Fans of the popular Sci-Fi program Who Wants to be a Superhero? can now check out some exciting excerpts from this week's press conference. Stan Lee and Andy Scheer answered fans' questions about the show's second season and much, much more.

Check out the answers they gave in the following excerpts!

How has the second season been different from the first? Were there lessons you learned on the first season that you’ve applied to the second one?

Stan Lee: Oh, Andy learned a lot. Why don’t you tell them, Andy?

Andy Scheer: I wasn’t involved in the first season but, this time, we basically try to do exactly the same thing that was done in the first season but, you know, as they say, take it up a notch. We wanted to put Stan in more. We did bigger adventures. We actually have a narrative that arcs from episode to episode so that they’re not just doing missions and/or exercises and the tests too, but they’re on a mission and they’re going against what we call “real bad guys.”

It’s still at it's core a reality show, where we try to bring even more heart to it and more reality to it. So, it’s the same, but different.

Stan Lee: It’s still a reality show, but I think we’re just trying to make it a little more of a production, a little more spectacular.

Andy Scheer: Yeah. I mean (like these), I mean we didn’t do that last year.

What qualities do you think make up that everyday hero?

Stan Lee: Well, let’s see. I would guess, as we have mentioned on the show, qualities such as loyalty, devotion to one’s duty, self-sacrifice, dependability, courage...you know, the type of things you would imagine that a hero should possess. The tests that we have on the show, while we try to make them colorful and perhaps even a little bit humorous, these tests are created in order to find out which of the contestants has those qualities in the greatest abundance.

We’d like to think they all have those qualities or we wouldn’t have chosen them to begin with, but now we have to find out which one has the most.

Andy Scheer: And the trigger thing is testing them in a way where it’s...in ways that bring it out rather than just, you know...it’s not like a multiple choice question—we have to sort of be clever because those are qualities that are displayed. It has to be displayed genuinely rather than just acted.

(To Andy) I’m curious; when did you decide to come in to the show? You’re obviously coming in the second season.

Andy Scheer: I got the call and I went home and I looked at all the DVDs and I said, “This is a great show, and I want to do this, this and this” and, I think with Stan’s stuff, I sparked some ideas.

Basically, I wanted to keep the core the same, a reality show with heart, anchored by Stan who’s just - I’m not just saying that he’s tremendous on camera. He’s so genuine, you just sort of fall in love with him as a viewer. So that was amazing.

But then, I also wanted to present them [the cast] with a real-life world where villains exist and evil is everywhere.

We created a world where that [evil villians] exists. We are stepping into our Gotham as it were, one of the arching narratives, so that you can follow week to week as the overall story progresses.

We had to pool people that had studied the show. We had to pool them in a creative, smart, fun way. So, it was a very challenging and ultimately very fulfilling show. I’m very pleased with it.

(To Stan) Obviously, you’re an iconic figure. Over the years, a lot of your characters, they sort of move on without you -- someone else had the helm, someone else is deciding what happens with them. Is that a tough thing for you to watch, to see a character and think “Well, I don’t know if I would have done that or I wish I could do this with this character,” or can you just sort of let them go and let them find their own story now?

Stan Lee: Well, I’ve had to let them go because I couldn’t keep control over them forever. But I’ve been very lucky because the people who’ve taken the reign after me, the people who are making the movie versions, for example, are so brilliant, and doing such a good job, and the movies are so spectacular that they’re making me look better than ever.

So, I’ve got no complaints, and I’ve never felt that kind of pride or ownership where I don’t want anybody to touch anything that I’ve created. I mean, you know, you have to be smart enough to know that, at some point, other people will take over just like Andy has taken over our show. If the people are as talented as you hope they will be, and luckily they have been, then you just enjoy the ride.

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