There is a tendency among certain fans to view the creators of the comics like the characters in the comics–in other words, to characterize them simply, based on your own liking of their work. So complex human beings become viewed as trading cards, and are either “super heroes” or “super villains” depending on the argument of the day. If there’s say, a Chris Claremont vs John Byrne disagreement of some kind, then one guy must be absolutely right and the other must be absolutely wrong–and often, this has to do with which guy’s work you prefer, and so which viewpoint you want to see be “triumphant.”

But the fact of the matter is that there is a degree of nuance to almost every situation that you’re likely to hear about–nothing is quite as simple as Fantastic Four vs Doctor Doom where everybody sits neatly in their box. Comics are also a collaborative medium, which means that there are going to be differences of opinion on almost any subject you could name. And those disagreements are often not vitriolic. But it’s easier for readers who are at a distance to view them that way–because to most of you, we are all just names on a credits page rather than human beings, with no greater sense of reality than Magneto or Iron Man.