Superheroes Tonight on Robot Chicken
September 12, 2007 | 2 Comments
Above is the entirety of the episode: “Tapping a Hero” from Season 3 of Robot Chicken. The specific segment I’m hugely entertained by occurs at 7:35. Stan Lee and Pamela Anderson dish on many of the superheroes in “Superheroes Tonight”. Best of all is the section beginning: “After a long career as the Justice League’s most impotent failure, Aquaman finally has a new career…”
OK, if you hang around past the credits, you may find Stan’s explanation of the Watcher, the Punisher and the Shocker even better…
(and yes, Stan Lee did truly voice this himself)
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Feedback Comic - November 29th
October 3, 2006 | 3 Comments
The upcoming Feedback comic from Dark Horse will be available on November 29th. This comic is based on the Sci-Fi reality series Who Wants To Be A Superhero?. As expected, it will be authored by Stan Lee. The artist will be Will Conrad who has drawn Serenity and Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics in the past. The book will be 32 pages and full color.
No word yet on the movie release date.
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Who Wants To Be A Superhero?
July 9, 2006 | 3 Comments
Premiering July 27th on SCI FI Channel is Stan Lee’s new 6 episode reality series “Who Wants To Be A Superhero?” at 9PM.
The basic premise is that a bunch of hopefuls will show up in self-made costumes and strut their stuff as a character of their creation. “Lucky” finalists will leave their “normal” lives and compete 24/7 to prove they have what it takes to be true super heroes. They’ll each be tested for courage, integrity, self-sacrifice, compassion, and resourcefulness — all traits that every true superhero must possess.
In the end, one aspiring superhero will be declared the winner of this six-week competition. They will walk away with their character immortalized in a new comic book created by Stan Lee himself and the winning character will also appear in an original SCI FI Channel movie…
I’m a crazy rabid comics fan, but this seems a bit out there even for me. I poked around in the initial gallery of hopefuls and just like American Idol, the real entertainment here may be in seeing who shows up to compete. Everybody loves a train wreck…
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New Avengers, New Comics Legend
November 23, 2005 | 5 Comments
Over the last few months of reading Amazing Spider-Man, a continually running core plot point has been his membership in a newly reformed Avengers. Never having been a huge Avengers fan, I wasn’t initially very interested, but this interest has slowly increased.
I just completed reading New Avengers Volume 1: Breakout, which collects New Avengers #1-6. After completing this, I was hooked. The writing was just all out fantastic. I hadn’t been this excited about a comic since the Ultimate Spider-Man Collection. It was then it hit me.
Bendis wrote Ultimate Spider-Man, and he also wrote New Avengers. In fact it was him who dissolved the original Avengers. That series has been compiled in the aptly named Avengers Disassembled.
Bendis has also been involved in writing Daredevil, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Fantastic Four. In the meantime he created and wrote Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Secret War, Alias, Powers, and House of M. He’s also responsible for bringing Spider-Woman and Luke Cage back to life.
I’m looking forward to getting my hands on as many Bendis written stories as I can. As far as I’m concerned he’s a living legend like Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Jack Kirby, or Steve Ditko. In 5-10 years all the comics based movies will be driven by the characters and worlds Bendis is creating and expanding right now.
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