To this I have no answer, because, frankly, my reaction was different. Believe it or not, it was his last run on Captain America that made me an iron-bound Kirby fan. I certainly did not feel a lack of enthusiasm or involvement, and my view is that a collaborator would only dilute the uniqueness of Kirby's self-made artistry. So unless you have an experience very much like a conversion, I do not know that I can do more to explain my view than I have. Even the threatened book on 2001 1-7 would not do it. It is a matter of elementary experience. I have a friend who cannot bear Beethoven - in spite of being well able to read and play classical music. It is a problem to me, because I firmly believe that artistic merit is objective, but one has to recognize facts.