I'm really tired of seeing myself referred to as "bitter". Let's get this really clear and straight in all our minds (no matter how tiny and useless some of those minds may be): I am not bitter. I am ANGRY.

I have seen comics, an entertainment form once intended for the widest possible audiences, and an entertainment form to which I have dedicated a most of my adult life, turned into a niche market exercise in mutual masturbation for aging fanboys and ennui engorged bungee jumpers.

should not be in the same place as words like this:

"One of the most hallowed conventions of superhero comics is SPEED LINES. That's a generic term which covers not only such lines as are used to indicate a character or object is moving really fast, as with, say,Quicksilver or the Flash, but to indicate any movement at all. A body, a hand,a sword, a falling rock, all such things leave behind them a trail of lines,indicating that they are moving. Without such lines, objects can tend to look as if they are motionless. And, since we are in an environment, in comics, in which it is not entirely uncommon for such things as rocks to actually be seen floating in the air, it is necessary to find ways to indicate when things are still, and when they are not."

or this:

"To be clear, Stan Lee told me once upon a time that I could trust the characters to tell me what kinds of stories they wanted to be in. I took this to mean that when the mojo is really humming, that is what it FEELS like. But in the end, despite the best efforts of some writers to maintain the illusion of writing as some kind of quasi-mystical experience, the reality is that nothing happens but that the writer wants it to happen (barring editorial interventions, of course!). "

* the way I can pull up those 2 examples is because I have a file in word titled "Byrne's Wisdom on comics" because you say some of the coolest things I have ever read, about the mechanics of comics.

JB you are a public figure unfortunately what you say takes on more meanings and weight. You don't have the luxury of saying whatever you want and it go unnoticed, the negative stuff you say, gets blogs written about it. Is it unfair, yes it is, but it is the nature of the beast.

QUOTE: remember a time when I was angry at IMAGE, for blotting the landscape with their crap comics.

I hated DC & Marvel more for altering their entire lines so as to emulate Image instead of  keeping the copies to a few titles or not emulating them at all.

The Image guys were ruining their own properties, nobody was forcing M and DC to do the same. Anyway, it just goes to show how homogenic the industry is every decade. You get to chose from 300 books a month and they're nearly all done with the same type of reader in mind.