Okay. You know what. Here's the deal. It's gonna take a while. I'm never doing it again. It'll be here-- and then I never intend to open up this box of stupidity again. Because this is internet stupidity. I really shouldn't have to deal with this. I've got a job-- and a life-- but here goes:
I apologize ahead of time for somehow luring this poster to your board.
Ever since he started running his bizarre, endless tirades about me-- filled with non-stop obscenities-- and half-truths, I've been avoiding addressing him in person.
In the past he has FREQUENTLY gotten many of his "facts" and portrayals of me flat-out-wrong. If he was a public figure and not some guy mouthing off on message board-- for some of the stuff he's said about me as a person and about my actions-- I would probably take the time and effort to pursue legal action. Because it is that far off base.
For example: He has spouted off that I "denied" someone else a spot an internship at Marvel because I pretended I was still in college, though I'd graduated the year before (this is a true story which *I* have freely told a NUMBER of times in interviews. This is WHY he knows this story, because it is something I'm completely upfront about.). However, during that summer there were intern positions that were unfilled-- so any EXTRA applicants would have had a spot and NONE were denied by my actions. Another time he implied that I was involved in the decision to marry Pete and MJ, though I was IN college on the other side of the country at the time and YEARS away from working at Marvel. And he's stated many other things as well-- too numerous to mention here.
When confronted with his inaccuracies, instead of offering an apology-- or at the least-- a retraction, instead he went off into a strange diatribe about how it doesn't matter if he gets his facts right-- that it's more that he expresses his "emotional" honesty about how he feels about what he's spouting off about. (WTF?)
He keeps branding me a liar (based off of that one anecdote that *I* have told, been open about, and have freely offered many times), while he's been caught out in many of his OWN untruths-- even though he frequently says that he NEVER lies-- that that goes against his very nature. Over at the Bendis boards (boards which he has labeled the place on the internet that I'm "afraid to go to"-- even though Brian has set me up with OWN message board there which I regularly maintain and answer questions on-- as WELL as posting on Brian's own board too! Again: WTF?)...
Anyway... Over at that board I've seen him go off on a bizarre rant about how HE was fired from his job. When other people asked about it, he told the story, all building up to the point where he told his boss "...if that's what you want me to do, I QUIT!" And then everyone started asking him, so were you FIRED or did you QUIT? And then went off on a rationalization for how it was LIKE the same thing. This is a person who shifts reality all the time to make himself the martyr/hero of every situation. And, on top of that, he is prone to crazy, obscenity filled tirades. This is NOT someone I want to get involved with on ANY level.
But here's the problem: Ignoring him just angers him more. When I started twittering and skyping on the same week, he AND A NUMBER OF PEOPLE from that VERY negative board tried to follow both my tweets and my skype (And, unlike you guys, we're talking a board where members had to reach hyperbole where they mention things like lynching or shivving Quesada, Wacker, or myself before they got seriously reprimanded [I am NOT making that up! That has happened on more than one occasion-- but, oh yeah, it's a GREAT place to hang out at if you one of the guys working on the current book.
]. And again, they have VERY positive back-and-forths about MANY things that AREN'T BND and the BND creators. And the guy who runs the board is VERY nice. I'm NOT denying that.)
Anyway-- when some of the tweet replies were coming to me from MULTIPLE MEMBERS of that board, I started blocking ALL of them. He sent me a passive aggressive tweet about how *I* shouldn't have broken up Peter and MJ, and if it wasn't broke, why did *I* think I should fix it. (Despite that the marriage was set to be broken up BEFORE I ever was given the assignment to work on the book-- whether I agree with it or not-- which, btw, I do.) So I blocked him as well-- as I did a NUMBER of guys on that site.
Let me make this perfectly clear-- My Skype and My Twitter are for ME. I use Skype to talk to my loved ones through video-- and to communicate with many of my friends and my artists who live abroad. On my Twitter I communicate w/ friends and talk about my day and share things with them. If fans, coworkers, and industry types want to join in-- that's cool and fun too. But if a fan gets pissy or insulting with me-- it's not a message board, it's not a convention, I just go to the block button-- like spam-- it's not something I want to deal with when I'm tweeting. Is that fair?
Not long after blocking all those tweets, I went about blocking members of that board from my Skype when they tried to add me as a contact there too. One name I mistook for someone from one of the comic news sites-- I answered THAT Skype and started talking with that person. He's pretty reasonable (I do NOT have a beef with EVERYONE on that board), so we kept e-chatting. While this was happening, our friend here showed up and tried add me as a contact as well. I said to the person I was e-chatting with, "Can you believe this guy? He just sent me an anti-BND post to my Twitter account, I blocked him, and NOW he's trying to get on my Skype too? Excuse me, I've got to go block him again..." When the e-chat was over, the person I was talking to relayed this back to that guy I'd just blocked... And guess what?
He starts off on this big, bizarre martyrdom kick-- saying that HE was blocked on my twitter, HE was trying to reach out to me to square things up on Skype, and that HE and HE ALONE had ruined it for everyone else-- because HE and HE ALONE was the REASON I was blocking ALL of those guys from that board (even though I'd been blocking almost all of 'em all day WELL before and WELL after him!) It was bizarre!
I didn't want to confront him. He'd already said some not-too-nice things about me with some pretty nasty obscenities thrown in-- and that's not someone I want to give attention to. But ignoring him made it worse. Because then he started AUDIO recordings and VLOGS with more curses, obscenities, invectives, and LIES hurled about me than someone with turrets syndrome-- I kid you not!!! WHY WOULD I EVER WANT TO ADDRESS SOMEONE LIKE THAT?! Would you?!
Every now and then I've listened to a clip of his audio rants or watched a snippet of his vlog to remind myself that I want NOTHING to do with this guy. I have NOTHING to say to him. The crazy attention this guy is throwing my way is probably the only scary part of my job. This is the one time I'm doing this. I pray to God he gets the message and realizes that he is not getting another scintilla of my attention EVER again. I've blocked the other site he goes to from my Firefox-- and now I've blocked his blog as well. I physically cannot go there anymore-- which is all for the best.
Sorry for the long post. Sorry for bringing this stuff to a pretty fun board. Won't happen again. Soon as I figure out how to block someone here, he's blocked. (And I've NEVER had to do that here at the Hype! Even w/ Random Havoc
. Y'know I kid, RH.)
Okay, back to "real" things.
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We're on a similar wave-length. I made a joke like that to Farmernudie on CBR. And he gave me an "LOL" for my effort. Nice guy. 
