[PaulHoule]

"Not comparable" is the favorite phrase of the snob. Roger Ebert thinks that video games are "not comparable" to movies. Scorsese thinks the movies he make that mine negative stereotypes of Italian-Americans are "not comparable" to superhero movies. (Funny how you find so many Italian-Americans working construction jobs but not so many making films...)

There was a "making of" feature in the 1960s Marvel Comics where Stan Lee was talking on the phone and said "How can he say it was a cheesy story? I ripped it off from the best classic I could find!"

Similarly it's just as fair to say that Shakespeare was like Joss Whedon than the converse.