So I can assure you Shawn Keller is not an asshole. 20 years in the Army didn't make me a nice person, and my current job actually encourages me to be even worse. I have spent my life surrounded by liars, cheaters, thieves and backstabbers. I have survived 22 years of federal service only because I can spot these people coming.

Several people have met Mr. Keller in person, in awe of his artistic and costuming abilitites, and desperately wanting the status of being his friend. He is polite and diplomatic enough in person that a fair number of people come away thinking they have achieved that status when in fact they have merely become acquaintances. It was a rude awakening for them to subsequently appear in the "Furryfans" comic.

I still have no clue as to why that book was produced. I haven't had as much as Email contact with Shawnin well over a year, so I doubt I will ever really know.

I stated previously that Shawn had burned friends of his in that comic - Since then I spent most of my 14 hour workday thinking about that, and now I am convinced I was wrong. The people who appear in that comic may have thought they were his friends, but in fact never were.

I am fully aware of the fact I may well fit in this category myself.