I am intellectually superior to the people who like Dane Cook. Yes. And the fans of Larry the Cable Guy. And even people who still watch South Park. We're all guilty of our own, well, guilty pleasures, but if you read through the last couple pages of this thread Mr. Cook's suckitude is well catalogued.
The popularity of comics like this, paired with the relative obscurity of some of those from whom they steal, is indicative of the same phenomenon as most every game developer substantially dialing down the challenge of their games...intellectuals are not breeding on a level consummate with the idiots of the world. For more on this, see the first 10 minutes of the movie Idiocracy. And then turn the movie off and throw it away.
I also think I'm smarter than people who thought Transformers 2 was awesome, and morally superior to Nazis. And trust me, none of this makes me an elitist. I don't think I'm BETTER than anyone, per se, I'm just smarter and have more taste