• I don't see what people don't like about an awesome celebrity getting his own animated show, Jackie Chan did it.besides Stan lee is the genius behind spider man, iron man, captain America and the incredible hulk and I'm sure the Governator will be just as good, any way all those adults saying how much it sucks and how low Arnie and Stan have gotten when it's a kids show and 11 year old boys like myself will just love it  

• l can't wait until the episode where he beats the crap out of poor people and union teachers.

• Man, has someone at Fox News accused Stan Lee of liberal bias for making a comic book about the struggle for racial equality and another one about how nuclear weapons are inherently loose cannons <i>again</i>? He gave them <i>Iron Man</i>; what more could they want? Oh wait, yeah, April Fools.

• It's an April Fools day joke from Stan Lee & Marvel Comics.

• Whats saddest? the art -.- Eww...

• I just read the article last night, and at the end of it Ahnold says that he hadn't yet told Maria that his whole life (including the family) is going to be made into a comic strip. I foresee the Governator accessing his secret lab through a fold out sofa in the den.

• I'm calling April Fools on this one.

• Do people fail to realize the crucial components that Ditko and Kirby provided in creating iconic characters like Spider-man or The Fantastic Four. Not saying that Stan didn't help usher in the characters. he certainly played his parts, but he didn't create them alone in a vacuum. Meanwhile when Stan gets together with a has been actor and politician... (there I said it)..you get.. this.

• Well the answer there lies in the fact that Stan had partners like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. And yeah I'd say Spider-Man is one of the better characters in history. Maybe not all the stuff in comics can come close to that but Spidey can for my "dime."

• This MUST be an April Fool's joke. Tell me it's an April Fool's joke.

• Stan Lee has been a dirty old whore for years now, you shouldn't be surprised by this. That said he probably has more money than I ever will, so I'm not going to judge too harshly.

• Why is this just happening now?

• that thing looks like Arnold raided wolverine wardrobe and no doubt ew wanted the first chance at the former governor finding some thing new to do . or are trying to get an exclusive first shot when Arnold starts making movies again.

• The doom comic was over the top fun. This just seems bland and predictable. It's the kind of joke they'd have on a bad saturday morning kids show from the 80s. Or even worse, from the period of time when the simpsons idea of humor was to have a celeb guest star and then make a joke stating how awesome they are. Humor comes from unpredictability, and there's nothing unpredictable in this.

• it looks alot like Hardcase from Malibu's Ultraverse

• Are we absolutely positive that this is not an April Fool's joke that got out too early? Remember that EW is usually delivered on Friday which is the 1st. Maybe? Please? Oh dear God please?

• Yeah, Antarctic Press, that bastion of creativity, already made a comic called The Governator. I wonder who's gonna sue who first. Not that either side wins from it if they did. http://www.comicvine.com/the-governator-the-governator/37-202835/ Of course this is far far from the worst comic Stan Lee has done with celebs. http://www.comicvine.com/the-backstreet-project-menace-of-the-death-queen/37-218987/ Still, I'll join most in hoping this is an April Fool's joke that leaked early.

• For anybody that's curious about what a Crime Fighter the Governator was, please google Arnorld Schwartzenegger and Fabian Nunez. Girly-man indeed.

• Give Stan Lee a break, there's probably less than 5 people on earth that would want to spend more than 5 consecutive minutes in a room with old a$$...When you get old like that people just tune you out, so he's going the opposite route if only just to ward of loneliness and dementia..Fukk it, GO GOVENATOR!! P.S. Heroman wasn't half bad in animated form and old Stan made that one too...

• Not to be a troll or anything, but I think it would more suit arnold's style and be 100 times more amusing than stan lee if this collaberation was with Rob Liefield.

• As this came after I lost interest in anime, it was my sort-of last hope. After seeing episode 2, I still felt so meh about it. I think I might continue it eventually- hope its good! But its true that a lot of Stan Lee's new material/ collaborations are just bad.

• I think the saddest thing here is that a large segment of people still consider Stan Lee being attached to a project to be cool or exciting. Because of his hand in creating a bunch of great characters about 40 or 50 years ago, it seems that no matter how awful his modern work is, he keeps getting more because there's still the notion floating around that nerds will instantly be more interested in something because he's involved. As much as I'd like to hope (as others have speculated) that this is all an elaborate April Fools joke, Stan's involvement makes that a lot less likely, because as stupid and lame as this idea is, it's still something that totally makes sense coming from him.

• Yes!!!! I think now that Arnie is not busy screwing up California government (it never really needed his help with that anyway) he should actually call up Tim Lambesis (whatever his name is) and actually make a real contribution to Austrian Death Machine!!! That would fucking rule!!!

• so he´s gonna go around California hunting immigrants?

• Sounds dumb ass hell. That said, I'd watch a couple of "Gouvenator" Cartoon Episodes. If the theme song and all other Music are played by Austrian Death Machine.

• California was already fucked up, that's why we had an awesome recall election where you could vote for gary coleman! I'm all for backstory if it could involve gary coleman.

• How about some back-story where he fucked up California?

• Dr. Abraxas's ongoing monthly series can only be sold in the "Adults Only" section, right near all the Godzilla vinyl.

• Hey, the saga of Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan's tumultous relationship is totally up there with Hamlet and Ophelia!

• Just look at the stuff that did sell back in the '60s. "Cosmic waves, I tell you! Cosmic waves!" Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan as valid, serious names. "By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth!" Green Goblin's costume. If you wanna be honest, everything about Dr. Doom before he got his established, awesome personality.

