Jim Shooter Returns To Legion of Super-Heroes - Flying Pigs Incoming

[jmatonak]

Holy cow.

It looks really good. (I just typed "really god" and almost left it in.)

This has always been one of my fanboy pipe-dreams. To make this sound better, I should say Shooter was my favorite Legion writer of all time, but he wasn't. That's Paul Levitz. What a fanboy thing to say- "you're my second favorite writer ever on this feature!" I am filled with squee. If it wasn't so late I would shout "goal!" really loud. Jim Shooter was a damn good comics writer the last time I saw him write anything, and he's returning to a feature he helped to found. So, so many classic LSH stories are by Shooter.

Goooaaaaaallllll!

Comments

[rahirah]

I'm still traumatized by Shooter's stint at Marvel...but that was editing, IIRC, so possibly a different kettle of fish.

[jmatonak.livejournal.com]

Traumatized? How so?

I know now that Shooter was widely seen as a pain in the ass, and gave a lot of his creative people a lot of grief- but I had no idea of any of that then. His tenure as EiC includes some of the runs I remember most fondly- Roger Stern on Avengers, Walt Simonson on Thor, John Byrne on Fantastic Four- and as much as they might have hated having to work with Jim Shooter, some good books came out. It seems like you may have a different view of that period of Marvel, and I'd love to hear it.

It's sort of ironic that the things Shooter himself wrote during this period were mostly bad. I think he's a good writer, but Secret Wars II is mostly dreck, for instance.