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'“The title She-Hulk evokes light-hearted stories about a Jennifer Walters who is at peace with herself and in full control of her powers,” says Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso. “This isn’t that book.' Ah, thanks for the warning.

To be honest, it's more complicated than that. Green energy is a perfect example: for every job you're creating, you're losing jobs in the coal and gas industries, PLUS the jobs you're hoping to create require expensive infrastructure investments. (It's a lot easier to just keep making cars with internal combustion

I kind of doubt that. Marvel definitely had a consistent voice (and a consistent house art style until the 80s), but having read way more than my share of Stan Lee comics, I can tell you that his dialogue gets old fast. I think the reason Marvel stole a lot of DC's market share was because Marvel characters had

Mr. A (set in the same cinematic universe as the Atlas Shrugged trilogy)

this weed is making me defensive

No, I think the point was that I got called out for mentioning "Kirby, Ditko, and others", because apparently I'm not allowed to mention those two without explicitly calling out every other artist that worked with Stan Lee, even though those two demonstrably are way, way more influential than all the other Silver Age

OK, yeah, so some Spidey villains and side characters. I'm not trying to diminish that, but if you put it next to either Kirby or Ditko…I think Romita would agree with me that, influence-wise, he's not really in those guys' league.

Don't get me wrong, I love Stan Lee, but I don't think anyone can deny that he was very self-promoting. It's pretty clear that he was willing to step on some people if it got him to Hollywood, and acknowledging that he maybe wasn't really totally responsible for the creation of Marvel's most famous characters would

So to be clear: Don Heck co-created Iron Man, and Bill Everett co-created Daredevil. (Sub-Mariner doesn't count because that predates Stan Lee's involvement in comics, and we're talking specifically about how Lee tended to take full credit for co-creations.) Off the top of my head, I can't think of any John Romita /

That's an…interesting take on it…

Totally! Or dialogue that contradicts the obvious intent of the image. (Example: Kirby draws Red Skull shooting someone to death off-camera, and Lee scripts a witness as saying "You blasted every button off his jacket!": http://www.supermegamonkey…. )

Well, look, I don't think he's evil…but, the 'Marvel Method' was basically a way for him to leave a lot more writing up to the artists, who honestly did the bulk of the work while he got all the fame. Kirby, Ditko, and others definitely got the short end of the deal.

"But Dad, I've been doing this for over 30 years, and I'm very wealthy and successful!"

"…doesn’t say whether or not Lee himself pitched this to Fox (even though he obviously did)…" "Naturally, the Stan Lee character should also be the main protagonist of those movies, but Kirby and Ditko could be acknowledged in some way."

That's also why he looks pretty goofy.

Can we all just please agree that life is terrible and the world is terrible and we should all just die already

Yeah, definitely. I also though there was some drug implication to the ending, anout getting "so high". In fairness, those would have been prerequisites to getting embraced by the gay disco community in '77.

That was by far the best Safety Dance video posted on this feature

It started right when I moved to Seattle, and I was working as a technician at Northwest Cable News at the time, so I got to see a lot of Knox footage. The thing they kept using was this sort of haunting video of Knox, kissing her boyfriend who was wearing a Harry Potter scarf, and she's looking off in the distance in

At some point the prosecution brought up the fact that Knox owned a vibrator. I want to believe they would have been laughed out of an American courtroom, but who knows