• Umm, Antarctic Press already did this idea back in February: [url]http://www.comicvine.com/the-governator/49-32299/[/url]

• This doesn't relaly look "fun," though. Kind of bland, really. Now, if he teamed up with Mike Haggar, THEN we'd be talking! (Or Jesse Ventura, I gueeeeeeeess)

• Yep, and if it is a prank I commend them as they really went all out.

• Our "Crimefighting Governator" pardoned the son of a political ally who was serving time for taking part in the murder of some kid-of which he was totally guilt of. Our esteemed former Governor, his homey-croney Fabian Nunez and his little gangbanger wannabee son can go suck the fat one, as far as I-and most Californians are concerned.

• We all got Striperella,but it was terrible, which is why it no longer exists.

• The Governator and the Walking Dead's Governor, in FFF.

• shit i just looked for timecop pics and the vest wasn't as "shoulders-y" as i remembered

• Next up for Arnie, a cameo in a Robert Rodriguez film. I hope you saved your money Arnie.

• Timecop, friend, it was Timecop. Zeke Muckerburg should have been able to find that data on the "web" for you.

• Hmmm...either Judge Dredd or 90's uncanny X-Men.

• one day TR and it's followers will be the fodder for its own comic.

• How bad this is depends entirely upon to what extent it is *supposed* to be a satire. G.I.R.L.I.E. Men? I pray that's satire. But Arnold's coterie of kid sidekicks? I can't help but feel that Lee is playing that straight. And that it's not an intentional joke on his part. In other words, this may be satire, or it may be a demonstration of the literary counterpart to Poe's Law. If a new genre property is sufficiently hackneyed and derivative, it can ultimately be confused with an intentional satire of that same genre and its tropes.

• There's nothing wrong with self parody if the subject of the parody is in on the joke. Hell, Weird Al did it in concert and it was brilliant. How can anybody think this sucks when it's clearly supposed to be an over-the-top satire on Arnold's career and Hollywood image. It's like the Chuck Norris Facts in comic book form. Hell, if this was done on The Simpsons, with Ranier Wolfcastle subbing for Arnold, the TR guys would be screaming at how incredible it is, that the Simpsons was getting good again, etc... And Striperella was also brilliant satire. Too bad everybody missed the point.

• in the history of comic books, ok. In history? Nah.

• Yeah Rob, I am beginning to think you have forgot what "fun" means. Comic books, like all aspects of nerd popular culture, do not (and should not) have to be absolutely serious. Learn to laugh once in a while. This looks absolutely awesome. XD

• sweet merciful crap. this gives me douche chills WAY worse than that Turtles/Ducktales/Pokemon video above. and that has three grown men enthusiastically singing cartoon theme songs. Zeke Muckerberg the computer whiz? a bad guy organization called GIRLIE Men? the thing that makes me craziest, though, is trying to figure out if the kind of hacky shit Stan Lee's been churning out the past 10-15 years or so would have SOMEHOW worked and been accepted in the 60's. impossible, right?

• This seems way too bad to not be an April Fool's joke. The issue with the announcement does launch Friday.

• At least the "cyber genius" has a smug look and hair falling in to his face, I don't know what I would have done otherwise.

• Ventura is a must.

• I watched it too and became fond of it after episode 4. The show speaks to my 8-year old self. ^_^

• I just don't get how the man has created some of the best characters in history and now making crap like striperella and this atrocity.

• He should really do a live action version of the Mayor of Megoville. "MARIA I CAN BE DUH MAYAH" LOL

• I'm sure it's an April fool's joke (I hope so!) We're too close of April 1st, and they were rumours, even before the end of his candidacy, that he would return into the film business.

• The embarassing part is that this is the sort of stuff Stan Lee is doing nowadays. Arnold is cashing in more than anything. I mean, they're probably paying him decent money for his likeness. Plus it's raising his profile again so he can get back to acting. Stan Lee, meanwhile.... yeah. Enough said. I find it sad to see him basically reduced to mining these crap ideas.

• I'll have you know that, since I'm apparently the only person who watched it, his anime project 'Heroman' was great fun, and the art rocked. :P

• Sweet, someday soon even my ball-sack will be able to have a comic book collaboration with Stan Lee.

• That jacket looks familiar. Where have I seen that jacket before... Oh yeah! I think I saw the 1990s wear that jacket in a movie once! But seriously... that costume is giving me serious deja vu. Help me out, guys. Does that jacket look familiar to anybody else?

• Just as long as he teams up with Jesse "The Body" Ventura to fight a race of Aliens that is threatening to overtake our government through tricking people to vote for them I will be happy. Wait, I will also need him to yell "Get to the Choppa!" and have The Body say "I ain't got time to bleed" I think the pure crappiness of this comic can be outstanding as a parody....if done right.

• I don't expect it to be brilliant, but it still looks like it'll be fun for a laugh or two. Campy silliness has a place too.

• I want to old and famous,so I can turn into an even worse self-parody and have no one care. Expect to see Stan Lee on "Shit my dad says"(is it even still on?)playing an old guy who curses a lot. And hits on younger female leads,though thats just ol'Stan and his ad-libbing.

• Yeah Rob! How dare you criticise the creator of Stripperella! This has marketing genius written ALL OVER it :P

• (meekly)aww..I kind of liked the idea.. besides im sure he has some killer movie offers on his plate..this is probably a side project or something of the like...Right?

• OK, seriously, lighten up. This looks like ridiculous over-the-top fun. What were you expecting, Shakespeare? And the artwork isn't bad at all.

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