Ne-Yo unveils team up with Stan Lee

He's no stranger to collaboration but US R&B star Ne-Yo unveiled his strangest team-up to date over the weekend. The R&B singer shared a stage with 87-year-old comics legend Stan Lee at the New York Comic Con on Saturday to unveil his first foray into the medium. Ne-Yo has collaborated with the former Marvel president on Libra Scale, a comic strip written to complement his forthcoming album of the same name. As part of an ambitious multimedia project, the videos to the album's first three singles – Beautiful Monster, Champagne Life and One in a Million – represent a continuous live-action comic-book narrative, with two more videos promised. The story concerns a hero called Jerome who is granted superpowers with the proviso that he must never fall in love. When he breaks the pact by falling for a girl called Pretti Sinclair, she is transformed into supervillain Diamond Eyes and an epic battle ensues. On the convention stage, Lee said: "Basically a really good rapper or really good music is super because people love it – and it inspires a man, it makes him feel great Reading a really good comic book with super characters does the same thing. And I promised Ne-Yo that I'm gonna make him feel at home and make sure that he feels comfortable with what we're doing, because he's a very shy guy! "But seriously ... nothing appeals to young people or even older people as much as a good story and good music, so we're gonna put them both together." An increasing number of musicians have been dabbling in the comic-book world. Gerard Way , the My Chemical Romance frontman, won an Eisner award for his series The Umbrella Academy , while Melissa Auf der Maur adapted her recent album Out of Our Minds into both a graphic novel and a short film.