Secret Wars...well written

I was thirteen when that piece of turd came out, and bought it all the way up until the last issue. Couldn't have cared less how it turned out.

Sometimes I wonder if a thirteen year old wrote the damn thing.

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It's just differences in nomenclature.

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When Shooter came to power at Marvel, the company was very much a stumbling giant. It needed a steady hand and a clear vision to get it back on the road, back on course. Shooter had both -- tho he was not terribly good at expressing the latter. Mostly, his way of telling us we were doing something right was when he started telling us we were doing something else wrong. To make matters worse, Shooter remained in the job long after his particular skill set was no longer needed. As I said at the time, an "ideal" situation would have been for Shooter and Dick Giordano (then EiC at DC) to swap jobs every five years or so.

Quesada came into the job it was completely subservient to Marketing, virtually a figurehead position. Also, we were deep into the realm of Diminished Expectations, so it was no longer necessary to be truly successful in order to APPEAR to be successful.

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Which pretty much explains why the short term sales boosts due to a constant stream of sales gimmicks often directed mainly at the gullible mainstream news media and speculators among civilians. What's even sadder is that many fans wrongly credit Quesada with either "saving" or "bringing" Marvel out of bankruptcy. Then there are those Marvel editors and creators who go online to tell people that sales of the books are doing "great" by the standards of the current market. And don't get me started on those popular Marvel creators who deny that their low selling comic was canceled due to low sales, but instead was canceled because they either wanted to end the book early or because they didn't want to continue the book without the books original artist.

QUOTE: was canceled because they either wanted to end the book early or because they didn't want to continue the book without the books original artist.

Yeah!  That's the ticket!

The irony is that Shooter was writing better stories, himself, as a thirteen-year-old, and professionally, on "The Legion of Super-Heroes."

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The IDEA of SECRET WARS was a comicbook to sell toys. It went awry when Certain People decided it was Something Else.

hmm-hmm.

And yet, i find nothing wrong in making something out of it.