God is Love — and Love is a Story

If the 1959 plane crash which claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens marked “the day the music died” — as Don McLean put it — then I think we could make a case for November 12, 2018 being the day the stories died.

For this was the day we lost Stan Lee.

Lee — the chief storyteller behind legendary comic book superheroes like S…