After years and years (and even more years) of railing against comic pros for violating various creators’ original intent with their stories, Byrne goes off the deep end and publishes a manifesto that ends in this impossible to argue with piece of advice:

As I have pointed out many times, most characters have many fathers, and very few end up in the same place where they started. It is nearly impossible for a creator to outline every conceivable twist and turn of every possible storyline. The world changes, the creators change — the characters change.

And then he kills his newfound wisdom dead with his next post where he immediately becomes obsessed once again with the Thing’s penis, the “fact” that Spider-Man should never have been aged past high school and denial about his hand in changing various characters when he’s gotten his hands on them. Ay yi yi…

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