Another Apology

I am sorry, but posting a story today is just not happening. I can barely screen-suck, in order to give you an idea of how sick I am. There will be something for you next week. I promise.

In the mean time, how about an analysis of Stan Lee's work that will probably prevent me from ever working at Marvel?

I take it from the rotten tomatoes, boos and jeerings that you're all fans of silver age comics. For those of you who aren't, please go out and read his stuff before taking my upstart, rascal opinion to heart.

For those of you who don't have any idea who Stan Lee is, he is the man who created such American superhero comics Thor, Iron Man, Spider Man, The X-Men, and many other characters. He was a bold, visionary man who did so much for comic books. His characters and themes have usually stood the test of time. Even some of the things that seemed like mistakes at the time, usually came back. For example, the X-Men were originally considered a fail.

However, I can't stand reading his comics. Maybe I'd have liked them better if I was born at the time, but writing wasn't one of his talents or strokes of genius. However, I would like to thank him for letting him let other writers for playing in his universe. For example, compare Essential Spiderman Volume #1 to Ultimate Spiderman Volume #1: Power and Responsibility. Seriously, do that before reading any further. Now that you've done that, I can safely give you my opinion that I like Brian Bendis and Peter David (see X-Factor.) Hopefully, I need not do any more explaining than that.