I talked to Rich Morrissey a few times on the DC message boards shortly before he died. He was rather rude to me and hurt my feelings. Something to do with Blackhawk that I can't even remember now. He always came over a bit of a twat to me in our interactions. Sorry, but that's how I felt. When the subject of him comes up everyone praises him as some kind of fandom god but I always remember that dcmb thread where I said something about the Blackhawks he disagreed with and he was bitchy to me.
At the time I never knew he was famous or a longtime big name fan. As far as I was concerned he was just another rude idiot on a message board.
I suppose I'll be flamed for this, but that time he hurt me like that is what I always remember. All this about what a great guy he was wasn't borne out in my experience. In our dcmb interactions he always came over rather smug and snotty imho.