As regular readers will have noticed, there's been a little controversy on the pages of CRIVENS! recently. Some readers enjoy these little spats while others aren't too keen, but exactly what the proportions are, I don't have a clue. (And not just about that, some critics would cry!) Truth to tell, nobody ever really manages to come out of these things smelling of roses, so why do I bother airing these disputes if that's the case? Simple. Permit me to explain.
As it's this very blog that makes me a target for abusive comments, silent 'phone calls, implied threats of damage to my property, lies, distortions and insinuations about myself, etc., I see no reason why I shouldn't use the blog to address these matters and set the record straight. To give you an example - a particularly loathsome individual recently used my comments section to lie about me in regard to a comic we both worked on for MARVEL U.K. back in the '90s. While I could have chosen not to publish his comments, that would have allowed him to suggest I hadn't done so because they're true, and it wouldn't have prevented him from repeating those lies elsewhere, without a right of reply from me.
So, it's far better to confront the lies head-on and nip them in the bud before they pass into legend. (Speaking of which, there are a couple of myths concerning me that have come to my attention that I'll get around to addressing one day.) I usually alert readers to the nature of such posts so that they can skip over them if they don't fall within the scope of their interests. One good thing has come from the most recent stushie, however. In publicly accusing me of submitting abusive comments to the blog of one of his pals, he's revealed who his chum believes is responsible for them. After all, he wouldn't level accusations against me in regard to a friend's blog if they ran contrary to that friend's own opinion, and it's clear that they've both discussed the situation.
That makes a nonsense of his buddy's claim that he had no particular person in mind concerning so-called 'anonymous' comments - proving that I was right all along. 'Nuff said!
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