"thanks super man! you averted the war and the day is saved!" "are humans building inter galactic spaceships yet?" "um... no?" "Damn it! Ok i'm going to go end world hunger. MAYBE THAT WILL GET YOU LAZY ASS HOLES TO BUILD A MARS COLONY!"
The Dragon Legault ”Alright, global warming solved.” ”thank you, Superman! You're amazing!” ”Do you have intergalactic ships yet?” ”We’re working on it but, we just don't have the technology for it.” ”Alright, screw this! Maybe if I start destroying the Earth you guys will get your shit together!”
I just noticed, but the signs that were used to make 'Clark Kent' could have also made 'Peter Parker'. "Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Spider-Man"! Wait
You know, I actually think this comic would have been improved by keeping Superman's wife alive. It would give him a better motivation to go back home, because as of now, I don't really know why he wants to go back. Plus presumably as he starts to grow attached to Earth and its people, he would have a real conflict between protecting this planet he's grown to love or returning home to his family.
I think the problem with this comic is that since it's a one-shot, Stan doesn't have the time to go deeper into Saldin's character beyond the superficial. Why did he become a cop and why didn't he have genetic modifications? Was it like MAN OF STEEL where children are genetically grown to have one specific job? Not a bad what if, but I think their is a reason that classic Supes stuck around for 75+ years.
As of the time of this comment Stan Lee has passed away into the far distant Valhalla reserved for comic legends. Fare thee well Stan, Excelsior (1922-2018).
I like the concept of Stan Lee re-imagining the DCU, but I wish he also collaborated with top writers along with artists. Stan's writing has not aged well and its extremely apparent in this book. It might have been better if Stan made an outline of each book, handed it to the creative team in charge of each book, and go from there.
7:19 Ah, gotta love the biggest trope of Stan Lee's old writing. Pure exposition and description of the present time, the likes only matched by Yu-Gi-Oh! and Jojo's Bizzare Adventure minus the poetic metaphors of part one. "Even Speedwagon is afraid!"
Yeah, but those were powers were from when Araki had no idea what he wanted from Stands, so he kept them simple and easy to experiment with. Now the series is something where a Stand like Chocolate Disco is a thing.
According to the Multiversity Guidebook, written by Grant Morrison, this world still exists as Earth 6 of the current Multiverse. And yes, apparently Salden's homeworld is called Krypton.
Man it would be awesome if this Superman had to live in a homeless shelter! Then he could see how the poorest of the poor live and then want to make things better for them and all of humanity!
ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΓΕΝΝΑΙΟΣ As much as I despise that movie, it did have ONE moment when Clark Kent stepped into Lois' tub (for some odd reason). Here, all the expression he makes is "Dull Suprise!"
The Bard oh yeah. sorry it's just that i didn't remember that part. possibly because i was paying more attention to amy adams rather than what was happening (don't judge me).
It feels like the biggest problems here are because Stan is just kind of an old man and is trying to get back into the Golden Age tropes without really remembering what they are
I remember when reading Convergence and seeing all of Stan Lee Dc's hero's slaughtered without any effort from their murderers and all i could think was. "what the fuck Dc?"
Actually it would be better than good, it would be concentrated awesome. Werewolves make everything better. Even Twilight was 2% better than it was (which made it a solid 0% good) because of the addition of werewolves.
This version of Superman seems a bit like a darker take on Mar-Vell, to be honest. Alien Soldier trapped on Earth. Except Mar-Vell was there to be a Kree Agent on Earth before he chose to abandon his mission and become a superhero, while here Superman is a darker character whose motivations are to help people for his semi-selfish purposes. Not a terribly heroic character, but a potentially interesting anti-hero
3:38 I actually don't have a problem with this. Human languages are full of sounds that are difficult for non-native speakers to pronounce. Take the ra/la, re/le, ri/li, ro/lo, and ru/lu sounds in Japanese; the entire reason native Japanese speakers have a problem with English r's and l's is that their language doesn't have either sound, but rather a sound _in-between_ the two, which also makes it difficult to transliterate to English and for English speakers to pronounce and leads to stuff like a character name being transliterated as "Kirara", but pronounced by the dub cast as "Key-lah-lah" Another commonly difficult sound is the rolled "r", as in the Spanish "rr". Or the "ch" sound found in Germanic and Middle Eastern languages. Just saying, a planet name that's hard to pronounce isn't really outside the realm of possibility.
