And I’m always surprised how many people are willing to defend Liefeld’s right to suck without criticism. I shouldn’t be, because those millions he’s got didn’t materialize out of thin air, but all the same. All art forms have critics; not liking a guy’s work doesn’t make you a horrible person, any more than producing terrible work makes the artist a horrible person.

However, I also have the right to disagree with someone’s disagreement, vigorously if necessary, and I will do so. It’s not personal, hard as that can be to remember sometimes.

Also, that was a masterful example of the “I apologize for calling you an idiot, I only did it because you’re an idiot” non-apology apology.

Look, it’s a free world, you’re welcome not to find the same things funny that I do. Personally, I find making fun of bad art to be hysterical.

The last thing I want to say on this subject is that I find it deeply ironic that while I have gone out of my way many, many times to say explicitly that I make no value judgments about Rob Liefeld AS A PERSON, just his art, you do exactly what you castigate me for when you say “[your writing] reflects very poorly on you AS A PERSON”. If it’s true that judging someone based on their work reflects poorly on the reviewer as a person, what does it say about you that you’re doing the same thing?

Obviously, I DON’T think it “reflects poorly on someone as a person” to be critical of another’s work, even when that other is ME. Criticism is important. I value that you all are willing to take me to task when I do something you don’t agree with, but I have the right to do the same thing when I think you do it in an unfair or inaccurate manner.

Which you did in your first comment, and then did again, worse, in your second comment. I don’t think that makes you a bad PERSON, I just disagree — vigorously — with your OPINION on this particular matter. Which is fine, we’re all adults here. Well, mostly. We can disagree and it’s not the end of the world.

I vote we go back to calling each other “poopy head” and saying “I’m rubber, you’re glue”, that worked really well for a long time and I don’t understand why we ever went away from it.

I am sorry that I unfairly accused you of being jealous or Rob Liefeld’s success, and I’m also sorry that I did it in an unnecessarily snarky way. I still believe, however, that teeing off week after week on Liefeld’s art, even if it is lousy, is unhelpful, unprofessional, and reflects very poorly on you as a person. It almost unavoidably creates the impression you have an axe to grind, even when you don’t mean to. Please let it go and move on to something constructive.

I personally also like the character contests more than the caption contests. On a side note, if you ever run out of ideas or just want to change it up, you could always open a discussion for theme suggestions.