For the benefit of those who won't click the link, the new show is called "Who Wants to Be a Superhero." From the website:
Each contestant begins with an original idea for a superhero, a self-made costume, and their best superhero mojo. From thousands of hopefuls, Stan Lee chooses 11 lucky finalists who move together into a secret lair. There they will begin their transformations — and their competition for the opportunity to become real-life superheroes. Over the course of the series, they will test their mettle, try to overcome their limitations, and do what it takes to prove that they truly are super.
The finalists will leave their former lives behind and become their brainchild heroes, all under Stan Lee's watchful eye. Each week, our aspiring heroes will be challenged with competitions designed to test their true natures. No one will be asked to perform feats of impossible strength; our superheroes will be tested for courage, integrity, self-sacrifice, compassion, and resourcefulness — all traits that every true superhero must possess.
In the end, only one aspiring superhero will have the inner strength and nobility to open the gates to comic-book immortality. The winner of this six-week competition will walk away with their character immortalized in a new comic book developed with Stan Lee. And that's not all — the winning character will also appear in an original SCI FI Channel movie!
As someone who has gone out in public, not on Halloween, dressed as a character from a comic book, I would like to say that actual fanboys and fangirls have a much better grasp on the concept of reality than this.
3 comments:
........damn it.....janet!
I agree. You'd think that from what you hear about people interested in comic books that they are shut-ins and dweebs who dress up with their underwear on the outside all the time. Not true. People who enjoy the art form of comics have as much a grasp on reality as anyone else. Liken it to a sports fan. Many people like sports and even know some stats and thing about their favorite team(s). But there's always one or two rabid "super" fans that take it to a ludicrous extreme. Exactly the same with comics. Most people have a sense of reality. The guys in this show are the comic book fan equivelent of a guy at a basketball game painted in yellow (lead paint) with a giant foam finger in the stands. --Emp.Peng.
P.S. Apologies to anyone reading this who happens to be a lead paint-wearing basketball superfan.
Stan Lee should be ASHAMED of himself for helping to further DISCREDIT the reputation of comic book fans. As E.P. sez, we're not all losers who dress up in tights!
Of the 120,000 or so fans at Comic Con this weekend, i doubt more than a few of hundred walked around in costume, proportionaly a tiny fraction.
What Stan is doing is to further make people look down on Comic Book fans, I've lost whatever tiny shred of respect I had left for him!
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