11:31 - 11:43 Sounds more like Salden was transported to the Ninja Turtles drug PSA from the 80s. Bully: "What are you, chicken, Joey?" Joey: "I'm not chicken! *You're* a turkey!"
I feel like this story would have been better if Salden was just a scientist who made the space time bender and ended up on Earth by accident. While here he develops his powers and Lois still hires him for publicity so they can make money and make good will with the people to eventually work with the government to help get him home. During that time, Salden would read comic books about a super man and become inspired to actually do dangerously heroic acts despite Lois telling him to never try too hard. In the end Salden decides to call himself Superman and dedicate himself to being a REAL superhero.
3:25: this is the beginning, the beginning of our story, the beginning, the beginning,the beginning of our story. A giant no-prize for anyone who gets that reference.
Using the rough guidelines of this comic I think a much better story would have been. That he was one of the weakest on his entire planet yet wanted to follow in his father's footsteps of being a officer. He enrolls but fails to make it in after the training being the only one who couldn't fly have heat vision or any other powers. He then becomes a reporter on his planet. Later his father is killed by one of the strongest people of their planet who's a criminal. Later that criminal escapes and he tries to hunt him down. Although this results in him being sent into space and winding up on earth. Once on earth he notices that all of his powers are greatly boasted thanks to the sun like in the actual Superman comics and not the gravity. He meets a man in his 50's named Jonathan Kent who teaches him about the world and lets him live in his house. He also has a comic book with a character that resembles the DC Superman that he reads one night. Later Clark is killed by a group of criminals. This is where he finally realizes he can use his powers for good and live his dream of helping those that are weaker than him. Also decides he needs an alter ego so he decides to name himself Clark Kent and due to being a reporter on his own planet he applies for a job at the Daily Planet as a reporter. His main villain would be Lex with the same motivations for why he hates Superman. Later you can have the criminal who escaped and killed his father come to earth his name being Zod. IDK if that sounds good at all just think its a better start for this version of the character. As you have his motivation being to do good and help the weak due to being one of the weak on his own planet and never having the power to help others. I mean just that alone makes it a much better start for the character instead of man who is either doing what he does to get revenge or is doing it so that this planet can get their shit together and create a form of space travel that is so advanced that even in he stopped all the wars and such all the money in the world would never create it. Not to mention a lot of times wars advance technology along at a much quicker pace.
These comics are on my "To Read" list. Yeah, some of can be goofy, and a little weird, but regardless, it's Stan Lee creating the DC Universe. Even if it ends up sucking, you just want to read it for the concept alone.
Like, here's one thing I would have done: I would have had it so that, because Superman was the only one from his planet that WASN'T genetically engineered, then that means he's actually the strongest on Earth, and can fly, be super strong and all that under our yellow sun and lesser gravity. I would have made it so that the genetic engineering alters something in their DNA so that they're actually affected LESS by a yellow sun, so genetically engineered Stankrypleetonians only get maybe super strength and senses, that's about it. However, Superman would have the same range of powers as the main universe Superman, with heat vision and all of that because he ISN'T genetically engineered. Even though genetics doesn't work that way, you could give it some comic book sciencey reason about his DNA being pure, about how he's not "tainted" and stuff like that. Also, maybe because he's genetically engineered, that villain would have eventually become Doomsday. Maybe that's another side effect of the genetic engineering. When you go under a yellow sun, it makes you slowly mutate into an unstoppable killing machine. Maybe it could be explained this way: because if the artificially altered DNA, it rapidly reengineers itself over and over, constantly trying to adapt, constantly trying new things before recombining in a new, different form. So, you could say genetically engineered Leekryptonian DNA is "unstable" DNA, and Superman's pure DNA is "stable" and doesn't suffer from random, constant mutations.
