I bought and read each issue of Secret Wars as they were being released. I sold the set a couple years later. I’ve been re-reading for the first time since then via the facsimile editions. What a slog. Everyone acts out of character, script is childish, art seems rushed. A few fun bits occasionally
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Clumsy and weird. Hated it.
But…if it wasn’t for that shitty element that Shooter story put in Secret Wars, we would not have been treated to this brilliant issue of UNCANNY X-MEN.
Me: (teenager) this is *awesome*!!!
Now for the $64k question: what did you think (then & or now) of Crisis on Infinite Earths? (No surprise, I was still a teenager and I loved it).
*The mess DC made afterwards I don't hold against the book.
I do applaud that it wasn't advertised as CHANGING THE MARVEL UNIVERSE FOREVER but remained fairly self-contained, alien suit aside.
https://www.progressiveruin.com/2010/09/06/so-some-of-you-were-asking-about-that-hulk-breaks-a-leg-thing/
https://www.progressiveruin.com/2006/04/24/the-secret-crisis-of-infinite-wars/
He did not.
What he did understand was that I would make his whole weekend untenable if he did not.
Oh yes he did.
Fun Fact: the SW books I have belonged to Don Rosa. Bought as a set at a con several years ago for a screamin’ deal.
Can’t recall if it was before or after he had pared it down.
Either way, it was epic.
And a little weird, too. 😄
I guess I’m probably gonna have to read it sooner or later, hunh? 😄
You CAN. You don't have to.
To this day it makes me giddy.
I’m a little surprised Don owned any slabs. Or do you suppose they were only slabbed after he decided to sell them?
So it played worse to guys in the 50s, even over guys in the 20s! 😂
Having read the trade paperback. Yup, pretty forgettable, but I've read worse of course 😅
It's just plain boring and ugly looking.
A blatant cash grab.
It always felt to me little Shooter and Claremont had a feud at Marvel, and if that was the case I believe it stemmed from Claremore calling out the Carol controversy in the comics
Only 1 foil cover so far
I remember being irritated seeing every name in bold, and actually feeling relieved when they were NOT. Shooter's diktat of writing as though it was someone's first comic all the time was never going to produce an Alan Moore, just company hacks writing to order.
I should also say that the years I was not reading Marvel (and concentrated on indies and DC at the time)were the best comics-reading years I remember.
I didn't dislike Simonson's Thor by then but it was starting to feel like other Marvel titles because of the Asgardian with a gun.
There were better comics to read.