I recall Quesada using his mother's death as an excuse for his Daredevil work being late. At the time I noted that if the work had been on a realistic schedule to begin with, this family loss would have had no impact on the timeliness of that work.

As noted, this is a misquote, and even if the words were rendered correctly, they would be out of context.

For the record Dave wrote "In 2004,[...], Byrne made a crack about my work on his website [...]: he said, *insert quote*"

Thats me who add "(2004/Byrne Website.)" at the end.  I rephrase and paraphrase to not paste Dave's post here.

Unless we're on the Bizzaro World, where calling something "gorgeous" would be considered an insult.

One horrible thing about this internet is that people seem to hold everything they read on it as the truth. People hardly take into consideration that things can be misquoted, misread, and misunderstood. This information comes out so quickly, it seems we are too busy reacting to the bits we pick out rather than understanding what others are saying in the entire context.

Me:  Is Paty Cockrum the mysterious "Paty" who penciled AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #264?

Joe Zhang:  She's no mystery. In fact, she's quite vocally against JB (among many other people) on her husband's little tract of the Web.

She was a mystery to me for 20 years, since her first name was all that appeared in the credit box, and this was pre-Google.  I didn't know until reading this thread that she was Cockrum's wife.  I don't keep tabs on Dave Cockrum or his "little tract of the web".

And I agree with Joe Hollon that this issue was pretty lousy in terms of story -- it was an obvious and unwelcome fill-in.  I did like the way Paty handled the black costume, though.  [shrug]  Diff'rent strokes.

Bordering on mind reading, of course, and with a lot of water gone under that particular bridge. Still, it made a kind of sense.



* As I have noted elsewhere, the only thing I didn't like about the "All New, All Different" X-Men was Dave's redesign of Cyclops. I found the new visor clumsy and bulky and somewhat hard to draw (there were plans afoot to change it back to the old visor, but I left the book before these were implemented), and I thought the bucaneer boots were far too flamboyant for staid ol' Scott Summers. I asked if I could change the boots, and the Powers That Were said "No!". But Roger Stern, who was the editor at the time, had an idea: he suggested that I change the boots gradually, slowly shrinking and tapering the tops until they became the versions I wanted. This I did, and you can see it happening over the span of about a year, starting circa issue 124.