Fair point to the humorous "Basic Earth" thing, I'm pretty sure many sci-fi franchises call any intelligible dialogue Basic, even if it's just English. It's for the audience, not the universe. Although it'd probably raise more questions bothering to instantly answer a question literally nobody asked...which Stan flat-out reiterated on...
I think what a lot of people (Stan Lee included apparently) don't realize about Superman is it isn't really the powers that make him who he is. Clark Kent is full of compassion and empathy that his parents instilled into him. Even if Clark had grown up without powers you know he'd still be out helping people in any way he could. He's the kind of guy who'd stop on the road to give someone's car a jump or run into a fire to save someone's life even if he were completely normal. Having this Superman being a cop could have been great development in a way he still wanted to protect people without needing Ma and Pa Kent's mentorship as motivation, but instead they totally blew it by having him spend half the comic saying, "Wow, humans sure are nitwits. Boy they suck. Guess the only reason I should help them is so I can get them to update the space program." It rips down everything that is iconic about Superman and just leaves nothing worthwhile in its place. I swear the lifeless statue of Superman in Metropolis Illinois has a better personality than this character does.
Thanks for all the ruminations; I enjoyed reading them. I had to skip a lot to avoid storyline spoilers and I also just forgot sometimes, but I liked what I read.
Interesting fact: Translation _would_ include slang if there was no adequate way to express the meaning otherwise. Poor translations of foreign text or speech try to translate it as literally as possible. That tends to end up with a lot of problems. The better thing to do for translating dialogue in written form is first translate literally, and then edit to make it sound like actual human speech. So if Stan were translating for aliens, including the slang "baby" would make sense if there was no better way to express the meaning of the terminology used in their language, which could be its own cultural reference or translates into a much more convoluted thing than it is in their language, or just a word with no exact equivalent but is a diminutive pet name for a female partner (like if the term were based on an alien animal).
Linkara: I could just imagine. The Statue of Liberty giving you advice, stopping the Zod gang, figuring how to fix the stock market & flying through rings.
"Does he deserve all the credit?" "No. Because, at present, his level of crredit is functionally equal to if he single-handily forged the first comic out of a stone tablet...Still deserves a TON of credit, though!"
You know, if this Superman had spun off into an actual series, it wouldn't surprise me if his girlfriend turned out to not be dead and end up being this universe's Supergirl.
Me: "Man,, I wonder what fun story Stan will give us with his reboot version of Superman?" Stan Lee: *Fridge's Superman's wife and puts in racist stereotypical african people* Me: "...guess that's why its systematic".
IDK, I feel like Stan laid down some good roots, here. The problem is, he only got one issue, but he wrote it like he was setting up for a series. All the weird character stuff had TONS of potential, and I feel like superman would've been a more relatable character in this version. His starting off helping every one selfish reasons, and then realizing he liked earth after all, and watching him come around on us would have been a satisfying arc. The inconsistencies are obviously annoying, but I feel like that might've come from him having more ideas than he knew how to use.
Stan Lee "what if issues" for the DC Universe? This should be interesting. I wonder how Stan Lee's version of Batman will turn out? That's the one I'm most curious about.
I just now realized in one year that in 16:09, Stan Lee slyly referenced Spider-Man. The van says "Clark and PETER", and the street sign next to Kent says PARKER. I wonder what would happen if Salden chose that alias instead....
I think part of the reason these comics in particular have such, well, overly descriptive dialogue is because of what it appears to be homaging. The Golden Age was very big on that method of storytelling. It's a little outdated, but I sorta get the idea.
This is oddly reminding me of the Netflix Death Note, which tried to make the main character more "down to earth" and "relatable" but in the end make the story uninteresting because they forgot relatability does not equal to compelling. Similar with how all the Fantastic 4 movies try to downplay Victor von Doom's wackiness, or even have his name be Victor von Doom, because they are anathema to anything remotely camp or interesting; everything has to be "realistic".
