Stan Lee

Here's a pretty f*****g hilarious send-up of Stan Lee, by Warren Ellis.

One of the things I like about Warren Ellis is that he is genuinely curious about the new. He brings a hands-on technology feel to his work that makes for very cool comics. Two examples: The Global Frequency was an amazingly novel and well-executed comic, one of my all-time favorites; and I think his interpretation of the Fantastic Four in Ultimate Fantastic Four remains the only compelling bundle of ideas injected into that moribund franchise in the last thirty years.

In UFF, Ellis equipped Dr. Doom with a Nintendo controller used to operate an army of Bluetooth swarmbots! By rooting the technology of Doom and Richards on contemporary platforms and physics theory, Ellis made the the characters seem realistic and worldly.

Anyway, I'd love to read a Warren Ellis She-Hulk story.

io9, the Gawker Media blog that covers all the geekdom not covered by it siblings Kotaku and Lifehacker, dissed our green gal today! I couldn't believe my eyes as I read the snarky conclusion to io9's write-up of Stan Lee winning an award:

Someone who's attending the convention - running April 18th through 20th at the Jacob K. Javits Center - please, please ask him what the hell he was thinking when he came up with She-Hulk. And, punsters out there, don't even think of answering "the green."

Take everything that makes the Hulk cool, and make it hot. With breasts. How is that NOT a great idea?

Hasbro will offer a Marvel Legends action figure of Stan Lee at the 2007 San Diego Comic-con. From Action-Figure.com:

The 6" figure will retail for $14.99 and come wearing khaki pants, a blue windbreaker and eyeglasses. The photos also show him with a Spider-Man mask.

“We feel it’s long overdue that Stan Lee be immortalized as an action figure, much like the dozens of marvelous characters that he has created for years and years,” said Eric Nyman, Hasbro’s vice president of marketing in an interview with associated press. “And it couldn’t be more fitting than to create him as a ‘Marvel Legends’ figure.”

I wonder if Stan picked the old man pants and windbreaker?