Fair enough, Paul. You don't have to read my complaints. Sorry if I've gotten too negative for you.

I obviously still enjoy talking about Byrne's comics. I guess what I was getting at in that first sentence, is that quite often on the internet, somebody will complain about something, and somebody else will say "if it bothers you so much, why do you spend so much time talking about it? Why don't you go pay attention to something else?" So I was responding to that unanswered question ahead of time, defensively. I guess I would have been better off just making my comments rather than getting defensive about them prematurely.

you're just getting too predictable with your pessimism

Don't worry Peter, there's scarcely a regular poster on these boards who ever posts anything unpredictable.