"thanks super man! you averted the war and the day is saved!"
"are humans building inter galactic spaceships yet?"
"um... no?"
"Damn it! Ok i'm going to go end world hunger. MAYBE THAT WILL GET YOU LAZY ASS HOLES TO BUILD A MARS COLONY!"
The Dragon Legault
”Alright, global warming solved.”
”thank you, Superman! You're amazing!”
”Do you have intergalactic ships yet?”
”We’re working on it but, we just don't have the technology for it.”
”Alright, screw this! Maybe if I start destroying the Earth you guys will get your shit together!”
@@kinglegaultOh, I can't create life. Well, I'm stuck here with nothing all right.
I just noticed, but the signs that were used to make 'Clark Kent' could have also made 'Peter Parker'. "Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Spider-Man"!
Wait
Wait a minute
How about "Just imagine DC Creating the Avengers" os something like that?
I hate that he did that, but there was a lot of that going on at the time
@@lukecarroll9823it's possible that wasn't Stan's idea. The script probably only called for those signs and the artist was being cute
"He appears at every Marvel movie, to the point that Deapool should wave at him"
And thus, Linkara predicted the teaser for Deadpool 2
Predicted ..... or did Deadpool WATCH Linkara?
RubberyCat yes
@@RubberyCat They both hang out on the same wall so I am sure they know each other
Just Imagine Linkara Creating The Nostalgia Critic.
Eh, I saw Spoony creating Nostalgia Critic
TheBestComicKing
Which is weird because I could've sworn I saw Todd creating the Shadow Experiment.
Or Linkara creating Angry Joe? Or the AVGN?
Didn't Phelous technically create them all, as they are part of his imagination?
Well, it would’ve included less harassment
You know, I actually think this comic would have been improved by keeping Superman's wife alive. It would give him a better motivation to go back home, because as of now, I don't really know why he wants to go back. Plus presumably as he starts to grow attached to Earth and its people, he would have a real conflict between protecting this planet he's grown to love or returning home to his family.
Clearly you put more thought in this comic book than the actual writer.
Well... this is the same Stan Lee that killed Uncle Ben.
technically Steve Ditko killed Uncle Ben, Ditko plotted the story
Gerry Conway wrote that story, not Stan
To bury his wife because no one else is there to do it- from what we know.
I think the problem with this comic is that since it's a one-shot, Stan doesn't have the time to go deeper into Saldin's character beyond the superficial. Why did he become a cop and why didn't he have genetic modifications? Was it like MAN OF STEEL where children are genetically grown to have one specific job? Not a bad what if, but I think their is a reason that classic Supes stuck around for 75+ years.
I like how the truck with the name Clark and the Kent sign had Peter and Parker on them.
As of the time of this comment Stan Lee has passed away into the far distant Valhalla reserved for comic legends. Fare thee well Stan, Excelsior (1922-2018).
I like the concept of Stan Lee re-imagining the DCU, but I wish he also collaborated with top writers along with artists. Stan's writing has not aged well and its extremely apparent in this book. It might have been better if Stan made an outline of each book, handed it to the creative team in charge of each book, and go from there.
Apparently the other books were better.
@ Atomic Robo Tesla That's not true only the Batman one is good . The Wonder Woman one is alright.
Chinyere Ugwu , I'd argue the Green Lantern was also pretty good.
@@chinyereugwu9431 depends on a person's preference.
7:19 Ah, gotta love the biggest trope of Stan Lee's old writing. Pure exposition and description of the present time, the likes only matched by Yu-Gi-Oh! and Jojo's Bizzare Adventure minus the poetic metaphors of part one.
"Even Speedwagon is afraid!"
now imagine Speedwagon reading one of Stan Lee's more "bad" comics. and just reacting to almost every panel.
JoJo's exposition is required when you have powers that would make very little sense unless explained.
Yeah, but those were powers were from when Araki had no idea what he wanted from Stands, so he kept them simple and easy to experiment with. Now the series is something where a Stand like Chocolate Disco is a thing.
