Over at ICv2, retailer Steve Bennett really has problems with Stan Lee’s latest TV show:
[Who Wants To Be A Superhero?] isn’t doing our industry any favors by presenting superheroes in a way so disconnected from the way super-heroes (hyphen intentional) are depicted in contemporary comic books. Most WWTBASH contestants’ conception of a superhero is stuck at that classic cross between fairy godmother and old school kid’s TV show host who spouts public service announcement sound bites about good citizenship while helping find lost little girls.
If the show was to give an accurate depiction of a modern superhero’s life one of the show’s challenges might go something like, “OK Mr. Mitzvah, your girlfriend has been killed and stuffed in a refrigerator, your mother killed by a sentient space Ebola virus and you’ve just discovered your government is complicit in the operation of a death camp that executed 6,000 men, women and children, what do you do?”
August 15th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
If they wanted a contemporary representation of superheroes, then the contestants would be locked up in a dark room, and then a guy would jump on them and will try to rape him or her in the ass while showing them a video of their dead family. It would be kinda like Hostel… I don’t think it would be legal, though.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Well, it probably would be better if Stan didn’t have so much creative control over the show. I have so much respect for the man, but it is just sad to see how senile he is. He kicked Major Victory off the show for being “humorous” and “superheroes don’t tell jokes.” Excuse me, Spider-Man, anyone?
August 15th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
isn’t a realistic depiction of comic characters what that new supervillain show is about?
August 15th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
seth: you mean 30 minute meals with rachel ray?
August 16th, 2007 at 2:01 am
Well that’s how they pitched it to television. Just look at these stupid people willing to dressup like assholes to get on TV. But yeah, the show is bad for comics overall and makes comic readers look like dumb losers.
August 16th, 2007 at 2:19 am
[i]. But yeah, the show is bad for comics overall and makes comic readers look like dumb losers.[/i]
Because – obviously – the only comics [i]ever made[/i] are superherocomics.