I've found Rude's approach to storytelling to be rather painter-ly.  He prefers landscapes to establishing shots and would rather allow the readers' eyes to wander about the page rather than put his story and characters front and center. It's a valid, mostly attractive approach, but not as effective as the one Toth advises.

Rude's Moth seems to be an attempt at old-fashioned cartoony action, but as listed here in this thread, he has a number of problems in presenting the necessary information to the reader that it takes for the page to "read" clearly. That being said, it still works; just not as well as it otherwise might.

Toth is a man whose difficult reputation preceded him.  If one has actually imposed upon his time for a favor as large as a detailed multi-page critique, one might wish to reconsider repaying his generosity with excuses and contradictions.  Yeah, I would imagine Toth became angry.  In what story ever told about the man is he not angry?  Most of his own tales from the comics and animation industries have him blowing his stack at the know-it-alls and know-nothings surrounding him on all sides.  Rude got Toth's opinion on his work, take it or leave it.  Trying to correct Toth's assumptions, however good-naturedly ("Y'see, you said I should establish the Quest family as characters, but that was already done in the first chapter...") is unwise and presumptutious. Say "thank you" and use his advice or don't.  Rude apparently has chosen not to use it.  Fine.  His choice.  Fortunately, the rest of us get to benefit from this inside look at Toth's approach.

We can do whatever we like, but Toth found the drawings unconvincing, and therefore "fake."  Toth seemed to think further research would have corrected the problem, and never had any problem with taking the time and doing the research himself.  Why expect less of others?

Asking for clarification without being cussed at isn't a given, either. Toth cussed out any number of people for any number of reasons.  There's no reason to assume you're going to be immune, especially if you're correcting and second-guessing the man. Again, he'd taken his time to do you a favor.  Say "thank you" and leave it at that.  "Thank you, but..." is only going to lead to trouble.

Hey, Al. I already pointed that out in the "Bosch Fawstin self love thread".

He said it was all my fault for not hugging him when he was a child.

(So you totally swiped my "Gotcha!". You ... Swiper you. )