Bill Maher kicked the Marvel Wasp nest with a baffling post published to his blog this week.
The HBO late-night host wrote a response to the death of Stan Lee in which he criticized those mourning the comic book giant, trashed modern comic book culture, and suggested: “Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important.” Naturally, it was not received well by all.
“The guy who created Spider-Man and the Hulk has died, and America is in mourning. Deep, deep mourning for a man who inspired millions to, I don’t know, watch a movie, I guess,” Maher began the post, which he titled “Adulting.” “Someone on Reddit posted, ‘I’m so incredibly grateful I lived in a world that included Stan Lee.’ Personally, I’m grateful I lived in a world that included oxygen and trees, but to each his own.
“Now, I have nothing against comic books — I read them now and then when I was a kid and I was all out of Hardy Boys,” he explained. “But the assumption everyone had back then, both the adults and the kids, was that comics were for kids, and when you grew up you moved on to big-boy books without the pictures.”
Maher went on to write how, in the past 20 years, “adults decided they didn’t have to give up kid stuff” and “pretended comic books were actually sophisticated literature,” while “some dumb people got to be professors by writing theses with titles like Otherness and Heterodoxy in the Silver Surfer.”
“And now,” he continued, “when adults are forced to do grown-up things like buy auto insurance, they call it ‘adulting’ and act like it’s some giant struggle.”
Maher concluded his blog post by claiming our culture hasn’t “necessarily gotten stupider,” we’re just “using our smarts on stupid stuff.” He added, “I don’t think it’s a huge stretch to suggest that Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important.”
Reps for Maher did not respond to EW’s request for further comment. HBO declined to comment, emphasizing “these blogs are Bill’s voice.”
Admirers of Lee, fans of comic books, and comic book creators seemed stunned and angered by these comments, especially as they were written in connection to Lee, who passed away at the age of 95 days earlier.
“Bill Maher dismissed an entire storytelling medium? Wow. He’s so highbrow,” Tom Taylor, best-selling write behind DC’s Injustice: Gods Among Us, tweeted. “His brow is so high, there’s probably less room for a mind.”
Folks like Spider-Gwen and Southern Bastards‘ co-creator Jason Latour were more brief. “Newsflash: Bill Maher is still a dips—,” he wrote.
Jayden Walker
Actually based. I guess a broken clock is still right twice a day.
What I hate more than comic books is celebrity culture.
Justin Campbell
didn't he give a heartfelt eulogy to fucking Hugh Hefner? But Stan Lee is below him?
I am not even into comics at all, but come on.
John Young
pretty anti-semitic of him desu
Nicholas Sanchez
Bills very smart any press is good press nothing will happen and he will still have his show & fortune when will You realize this is the conflict game they all play?
That makes sense. Playboy is the replacement for the comic book as a boomer grows to adulthood.
Cameron Wood
There used to be a clear distinction between what was for kids and what was for adults. Thanks to adults who don't want to grow up and greedy fucks like Stan Lee, that's changed, and now there's nothing out there completely for kids any more without some adult agenda in it.
Elijah Rogers
I'd skullfuck the guy but he stood up for Alex Jones. Very few lefty's would do that. Maher and Dore. Nobody else on the left has the balls.
>Maher went on to write how, in the past 20 years, “adults decided they didn’t have to give up kid stuff” and “pretended comic books were actually sophisticated literature unironically based & redpilled
Samuel Johnson
>A kike trashing another kike JEWS ARE SMART EH PFHAHAHAHAH OHNONOONONONO
Isaiah Murphy
Yeah but what if it's one of those ones with AM/PM then it would only be right once a day? Although most are electronic now, so a broken clock would most likely be right zero times a day
Sebastian Harris
>we’re just “using our smarts on stupid stuff.” Pretty much what the left is all about. Get an education and have logic and "critical thinking", only to argue stupid stuff like toxic masculinity, white privilege, microaggressions etc.
Kayden Jenkins
Well, sure, he's right. If your age is in the double digits then you should also read REAL books too, you illiterate faggots, since comic books intended audience were kids. Not true of EVERY comic, naturally, some independent artists and publishers--like Heavy Metal or the like--were intended for an older audience. But DC/Marvel comic books have been written by dumb talentless commies for years as an attempt to influence and mold their political & cultural opinions. It's hilarious to accuse SJW agenda-laden trash like Marvel and DC of being responsible for BLONULD DUCK unless he means that due to invading and destroying a hobby enjoyed by a certain segment of people they unintentionally radicalized those guys against the faggots who wrecked their comic books.
The whole "this or that is only supposed to be for kids & you're doing adulting wrong if you still enjoy them" is a bullshit argument. Always has been, always will be. Childishness is in your attitude, mentality, maturity, and coping mechanisms. It has fucking NOTHING to do with whatever you're into.
