One of their single best creations, is Roger, The Stan Lee Experience! He's the fifth best thing to actually getting Stan Lee to make commentary while reviewing The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction! He imparts upon us great stories from the old days like:
'Kirby (pronounced Koiby) walks into my office and pitches the idea for the Fantastic Four. I said "That's the dumbest idea I ever heard! Get the fuck
It's funny because it's probably distrubingly close to the truth. So now, because I'm lazy, I present my five favorite Rogerisms:
'So I call Kirby into my office to pitch the idea for Galactus. I say "He's a big purple guy, who has to eat planets to sustain life, kind of like how I fucked
'So I'm fucking
'So I call Ditko into my office to talk about how he's drawing Mary Jane. I tell him "Draw her more like this", and show him a naked picture of his wife sitting on my lap. He says, "Stan, that's my wife!" I say, "Yeah, your kid took the picture." He drew the best Mary Jane.'
'Excelsior! That means "DC's for douchebags".' (Note: from 1988 through 2000, I whole-heartedly agreed with that sentiment, even if I'd never heard the word 'douchebag'. Depending on how Batgirl ends, I may adopt that philosophy again)
And finally. . .
'We used to prank call Bob Kane. We'd say we was the real Batman, and we was gonna kill him for stealing our idea. Then we'd throw a rock through his window.'
I told you it was mostly lowbrow. Something more substantive tomorrow, I hope.
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Actually, there's something on the new special edition dvd of the 1989 Batman that suggests that this stuff isn't too far from the truth. Stan's on it, and he tells a story about how Kane, after the film was a hit, would call him up and mock him about how his character was a movie star and Spider-Man wasn't. Then Stan laments that now Spidey is a movie star, he can't call Kane up and mock him back. Then he laughs.
Ouch. That's cold. Was Bob Kane alive when Batman and Robin came out? If I was Stan, I would have called Kane up and mocked him for that piece of crap.
From a lot of things I've read and heard, I get the feeling Stan is trying to cement his place in comics history, like he's worried comic readers are going to forget who he is in 50 years or something.
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