Yeah, I have to admit, Allie tends to piss me off most of the time, so his involvement has been a definite detriment in my view of the comics. Frankly, I'll probably be pissed either way with this statement - if it's true, I think it's out of character that no one's keeping secrets, and as pointed out, it's a blatant continuity error. If it's not true, I'll be pissed that Allie is so irresponsible that he'd state as fact something he knows nothing about, when it has such a huge impact on how we view Buffy and what she knows (and I'm not just talking about Spike).