I acknowledge that the response was longer than a traditional press release, which I felt was necessary to cover all of the allegations.

In regards to:
“He would have seemed more compelling if he’d bother to respond to inquiries while the article was being written.”

Documentation will show that the sole e-mail I recieved from Mr. McLelland did not include any information regarding the claims being made by Mr. Noel, and I therefore could not have addressed them directly to Mr. McLelland prior to the article being written.

For something as potential damaging as this I would think a writer would want to make sure all facts were accurate before publishing.

If e-mail was not working for him all my contact info was public at the time, he could have easily called, faxed, or mailed me regarding the claims. Or included the claims in the e-mail he sent to me.

[...] I’d like to thank Graeme McMillan for writing up the most comprehensive and link-filled summary yet of TightLip Entertainment head Rick Olney’s cosmic-in-scope meltdown over publishing difficulties and his pathetic inability to own up to them. I was afraid someone would soon be expecting me to write something like this myself, and boy howdy, am I ever not touching that fiasco again. Just reading that Gail Simone message-board thread was brain-threatening enough, back when it was still under two hundred pages in length. Another hundred pages, after Olney went back and began deleting his previous comments? No fucking way. Related: Colleen Doran offers commentary. (Last link via Johanna Draper Carlson.) [...]