So let's recap.

Your argument is that I am incapable of, and should be disallowed from, making critical commentary because I am not a professional writer or director.



And the irony is your remaining willfully ignorant of the fact that the entire contents of your debate manual can be summed up as: AD HOMINEM.

The earth.



Jack Kirby's imagination.

No, Allen. You made critical comments. Most of them were fairly silly and obviously generated by a pre-existing disdain for Whedon rather than an honest evaluation of The Avengers. What I'm pointing out is that Whedon has received enormous critical and now commercial acclaim for his writing and you are a lonely guy on the internet that says he sucks. If your arguments agains the film were stronger, or strong at all, your own lack of accomplishments wouldn't matter. But your criticisms are so weak and you are so persistent in making them that it gets boring simply refuting your pathetic objections and it's more fun to poke you with a pointy stick.

Mike

So, that means no one can make better mudpies than she can?

Mike

Better than most. Your cowdung-laced posts might take the prize, however.

See, Allen, this is why you're not a professional writer. You can't even summon up the creativity to personalize your insults.

Mike

That would be because you bore me.

Nah. All the old editors I worked with used to say something along those lines of, "To be a professional writer you have to be two out of the three; good, able to hit deadlines or be likable. You can even be really unlikeable, but then you'd have to be a really great writer."

So bored you hang on his every word and respond to nearly every one of his posts.

I must entertain the shit out of Allen, because he refuses to respond

I really hate the layout at the Poplitiko site: there's no way of just clicking your name to see your recent writing. Instead I have to scroll through entire essays where there's NO BYLINE to even tell me who wrote what!