I just don't understand the willingness to look the other way when it comes to Stan Lee. Every time someone posts a tribute to a recently deceased person of note in the Water Cooler, several users pile on to remind everyone about the worst thing that person ever did: that Beat guru ran over dogs, that musician did this... But Stan did not just pass, and all the blind worship of him causes Shelley's "Ozymandias" to subtly play on a loop somewhere in the back of my head.
Given his decades-long body of self-serving lies on top of shameless self-promotion on top of spin and flim-flam, he was egotistical at a glance, and when you really peek behind the veil, he was downright oily. Affable, charismatic, engaging... but oily. For whatever part he did play in the creation of the Marvel Universe so many of us cherish, it brings me no pleasure stating such, but I refuse to play the fool.