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    Superheroes Good And Bad to the Rescue

    Stan Lee's New Mission: To Make British Children Cry

    Stan Lee To Co-Create Premium Cable's First Gay Superhero

    Stan Lee Coasts On Past Career To New Superhero Franchise
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    Image of kushiro kushiro
    03/31/09

    In reply to Superheroes Good And Bad to the Rescue
    Got my hopes up ridiculously high for Flash, and Seaguy should be all kinds of fantastic. However, first read of the week goes to The Boys, which never fails to disappoint.


    And, of course, after I've finished with it, I'll be donating it to the Millard, Nebraska school library program.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    03/31/09

    @kushiro: I hope that Seaguy will fight sentient fast food again.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    03/03/09

    In reply to Stan Lee's New Mission: To Make British Children Cry
    These British kids are rightfully upset, but the ones who got kicked off Who Wants to Go to the Orthodontist? have it worse.
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    Image of Ed Grabianowski Ed Grabianowski
    03/03/09

    @Moff: MegaZing!
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    03/03/09

    In reply to Stan Lee's New Mission: To Make British Children Cry
    Jeez, wait till they get on the intertubes and have their comic book torn apart by anonymous commentors with sharp wits and bitchy sayings.
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    Image of Moff Moff
    03/03/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Or, even worse: by us.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/03/09

    In reply to Stan Lee's New Mission: To Make British Children Cry
    Two children have been sent packing so far??


    Oh this day will come back to haunt us in about 20 to 25 years...


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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/03/09

    In reply to Stan Lee's New Mission: To Make British Children Cry
    That photo of Stan up there with the "cast" is the mental health equivalent of the phrase "If you want to look thin, surround yourself with fat people."
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    03/03/09

    @Garrison Dean: /snicker
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/03/09

    In reply to Stan Lee's New Mission: To Make British Children Cry
    Maybe Stan could do the world a favor and power down his involvement with Reality TV.
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    Image of Aethelred Aethelred
    03/03/09

    In reply to Stan Lee's New Mission: To Make British Children Cry
    Children and television are a bad mix, on either side of the tube.
    And no, H.R. Puff'n'Stuff wasn't good for kids either.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    03/03/09

    @Aethelred:

    The Amish have spoken!
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    Image of jccalhoun jccalhoun
    03/03/09

    In reply to Stan Lee's New Mission: To Make British Children Cry
    weird. the USA version had adults. It was actually entertaining because it was the opposite of Survivor -- if you acted selfishly or back-stabbed someone you got kicked off.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/03/09

    @jccalhoun: Yeah, it was good cheesy fun. But it did get seriously emotional for the contestants at times. I can't imagine putting little kids through that kind of scrutiny/attack, and I'm not even fond of children.


    Hope Stan('s people) does something nice for all the kids.


    I know the Daily Mail is crap, but if their description of the show is at all near reality, yikes!

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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    03/03/09

    In reply to Stan Lee's New Mission: To Make British Children Cry
    maybe their powers should be thicker skin - man up, kidlets!!!


    j/k


    *or am I??? bwaahahaha

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    Image of braak braak
    03/03/09

    In reply to Stan Lee's New Mission: To Make British Children Cry
    This is inaccurate. It was always Stan Lee's mission to make British children cry.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/03/09

    @braak: It's true. In 1971 he was spotted in a Manchester schoolyard setting fire to a pile of Paddington Bears while wearing a Dalek costume. Witnesses reported that he screamed the same word over and over again.


    "EXCELSIOR! EXCELSIOR! EXCELSIOR!"

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    Image of dragonian_angel dragonian_angel
    03/03/09

    @Grey_Area: This just made my day in so many ways.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    03/03/09

    @braak: I think we can amend this by removing the word 'British'.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/03/09

    @Thanatos: & @dragonian_angel: How very kind of you both. Thank you for encouraging my behavior.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    11/16/08

    In reply to Stan Lee To Co-Create Premium Cable's First Gay Superhero
    Flame on!


    Oh, wait.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/15/08

    In reply to Stan Lee To Co-Create Premium Cable's First Gay Superhero
    I guess Northstar doesn't count because he's Canadian...


    [en.wikipedia.org]

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    Image of Dormouse: Corporate Tool Dormouse: Corporate Tool
    11/15/08

    In reply to Stan Lee To Co-Create Premium Cable's First Gay Superhero
    Gay characters annoy me. Why can't they just have characters who are gay?
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    Image of ameliabearhart ameliabearhart
    11/15/08

    @Dormouse: Footsoldier in the War On The War On: I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but I think characters who just "happen to be gay!" are whitewashed (heterowashed?) because being gay is a part of who you are, not just a random thing attached to you. If a character has a pointy nose, they don't just have a pointy nose--it's a part of them.
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    Image of Dormouse: Corporate Tool Dormouse: Corporate Tool
    11/15/08

    @theitemgirl:


    "being gay is a part of who you are"


    Not really. For me, being gay is who I fuck, not who I am.


    I guess what I was trying to say is, almost every time I see a gay character on TV, their sexuality is the only reason they exist. They aren't an interesting character who is gay, they are just a "gay." It's the same thing many times with black people. They aren't interesting people who are black, they are just a "black."

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/15/08

    @Dormouse: Footsoldier in the War On The War On: No offence intended, but you really don't sound like someone who grew up gay. Or struggled to be known and accepted.


    In short, when you're telling a story about a character on tee vee you focus on primary motivations - loves, hates, deep desires. All tee vee characters are shallow. In action adventure shows they are profoundly shallow, where all their psychological motivations are right on the surface and they all end up crying all the time. Like with Buffy or Alias. With shows like the Office it's just shallowness on top of shallowness, as characters are defined by superficialities and stupidity.


    I don't know exactly what you mean by having a "character who just happens to be gay", because there would be no such thing on television.

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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/15/08

    In reply to Stan Lee To Co-Create Premium Cable's First Gay Superhero
    What about Peter Petrelli?


    Never mind that isn't cable.

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