I think that you're right that the real controversy wasn't over the comic, but rather his reaction to it. After reading the original strip (embedded in the art

I think that you're right that the real controversy wasn't over the comic, but rather his reaction to it. After reading the original strip (embedded in the article), I wasn't offended, and thought that it made a particularly good point about the screwed up ethics of quests. But, even though I wasn't offended, I could see how others might be and might want to express that. But then instead of simply explaining what the point of the strip was, and leaving it alone, he went off and made a big deal of it and tried to play the victim. That's where he is clearly in the wrong. He needs to listen to people who are telling him to stop talking about it. He lost, move on.