I've lost a lot of respect for Kevin Smith.
I know I'm necroing a sub-thread, but the smarmy bit that reviewer wrote about the crossbow bugs the shit out of me. Congratulations on knowing what a firing pin is, sir. Now if you had taken half a second to read that panel again instead of tripping over yourself to sound like a smartass at the popular guy's expense you might have noticed something about the way it was phrased that might make you shut up for a second.
Kevin Smith knows full well that 17th century French crossbows* don't have 21st century firing pins. Baphomet's does. It's a crossbow-firearm.
Which is fucking stupid.
But instead of pointing out how very legitimately ridiculous
the gun-bow is, this douchebag demonstrates his inability to actually read the comic that he's lambasting while at the same time chiding Kevin Smith for (supposedly) not looking up every goddam thing he sees on Wikipedia. He actually makes himself look even stupider than
the gun-bow. Bra. Fucking. Vo.
I know you think it's shit karma, but I'm going to postulate that
this may be the reason why you're stuck whining about comic books on the internet, and Kevin Smith gets paid however many thousands to invent new ways for villains to lose their hands.
* Which are probably pretty fucking rare since the French had mostly switched to firearms by then, as long as we're quoting Wikipedia.