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  • Опубликовано: 26 янв 2024
  • It's time we discuss why Jim Shooter is the most hated man at Marvel Comics.
    ▸ Jim Shooter (born September 27, 1951 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer, occasional fill-in artist, editor, and publisher for various comic books.
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  • @nebriancoleman4704
    @nebriancoleman4704 6 месяцев назад +396

    I always looked at him as the coach that everyone hated.... That took you to the championship and won.

    • @BibleAlivePresentations
      @BibleAlivePresentations 6 месяцев назад +45

      Great analogy. And let's throw into that a coach who was actually a good, but not perfect, man.

    • @jorgem.1564
      @jorgem.1564 6 месяцев назад +7

      Perfect example.

    • @KryyssTV
      @KryyssTV 6 месяцев назад +28

      That's the difference between strong leadership and a power-mad idiot. When someone genuinely knows what they're doing and isn't afraid to say no to bad ideas being presented to them it's always going to cause friction. This is where transparency is needed because if there's a big picture being worked towards then the leader needs to share that with everyone under their authority since it firmly establishes the boundries everyone has to work within.

    • @prodkap
      @prodkap 6 месяцев назад +5

      jim shooter = larry brown

    • @dreadlord8628
      @dreadlord8628 6 месяцев назад +6

      Coach Carter then

  • @aspendosia2985
    @aspendosia2985 6 месяцев назад +458

    Please, more like this. As someone who reads comics but doesn't know the backroom stuff, this was fascinating. The stories of characters being retconned, changes in direction, reasons behind certains decisions? Hells yeah.

    • @nailinthefashion
      @nailinthefashion 6 месяцев назад +6

      Are you familiar with the Cerebro podcast? If not, enjoy

    • @drewtheunspoken3988
      @drewtheunspoken3988 6 месяцев назад +4

      You should check out Marvel: The Untold Story by Sean Howe. There's a lot about the BTS stuff going back to the founding of Marvel up through the beginning of Marvel Studios.

    • @dylankohner9544
      @dylankohner9544 6 месяцев назад

      Yeeeesssss!!!!!!! Totally in the same boat friend. This is good. ANOTHER!! 🍻

    • @ktg619
      @ktg619 6 месяцев назад

      Agreed

    • @raypaz2947
      @raypaz2947 5 месяцев назад

      Also jerk comics does a great background of comic industry

  • @keyz_r_us_comics2478
    @keyz_r_us_comics2478 6 месяцев назад +167

    I’ve met this man four times in my life already and he has been the sweetest man of all! You can just tell the passion he has for Comics and he is always willing to talk to anyone. Honestly I really think he’s the friendliest Comic person I’ve met

    • @KryyssTV
      @KryyssTV 6 месяцев назад +22

      If it's true that some staff made a guyfawkes with his face and burned it at a party it shows there was some very immature and idiotic people at Marvel who deserved to be fired or have their opinions dismissed.

    • @Slyarno2795
      @Slyarno2795 6 месяцев назад +2

      I saw him an convention fanexpo Toronto miss my chance but if I see him again I'll be happy to talk with him.

    • @ericliu8488
      @ericliu8488 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@Slyarno2795he even did a small show in Markham a few years ago, super approachable

    • @JohnMinehan-lx9ts
      @JohnMinehan-lx9ts 6 месяцев назад

      Vince Colleta defended him at the time. That was about all. Tough to tell what was going on.@@ericliu8488

    • @JohnMinehan-lx9ts
      @JohnMinehan-lx9ts 6 месяцев назад +2

      I recommend Sean Howe's book. Excellent business book in addition to being a history of comics.

  • @kylecarter1599
    @kylecarter1599 6 месяцев назад +546

    Lets all take a minute to remember The Beyonder was a Jim Shooter stand in.

    • @Francis_Castiglione
      @Francis_Castiglione 6 месяцев назад +43

      The ultimate being. Editor -n-Chief has the final say in what goes to print.

    • @kylecarter1599
      @kylecarter1599 6 месяцев назад +42

      @I_identify_as_blackula no. A childlike, super intelligent being that no one took seriously, but if he could just make everyone love him, it would all be perfect.

