How can you refer to everyone who likes those writers as robots? You're just dismissing their beliefs because you don't agree with them. That isn't fair at all--not to the writers and certainly not to the fans.
I didn't say that everyone that likes certain writers are robots. I actually have some otherwise very intelligent friends that liked Mark Waid's FLASH, and even I have a soft spot for Grant Morrison's JLA.
I am referring, however, to the baffling Cult of Personality that surrounds lousy writers; the definitive case of this is our old Canuck buddy Johnny Byrne, whose ByrneRobotics is one of the most fascinating websites ever, in an onlooker car-crash sort of way. Warren Ellis's boards are the ultimate Echo Chamber for his own views, and Warren prunes the boards to make sure it stays that way - woe forbid you ever disagree with the Great Man on anything. Usually I try my best not to stereotype, but Ellis's fans are truly so identical in outlook because Ellis's views are institutionalized among them; if you've met one hardcore Ellis fan, you've more or less met them all. Ellis's fandom makes College Campus Objectivism look like a Diversity Seminar.