Run-DMC’s Darryl McDaniels Launches Comic Book With Latino Characters (Video/Pics)

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Darryl McDaniels of the legendary hip hop group Run-DMC is giving urban youth characters they can relate in the form of a new comic book with Latino characters.

"I didn't want to be another rapper who was trying to capitalize on the hip hop genre just because I had a hit record," DMC told the New York Daily News. "I wanted to tackle real issues head on."

The Hollis Queens, New York native partnered with Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez to bring the comic book to life through his independent publishing house, Daryl Makes Comics.

Real life issues such as AIDS, drug addiction, domestic violence, homophobia and teenage pregnancy will be addressed in throughout the issues.

DMC has hired Latino illustrators and writers, who will bring to life characters that mirror society.

"Women are attacked, abused or killed an amazing number of times in comic books and we don't want to do that," says Miranda-Rodriguez. "We don't want to glorify abuse or victimize women. You will see yourself in the book because you are supposed to see yourself in the book,"

DMC's love for comic books fostered the idea to make his own.

"[We want] to let the world know we are going to do this comic book 100% authentic for comic book culture," DMC told Sway in the Morning during a 2013 interview. "This is not the rapper DMC doing a hip hop comic book. This is Darryl McDaniels, a comic book fiend doing a comic book. Batman, Superman, DMC. It ain't gonna be no rapping DMC. I'm a real official super hero. There's a new hero on the block so wake up y'all."