@@malcomalexander9437 Chocolate Disco just functions like a grid from the game Battleship
RIP Stan Lee. He'll be missed
Gotta love how Saldin pulls a “Pea. Tear. Griffin.” @16:05 😂
"back home our alphabet has more than a thousand"
Imagine if he had fallen in Japan....
"huh, they have even more letters!"
According to the Multiversity Guidebook, written by Grant Morrison, this world still exists as Earth 6 of the current Multiverse. And yes, apparently Salden's homeworld is called Krypton.
Not only did Lee's character exposit what they were doing, I remember fights where Cap and the Red Skull discussed their politics during a fight.
Man it would be awesome if this Superman had to live in a homeless shelter!
Then he could see how the poorest of the poor live and then want to make things better for them and all of humanity!
Has anyone noticed that Superman in this comic never smiles? I mean literally most of the time Superman either looks bored or pissed off.
Batman V Superman
There are seriously not enough "Dull Surprise!" clips to show how much of a emotional vegetable this incarnation of Superman is.
Stan Lee predicted the New 52. :P
ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΓΕΝΝΑΙΟΣ As much as I despise that movie, it did have ONE moment when Clark Kent stepped into Lois' tub (for some odd reason). Here, all the expression he makes is "Dull Suprise!"
The Bard oh yeah. sorry it's just that i didn't remember that part. possibly because i was paying more attention to amy adams rather than what was happening (don't judge me).
"Composite Hitler/Stalin who is also a werewolf"
Is that from something? If so I need to see it, if not it needs to be in something!
It feels like the biggest problems here are because Stan is just kind of an old man and is trying to get back into the Golden Age tropes without really remembering what they are
"one of the last golden age creators still alive" not anymore, may he RIP
Exactly 😭😭😭😭
What? Linkara is dead?
@@CDRiley (slams head on table) no i was talking about Stan Lee
I remember when reading Convergence and seeing all of Stan Lee Dc's hero's slaughtered without any effort from their murderers and all i could think was.
"what the fuck Dc?"
Composite Hitler and Stalin, who is also a werewolf? Where did this come from? Sounds interesting.
im interested too
also composite hitler would be nice right? i wouldn't mind a German ghandi coming to help my planet.
Dude, composite means made up of different parts, not inverted. You'd have a combined Hitler, Stalin and Werewolf creature... it would not be good.
FNGLHR ohhh... ok. that would be bad then. ty.
Actually it would be better than good, it would be concentrated awesome.
Werewolves make everything better.
Even Twilight was 2% better than it was (which made it a solid 0% good) because of the addition of werewolves.
He's probably an ally to ManBearPig!
This version of Superman seems a bit like a darker take on Mar-Vell, to be honest. Alien Soldier trapped on Earth. Except Mar-Vell was there to be a Kree Agent on Earth before he chose to abandon his mission and become a superhero, while here Superman is a darker character whose motivations are to help people for his semi-selfish purposes.
Not a terribly heroic character, but a potentially interesting anti-hero
Stan Lee's Superman and Zack Snyder's Superman need to hang out together.
Watching this now after stans passing. Let his legacy live on!!
3:38 I actually don't have a problem with this. Human languages are full of sounds that are difficult for non-native speakers to pronounce. Take the ra/la, re/le, ri/li, ro/lo, and ru/lu sounds in Japanese; the entire reason native Japanese speakers have a problem with English r's and l's is that their language doesn't have either sound, but rather a sound _in-between_ the two, which also makes it difficult to transliterate to English and for English speakers to pronounce and leads to stuff like a character name being transliterated as "Kirara", but pronounced by the dub cast as "Key-lah-lah" Another commonly difficult sound is the rolled "r", as in the Spanish "rr". Or the "ch" sound found in Germanic and Middle Eastern languages. Just saying, a planet name that's hard to pronounce isn't really outside the realm of possibility.
It’s fun rewatching this one. The nothing part reminds me of Ned in Homer’s memory. “It’s like I’m wearing nothing at all.”
