Even though this seems interesting I think these new supers are going to be more in the like of the incredibles than Marvel type.

QuoteStan Lee signs deal with Disney
Comic book legend inks deal to develop new superhero franchises, including games.
By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UK
Posted Jun 7, 2007 12:40 pm GMT -3

Superhero movies are popular these days--Spider-Man 3 broke box office opening weekend records, X-Men: The Last Stand grossed $45.5 million on its opening day, and animated films like The Incredibles have also fared, well, incredibly. On the back of this success, Disney has decided that more superhero franchises would be a good idea, and is reported to have signed up Stan Lee to create new characters for the company, according to the BBC.

Lee will be bringing about 20 new characters into the world initially, including El Lobo, Chameleon, Thunder Rider, Whirlwind, Doubleman, Nightbird, and Blaze, all of whom are "in the active stages of development." On top of the first 20, Lee also has ideas for another 40 further down the pipeline.

His new characters will be the basis of new games, films, books, comics, and more. Lee said, "I've got millions of them [ideas]. I have file cabinets filled with ideas for movies and television shows and all sorts of things."

The 84-year-old Lee had a hand in the creation of many famous Marvel comic book superheroes including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Incredible Hulk, and Daredevil.

"Thunder Rider"? "Nightbird"? "Blaze"?

That sounds... fabulous!

I'm all manner of skeptical about whether Stan Lee can bottle that lightning again.

I'm actually rereading his early work (yay for DVD-ROM rereleases!) and I am astonished by how much of the strength of his characters comes from them being bad people in many important ways.

I started out with Fantastic Four, and I couldn't help noticing how incredibly, wonderfully screwed up they all are, as individuals and as a group ... I mean ... there's Reed Richards, who for decades is a sexist, dismissive, arrogant PIG ... and who you love anyway.

And then I started in on Hulk and ... ohmygod.  Rick Jones looks up to Bruce Banner as a father figure, but Bruce is prone to mood swings, in which he hurts Rick ... sometimes really badly (like hospitalized badly).  You've got scenes of Rick berating himself, saying that he's got to remember that Bruce doesn't really mean the things that Hulk says ... his father figure isn't really a bad person, just because he's violent, brooding, paranoid and heartless.  And Rick knows this because once in a blue moon the nice side of Banner emerges, and apologizes for all the shit he's done ... before going down that same damn path all over again.

I mean SHIT!  Stan Lee basically made an absolute archetype of the drunken abusive father (and lover!) ... and then he said "How bad am I going to have to hurt this guy, how unfair do his circumstances have to be, before even this guy can garner your sympathy and respect?"

Sadly, I see no evidence that he's got anything vaguely like that edgy chutzpah in him any more ... and without it, I think he's lost a lot of the spark that made for his genius.

You know, El Lobo strikes me as plain "terraja", the archetype of Mexican/Caribbean character that is supposed to be "representative" of all latin america.
I always hated that kind of shit.

If that's the case, I could be wrong and El Lobo is just Spanish or something.

As long as it isn't a rip-off of the OTHER Lobo... who was, as I recall, a rip-off of Wolverine or someshit.

Wait, what am I saying? A list of stupid hero names that are only vaguely evocative? This sounds like total ass... more than total. Complete and utter ass...

Yeah...

Quote from: UmaSamaYou know, El Lobo strikes me as plain "terraja", the archetype of Mexican/Caribbean character that is supposed to be "representative" of all latin america.
I always hated that kind of shit.

If that's the case, I could be wrong and El Lobo is just Spanish or something.

Ten bucks says he wears a wrestling mask...