I'm not really lawyering for Ivan or whatever, but it's really that until now I only heard good things about him. Out at the comics forum I hang at a guy wanted to do a course completing job for college and he wanted to do a journalistic take on how comic artists who work for the US do their thing. Ivan let the guy shoot his studio, gave him an interview, all that good stuff. The guy himself remarked he was rather nice to him all the way through.
Second half of 2008 he also participated in this forum's podcast, and he didn't really get anything from that 'cept just sharing how he works and having a good time all around with enthusiasts of his work. Far as I know he also gave some cryptic hints of what Johns is up to in GL.
Then after that some guys from this very same forum met up with him in a Con here in Brazil and after all was said and done he even hit the pub with 'em. So, yeah, I guess he had a bad day, he'd taken one down and hadn't sung a sad song just to turn it around.
And [tornado fang], why the hell can't X EVER keep one voice actor whether it's Japan or US? I really liked Gatha's work as him. I swear someone has a voodoo doll of X and keeps shoving nails on him. (heart-ripping notwithstanding)