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Sure, absolutely, no question.

The Internet didn’t exist when I was just a reader, but back in the day I said and wrote just as many stupid, ridiculous, ill-informed and entitlement-laden diatribes about what was going on in the world of comics as anybody. That’s one of the reasons I have this page, so that there’s a place people can go to interact and to get some perspective.

Back when I had my Marvel.com blog, there was at least one instance where I ran a bunch of excerpts from stuff I had written in my late teens about the comics of the time. And even then, I had to expurgate it, as much of it was simply too asshole-ish towards real people that I now know as real people to even reprint years later.

But also, back in the day, we didn’t have previews and we didn’t have online interactions with the creators. So while you’d every once in a while gain some insight into what was coming–the AMAZING HEROES PREVIEW SPECIALS for example–typically you found out what was in the next issue when it arrived. And yes, I was just as hungry to know ahead of time as all of you are, and I searched out any information that might have been available–but there was a whole lot less of it, and it was a whole lot less immediate. And I feel like that definitely benefited my reading experience. I could take the stories as they came, and live in the now, not in the three-to-six-months-from-now. And definitely not in the I-read-four-preview-pages-online.