I love your radio show(s) but I cringe when you say stuff like “George Perez really gets off on…” or “Bendis is wants everyone to know he’s smarter than…”. For me: that’s the line–if you have journalistic evidence someone’s a dick, then that’s one thing (and I realize you have more information than we do about that), but ascribing a fucked-up personality trait unequivocally to a creator because there’s an aspect of the work you don’t like is, for me, where the line is. Where is it for you?

Hrm.

Part of me wants to start with “When I say ‘someone’s getting off on,’ it’s more a way of saying that they’re clearly into it than anything else,” but I think that might be me being defensive. I’m unsure how to respond to this, because it’s something I’m uncomfortable with – I think I’ve gone waaaaay over the line in the past on the podcast, and I’m trying to rein myself in from continuing to do so, so my first response to “where the line is” is something like “probably about three steps back from where I am, worryingly.” It’s something I’m very bad at, and trying to get better about.

That said, occasionally, I’m saying things because I do know that people are massive dicks from firsthand experience.