Everyone knows I'm not a sports fan, but there's one aspect of sports that I always follow with a kind of weird car-wreck curiosity: The tendency of fans to rage against high player salaries when the team owners, who make exponentially more than even the highest-paid player, get away virtually unscathed. This isn't an uncommon phenomenon, of course: Some people say that lower-class Republicans do a version of the same thing by fighting tax cuts on the wealthy. And I am always fascinated by the way many comic book nerds will come to the defense of their beloved multi-billion-dollar companies when a creator complains about unfair treatment. This week brings two such head-shakers.

The estate of Jack Kirby is suing Disney and Marvel to regain the copyrights on characters that Kirby created for Marvel. The fans are outraged...at the Kirby estate:

Greedy bastards.

Marvel needs to hire someone to plant some drugs on this guy and get him sent down the river for a few years.

what a bunch of Socialists comic readers are...how about the Kirby Children earn some money by doing some work themselves.

And then Alan Moore complained about how modern superhero comics are "desperate and humiliating." He said this because Blackest Night, a crossover in DC Comics right now, is almost entirely based on one 8-page story that Moore wrote almost 25 years ago. The response can best be defined by this single comment:

Dear Alan Moore,
Get over yourself you pretentious, arrogant, snake worshipping, pedophillia obsessed has been. Here's an idea, instead of whining endlessly about how shit superhero comics are, how about you stand up and show us how it should actually be done?

Somewhere, Superman is smiling down on us all.