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Bill Maher Continues Attacks On Comics and Stan Lee, Doesn’t Bother to Check His Facts
Bill Maher doubled-down on his criticism of Stan Lee and his life’s work as childish things meant to be discarded. It’s likely it was done to inspire another round of articles and responses, like this one. Most of the segment just saw him quoting his critics and calling them fat nerds who don’t get laid. Not found in this editorial, unlike the few that make decent arguments, is any kind of real argument. He thinks comics are for kids and fuck you if you think otherwise. He does make one attempt to cite some kind of evidence to support his claim, but it’s just factually incorrect. He also doesn’t realize that rather than kids’ stuff, comic books are the best thing on the market to compete with the thing he hates most: religion.
In the segment (video embedded below), Maher reads the response to his original comments from Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment. In the polite missive, the writers point out that Maher did, in fact, insult Stan Lee. They also make the case that comic books are literature. Then they wrote:
“…[Y]ou have a right to your opinion that comics are childish and unsophisticated. Many said the same about Dickens, Steinbeck, Melville and even Shakespeare.”
Maher’s response to this was to mock them for being so hilariously wrong, which they…
