However, he's got an inexplicable hostility to things that veer too much from expectations of convention; he can't seem to abide anything published in a comics format that doesn't follow the established conventions of the superhero genre, for example, and he's on record as describing Neil Gaiman as "pretentious" (I'm quite sure that this person knows what the word means, but I've no idea how he came to think it in any way applies to Neil).

The abuse of the word "pretentious" as a dismissive adjective, by people who usually do not understand its meaning (all literature pretends to something), galls me. And yeah, I've heard it applied to Neil. And I get it all the damn time.