No, I think it's a matter of our patience for Andrew wearing very thin. I mean he seems to pick his battles very stupidly (i.e. Slott, NuMarvel and others I may have forgotten) and fights them with an even thicker persistence. But I don't he's a stupid person. It tells me that he's probably some kind of aspiring pro trying to curry favor with those idiots.

Joe, you need to tone it down. Calling people idiots and casting aspersions on why people you don't know whatsoever might think what they think and/or ulterior motives is not part of a civil debate or discussion. It has nothing to do with the point at hand and even waters down/weakens your own position.

It is certainly reasonable that Andrew enjoys the work of those creators you cite and he has every right to defend and explain his opinion. You or I won't always agree with it -- and there are times we might think he's dead wrong (as I do in this case). But that doesn't mean it's time to lay decorum to the side or attack his credibility or motives.

Setting aside the fact that I have never, ever, under an circumstances CLAIMED to be infallible, the suggesting that I should get a "pass" carries the assumption that Larsen's "corrections" are valid -- and that's how to build an internet meme.

In the eyes of all too many, this becomes not about Larsen puffing himself up and placing himself on a higher plane than lowlies like NEAL ADAMS, it becomes about Larsen sticking well-deserved pins in pompous a'holes like John Byrne. The actually validity of Larsen's comments -- ie, none -- is quickly lost.

This is also how we get tales of "feuds" on the internet. "A" takes an unprovoked shot at "B", and if "B" responds, even in a purely defensive manner, there's a "feud".

All too often it seems as tho the whole point of the internet is to get stories shifted as far from their factual bases as possible, as quickly as possible. As Mark Twain said, "a lie can get halfway 'round the world while the truth is getting its shoes on." Never has this been more true than in this age of the Worldwide Web.