Hi Heroes!

I know that all of you Staunch Stan Supporters have been waiting with bated breath for the upcoming DC one-shots by yours truly, Stan "The Man" Lee and a hearty host of awesomely abled artists!  I really am at a lamentable (and rare!) loss for words on this
situation!  But I think that I can achingly articulate to say a few words to all you fiercely fantastic fans out there!

Please, don't buy this crap.

I'm serious.  The misers at Marvel mistakenly decided to all but cut me from their payroll, those bastards.  After I built the good goddamn company, and they drove it strikingly straight into calamity!  It's not like I had anything to do with the titanic tumble their stock took!  But it seems like the old man was an eerily easy target, so they stick me in the bullshit position of "Chairman Emeritus" and tell me to sufferingly smile about it!  

So, left with frighteningly few options, I reluctantly recovered and pitched this crap to DC.  Look, it's Batman, but he's black!  I'm sure I made it all sound terribly tantalizing when I met with them.  But really, who cares?
 
Sure, I was energetically enraged at Marvel and ready to conquer with my first few  relaunches."  And yeah, some of them are alright.  But just look at something like the mightily mediocre "Wonder Woman" I did!  She's exactly the same as the "real" Wonder Woman! 
And don't even bother with my Green Lantern.  I mean, half of it is just old Ravage 2099 panels, and the rest is a week's worth of Heloise columns.

But does anyone have the terrific temerity to challenge ol' Stan "The Man" about any of this?  Of course now!  I always horrifyingly hear, "Oh, you're a legend Stan, good job creating the X-Men!"  Yeah, tell the last fifteen or so editor-in-chiefs good job for frantically flushing everything town the toilet.

Welcome to my hell.

Excelsior!

- Stan "The Man" Lee

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