User blog comment:Plainblack/Trouble In Paradise? The Strawhats Are Too Weak!/@comment-79.176.222.40-20121119144937/@comment-5640399-20121119194249

Blackbeard finished off a Whitebeard who only had half a face, and then used a Devil Fruit power, it just so happened to be a kick ass devil fruit power! He never fought Garp, sorry, you've misremembered that, and he didn't fight Shanks at Marineford, presumably their battle happened before Romance Dawn, since Shanks had his scars then, and that was 10 years ago. Still, I feel he too must have amassed a huge crew in order to control Whitebeards old territory in these tumultuous times.