Who can name the poster who first mentioned the words 'The Infidel' on this thread?

And Mike M, get with it.

A few things.

While I find the Pigman stuff crude, the rest of Bosch's art, as much as I've seen of it, looks okay. Fairly slick,  classic cartooning style. Nothing that appeals to me personally, but I'd hardly call it amateurish. In fact I'd say it's above average (for a professional) in some respects. Let's let the artwork speak for itself.

I disagree with him on a lot of things, but I do not think his artwork should be unfairly judged.

And the Alan Moore thread was moving towards a very dark place when I last posted there. It was quickly turning into a "Let's hate on Alan Moore" thread. I don't think I was blameless myself, as I certainly voiced some very critical things about Moore. It is possible that it escalated later.

And just a week earlier in a "Frank Miller's Spirit" thread similar harsh language was aimed at Miller for what many saw as a disrespectful treatment of Will Eisner's character and "universe".  Mindful of Frank Miller's infamous cartoon of Marvel digging up Elektra's corpse, I even made an extremely crude, tasteless and disrespectful comment about the violation of corpses.

Both these threads were wiped. I think it safe to say that the extreme negative remarks about other comic book creators were the probable cause. There's a line between reasonable criticism and ad hominem attacks on professionals, and if we cross it, I think it's fair that the thread gets shut down.  It is a different matter when people are here to argue their case.

As for this thread? Compared to some religion threads it's positively civil.