RC Sessions with Stuntly

2 very varying but equally shared videos on the interwebs as of the moment.

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End Times Prophecy

Wonder Woman destroys EDSA.



Yes, we're very happy about a fictional character terrorizing our city.
And yet we weren't too enthusiastic about some random Kaiju pooping at our country.

Double standards much.....
What a bunch of hypocrites!

And on some other comics related news, Stan Lee would be making an appearance at ComicCon Asia.

A more than controversial event that is garnering mostly negative feedbacks from the community
due to some famous boxer/politician's direct/indirect involvement.

And Bimby Aquino, now a comic book fan?

Yes, it doesn't get any weirder than that!
The hellspawn of both Kris and James is now starting a habit of collecting comics.

Ok na sana ang lahat, but there weren't any mentions of X-Force #1, Youngblood or did he sang praises about our one true lord and savior, Rob Liefeld. So zero points for your convoluted and supposed fandom, kid!

What Ifs

Stunt Lee

Old guys doing young people stuff....

STRANGER Than Fiction

By 1963, the retooling of Marvel Comics' anthology titles
shifted over to replacing the popular back-to-book fantasy
stories by Steve Ditko with new supporting superheroes. The
first of these was Stan Lee and Ditko's mystical Dr. Strange,

who debuted in Strange Tales#110, July 1963.

The origins of Dr. Strange are as shrouded in mystery
as is the character. While Ditko has never revealed his
role in the character's initial creation, at the time, Lee
did credit him.

For Lee's part, he credits the old radio show Chandu The Magician

for his inspiration. It's a good bet the character took his
last name from the magazine in which he was to appear(STRANGE tales)
and his first name from his originating artist(STEVE Ditko).

Doctor Stephen Strange's loss of surgical skills leads him to
snowy Tibet and The Ancient One, a hermit whose magical healing
abilities he covets. But instead of learning about healing,
Strange becomes the Ancient One's disciple in studying the black
arts. Returning to civilization, the new Dr. Strange
sets up a practice in Greenwich Village, where people with
occult problems come to him for help.Aided by his manservant
Wong
and by his lovely apprentice/lover
Clea.

In time, the series' scope expanded to focus on Strange's journeys
into the otherwordly dimension and the otherwordly menaces
he encounter there, such as Nightmare and the dread Dormammu.

Never before in comics were the classical powers of the adept,
including astral projection and other dimensional travel,
displayed with such imaginative skill. Dr. Strange soon outlasted
Strange Tales' lead feature, The Human Torch, and went on to take
it over his own magazine in 1968. Although Ditko left the
feature in 1965, he departed just as he concluded a year-long continued
story recounting Strange's running battle with the Ancient One's evil
former pupil Baron Mordo,

and their quest for the eerie
being known as Eternity.

A Dr. Strange TV Movie starring Peter Hooten aired in 1978.

When Dr. Strange was at its height in the mid-60's, fans incorrectly
assumed Lee and Ditko were inspired by hallucinogens.

Lee did admit that H.P. Lovecraft's

unusual names like Cthulhu and Nyarlatheotep inspired the similar names he coined
in Dr. Strange. Lee had read Lovecraft in Weird Tales.

As Told By STAN

(as taken from AIRTIGHT GARAGE #1 of 4/ STAN'S SOAPBOX/EPIC COMICS)

Hi Heroes!

Remember a long, long time ago
when kids wanted to grow up and
become policemen, firemen or
cowboys? Well, judging by the way my mail
keeps pouring in, it seems as if a whole
kaboodle of young people now want to
become comicbook writers! Even
though I've written many columns over
the years trying to explain how comics
are written, we keep getting requests for
more info!

Obviously, there's no way to clue you
in to the whole ball of wax in the small
space available here, but let's see if wee
can zero in on one of the most important elements of
any type of writing.I'm referring to
something that's too often overlooked in
the continual effort to squeeze action
and excitement into every panel. That
something is -- characterization!

Look at it this way. Every writer
wants his or her readers to care about
the story. Well, in order to care about a
story you have to care about the hero or
heroine. And in order to care about
them, you have to feel as if you know
them. If something happens to a
stranger, it won't affect you very much.
But if that same thing happens to a
friend, to someone you know well, then
you really care about it. The same rule
applies to stories. The more you feel
you know the principal characters, the
more the story touches you.

That's where characterization comes
in. You've got to write dialogues that's
believable, that sounds the way people
really talk. You've got to make your fic-
tional little repertory group react to situa-
tions the way people would in real life.
In other words, you've got to strive for
as much realism as possible in every-
thing that's said or done. Sure, the plots
maybe far-out and fantastic, but the
characters must be true to life.

I could go on and on, but DeFalco
just whispered, " Cool it, Stan! What if
one of our competitors reads this stuff
and learns something?" Tommy's got a
point, so that's it for now, gang. You
take it from there!

Excelsior!

Stan Lee