Brief break from our usual fare to honor a comic legend who passed yesterday - Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) would be the first face on the Mount Rushmore of comics and all that they have inspired as America’s own self-created mythology. Having a hand in everything from the Fantastic Four to Spider-Man, from the X-Men to the Avengers, Stan Lee was involved in every evolution of his creations from when he graduated high-school at 16 right up until the day he died. He was 95.
RIP Stan Lee (December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018)
“Let’s lay it right on the line. Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. But, unlike a team of costumed supervillains, they can’t be halted with a punch in the snoot, or a zap from a ray gun. The only way to destroy them is to expose them – to reveal them for the insidious evils they really are.
The bigot is an unreasoning hater – one who hates blindly, fanatically, indiscriminately. If his hang-up is black men, he hates ALL black men. If a redhead once offended him, he hates ALL redheads. If some foreigner beat him to a job, he’s down on ALL foreigners. He hates people he’s never seen – people he’s never known – with equal intensity – with equal venom.
Now, we’re not trying to say it’s unreasonable for one human being to bug another. But, although anyone has the right to dislike another individual, it’s totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race – to despise an entire nation – to vilify an entire religion. Sooner or later, we must learn to judge each other on our own merits. Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance. For then, and only then, will we be truly worthy of the concept that man was created in the image of God – a God who calls us ALL – his children.”
- “Stan’s Soapbox”, Bullpen Bulletins, December 1970
Okay, so I've tried blogging before and it never took. Figured I'd try it again now that I have more interesting things going on. Interesting to me but maybe not to you.
Okay, so I've tried blogging before and it never took. Figured I'd try it again now that I have more interesting things going on. Interesting to me but maybe not to you.