    • @Francis_Castiglione
      @Francis_Castiglione 6 месяцев назад +15

      @@kylecarter1599 The whole concept went straight over your head

    • @kylecarter1599
      @kylecarter1599 6 месяцев назад +12

      @I_identify_as_blackula if you think it's just because Shooter was EIC, it went over your head.

    • @UnwantedGhost1-anz25
      @UnwantedGhost1-anz25 6 месяцев назад +16

      It's partly because of him that the symbiote Peter Parker found in Battle World was born in 1984. And by extension, Venom, after bonding to Eddie Brock in 1988.

  • @logandarklighter
    @logandarklighter 6 месяцев назад +259

    The thing about the Dark Phoenix saga is that Claremont and Byrne made the first big mistake in trying to show Dark Phoenix’s madness and power by an act so reprehensible (the destruction of an entire solar system and an intelligent alien species) that the consequences HAD to be extreme or the morality would play false. So when they bluffed Jim Shooter with killing off Jean Grey he was absolutely right to make that call. For the story it was thematically and dramatically the perfect call. It deepened all the subsequent melodrama of the X-Men comics for years afterword and made those books an even MORE hot property! Until later they started bringing her back again and again and again… But “comic book death” is a whole topic for another time.
    The point here is that Shooter was objectively the best thing to happen to Marvel Comics and the 80s Marvel Comics are the best there ever were and it’s largely due to one guy accepting the fact that he had to be hated and feared to get stuff done.
    Jim Shooter therefore is the perfect Comic Book villain. Like the best of them like Dr. Doom, he just so happened to be RIGHT most of the time. 😏

    • @thomasstevens1157
      @thomasstevens1157 6 месяцев назад +16

      If I'd seen this comment I wouldn't have written my own! 😅

    • @nailinthefashion
      @nailinthefashion 6 месяцев назад +9

      Imo the Krakoan era perfected the formula, I could stay in those books forever and it's directly due to the resurrection, willingness to explore the cosmic and philosophy, and the overwhelming amount of lgbt people and people of color. 80s comix are inevitably my second favourite era though because of similar reasons even despite being a 90s baby. They tried too hard to me leather wearing cool guys haha.
      Would love a canon Jimmy Shooter as a Doom variant, you're onto sumn there

    • @carljensen333
      @carljensen333 6 месяцев назад +5

      He was right about at least considering the comic code as a guideline that could be marginally crossed. The PDI in modern Marvel is too many panels I don't want. They should start a new series called Super Romance Spotlight and keep it all in that. Big seller there. 'Course, we know where they'd take the romance. Maybe not a big seller.

    • @redherringoffshoot2341
      @redherringoffshoot2341 6 месяцев назад +8

      Jim Shooter is based

    • @bryanthomas4907
      @bryanthomas4907 6 месяцев назад +3

      Absolutely and speaking of Jean she really didn't grow after the F4 resurrection until Morrison got his hands on her. Having her in Krakoa was kinda pointless and X-Men Red was just okay so the point still stands.

  • @Semiotichazey
    @Semiotichazey 6 месяцев назад +106

    Great video, Rob! And I totally believe Shooter's explanation of why he was fired. Upper management isn't going to care that creative types are unhappy if Shooter's style is improving their business. But when you mess with the money, they'll axe you with the quickness.

    • @mahiyatsafiyullah7103
      @mahiyatsafiyullah7103 6 месяцев назад +4

      I agree it is highly probable

    • @JohnMinehan-lx9ts
      @JohnMinehan-lx9ts 6 месяцев назад +3

      He also resolved the issue with the late John Verpoorten, Marvel's production manager and advances made in good faith but poorly accounted for.

    • @charlesjensen1002
      @charlesjensen1002 5 месяцев назад +1

      Sadly true the majority of the time.

  • @JustAskQuestions
    @JustAskQuestions 6 месяцев назад +36

    This was super interesting to me. My grandfather Carl owned a comic shop for 30 years. He founded it as a book swap in 1979 and transitioned it into a comic specialty store due to interest directly in the wake of Jim's actions. Without Jim Shooter there REALLY is no telling whether that business decision would have worked out and who knows where I'd be today. I wish I could ask my pops what he thought of the guy, sadly he passed in 2010.

  • @ensabahnur7657
    @ensabahnur7657 6 месяцев назад +202

    Do more videos like this Rob because I'm sure most fans have no idea of a lot of the behind thr scenes stuff that might help explain & or better understand why certain things are the way they are, etc!

