19 October, 2020

But what about "Secret Wars 3"?

Finished Secret Wars.  The ending was stupid but at least I got there.  Other than that, the last issue wasn't as bad as the rest of the series  I still liked the full-page spread of Thor's hammer breaking in on Doom as we learned that the heroes had all come back to life.  That's not much different from the climax of Avengers 4, it just cost a lot less money and time to make.  Comics have regularly done stuff like this for decades.

Anyway, the main reason I'm posting this now is because, in the little internet looking I've been doing, I did find that apparently Zeck was being slowed down because of all the redrawing Shooter demanded which was why he hadn't draw #4 and 5.  Bob Layton filled in for those issues.  When Zeck returned, he was just following Shooter's layouts.  Shooter has called himself a good artist, it's just that it would take him all day to make a single nice picture and ages to draw multiple panels on a page, multiple pages, which was expected of professional artists of the day.  At the very least he'd be able to lay out what he wanted on a page (and possibly being paid for it?) and Zeck would be able to go for that first instead of after repeated panel redraws.

Now you know that.  Thank a Congressman.  I am thinking of trying Secret Wars II next, I'm just even more doubtful of finding anything to enjoy.

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