James is like a tenacious new mutation of an old disease that Tom has licked in the past. Back in the day, he would call out a Petey or an M.C. Steinberg, taking a small vaccine-type dosage and letting them run-their-trap, meeting-them-halfway type thing and sooner or later they would come around and call him sir! This also worked with The Leader and, to an extent, Kid Kansas, whose calls seemed to taper off a little bit after Tom let him go on and on while mixing him in with some rantings by He Who Shall Not Be Named, before busting into that classic antibiotic "Wise Up". But Tom's actually been visited upon by James in real life, and the encounter has actually made things worse! James is a whole new kind of Mutant Caller. Is it any wonder that we cannot and should not return to the Old Ways, as much as they appeal to us in retrospect?
