Comic Geek Speak Redux

Apparently Peter Rios of Comic Geek Speak was offended by my negative initial reaction to their podcast on Aquaman which contained some bad research, in particular a whopper of a mistake in which they quoted Aquaman's origin from Wikipedia and included a Wikipedia vandal's contribution in whole, which meant they hadn't even suspected that it was false and checked on the information. As a professional researcher, that little bit of poor research hit me hard and led to my harsh initial review, which I followed up with a slightly mellower post after I'd finished listening and had time to think about it.

To my amusement, Peter says he's going to "omit" the reference to me in the podcast, a very childish reaction to a bad review that only serves to reinforce my initial reaction and give me a poorer opinion of Peter himself. (For the record, I was impressed that they pronounced my name correctly in the podcast, so if he removes it, I guess I don't have to be impressed anymore?)

What Peter apparently didn't do is look at my follow-up post, in which I said that the podcast had actually inspired me to clean up my act and get some much-needed work done on this website. In his comment he talks about the people that were inspired by the podcast... well, count me as one of them. I have gotten a lot done on this site since I first listened to that podcast on May 6th, and the initial impetus to get it done was provided by their podcast.

You can also check out their forum, in which a number of people contribute their stories of being inspired by the podcast.

But Peter unfortunately felt it was necessary to be overly defensive and upset at a negative review. That's made it very difficult for me to take him seriously. You'd think he's never had a harsh review before. So Peter, for what it's worth, you need to chill a bit. I'd hate to see your reaction to a truly nasty review. Would you delete the whole podcast and sulk in the corner?