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| Hmm. What shall I blog about today? |
Yesterday, we returned from a tiring but fun
weekend. We traveled up to Los Angeles,
to see Stan Lee’s Comikaze, a show built around the comic book legend Stan
Lee. For anyone who has been sitting in
a cave for the last hundred years, and have never heard about Stan Lee, he was involved in creating many of
the legendary comic book superheroes of the twentieth century. These include the Incredible Hunk, Spiderman,
Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, and Captain America. Alternatively, if you’ve grown tired of
having the movie theaters clogged with movies about these superheroes during
the past few years, including this year's “Avengers,” then you know who to
blame. But mostly, everyone loves Stan
Lee. How can we not? Every time we see him, he’s got a smile on
his face?
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| "Okay, maybe he's not smiling in the poster, but he usually is." |
Everyone turned out this last weekend, some of them in their
best costumes, to see the ninety-year-old legend. They waited in long lines. They braved villains such as the stormtroopers
from Star Wars, or from his own comic books.
They braved vendors in the exhibit hall, all of whom wanted to sell them
things, like comic books, toys, and games.
They braved the convention hall food.
But mostly they just wanted to see Stan Lee, and hear what he had to
say.
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| Stormtroopers in various states of undress. (They're off-duty, give 'em a break). |
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| This is just a tiny segment of one of the lines. |
And what had Stan Lee come to tell them? That he’s still spry, and still bubbling with
ideas. His latest creation is Verticus,
a game for mobile devices sold through Apple.
The developers of the new game were there, as were the organizers of
this year’s event. (In addition to the
twenty-five thousand or so “rest of us”).
The crowd was wowed by the preview, and applauded when it ended. Everyone leaned in close to hear what Stan
Lee would say next.
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| "Talk to us, oh great one!" |
“Stan Lee, you’ve done comic books, TV shows, movies, and
now games. You’ve done it all. So what keeps you going?” the interviewer
asked. “Well,” Stan Lee, responded, “I
still get those ideas, and I have to act of them. You just can’t sit still and relax in this
life. Otherwise something terrible
happens, like your wife asks you to take out the garbage.”
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| Stan Lee is so wise, he radiates light. |
Well, there you have it, immortal words to live by from Stan
Lee. Keep busy doing what you love best,
or you’ll end up taking out the garbage.
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| "Thanks for everything, Stan Lee! |
Dragon Dave
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