertainment Weekly features a one-page comic story by Harvey Pekar and underground comic superstar Robert Crumb.  The Pekar/Crumb story immediately precedes the issue's cover story on Britney Spears, one of the most unlikely juxtapositions of pop culture icons ever. 

 

The topic of the comic story is a phone conversation between Pekar and Crumb, in which Pekar invites Crumb to participate in the EW gig and riffs on a live tour.  This is Pekar's third comic story in EW this year in the wake of the successful release of the American Splendor film (see 'EW Flogs Two Indy Comic Properties' and 'American Splendor Makes EW').

 

This is also the issue in which the monthly subscriber-only 'Listen 2 This' supplement appears with its customary two pages of comic reviews.  Titles reviewed this issue include Sgt. Rock:  Between Hell and a Hard Place (B), Conan the Legend (B+), Fray (A-), Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (B), Demo (B+), The Amazing Spiderman #500 (B) and Leave It To Chance Vol. 3 (A-).  Qualifying for special treatment is the DC Archives edition of Challengers of the Unknown, which gets a half-page feature as Mike Mignola's 'all-time favorite graphic novel.'