Zack Snyder widens his view as a director with Man of Steel, taking a proclivity for creating startling images in the service of storytelling and using it to enlarge and expand the action.

These fictional men and women, who wear inappropriately tight-fitting spandex costumes and only exist in our imaginations, bring hope to millions of real people on a daily basis, and have become an integral part of American cultural life and identity.

"Spot on," as Marvel Comics' Stan Lee might say. "Spot on."

Friends and heroes, let us celebrate a truly great man of American letters: the one and only Stan Lee.

"[The Internet] is a seriously cool way to network the hell out of a new idea, not the least of which is seeing what else is out there for inspirations."

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Before he scripted the first adventures of Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, a young Stan Lee launched his career in comic book...

I was one of those lucky enough to get a few minutes with Stan Lee, and was able to get some insight into his newest project, the web video channel "Stan Lee's World of Heroes," as well as a benchmark on how he regards his side-career as a big-screen actor

Considering "Marvel's The Avengers" features Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Loki and Hulk, it's amazing...

Comics legend Stan "the Man" Lee is responsible for the some of the most major superhero stories and characters in pop culture. And with great success comes great parody.

Webb is best known for the L.A.-young-guy-romantic-angst manifesto (500) Days of Summer, and while he brings to The Amazing Spider-Man all the superhero sensation of the popular webslinger, there's also a tone a few shades truer to the life most people generally inhabit.

For some, it is Valhalla; for others, it is a seething, roiling, chaotic pit of humanity. For many, I suspect, it's a phenomenon just slightly more indecipherable than Naked Lunch.

During a single year of the not-great Harding presidency, four great cartoonists came into the world. Two of those 1922-born men died recently -- "The Family Circus" creator Bil Keane in November and the Joker creator (some say co-creator) Jerry Robinson in December.

In the real world, the one Ultimate Spider-Man was supposed to take place in, heroes don't always have to die. Sometimes they do just fade away, to a life of normalcy and happiness. It was the very least Parker deserved.