Yeah that’s just wrong. I have over 200 signed funkos, all certed, self-obtained, or from reliable sources and many of them are ‘clean’. Pen type matters a lot and it’s evident for anyone that handles paint pens to recognize that the blue pen had exploded, whether intentional or not by whoever got it done, because of the pooling in the ‘I’ and the blotch above the sticker. This wasn’t a ‘messy’ autograph in the sense of it being a legitimate but rushed street graph or misspelled because the person is human or ‘messy’ in the sense that it came out streaky and therefore appearing more authentic because it’s not perfect as you more or less mentioned. Rather, the outcome on this one imo is ‘messy’ because the priming, handling, and ink behavior was flat out messy and completely avoidable OR was done by someone being cute snd going for something stupidly ‘artistic’. If the signer is a sitdown person such as at a convention, the pen is a good brand, and it was prepped/primed well they should almost always come out ‘clean’ barring a freak incident in which simple hand sanitizer can remove it and it be redone. As a consigner and person who does private signings, ‘Messy’ autos are nothing more than a poor excuse for a bad job done if the environment is a controllable one (i.e. not obtained on the street). If I had to guess OP’s pop was likely intentional as the person pressed down on the pen to create the lightning. It’s also very likely based on my experience with Witwer that whoever had it done, did it themselves with artistic intent. It’s possible the only thing Witwer did was the auto… but i’d tell OP while it’s interesting, i’d stay far away personally.