[comics] Jim Shooter Agonistes: A reconsideration of the editor and writer's legacy … ‘The company Shooter inherited was capable of the rare feat of brilliance (Jim Starlin’s Warlock, for instance, or the mad genius of Jack Kirby’s Captain America), but it was bounded by immense, unreadable piles of crap, much of which couldn’t so much as meet its own deadline. Shooter’s Marvel was as dependable as Pittsburgh steel: rarely great yet seldom unreadable. Every so often, a work of real and permanent brilliance could break through: Frank Miller’s Daredevil is the most evident example, and Shooter certainly had sense enough to champion it when it happened. But the archetypical comic of Jim Shooter’s Marvel would have to have been something like Rom: Spaceknight, written by Bill Mantlo, drawn by Sal Buscema; factory comics at their level best.’
Jim Shooter Reconsidered
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