Benjamin Brown
Yes, that's what makes it so interedastin' really; they present these sound, factual observations but intentionally try to paint them as evil by associating them with a supervillain. Red Skull, more like Red Pill. (sadly I don't seem to have the old Bernie edits where he was converting guys into Berniebros)
This is what happens when you stop teaching kids to read analog clocks
Landon Robinson
Hmm in one instance we have leftist lit professors saying that the right wing is worryingly interested in classical literature and on the other this faggot says we don't worry about it enough. Teh bottom line is people dont pay attention to this snob nor do they find him funny so he has to take swipes at te low hanging fruit of the day. Reminder you will never please a leftist, their criticisms are not about correcting things but about gaining control.
Thomas Stewart
It's kind of nice to see him trigger the consumerism-cult. But it's also nice to see his Jewish arrogance backfire, so I'm not going to defend him.
Jacob Kelly
shit is he /ourguy/? now we just need to make him do a redpill about anime cartoons star wars and harry potter being purely for children
Gabriel Turner
>I don't like any of these things so you must be a child if you do What a faggot argument.
Robert Brooks
This is such an awesome take. Nice to see a troll with brains for a change.
Benjamin Phillips
Comics are cringeworthy rubbish but so is this: > "Personally, I’m grateful I lived in a world that included oxygen and trees, but to each his own." That's just as purile and reddit as any comic.
Robert Bennett
>Personally, I’m grateful I lived in a world that included oxygen and trees, but to each his own. Yikes, that's the kind of edgy pretentious sarcasm I did when I was a teen
David Scott
The guy who made a living of edgy teenager statements ask people to grow up.
Owen Moore
He's just mad adults are reading comics instead of watching his shitty show. Its both braindead ''entertainment'' anyway
John Baker
Next page the people he convinced are wiring themselves up to be suicide bombers and shit. Author just copied down our talking points and his thinking doesn't go beyond RIGHT WING BAD, POPULISM IS TERRORISM
Parker Watson
>capeshit NPC as you can get. This Zionist can be pretty based at times.
Nathan Reyes
reminder that bill maher was cut out of iron man 3 and only says this because he's bitter
he's not redpilled at all and is still a huge kike
Jason Carter
>edgy boi tells others to grow up
That's a big ol' yikes from me.
Thomas Wright
>it's real
Wow.
Daniel Price
Every so often Maher is right about something.
Carter Cruz
I agree 100% with him.
I despise all those manchildren who think that their childhood toys are somehow relevant to adult life and who refuse to grow up.
Fucking useless human garbage.
Levi Stewart
I hate how much "adults" enjoy comic book trash these days, but I honestly hate Bill even more. I hope his cringe show gets cancelled soon.
Eli Lewis
Maher is an old style Democrat, he wants higher taxes and doesn't want war. He thinks all the other degenerate leftist shit is cancer and sometimes he lets it show. If we had a communist revolution he would get the bullet immediately.
Christian Hughes
Kinda pathetic that this is what makes people angry at Maher and not the whole "fuck everybody whose not rich we need a recession because Drumph" comment
Anthony Bailey
>be an adult >read capshit
Benjamin Watson
Basically this. He's a classical democrat/liberal. Believes in based free speech. But he loves his crazy old man rants. And pretentious rants about being a vegetarian and shit. Everyone has their autism. His biggest sin is starting to bend the knee to feminists.
Eli Hall
too bad Bill didn't make the connection that marvel fags like the one in the Reddit post he quoted most certainly did not vote for Trump
Landon Anderson
He's somewhat right, most people who read capeshit are manchildren, an editor at Marvel forced the writers to write a story in which Spiderman makes a deal with the devil and turned back into a teenager because he couldn't handle Spiderman being an adult with a wife. It's okay to read some capeshit if you like it but most people who read capeshit never read anything else, they don't want to grow, they're just mindless consumers who have been buying the same brand all their lives. I don't know how zoomers will be when they grow up when all the movies they watched as kids were MCU trash.
Alexander Jenkins
A Jew disrespected a dead Jew? Who cares?
Wyatt Clark
70s and 80s Marvel is god-tier. Lee was a true genius and will be remebered centuries from now. Maher's just a hack.
Ryder Sanchez
lmfao what the fuck
Tyler Foster
It's greek myth for the modern age, it hit it's storytelling pinnacle already but it's still not just "kid stuff". People like the chars because the good ones are timeless and represent something noble and resist the intentional cucking by the owners and creators. Get rid of the movie era fans and (((editors))) and it will go back to its former glory as wholesome entertainment.
Jose Clark
Marvel is crap anyway. I stopped watching after I realized they were literally making the same movie over and over.
