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. "

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With great power, comes great responsibility ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Rob Malda, bitten by a radioactive slashdot, becomes:

SLASHDOT-MAN!

With the power to overload any web site ...

Cute Site...

[Robotech_Master]

...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...