I’m afraid that no matter how long he lives and works, Jim Lee will never draw anything as cool as his X-Men, which marked a generational milestone.

I don’t know where the ad’s line came from or who wrote it. It reminds me of the quote “Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence”. The latter is attributed “by the Internet” to the 12th century wise man Averroes, although I haven’t found the specific source and it isn’t featured on his Wikiquote page.