Kevin Smith's Writing - SHOULD He Feel Insecure?

Recently, on Newsarama, they posted an Instant Messanger conversation between Joe Quesada and Kevin Smith. Here is the link.

In it, Smith has some interesting things to say about his insecurity about his comic writing.

Specifially, "And we should talk about part of the reason I couldn't get back behind the keyboard for 'Spidey.' My insecurity. It took me two years to get over the fact that I'm not Bendis. I was like 'Why should I bother? He's better and quicker.'"

Now, let us forget for a moment whether Smith is telling the truth. He seems to be playing it straight in the conversation, but you can never tell for sure, so let us just presume that he is telling the truth.

In that case, should Smith feel insecure about his comic book writing?

What did you think about his run on Daredevil and Green Arrow? Would you put them on par with the work of Bendis? Or do you think that Smith's work does, in fact, pale in comparison to Bendis' comic work?

I was not a fan of Smith's Daredevil, in that it struck me as the worst example of "outside guy playing with the toys without any care for whether it made sense or not."

His Green Arrow, I thought, was better. It was closer to his comic work on his own characters, in that it felt more confidant and assured, and felt less like he was just trying to show off for X amount of issues (which is the sense I got during his Daredevil run..."Look what I can do with the characters!").

With that being said, a good deal of his Green Arrow run was sorta tied up in minutae. The hows and the whys of Ollie's return. And I dunno if that was exactly the best approach on a Green Arrow comic book.

Finally, his Spider-Man/Black Cat, I thought, was decent enough...if not a bit more of the "look what I can do!" approach. I wonder if that has to do with the effect of his editors.

Perhaps DC was a bit stricter?

Finally, Daredevi:Target had one issue....so I have little to say about it.

In any event, while I may not have been that into Smith's comic writing, most of it was not that far off from the work of Bendis, I do not believe.

Bendis HAS done the better comic work of the two, but Bendis also has devoted more time to comic work.

I don't think comparisons to Bendis should give rise to feelings of insecurity in Smith.

Does anyone disagree?