>>108305412The fuck he isn't. He is both those thinga in addition to being an enormously unprofessional dickhead. Some examples:
Once got so pissed off at Jim Shooter (former editor in Chief at Marvel during most of the 80's) to the point where at a party, he made a giant pinata where he put a photograph of Jim Shooter's face on it and then set it on fire. This story has been verified by several people, one of them being writer Peter David
Accused Peter David (one of the best Hulk writers ever) of running around a comic convention and giving away xeroxed copies of the ending to one of John Byrne's Alpha Flight comics. Peter David claims that he was never even at the convention and claims Bryne is crazy because there isn't any way he could have gotten those pages from Byrne to begin with.
Dave Cockrum (former X-men artist) on a message board he co-runs went on public record to say "I think personally, he's an arrogant, first-class dickhead."
Dave then went on to say "In 2004, while I was in the hospital fighting for my life, Byrne made a crack about my work on his website which really pissed me off and infuriated my wife so that she banned him from the Dave Cockrum tribute book.
Flamed Bendis on his official John Byrne website and found a picture of Bendis on the internet when Bendis was a camp counselor in his early days wrote something along the lines of "Bendis: a great camp counselor that became a shit writer."