Now I wanna see "JUST IMAGINE (insert DC creator, preferably a good one) CREATING THE MARVEL UNIVERSE"
Who’s watching this after Stan Lee’s death :( RIP
11:31 - 11:43 Sounds more like Salden was transported to the Ninja Turtles drug PSA from the 80s.
Bully: "What are you, chicken, Joey?"
Joey: "I'm not chicken! *You're* a turkey!"
Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Image Comics
I'd actually buy the hell out of that. Seeing how Stan would deal with some of the stranger Image books would be great.
It would be interesting to see Just imagine Stan Lee creating The Walking Dead.
Just Imagine Stan Lee creating Marville
Honestly, if that happened during his lifetime, it *would* be pretty enticing to see him make Youngblood readable
I'm here because i need some more Stan Lee in my life
14:20 Got a computer notification at that exact moment, the comedic timing off such a sound is more perfect than I can fully express.
I feel like this story would have been better if Salden was just a scientist who made the space time bender and ended up on Earth by accident. While here he develops his powers and Lois still hires him for publicity so they can make money and make good will with the people to eventually work with the government to help get him home.
During that time, Salden would read comic books about a super man and become inspired to actually do dangerously heroic acts despite Lois telling him to never try too hard. In the end Salden decides to call himself Superman and dedicate himself to being a REAL superhero.
I like the idea. It could really work.
I think the inspiration for gorok was general zod being he is from the same planet as superman but stan designed him to look like lex luthor. 15:25
I will never be tired of the "over there" joke
*20:28* linkara don't you remember no one mess with the irs not even the joker
Harold P. Satan... I see what you did there. lol
Got to love the inside joke at 16:07; Clark & *Peter* on the van and the corner of *Parker* and Kent.
I love how you keep making MST3K Space Mutiny David Ryder's fake names references!
3:25: this is the beginning, the beginning of our story, the beginning, the beginning,the beginning of our story.
A giant no-prize for anyone who gets that reference.
Ah, good ol' Animaniacs. XD
Good ole marvel editorials.
Using the rough guidelines of this comic I think a much better story would have been. That he was one of the weakest on his entire planet yet wanted to follow in his father's footsteps of being a officer. He enrolls but fails to make it in after the training being the only one who couldn't fly have heat vision or any other powers. He then becomes a reporter on his planet. Later his father is killed by one of the strongest people of their planet who's a criminal. Later that criminal escapes and he tries to hunt him down. Although this results in him being sent into space and winding up on earth. Once on earth he notices that all of his powers are greatly boasted thanks to the sun like in the actual Superman comics and not the gravity. He meets a man in his 50's named Jonathan Kent who teaches him about the world and lets him live in his house. He also has a comic book with a character that resembles the DC Superman that he reads one night. Later Clark is killed by a group of criminals. This is where he finally realizes he can use his powers for good and live his dream of helping those that are weaker than him. Also decides he needs an alter ego so he decides to name himself Clark Kent and due to being a reporter on his own planet he applies for a job at the Daily Planet as a reporter. His main villain would be Lex with the same motivations for why he hates Superman. Later you can have the criminal who escaped and killed his father come to earth his name being Zod.
IDK if that sounds good at all just think its a better start for this version of the character. As you have his motivation being to do good and help the weak due to being one of the weak on his own planet and never having the power to help others. I mean just that alone makes it a much better start for the character instead of man who is either doing what he does to get revenge or is doing it so that this planet can get their shit together and create a form of space travel that is so advanced that even in he stopped all the wars and such all the money in the world would never create it. Not to mention a lot of times wars advance technology along at a much quicker pace.
These comics are on my "To Read" list. Yeah, some of can be goofy, and a little weird, but regardless, it's Stan Lee creating the DC Universe. Even if it ends up sucking, you just want to read it for the concept alone.
No! No Nintendo! We don't need another universe where any form of Superman 64 existing!
Superman was almost named Peter Parker! xD
Clever
I like that he's complaining that superman learned our language by simply looking at the words yet Starfire learned the language through kiss.
