>>85512959He made Marvel's flagship comics better but made the non-flagship comics worse.
In the '70s, most of Marvel's flagship books like Fantastic Four and Amazing Spider-Man were kind of spinning their wheels. Most of the best work was being done on weird little books like Warlock and Man-Thing.
The Shooter era finally made books like FF, Daredevil and Thor fresh again. But there wasn't as much experimentation with the smaller books.
As a writer, his Legion is fun, his first Avengers run saved the book after Gerry Conway nearly killed it, and his second Avengers run is terrible (Hank slapping Jan, etc). He seemed weirdly obsessed with omnipotent characters, even before the Beyonder.
I also didn't like his rule that the letterers couldn't use the traditional method of PUTTING some of the WORDS in BOLD.
