Attn IvanJim: even if someone has you on Ignore, if you edit your post and leave the "Mark as Edited" block checked, then put in a reason, what you put in the reason field will still be visible.

Actually, Jodi does resond...


"I got upset with JB on how he responded to a guy in the Halloween thread I had started, I felt bad for the guy and knew that bad comment would over shadow the good that I have seen on here and stated my feelings. Gave my opinion on another topic, it was rejected and I thought I was kicked off the forum. But was told I wasn't and I didn't get banned. Which all those people that say JB only wants yes men around, guess they are wrong, because I wasn't banned."


Hmmm... Not exactly whitewash but she does draw a curious conclusion while attacking a false argument ("...JB only wants yes men around...")


She thought she was kicked off? She had to be TOLD that she wasn't? When was she told? Months after she said "Goodbye, JB?"

As I remember it, she got pissy with jb and made it clear that she was done posting there. She left.

That whole "i thought i was banned" is a bunch of bs and she should be ashamed of herself for saying that. Ugh. Sickening.

Thanks for the tip Allen, but I think I'll let Paul have the honor of ignoring my posts. To tell the unvarnished truth I don't mind at all if Paul has me on ignore as my posts in response to what he's written have always been far more about him than about addressing him. As I've detailed many a time the guy has been posting in a sociopathic manner for more than a decade and after several years it became clear that it's not an act. There's no reasoning with a sociopath, only the fun of exposing him as a hypocrite and a sociopath. I'm pretty sure that most folks around here now recognize exactly what Paul is, so I'm content with just pointing out the occasional hypocrisy or lie and letting other folks poke the Paul bug for their own pleasure, humor or edification.

(I'm also of the mind that there's a possibility that Paul's continued presence has had a deleterious effect on many folks desire to post here, but that's just conjecture and can't empirically be proven at this point. Steve and Rick obviously feel okay about Paul's posting and whatever effect it might have on this site, and that's their decision to make.)

Jodi had mentioned that Gentleman JB was above the sort of crass remark that he'd made regarding Jean Francois and the Spirit Halloween costume that ...as JB put it... was shitting all over Will Eisner's grave. Never one to back down or eat his words, Byrne responded with his usual diplomatic flair and responded with words to the effect of "If you don't like it, get out." Poor Jodi wished JB well and made it clear that she was done there.

There was no reason for her to have thought that she'd been banned. She never believed that people were so easily banned from the JBF before, why would she assumed that they'd start with her? She'd often defended Byrne and the forum on this point before.

Undoubtedly, Jodi continued to lurk around the forum. Most likely she haunted those political threads since she was always a huge communist activist.It must've been killing her to read those posts and not comment. Finally, the recent thread on the Tea Party broke her down and she ended her self-imposed exile.

It's too bad that she threw out such weak reasoning explaining her return. She would've retained for more credibility if she'd posted a simple "Yeah. I was pissed off at JB but I got over it and now I'm back."

Everyone has to draw this line in the sand where they choose. Do the advantages of hiring Byrne outweigh the disadvantages of hiring an ultra-sensitive primadonna with a history of abruptly quitting projects and a big Internet mouth? Apparently for DC and Marvel they do not.

The main issue of Byrne's convention antics aside, Bissette made two points I'd always held and completely agree with...


1. Stephen King's influence is very prominent throughout Byrne's Fearbook. I hadn't given the book a look since I read it back when it first came out, but I remember it reading like a very crude imitation of a King novel. In Byrne's defense, a lot of writers were doing King imitations back in the 80's. Unfortunately, Byrne's stilted, unnatural dialogue ...while totally acceptable for a comic book character like Reed Richards... just reads very awkwardly in prose.

2. While Byrne's Fantastic Four run was great, he was definitely running out of gas in it's latter half. It may have been the forced interruptions of the Secret Wars crossovers, that Dire Wraith issue or it may have been his deteriorating relationship with Shooter, but the FF of issues 270 or so and beyond weren't as much fun as the 230's, 240's etc. I still would've liked to have seen him do that "Doomwar" storyline he often mentions on his forum.

Hey JB--
Nice crotch shot!!

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=37670

Nice hands, Romita face, the rest of the anatomy is way weird. Did Ditko ever do the underarm webs?

Right. She never tried to log in during that whole time she thought she was "banned"?

Sad.