John Byrne proves his old stuff wasn't better!

In his new column, John Byrne tries to prove his old stuff wasn't better than
the greatness he is delivering now.

For some reason, he thinks that different people having different opinions on
which of his old stuff is better and when his decline began somehow 'proves'
that his old stuff couldn't have been better.

Another bizarre example is how he describes the disconnect between his feelings
about Alpha Flight and fans' feelings. He didn't like it, and they loved it,
so that proves something.

An artist isn't necessarily his/her own best critic. He's too close to the
work and knows his intentions and when he phoned it in, and can't know how
others perceive the work itself.

After all of this, he closes with yet another observation about Neal Adams.

He says:

"Neal was not as good as we thought he was."


Holy cow! After he attacks comics fans for their negative opinions (which is
the only point of his column) and how their subjectivity somehow invalidates
them, he climbs on the pony and hands out his own absolutes about Neal's work.
What hypocrisy!

How can he get away with this?