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This looks like a job for ... Cell Phone Girl?

by Richard Keller, posted Jul 14th 2006 7:11PM

Cell Phone Girl of Who Wants to be a SuperheroWe've been reporting on-and-off for several months now about Spider-Man creator Stan Lee's new series called Who Wants to be a Superhero, which will be appearing on the Sci-Fi Channel. Well, the premiere of the series is a mere two weeks away and the 11 superheroes that will be competing for a chance to appear in their own comic book and a Sci-Fi Channel movie have been chosen.

You can see the chosen heroes at Sci-Fi Channel's website. Some of the contestants take their hero personas seriously. For example, Matthew Atherton's alter ego, Feedback, absorbs powers and abilities from video games that he plays. That's a pretty decent concept. On the other hand, Chelsea Weld's Cell Phone Girl doesn't seem to be taking to whole thing seriously (well, seriously enough for a contest involving real life superheroes).

Maybe it's the name Cell Phone Girl that causes problems. I mean, would you really pick up an issue of Cell Phone Girl number one hundred, or watch a movie entitled The Further Adventures of Cell Phone Girl? Maybe the producers of Superhero will ask her to change her name to something like Free Minutes, or Roaming.

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BigBobBlog

Some of these are pretty well thought through, like Keller says- Feedback is pretty good, Ty'Veculus is a dumb name but a decent concept in a certain vein, likewise Monkey Woman and Nitro G. I kind of agree with Creature's assesment of Fat Momma, though: Creature opined that, perhaps, the ideal love-your-body superhero would be less donut-centric.

July 28 2006 at 12:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adam

I want to shoot myself after reading about these "heroes".

They are just terrible and totally not thought thru.

July 17 2006 at 3:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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