Yeah, I think the argument's making too many assumptions, especially the ones getting on to Liefeld for making these statements about Shatterstar when he hadn't complained about anything else in the past twenty years going on with characters he'd created. That accusation kind of misses the point that someone explicitly asked him on his message board how he felt and then those statements were reposted on Robot6.
I've got no love for the guy, but people should really save their energy for a fight that's worth it. Liefeld's way too easy a target, especially with the hole he dug himself with his poor choice of words, to come out of this looking like anything but a bully.
I mean, sure, congrats on finally saying what we'd all been thinking as far as Rictor/Shatterstar goes, but way to stay classy, PAD.