    • @nailinthefashion
      @nailinthefashion 6 месяцев назад +2

      "Why everyone loves Hickman" would really butter my biscuit

    • @carljensen333
      @carljensen333 6 месяцев назад +2

      What's neat to me is I was there as a Marvelite during that period. It's neat hearing what went down while all I cared about at the time was peering over the tables at flea markets and finding who had used issues. I never understood the reason for all of the slit cover comics I own.

    • @davidzeto2446
      @davidzeto2446 6 месяцев назад

      I thought Rob Liefeld was the most hated guy in Marvel. He single handedly dismantled the X-Men franchise, the beating heart and soul the Marvel Universe especially after Chris Claremont 's run.

  • @ChristopherLeeEllis
    @ChristopherLeeEllis 6 месяцев назад +108

    Great breakdown on the BTS. Seems to me like Jim Shooter advocated for integrity and honesty in the industry. The no nonsense type character that individuals either adapt to or runaway from.

    • @BibleAlivePresentations
      @BibleAlivePresentations 6 месяцев назад +13

      Shooter would go in SDCC when it really was a comic-con. There would Lee. There would be the King Jack Kirby. There would be talent of the day. In those days you don't attack Lee. Because Shooter had become MARVEL CORPORATE, all the sins of Lee (yes, there are a-plenty) were heaped onto Shooter. Shooter became at these conventions a living symbol for everything wrong done Kirby and Ditko, all the while Shooter was fighting to get Kirby his original art back to him.
      Yes, MARVEL needed more than just just the incredible artistic talent. They needed a servant-leader and editor to reign it in and let things flow in the best way. Shooter was that. Yes, Jean Gray needed to face consequences, and that wasn't some deontological moralizing -- for the same reason that in the MCU Wanda, even sick and overwhelmed, needed to face consequences by removing herself by her own agency (until Doom brings her back for AVENGERS V). Yes, Spider-Man CAN beat the X-Men without Xavier's help, sorry!

    • @Akkbar21
      @Akkbar21 5 месяцев назад

      @@BibleAlivePresentationsjust let the mcu die.

    • @BibleAlivePresentations
      @BibleAlivePresentations 5 месяцев назад

      Nah, it is far from dying. Go listen to the Billy Joel song "WHY DO I GO TO EXTREMES?":@@Akkbar21 That applies to you if you really think that the most successful film franchise in the history of cinema (yes, including QUANTUMANIA and THE MARVELS box office) is "dying." Repeat and rinse with that song.

  • @volodymyrbilyk555
    @volodymyrbilyk555 6 месяцев назад +31

    Shitting on Jim Shooter was Comics Journal regular feature back in the day - by the time he started Valiant it went overdrive. Wizard also was going hard on Shooter even before the Kirby situation.

    • @oldgordo61
      @oldgordo61 6 месяцев назад +2

      Wizard was pretty anti Marvel back then even though Marvel writers had done some of the best stories imo written.

    • @MatthewMoreau
      @MatthewMoreau 15 дней назад

      @@oldgordo61People really liked Wizard.

    • @oldgordo61
      @oldgordo61 15 дней назад

      @@MatthewMoreau I imagine they did like it for many things such as how to determine how valuable or rare a comic back could be. I have no idea if Wizard is still around. I haven't bought a comic book in a long time. way too expensive but back in the 1980s Wizard as I remember it was pretty much anti Marvel.

    • @MatthewMoreau
      @MatthewMoreau 14 дней назад

      @@oldgordo61 Well, it wouldn't been if Jim kept his mouth shut

  • @chriscoolmoreno
    @chriscoolmoreno 6 месяцев назад +47

    Bro I love this. Please do more videos on writers and editors and artists

  • @mccallchris2718
    @mccallchris2718 6 месяцев назад +136

    Shooter has a bad reputation, but his methods work. Comics go out on time, and it was the greatest time to be Marvel reader. Jim got screwed!

    • @mrrictus
      @mrrictus 6 месяцев назад +18

      His comics had excellent continuity connectedness.

    • @travisbewley7084
      @travisbewley7084 5 месяцев назад

      And he also censored the shit out of everything.

