Thanks to Chris Sims at Comics Alliance for the love! 🙂

Q: What are the best comics (ostensibly) “created” by people who are “celebrities” but not professional writers? — goodthingsulike

A: There’s been a bunch of books over the past few years where a celebrity has attached his or her name to a comic, with people country music star Trace Adkins (“Luke McBain”), actress Rashida Jones (“Frenemy of the State”), and Seth Green (“Freshmen”) attempting to use their star power to lure a crossover market into comic shops. And while I generally skip out on that sort of thing, the cream of the crop is pretty easy to pick out: Jane Wiedlin’s “Lady Robotika.”

And I’m not just saying that because I have a total crush on Jane Wiedlin, the cutest Go-Go, either, although I can definitely assure you that that is in fact the case. More than anything else, what makes me like it is that together with co-writer/artist Bill Morrison — the long-time writer and artist on “Simpsons Comics” whose involvement was a big part of getting me interested — Wiedlin has addressed the major problem with Celebrity Comics, which is that the celebrities in question aren’t actually in them.

Rather than just being a comic with her name above the title, “Lady Robotika” is actually about Jane Wiedlin. Specifically, it’s about her being kidnapped by aliens and going to space to battle an evil space emperor, a space dominatrix and her sexy space-soldiers, which are referred to as “Iron Maidens.” And that is awesome.

It’s also really funny. It’s a little heavy on the pop culture references, even for a book revolving around an alien society that’s built entirely around interpreting TV and radio transmissions from Earth, but when they hit, they’re pretty darn sharp:

Also, there’s the whole thing where Jane Wiedlin fights a space dominatrix. I cannot emphasize that point enough.