Disavow? It's so misleading. And inaccurate. And yet how many will believe it?

Language may seem a subtle thing. One person told me language is unimportant. It's not. There may not really be any major issues over the whole "railway station vs train station" debate (to use one example), but 99% of the time, words do matter. The constant debate, by some British journalists, over "railway or train station" isn't important in the least, but that's a very minor example of a time when language and terminology doesn't matter (just get on the train and go where you need to). There may be other examples, but 99% of the time, language, terminology and words matter.

It's like how the word "refused" can be misused. I was once put forward for a project at work. I had no desire to do it, but I promise, sincerely, that I would consider it (I wanted to sleep on it). So in reference to that, someone should perhaps have said, "Robbie is pondering it." But no, during a meeting, someone claimed I had refused. I hadn't. And yet based on one inaccurate word, it changed the whole context, making me appear like an unwilling participant in the aforementioned project.

Using the word "disavow" in the article totally misrepresents the situation. If you were disavowing your work with mainstream publishers, why would you have this forum and engage on many topics? 

"Combative"? Toward "other creators"? JB, eager to pick a fight?

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The really frustrating thing is that your words are a matter of public record.

There's no room for doubt. Anyone who wants to know what your views are can come here. For free. And read them. It eliminates all prospect of doubt. 

So anyone reading and believing stuff on comic sites really can come to the source. As can writers of those sites. I suppose that'd be too much hard work, though.