    • @HeyYou992
      @HeyYou992 5 месяцев назад

      @@travisbewley7084 It's not censorship, it's editorial. It was Jim Shooter's literal job to manage what got produced under the Marvel banner.

    • @travisbewley7084
      @travisbewley7084 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@HeyYou992 and he made sure that nothing could be explicitly queer. That's why there was no textual evidence of any queerness even when charecters obviously were written that way like with Storm, Kitty, and Racheal Summers.
      That's still censorship, even if you have a job title attached to it, and he did it long after anyone payed attention to the comics code.

    • @MatthewMoreau
      @MatthewMoreau 15 дней назад

      @@travisbewley7084He didn't say true things. He's stupid.

  • @TheDeFiler316
    @TheDeFiler316 6 месяцев назад +33

    I love to hear about the behind the scenes aspect of the comic industry. If you did more of these I would eat it up.

  • @Hoopergames
    @Hoopergames 6 месяцев назад +30

    More of these please !!!!
    This is dope af

  • @artisticAsian353
    @artisticAsian353 6 месяцев назад +13

    Comics explained, explaining the history of comics while comicstorian is explaining comics wild times we live in

    • @nickypool415
      @nickypool415 6 месяцев назад +3

      Don't forget about comicpop!
      They explained about either how shitty the comicbook is or how convoluted the story is

  • @ACRobinson
    @ACRobinson 6 месяцев назад +11

    "I believe Jim" that's my new t-shirt

    • @Steven_Edwards
      @Steven_Edwards 6 месяцев назад +5

      I always liked Jim Shooter. I think it's unfortunate that his by the books mentality did run off some talent, but also some of that could have been attributed to immaturity of that talent.
      I think in hindsight has he stayed they could have all eventually worked together again, like when you hear Claremont today say that Jim was right.

  • @zctrelstad
    @zctrelstad 6 месяцев назад +22

    Hell yeah, right as I started my lunch break

  • @cjbridges9
    @cjbridges9 6 месяцев назад +18

    I saw the title and I was like Jim Shooter but it’s only because I hear the way Sal talks about him on back issues and from that I assumed correctly it seems that he is unliked

  • @vanphamthesequel
    @vanphamthesequel 6 месяцев назад +17

    I really enjoy the backstory of the business of comics in this video.I hope you make more in digestible chapters, anecdotes. Great job! A really enjoy the part when you tie the business and with the comics by describing the history of Dark Phoenix.

  • @mangobeepoppin2712
    @mangobeepoppin2712 6 месяцев назад +6

    That first pic of Jim at 0:12 looks like Dead Pool tried to join The Beatles

  • @Uatu-the-Watcher
    @Uatu-the-Watcher 6 месяцев назад +14

    I liked Shooter’s run. I loved the Handbook and Byrne’s career.
    What’s going on with him? What did he do?

    • @TravelsTTG
      @TravelsTTG 6 месяцев назад +9

      They just hated him because he was strict.

    • @Uatu-the-Watcher
      @Uatu-the-Watcher 6 месяцев назад +7

      @@TravelsTTG Oh. Thanks. So he was just doing his job.

    • @MatthewMoreau
      @MatthewMoreau 15 дней назад

      @@Uatu-the-WatcherThat's a corrupted cop.

    • @Uatu-the-Watcher
      @Uatu-the-Watcher 14 дней назад

      @@MatthewMoreau What?

    • @MatthewMoreau
      @MatthewMoreau 14 дней назад

      @@Uatu-the-Watcher How is that his job

  • @TheCrimsonMoogle
    @TheCrimsonMoogle 6 месяцев назад +15

    Really enjoyed the pacing and the information. I would only say I wish this was longer. Long format documentary style videos are wanted and needed for sure.

  • @kobaltics
    @kobaltics 6 месяцев назад +3

    More comics history and behind the pages stuff! I had no idea any of this happened, and it’s super interesting.

  • @RandyBandana
    @RandyBandana 6 месяцев назад +14

    I believe this is true, I've worked many places and no one cares when basic employees are treated unfairly, but the minute ANYTHING starts affecting upper management or the bottom line, even if it's just a rumor, heads roll, so I believe this.

  • @chadfanton9994
    @chadfanton9994 6 месяцев назад +13

    Great video! Love listening to one of the best minds in comics talk about the history of comics!

