I think Guggenheim was talking out his ass. He seemed to me to be one of those WGA types that thought the ultimate thing you could do for the WGA strike was to walk the picket line for an hour - if there was somebody there to capture the event on film or video. The idea behind a picket line is NOT to get face time. It’s to encourage people — not just other union members — to honor the strike.

I don’t even blame Joe Quesada for going on the Colbert during the strike. I thought he was in the SAG union, but I guess he’s not. Being that he’s not a union member, his first obligation is to Marvel. I do fault Guggenheim though. At the very least, he should have tried his darnedest to talk him out of appearing on the show during the strike. He should not have excused it, especially publicly.

She asks for opinions, but then wont let her readers see opinions that are contrary to her own. That’s too hammer-sickle like for my tastes.

Personally, I kinda like it when someone weighs in and disagrees with me about something. I like to hear opinions that are contrary to my own. Plus, sometimes I’m wrong about stuff. How am I supposed to know when that happens unless someone sets me straight?

Her decision to be so controlling over the comments is a puzzling one, especially since she routinely delves into provacative topics that are bound to generate some wildly divergent opinions. That unwillingness to fully engage in that type of “public opinion arena” (warts and all) is, at best, disingenuous and, at worst, extremely manipulative. I completely understand editing comments for crackpot comments or obscenity, but if she’s going to present herself as this Wise Arbiter of the comics scene, she should be more honest about it.