Christopher Morgan
Jewish Perversion
Dumb Roach
Caleb Turner
Not just 'supposed' user. He IS the bad guy
Jordan Gray
A childless jew manchild who's on the "dude, weed" train has no standing to call anyone else immature.
Harry Potter, for example. They even came with double covers for a while. a "respectable" one for adults and a childish one for the kids. And now we have a generation, who needs Harry Potter analogies to make sense of politics.
Gabriel Bennett
They'd rather be watching gayass reaction videos on YouTube than his lame show.
Gavin Watson
He would get the bullet in any kind of revolution honestly.
Zachary Thompson
he's too busy smoking weed and fucking hooker ass to care about comics xD
Liam Rogers
Sad to see him live long enough to become the thing he hated: a close minded, biased out of touch old man denigrating a medium of expression that he "just doesn't get".
For a liberal, he's not as bad as some of the others. Not saying I agree with him on most things, but he sometimes has good takes and doesn't stand for PC bullshit.
Joseph Adams
>There used to be a clear distinction Yeah, invented by the people controlling you.
Carson Evans
True
Noah Powell
Damn it, I was defending him before I knew about this. Now his point is just hypocritical.
Brandon Moore
His nose just keeps getting bigger over the years. I wonder if it will keep growing after he dies.
Evan Fisher
DUDE i just LOVE the hustle and bustle of the big city, it’s so DYNAMIC and makes me feel like i’m in one of my favourite TV SHOWS. you should totally come on down to my studio apartment, it’s got EXPOSED RED BRICK walls and everything, we can crack open a nice hoppy ipa or three and get crazy watching some cartoons on adult swim! and dude, dude, DUDE, we have GOTTA go down to the barcade- listen here, right, it’s a BAR where us ADULTS who do ADULTING can go DRINK. BUT!!!! it’s also an ARCADE like when we were kids, so we can play awesome VIDEO GAMES, without dumb kids bothering us. speaking of which megan and i have finally decided to tie the knot- literally -we’re both getting snipped tomorrow at the hospital, that way we can save money to spent more on ourselves and our FURBABIES. i’m fuckin JACKED man, i’m gonna SLAM this craft beer and pop open another one!!!
Maher is right about a lot. Still sore at him for boning the girl I was trying to date back in late 1998, in Houston, but I'm glad he's around and saying stuff.
Also I suspect a lot of the "Fuck Blumph" content is put out there so people don't question his Leftist orthodoxy, in much the same way that C.Hitchens would always assure everyone he was a radical Socialist at heart (so his more controversial positions couldn't be dismissed as those of a racist monster, etc...)
Always love this post.
Charles Carter
>his blog
Who cares what this hook nosed little goblin cunt thinks.
Nolan Evans
>right-winger >Marvel fans So Bill M. has finally gone senile at long last.
I don't even read comics but didn't he make that joke about Trump wanting to have sex with his daughter, seems like pretty childish humor. So they tried to demonize vidya games and now they are back to comics and what is the problem if someone appreciates the art in a comic, is it because its not some snob painting in a museum, they are both pictures. And someone will probably bring up the bread and ciruses argument but spending time watching a tv show is a pretty trashy form of entertainment.
Based Bill Maher. Comic fags and anime pedos get the bullet on DOTR.
Brody Morales
Bill who?
Brandon Lopez
#Resist
Isaac Powell
Chris Ware is the most talented artist alive, Jodorowski is shit
Hudson White
>Donald Trump could only get elected in a country that thinks comic books are important
modern comics are completely entrenched in leftist propaganda and 99% of the people who think comic books are important voted for Hillary though, he'd know that if he even made half an attempt at surveying current comic culture
Kevin Moore
Maher's forgetting that most of the people working in the comic industry are left wing faggots. I don't know what he's expecting to gain from this other alienating that base. Also fuck anyone who's saying he's a "classic liberal", he's as subversive as it fucking gets.
Carter Richardson
>pedophile contrarian who runs a show called "politically incorrect" acts contrarian and politically incorrect >greyfaces react in SHOCK
Robert Cooper
How much of a fucking brainlet can you get. Im not into comics but thats doesnt mean that cmics dont matter. Dont you see the amount of money capeshit generates? Also comics add something to the reading experience, and its the pics, and someone has to draw them and then, if it goes big, the art will influence the coming comics and so on. Comics ARE important. You may wish they werent but then you are a gilipollas with hands on their ears and going LALALALA
Grayson Ward
btw he's exactly right and i don't normally agree with this cocksmoking atheist faggot
Blake Reyes
yes, hes right this time.
Carter Carter
based giraud
Dominic Bennett
>dude may sell me and my country down the river, but he hate's capeshit so he's /ourguy/ now!
