Tales from Earth-6: A Celebration of Stan Lee #1 Preview

[Hypo]

Tales from Earth-6: A Celebration of Stan Lee #1 Preview
Writers: Various
Artists: Various

[twiztor]

didn't hear about this until today. hyped! hoping for a Martian Manhunter appearance in one of the stories.

[Frontier]

Not something I think anyone was expecting to come back like this.

[OBrianTallent]

Never thought DC would revisit this, but so cool they did for his 100th birthday!

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

I love far-off takes on the League so I'll check it out.

[married guy]

I've ordered the Flash cover for this one.
I find interesting that DC celebrate what would be Stan's 100th birthday with this special, but there's very little noise coming from the House of Mouse.
Which is pretty shitty I think.

[superduperman]

The dialogue is very...Stan Lee-ish.

[Thor-Ul]

The dialogue is very...Stan Lee-ish.

That is the idea.

[dornwolf]

I honestly loved this idea. There were some cool spins and you could see in a few characters them trying to mimic certain Marvel characters. I think Aquaman, Batman, Green Lantern and Captain Marvel were the ones I liked the most. Then everything with Robin/Hawkman/Atom thing they tied and the crisis and Superman were just awful

[LordUltimus]

Wait, there was no Gotham City in those stories; all the superheroes lived in Los Angeles like all the Marvel heroes lived in New York.

[Jon Clark]

Am I the only one the thought the "new" villain was a little too on the nose. Less a "What if Stan Lee had created this DC character" and more "What would the Marvel pastiche of the character be". I mean using "Choker" as your "Joker" analogue?

[Thor-Ul]

Am I the only one the thought the "new" villain was a little too on the nose. Less a "What if Stan Lee had created this DC character" and more "What would the Marvel pastiche of the character be". I mean using "Choker" as your "Joker" analogue?

In the Flash book there were Lady Zakara (Zatana) and Zorgul (Mongul). So, yes, I think it goes with the spirit of the books.

[Mantis-Ray]

Ooooh this should be fun, have been looking forward to this.

Rather like these interesting interpretations of these characters so its great to see them come back and as a tribute to Lee, God rest his soul.

[Robotman]

While Stan the Man’s dialogue was already quite outdated when the original series came out and the stories themselves weren’t that good, I thought there was some fun ideas. Connecting GL to the earth was a pretty great idea and something that other writers have done since with alternate versions of the character. I liked Wonder Woman’s redesign and connecting her to Mesoamerican mythology was pretty great.

The only one that was truly bad was Superman. Having him be a space cop from Krypton would have been interesting but the story beats were not good.

[Thor-Ul]

The only one that was truly bad was Superman. Having him be a space cop from Krypton would have been interesting but the story beats were not good.

A matter of tastes I suppose. Personally I thought the Stan Lee' Superman version had an interesting angle as he was an individual with a huge inferiority complex, a sense of duty and less altruistic motives than make it different from the traditional man of steel. His Shazam also had this trait, but he was more romatically driven.