"The first issues of Before Watchmen will be published next month. Among the writers working on it is former He-Man scripter J. Michael Straczynski, who once penned a comic in which Spider-Man sold his marriage to the devil. (This is the rough equivalent of having Z-movie director Uwe Boll film a studio-funded prequel to Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.)"

-- Tim Marchman, in a broadside to the superhero-comics industry that began as a nominal review for The Wall Street Journal of Leaping Tall Buildings. Straczynski wasn't the only comics creator targeted, however: Marchman also took aim at Brian Michael Bendis, Joe Quesada, Grant Morrison and Dan DiDio, characterizing them as "the men most responsible for the failure of the big publishers to take advantage of the public's obvious fascination with men in capes."

"Your behavior was dickish. I became a better writer after He-Man. You will always be a dick."

-- J. Michael Straczynski, issuing his "final word" in the ensuing Twitter exchange with Marchman that began with JMS confronting the reviewer on  "a cheap shot." "You had to go back to 1984 to insult me? Really?" Straczynski wrote. "And ['One More Day'] was Marvel's decision not my call."