This link says more than I ever could.
TMR
If you believed in yourself, and tore enough holes
in your pants, there was always a mist-filled alley
right around the corner.
Thank you, TMR, for making me snarf coffee all over my keyboard. 
You know, sometimes you just gotta laugh… and I’m sure Stan will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Holy moly! I guess even ole Stan has to pay the bills… 
I’m tempted to say “It’s clobberin’ time!”
WTF!!!
I do not think I can ever buy another Marvel Comic again. I used to bitch about comic sell outs with all the crap out on the market today…but this takes the prize. Blue Ribbon even.
Openfist
The hate I bear thee can afford No better term than this,–thou art a villain.
In the words of the immortal Troy McClure:
“…and my recent trouble with the IRS sealed the deal!”
Haven’t you heard? Stan is at DC now.
I don’t see what the shock and dismay and fuss is all about really. Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko(THE real geniuses behind the early 1960’s Marvel Comics) have both already done work for DC Comics about 25 years ago. (New Gods, Mr. Miracle – these names ring bells?) Not to mention John Byrne, Steve Englehart, Walt Simonson, et. al. who all jumped ship at one time or another from Marvel to DC. Why the hell SHOULDN’T Stan Lee work at DC?
LOL
So when did this happen?
Openfist
The hate I bear thee can afford No better term than this,–thou art a villain.
I hope they do a Wolverine and Mr. Sinister Vs. the little twerps.
Am I the only one old enough to remember the KISS comic books Marvel* did in the 70s?
It’s just the same thing with a different band. Now, you can argue that BSB is vastly inferior, musically, to KISS (and you’d be right!), but you can’t say the concept is any sillier than Super-KISS (or whatever they called it).
*They guest-starred in a couple of issues of Howard the Duck and had their own one-issue book. And there was a made-for-TV movie filmed at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
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Openfist-
Stan Lee’s deal with DC was announced maybe a week ago. In fact, there was a thread on the subject here, but I’m too lazy to dig it up. IIRC, he sold his interests and left Marvel some time ago, but a non-compete agreement kept him from working for any rivals. The non-compete just expired, and he signed on with DC.
Musicians in comic books are nothing new at all… I have Metallica and Switchblade Symphony books, both which are pretty damn cool. Ozzy and Kiss have numerous books that I’ve seen, and I rmeember a particularly excremental series based on the Boo Ya Tribe from a while back.
We can only pray they make a backstreet boys movie, for that is the true death knell for any mass cultural phenomenon.
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I am human, and I need to be loved
Just like anybody else does
Now that’s a movie (Howard the Duck) I’d rather not think about.
The BB’s are this generations NKOTB, or Monkee’s except they can’t sing as well and their dancing sucks.
Keith
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He said “issues”, as in “comic”. Nothing wrong with the HtD comic.
“Hush, village idiot!”
The Wu-Tang Clan also have a comic book (I think they’re wizards in a fantasy world, or something else really likely along those lines).
I’m not entirely sure why TMR is so unhappy. Is it just a personal dislike for the Backstreet Boys? Surely it can’t be sadness that Stan Lee is dissipating his vast and wondrous writing skills on this project; he hasn’t written a thing except the bland Spidey newspaper strip for two decades.
I think it’s kind of funny, myself. It encapsulates the way I feel about manufactured pop icons and comic-book “superheroes” all in one neat, I-wouldn’t-believe-it-if-I-didn’t-see-it package.
I’m your only friend
I’m not your only friend
But I’m a little glowing friend
But really I’m not actually your friend
But I am
This seems not entirely like that Nightcat fiasco of his, only at least the Backstreet Boys are actually famous.