╮(╯▽╰)╭
Like, here's one thing I would have done: I would have had it so that, because Superman was the only one from his planet that WASN'T genetically engineered, then that means he's actually the strongest on Earth, and can fly, be super strong and all that under our yellow sun and lesser gravity. I would have made it so that the genetic engineering alters something in their DNA so that they're actually affected LESS by a yellow sun, so genetically engineered Stankrypleetonians only get maybe super strength and senses, that's about it. However, Superman would have the same range of powers as the main universe Superman, with heat vision and all of that because he ISN'T genetically engineered. Even though genetics doesn't work that way, you could give it some comic book sciencey reason about his DNA being pure, about how he's not "tainted" and stuff like that.
Also, maybe because he's genetically engineered, that villain would have eventually become Doomsday. Maybe that's another side effect of the genetic engineering. When you go under a yellow sun, it makes you slowly mutate into an unstoppable killing machine. Maybe it could be explained this way: because if the artificially altered DNA, it rapidly reengineers itself over and over, constantly trying to adapt, constantly trying new things before recombining in a new, different form. So, you could say genetically engineered Leekryptonian DNA is "unstable" DNA, and Superman's pure DNA is "stable" and doesn't suffer from random, constant mutations.
Since watching Camp Camp, every time Superman talks about the space program, all I can think about is Space Kid yelling "SPACE!"
Fair point to the humorous "Basic Earth" thing, I'm pretty sure many sci-fi franchises call any intelligible dialogue Basic, even if it's just English. It's for the audience, not the universe. Although it'd probably raise more questions bothering to instantly answer a question literally nobody asked...which Stan flat-out reiterated on...
Stan is forever the the man
7:54 a perfect example of the trope, "Talking is a free action".
17:27 I love the OVER THERE joke returning.
I think what a lot of people (Stan Lee included apparently) don't realize about Superman is it isn't really the powers that make him who he is. Clark Kent is full of compassion and empathy that his parents instilled into him. Even if Clark had grown up without powers you know he'd still be out helping people in any way he could. He's the kind of guy who'd stop on the road to give someone's car a jump or run into a fire to save someone's life even if he were completely normal. Having this Superman being a cop could have been great development in a way he still wanted to protect people without needing Ma and Pa Kent's mentorship as motivation, but instead they totally blew it by having him spend half the comic saying, "Wow, humans sure are nitwits. Boy they suck. Guess the only reason I should help them is so I can get them to update the space program." It rips down everything that is iconic about Superman and just leaves nothing worthwhile in its place. I swear the lifeless statue of Superman in Metropolis Illinois has a better personality than this character does.
God , i can't believe the so great imitation of Stan Lee that Rob can do.
Thanks for all the ruminations; I enjoyed reading them. I had to skip a lot to avoid storyline spoilers and I also just forgot sometimes, but I liked what I read.
"We've got to start at Act 2 or 3, thats when the plot really gets going"
...Does anyone else get that reference?
Also, I really like how he did the next one (Batman), but yeah this version of Superman doesn't seem all that riveting.
Interesting fact: Translation _would_ include slang if there was no adequate way to express the meaning otherwise. Poor translations of foreign text or speech try to translate it as literally as possible. That tends to end up with a lot of problems. The better thing to do for translating dialogue in written form is first translate literally, and then edit to make it sound like actual human speech. So if Stan were translating for aliens, including the slang "baby" would make sense if there was no better way to express the meaning of the terminology used in their language, which could be its own cultural reference or translates into a much more convoluted thing than it is in their language, or just a word with no exact equivalent but is a diminutive pet name for a female partner (like if the term were based on an alien animal).
I love the Stan Lee impersonation.
lol, the credenza joke is one of Linkara's funniest.
Well, time to change that opening.... RIP Stan Lee
Linkara, everyone knows you start at act 5 and work your way backwards
Booster Gold did it better. This Superman is bland.
“My name is uhm…Clark Parker.
No wait, Peter Kent! Yeah, that’s it”
Did they mean Galaxy instead of universe?
