Stop it, Stan

Is this the one with Ringo Starr?

No it's yet another thing!

I think Stan's brain & Stan's mouth need to have a talk. But, hey, if he can sucker someone into shelling out $$$ for this rehashed "brand new" Captain EveryWhiteMan and his Team LowerMiddleClassAmericana nonsense, I'm all for it.

Anyone that has any self-respect should avoid READING any of the Stan Lee Presents... Prestige Format things from DC. Perhaps they should be avoided @ all costs - I bought the Crisis one only because of John Cassaday, and I still feel wrong.

Yeah, I've never felt any compulsion to even look at those. Not even the Green Lantern one!

There are a LOT of people sharing them on the Interweb, I wonder if they're some awful trap to punish comics-stealers.

He's like Whoopi Goldberg and the world is his centre square!

I hope Andre 3000 siezes on this opportunity to release HIS comic project, Forevereverman.

And that's when I came up with the idea for the two-slice toaster!

the POW! website is obnoxious.

What I don't get is how come the man who popularized such polysyllabic utterances as EXCELSIOR! and such chose POW! for his new company.

Possible polysyllabic exclamations for Mr. Leiber to use in his new venture:

CRICKETS!
FORSOOTH!
ODS BODKINS!
SWEET FANCY MOSES!
THE HELL YOU AIN'T!
GREAT NERO'S FIDDLE!
I'M STICKING MY DICK IN THE MASHED POTATOES!

Possible monosyllabic exclamations:

OINK!
DANG!
UT!
SPOON!
KHAN!

VOLTHOOM!

POLYUNSATURATED!

DELUGE OF GRANDEUR!

VANDELAY INDUSTRIES!

SCHLEMIEL, SCHLEMAZEL, HASENFEFFER INCORPORATED!

Stan, I hope you're reading (and taking names).

The only characters I can recall who he created since Kirby left Marvel are the She-Hulk, which hardly counts as original, and Solarman, who was hardly a hit. It's kind of easy to spot where the creativity came from.

He's very much the Hef of comics. It's like, nobody really looks at naked ladies and thinks of Hef, you think of naked ladies.

SCHWING!

(There's another one, Stan!)

WHANK!

I am seriously anticipating the Ringo Starr superhero comic. It will be grebt!

I keep reading the thread title as performed by HAL 9000.

Please. Stan. You're...hurting...me. Please. Stan. Stop. Stan.

The mouse is a commie?!?

Lenin is aware of AIDS? He can see into the future? yikes?

From The Pulse:

Peter Paul, the one-time close adviser to comic book legend Stan Lee later indicted for crimes related to the Internet-driven entertainment company Stan Lee Media, is expected to plead guilty in court today. According to media reports surfacing early Monday, Paul will plead to one felony count of stock manipulation in the U.S. District court presided over by Judge Leonard D. Wexler.

Paul was indicted in 2001 on charges of stock fraud and conspiracy. This was based in large part on his organizing a "pump and dump" scheme at the company. Under his direction, the SLM stock was talked up via misleading statements to the press and by paying an analyst named Jeffrey Pittsburg to promote the company in phony reports. Paul and longtime business partner turned SLM executive Stephen Gordon were believed to have then borrowed millions using the inflated stock as collateral. By borrowing against their stock, they could profit from the falsely inflated price but avoid suffering any losses in value that would have occurred had they sold the stock outright. Two million dollars of that borrowed money went back into the faltering company; a great deal of the rest of it went to luxury homes and personal items. To pay back the loans, federal attorneys also believe the pair wrote fake checks to simply move the debt around. Gordon was convicted on one charge in December 2002 and still faces others. Paul was arrested in Brazil in 2001, months after Stan Lee Media's shudder and implosion. Paul was extradited to the U.S. in 2003, where he has since been awaiting the trial he now avoids with tomorrow's plea.

Today's plea is also the culmination of a recent sea change Paul's defense strategy. Late last year, he abandoned his pursuit of dismissal through accusations of governmental misconduct for a more reasonable and less "out there" defense. This coincided with new representation, Joseph Conway. In a strange development, Conway had served in the US attorney's office pursuing the government's case against Paul, but then resigned and took Mr. Paul as a client in October 2004.
The Paul case is expected to make national news headlines – but not for its connection to Stan the Man or the Internet company that brought us a proposed Lee clothing line and various fantasy-hero "webisodes." The Paul plea is expected to have a significant effect on the prosecution of David Rosen, an official in Senator Hillary Clinton's 2000 New York senatorial campaign. It is believed that Paul will testify as a key witness in that politically charged federal trial. The charges against Rosen stem from what prosecutors claim is improper statements made to the Federal Election Commission about an August 2000 fundraising event bankrolled and organized by Paul. That party proved an immediate embarrassment for the Clintons when journalists uncovered Paul's previous felony convictions, including one for cocaine trafficking. An attempt to dismiss the charges against Rose will be heard on March 15. If the case moves forward as expected, Paul's cooperation will likely be brought to Judge Wexler's attention as a factor in his sentencing. Paul could be sentenced up to ten years.

Paul is also suing the Clintons for fraud from what he claims is up to $2 million in gifts given in part to secure President Clinton as a Stan Lee Media board member once he left office. The Clintons have sought to dismiss, an action still pending in California court.
Many observers note that Paul has received financial aid from the conservative group Judicial Watch during his legal battles.
Stan Lee was never even considered for, let alone charged with, any crime for his relationship with Paul, nor has he been accused of a single false step in any aspect of his conduct at the company that bore his name.

Yet what has become one of the oddest stories even tangentially involving a major comics-related figure should only become stranger in the months to come.

(why didn't this bump to the top?)