No, no no... they are spending $24 million of THEIR money to entertain us, why aren't we appreciative?..

i work for corporate america, i work for a fifty billion dollar a year company, wheres the love for the little guy whos really making all that money for them...no where!

Well Condor and Mosaic were such huge successes why wouldn't you throw money at the man?

No disrespect to a comic icon, but at this point having Stan Lee create things for you is like asking Willard Scott to take back his old job from Roker.

Do you know why they're being kept under wraps? Because Stan probably hasn't thought of them yet.

Or more accurately, he hasn't found a Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko to create them for him yet. Zing!

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome:

That was a weird analogy. But I get what you're saying.

@AdamL: If you get an analogy, then it was a good one.. so thank you ;)

@extracrispy: What he really needs is like to create something after an aging soft porn star/ rock slut... oh wait.

I still miss monkey girl.

So, season 3 of Who Wants To Be a Superhero?

Oh gods, please stop this man before he creates more waste of money. He's nothing but a non stop money hole that investors love to throw money at simply because he's Stan Lee and somehow is bound to come up with something sooner or later.

Why do people keep betting on Stan 'The Man' Lee? He hasn't had a new idea for, what, 40 years now?

Giving stan lee money and the allowance to seemingly do whatever he wants isn't a great idea, to be honest. As someone mentioned before, the Condor and Mosaic cartoons were a bizarre affair. They even had semi-big names doing the voices and they never even trickled into peoples conciousness. And who wants to be a super hero was a show with such a baffling concept that it would hurt my brain if I watched it too long. Stan should not be allowed the proverbial "Creative Consultant" chair these days.

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome: Get rid of this girl and bring me another one!

@Log1c: As Letterman used to point out, these millions are being spent to bring programming to you at NO cost as well!

Of course, that the millions could be spent on feeding the needy never seems to occur to people.

What about a carbon tax on television production. If it were up to me, I'd make it a sliding tax based on the quality of the writing...so...

30 Rock == Tax Free (maybe even a credit!)

BSG Season 4 = Tax Free

2.5 Men = Oppressively crushing tax rate that increases proportionate to the square of the ratings

Of course, that latter could apply in general to anything featuring Charlie Sheen in a "starring" role.

"...Shit-Kicker Girl..."

I would read that comic.

I had heared a rumor not to long ago, that Disney world(florida) and Stan Lee were in discussions on a potential new park. It would make a bit of sense since there are rumors that Disney world might be making two new parks and one of them being 'adult' oriented. but what do I know.

@darcymcgee: What about Men at Work? That was alright, wasn't it?

And whats so wrong with 2.5? He kind of reminds me of me in my college days, minus the musical talent and money.

Who Wants to be a Superhero is awesome. It's so classic. If this new show comes close to the hillarity, it will be awesome. But that probably won't be the case.
P.S. I can't believe the Defuser won season 2, dude was a meat head.

What, don't any of you remember the quality of Stan Lee's the Condor? Excelsi-

No, wait, I'm sorry, not even sarcastically can I reccomend the Condor.

Fuck a Stan Lee. Fuck him right in the ear.

Comic Book blasphemy, I know. But I don't give a shit.

i was totally rooting for fat mama (or whatever her name was) in s1

Wow, I hate to be the only one to stick up for Stan Lee but you sound like a bunch of trolls with no understanding of entertainment taking the chance to bash an old man. Why don't you slam your parents for not raising you better?

In simplest terms you've outgrown Stan Lee. Stan Lee's content does not target people over the (mental) age of 13. Most of the money goes to marketing to his core audience which if there was no market would not keep getting him gigs. I could easily say the same of just about all Disney content. There's a huge market for it, but a market that people only participate in when they are a child or an adult who has just had kids.

All of his creations are great if you're a kid and haven't been exposed to all the other adult content out there, but you outgrow them and start to look for something less Harry Potter and more Lord of the Rings.

If you go back as an adult and watch all those movies or read all those comic books that had an incredible impact on you as a kid, you'll find they aren't as good as you remember. In fact, most are crap. They were good because it was all new or original to you then. The best are those that first introduced you to dark edginess.

My favorite example is the X-Men, which as a child was good, certainly much better than anything done after 1993, but definitely not as good as I remembered it. It doesn't help they constantly rehashed the same stories over and over. There's plenty of room for that content in channels that target kids, it just may no longer be your niche since you've 'grown up and become a more educated and aware consumer with opinions based less on smoke and mirrors and more on story and character development'.

I also want to point out that since Stan Lee's day there hasn't been much new or exciting in the world of superheroes or comics. I'd rather have Stan Lee's cheesy characters and heroes against Todd MacFarlane's well drawn but horribly written titles any day. Sensationalism targets the lowest common denominator aka The Masses.

Now if you want to be all anti-corporate and anti-establishment (something also known as counter-culture) my advice is to get a clue. Every dime you spend on entertainment and every second you spend paying attention to fictional flights of fancy are a waste of time when you could be spending every spare minute and dime you have on educating and feeding people. Just because someone spends $24 million on entertainment doesn't mean some kid somewhere doesn't learn or get something out of it. Adopting a non-conformist attitude is part of establishing your identity, but so is being a conformist and allying yourself with something you believe in to be part of something greater than yourself. It's part of growing up and finding out where you fit in the balance between business and creativity, between exploitation and education, between positive and negative liberty.

We are all just good little consumers to the corporations and brands we devote ourselves to loyally, despite how bad they are/can be. We are tools, all victims to systems that we haven't mastered. Entertainment can be seen as a waste of time and money (music comes to mind) or part the journey of intellectual and emotional development.

Why do you waste all that money on action figures and toys that will just sit in a box in your closet in five to seven years because you've outgrown childish things and those who value them aren't willing to pay what they are worth to you?

Think of all crap you grew up on that you just loved and still have some kind of loyalty to simply because it became an integral part of your identity. Maintain a perspective that allows you to appreciate where all these things fit into life. Don't be a fly-by troll looking to throw out unproductive negative opinions like it's your attitude matters and the conclusions you've formed don't.

@psych0fred:
I totally agree, Striperella is totally on par with creations such as Spiderman and The Fantastic Four, and age appropriate for kids.

@psych0fred:
Dude, no one 13 or under knows/cares who Stan Lee is. His 'rep' lies with Boomers who read the early Marvels in the early-mid 1960s and are now old enough (and have the jack) to finally get to pal around with their childhood "hero". Think FREE ENTERPRISE, but replace Shatner with a deluded con man.

@psych0fred: Well-said.

Actually, having thought about Stan a bit, I think of him more as an aluminum-siding salesman in a plaid suit than a con-man. He's a remnant of the sweatshop publishing segment that created work-for-hire comic books in the first place.

We can do better than that now.