Book Review: Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe, Book 3

Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe, Vol. 3 by Stan Lee

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This book collections the final four Just Imagine Stan Lee stories in which Stan Lee reimagines DC comics characters.

This book features Aquaman, Catwoman, Sandman, and Stan Lee's Crisis:


Stan Lee's Aquaman is an obsessive but not militant environmentalist with a good looking shallow girlfriend, and a hero cop brother. The brother saves the story from oblivion, but still it's not all that great. Grade: C

Stan Lee's Catwoman is a model who gets catpowers in a freak accident. She decides become a bonifide crime fighters. There are shades of Spider-man in the story with perhaps a little Batgirl. Grade: A-

Stan Lee's Sandman is an astronaut who receives powers from a mythical slumberland. An okay, but not great story with a somewhat annoying character. Grade: B-

Stan Lee's Crisis was a bit of a mess as the revelation of Crisis was everything the entire series had been leading up to. I felt like we got too much or too little in the story and perhaps both. I think we got too much as there were sprawling story lines and revelations about characters we didn't even know or care about and just too many. If they needed to be in there, then the Crisis issue needed to be longer or needed to be in two parts. The resolution's way too easy and the most important issue: who in the JLA was a traitor was too obvious. Grade: C-

The book gets 3 stars for Stan Lee who showed he could develop some great characters with his very strong Catwoman story in this book as well as the Flash, Green Lantern, and Batman in others. The love between Lee and his cohorts makes this an okay book even though its the weakest in the series.



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