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Stan Lee To Create Online Comic Strip
Winston Smith writes "Stan Lee, creator of Spider Man and numerous other superheroes, will be releasing a web comic called The Seventh Portal, coming as soon as September. More info can be found at The Orange County Register. "
if he makes it a pay site it will flop.
if he makes it ad-supported it will flop.
i hope he'll make it ad-supported. he has a lot of money and could support a high 'burn rate' for a year or two before he realizes you can't make money off online content.
Wow, on-line comics. Been there, done that over three years ago. I seriously doubt even a paper legend could approach the slashdotness of Zark. :-)
Okay, here you go. (Sung to the tune of the Spiderman theme.)
Y2K, Y2K,
Here's the story 'bout Y2K.
The internet...will go bust,
computers everywhere gather dust.
Hey man, here comes the Y2K.
Is it bad? Listen bud,
USA Today's spreading FUD.
Whatever will...George Lucas do?
Without machines, there's no "Menace II."
Look out...here comes the Y2K.
At his cy-ber-house,
Bill Gates bangs on the door.
When the system crashed,
There's no door! Any more!
Y2K, Y2K,
Better download that patch today.
Someone wrote...some sloppy code.
Now we're headed down the commode.
Oh well! I guess they'll fix it later!
Don't take the elevator!
Here comes the Y2K!!!!
nt
I'll get excited when Adam Warren (Dirty Pair, some Gen13) and Matt Wagner (Mage?, Grendel, Dark Knight Returns) make the jump. Sluggy Freelance and Japanese Beetle can keep me occupied 'till then.
Um, if I was judging Stan for his art I wouldn't be a big fan either.
It wasn't Stan's fault it was Kevin Smiths. In Mallrats he claims that Stan was the sole creator of Spiderman Hulk FF etc.. kill Kevin Smith!!!
(according to Alex Ross in a Wizard interview a whiel back)
Come to think of it, it was Jason Lee's fault, not Kevin's...
Lee Falk - Phantom creator.
" will always respect Stan Lee for the great comics and superheroes he's created...but the man is pushing (or past?) eighty. It's nice that he's still trying new things at his age--I guess comics really will keep you young--but we all know people in their forties who don't "get" the Internet...how much more so Stan Lee?"
With all due respect, that comment is FUD. "Getting it is not based on age, and even though I am 20, I don't automatically assume that an 80 year old can't "get it." Besides he is an artist, its not as if he has to configure a firewall or anything;)
Stan Lee is a writer. Jack Kirby is probably the most famous artist he's been paired with, back in the 60s.
Make Mine Marvel!
(And start buying Generation X and Deadpool. They rock.)
Jack Kirby died about 7 years ago or so, IIRC.
Mark Gruenwald passed away two years ago.
Go and do a search on the Internet for Jack Kirby.
Stan Lee is a giant asshole who ripped off Jack Kirby...Stan Lee is not a good writer.....read actual comics and stories he's written and you will see. He is not capable of doing anything more than very simple and basic superhero stories...and they all have the same structure.
Aside from what Stan Lee ripped off from Jack Kirby, he is still a jerk. He tried as hard as he could to discredit him, with the goal of making sure that he got all the credit for being the "father of modern comics" or whatever his ego demands.
If you look at Jack Kirby comics, you can see that his writing is superior. His whole "New Gods" creation at DC was very interesting, and shows that he was capable of creating much more interesting story lines and plots than Stan Lee ever was.
Rob Malda, bitten by a radioactive slashdot, becomes:
...
SLASHDOT-MAN!
With the power to overload any web site
He jointly created Spiderman with Kirby (who designed the character) and Ditko (who drew the early issues - at Marvel the stories were briefly plotted, then drawn, then written so the artist had a major hand in the story).
Lee's not an artist and given the Marvel system anything he created was effectively co-created - mostly with Kirby but occasionally with others (I think for example Daredevil was designed by Wally Wood, and Lee's Captain Marvel was drawn by Gene Colan).
