Some Wise Words.

I was reading an interview with Jim Shooter yesterday over lunch. The man has his critics but this moment where he recounts something Stan Lee told him rings very true for me.

‘INTERVIEWER – Is there anything more about Secret Wars you’d like to say? The fan mail has been all positive, but from what I heard, there have been some complaints from direct dealers themselves ..

SHOOTER: It’s funny. Anyone who’s ever complained about it has obviously been reading it every month. (Laughter.) And mostly the complaints are the right kind of complaints. Stan Lee once told me there are good complaints and bad complaints. If someone comes to you, and is upset about some character, and wants to know how could you do that to him, and so on – anything about a character, then you did fine. As long as people care about the characters as much as you care about the characters, then you’ve succeeded. You’ve communicated.’

There is some wisdom there that a few could/should take note of rather than going on another round of attack on some fans.