Linkara: I could just imagine. The Statue of Liberty giving you advice, stopping the Zod gang, figuring how to fix the stock market & flying through rings.
I'd like to see more of this I love these comics but it's Hilarious when you talk about them.
After seeing Sam Jackson's capital one commercial before this video, I now want to see a "Just imagine Sam Jaskson playing... " series.
Well, you don't know that it'd be possible to pronounce. Say, Raxacoricofallapatorius is incredibly hard to pronounce, but it can be done by humans
If you ever get back to this you should call it month of Excelsior
His attitude does change over time.
"Does he deserve all the credit?" "No. Because, at present, his level of crredit is functionally equal to if he single-handily forged the first comic out of a stone tablet...Still deserves a TON of credit, though!"
i was expecting a "MAN!" joke given stan's nickname.
I AM THE STAN!!!!
You know, if this Superman had spun off into an actual series, it wouldn't surprise me if his girlfriend turned out to not be dead and end up being this universe's Supergirl.
I enjoy your Stan impression.
Me: "Man,, I wonder what fun story Stan will give us with his reboot version of Superman?"
Stan Lee: *Fridge's Superman's wife and puts in racist stereotypical african people*
Me: "...guess that's why its systematic".
One of the last golden age creators still alive....ouch that didn't age well
I can peacefully fall asleep while he reads me a book
Superman: Believes that technology is incredible as you can now store and recall items and Pokémon as data via PC!
IDK, I feel like Stan laid down some good roots, here. The problem is, he only got one issue, but he wrote it like he was setting up for a series. All the weird character stuff had TONS of potential, and I feel like superman would've been a more relatable character in this version. His starting off helping every one selfish reasons, and then realizing he liked earth after all, and watching him come around on us would have been a satisfying arc. The inconsistencies are obviously annoying, but I feel like that might've come from him having more ideas than he knew how to use.
Stan Lee "what if issues" for the DC Universe? This should be interesting. I wonder how Stan Lee's version of Batman will turn out? That's the one I'm most curious about.
so did you like the batman comic
bjam89 Surprisingly, yes. It was better than I thought it would be.
***** if you dont know about it linkara has a website where you can see future uploads, as these are old episodes
So basically, it is a very good thing that Superman wasn't created by Stan Lee, gotcha.
Look up Stan Lee Superman
Just imagine Stan Lee creating a less interesting version of Booster Gold
Lois is kind of one minded. She is captured and she's gushing over advertising.
I don't know why but somehow I find the thumbnail of Stan Lee in Linkara's hat and coat really funny.
16:06 also has Peter Parker name there, nice one
I look forward to seeing the other comics of this line this year. At least I'm guessing it will be continued this year
Ah, the first AT4W episode I ever saw. Good times.
I just now realized in one year that in 16:09, Stan Lee slyly referenced Spider-Man. The van says "Clark and PETER", and the street sign next to Kent says PARKER. I wonder what would happen if Salden chose that alias instead....
I came back because it's been six months since one of the most iconic comic writers passed away.
I really wish Harold P Satan was a real comic villain, maybe for Spider-Man, I mean he's already had a deal with the devil, why not 2?
Your Stan lee voice is awesome it's actually sound like Stan lee
"Of course! Don't you know anything about science?"
I already want this Superman to have his own movie.
I think part of the reason these comics in particular have such, well, overly descriptive dialogue is because of what it appears to be homaging. The Golden Age was very big on that method of storytelling. It's a little outdated, but I sorta get the idea.
RIP stan lee
The stun grenades are really strange considering that the rest of the book has no particular problem with death
Oh god now i'm gonna go to my room and try and purge that thought out of my head.
RIP STAN LEE
This is oddly reminding me of the Netflix Death Note, which tried to make the main character more "down to earth" and "relatable" but in the end make the story uninteresting because they forgot relatability does not equal to compelling. Similar with how all the Fantastic 4 movies try to downplay Victor von Doom's wackiness, or even have his name be Victor von Doom, because they are anathema to anything remotely camp or interesting; everything has to be "realistic".