The accusation elsewhere on this page that Lee ripped off Kirby isn't strictly true - Marvel ripped off Kirby.
Any chance you could post some links?
Why was no legal action taken?
The website I found vaguely annoying, but just because someone's taste or storytelling abilities are not of a type I enjoy doesn't automatically mean they ripped someone off.
Spawn and Dream are better characters anyway.
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
It's been around for a while now, and we've bought the books.
And one of the t-shirts.
So obviously the author is making some money from this.
Besides, I love the super-size, full colour, Sunday strips.
That and the insanity in the general storylines.
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
Which DC characters didn't survive into the sixties?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
...now that I can finally view it. It required Macromedia Flash, and Netscape 4.6's plugin finder couldn't find a version of it for Linux. Then, on a hunch, I checked on Macromedia's website, and there was a beta Flash plugin right there. Miracles never cease.
Anyway, aside from the marks off for no non-Flash page (and all that it requires Flash for is the opening graphic anyway!), whoever wrote this site must be Stan Lee, as he shows all the signs of having lost touch with reality ten years ago--or else he's pitched the site at preadolescents and early adolescents, and his planet-sized ego is all over the page--even in the radio-button poll.
I will always respect Stan Lee for the great comics and superheroes he's created...but the man is pushing (or past?) eighty. It's nice that he's still trying new things at his age--I guess comics really will keep you young--but we all know people in their forties who don't "get" the Internet...how much more so Stan Lee?
I think Stan Lee is miscalculating. The audience for web comics thus far, as the article says, has been net-savvy people who happened to find them in the course of their other surfing, liked them, and stuck around. I honestly don't think that a lot of regular comic book fans look for comics on-line...or that they can be so easily convinced to change their habits and start.
Of course, this doesn't mean I won't read the comic strips when they premiere...
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It's a shame there's no moderator option for "Shameless Plug" or you'd be wearing a concerete -1 now....
Nice boots btw.
Dunno I'd be a fan of Stan Lee for his art... Jack Kirby on the other hand...
Warren Ellis was going to be doing an online comic. I think the idea was that the serialised strip would be partly supported by advertising, and partly there to sell the Graphic Novel whenever it came out. Not a bad idea, as these days most comic books are basically just promotion for the inevitable collected edition. This way you get round the problem of most people not going into comic shops, and also get a certain (if small) amount of income while writing the thing.
BTW: People who dig slashdot, would probably dig Transmetropoliton. Hunter Thompson crossed with cyberpunk. There be TPBs available in bookshops.
To be completely honest, I'm not a big Stan Lee fan (I'm not a big Spiderman fan either, although I do own several "important" issues, but ever since that whole "I'm a clone!" fiasco, I'll never look back)... Anyhoo, Stan Lee's a great artist, sure, but there's other great artists out there making comics (and not just for nerds, etc. like that article said ...) So, maybe his name will help him get visitors to the site, who knows... I for one don't like to read for too long on a computer screen (I do enough as it is)... Where was I going? Uh, Stan Lee's good at art, but is he good at dealing with the weirdness the Internet can bring?
:)
Anyway, until Grant Morrisson does something on the Net, I'm not gonna get too excited
But that's the theme song to the 60's Spiderman cartoon!
;)
BTW, he's got radioactive blood because he was bitten by a radioactive spider. That's how he became Spiderman. Maybe knowing that now the joke about Slashdotman will make more sense.
Sorry for the bluntness, but didn't he die about
five months ago? Or am I thinking of a different
comic book guy?
Heheh...
This reminds me of a Moxy Früvous song, called Spiderman because of a passage...
(Mike)
Spiderman, Spiderman
Friendly neighborhood Spiderman
Is he strong? Listen bud,
He's got radioactive blood
Hey there [...]
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Yes, very much so :-) Thanks for that. :))
(pretends to raise your score to informative, but has no such ability
OFTC: By the community, for the community
Do you believe the nerve?! They didn't even mention my comic, After Y2K! ;-)
Nitrozac