  • @Wezt334
    @Wezt334 6 месяцев назад +163

    I’d argue Zeb Wells is fast becoming the most hated man at Marvel

    • @spencerpommier806
      @spencerpommier806 6 месяцев назад +13

      Which sucks his Hellions run at the X-Men office is one of the best Marvel books of the last decade

    • @Wezt334
      @Wezt334 6 месяцев назад +16

      @@spencerpommier806 see I’d agree with that take I just find it funny that he keeps writing Spider-Man with Hellions/X-Men in mind. E.g writes Hellions brings back Madelyne Pryor Jeans clone, writes Spider-Man brings back Ben Reilly Peters clone. First big Spider-Man event he uses both said clones as villains - the event does more for Madelyn then it does for either Peter or Ben etc, just feels like he’s trying too hard to do too many things rather than just writing for the character which I could forgive if it was his first time on the character however he’s written for Spider-Man before. Not sure if it’s that he’s trying to do a Dan Slott and leave his mark on the character or if it’s a mix of that and editorial pushing. Spencer’s run wasn’t anything special but he at least worked hard to mend many of the issues fans had with the book since OMD and the Quesada mandate and Wells just undid all that work in the span of a few months.

    • @blueflare4139
      @blueflare4139 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@Wezt334Slotts mark definetly wasn’t a great one

    • @Wezt334
      @Wezt334 6 месяцев назад +9

      @@blueflare4139 see I’d disagree, while I personally didn’t enjoy a lot of his run he did have landmark stories for the character, Superior Spider-Man, Spiderverse, Big Time etc

    • @blueflare4139
      @blueflare4139 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@Wezt334 yeah no, see those stories yes those are landmark ones but with some other ones they’re very questionable. I know about his response to some of the criticism for some of those questionable stories. There’s stuff to pick at but no cherry pick with some of the major stories though and they’re hype like spiderverse or superior I like them, I haven’t seen enough big time.

  • @AceLM92
    @AceLM92 6 месяцев назад +8

    I've met Jim Shooter twice so far, hopefully I'll be able to meet him a third time at the end of this month, and he's a cool dude. Love hearing his stories, not just about his time at Marvel, but talking about his association with people like Wallace Wood, Steve Ditko, and so forth. Very interesting stuff. He was not a bad editor-in-chief at all, employees always have a tendency to not have the best attitude towards the boss. We had a great era of Marvel Comics when he was in charge. Look what happened to them in the '90s.

  • @AirwalkerX
    @AirwalkerX 6 месяцев назад +9

    I love this discussion it gives us a behind the scenes view of what was going on in Marvel

  • @CrawloutFallout
    @CrawloutFallout 6 месяцев назад +3

    I love this style of video! Learning the behind the scenes and history of marvel comics helps deepen my appreciation for the comic book industry as a whole! Thanks for this! 🎉

  • @Dark_Jaguar
    @Dark_Jaguar 6 месяцев назад +6

    I believe it. It's rarely how you treat your "lessers" that gets you in real trouble, it's how you treat your "betters" that does it.

    • @MatthewMoreau
      @MatthewMoreau 15 дней назад

      Why would they tell him to be nice to a corrupted writer

    • @Dark_Jaguar
      @Dark_Jaguar 15 дней назад

      @@MatthewMoreau I think you misunderstood what I was saying.

    • @MatthewMoreau
      @MatthewMoreau 15 дней назад

      @@Dark_Jaguar What were you saying?

    • @Dark_Jaguar
      @Dark_Jaguar 15 дней назад +1

      @@MatthewMoreau I was saying this guy didn't get in trouble for how he treated the people "beneath" him, but for how he treated those "above" him.

    • @MatthewMoreau
      @MatthewMoreau 14 дней назад

      @@Dark_Jaguar Oh, fax

  • @TerraEmperor1
    @TerraEmperor1 6 месяцев назад +1

    Absolutely loved this video. Definitely would love a series or even a docuseries of you covering the history of the comic industry and all its players

  • @jacobhamlin450
    @jacobhamlin450 6 месяцев назад

    Love this video I’ve been watching your stuff for over 5 years and I will never stop watching new random comics and storylines you start but I would love more of these types of videos as well

  • @joshmceowen1558
    @joshmceowen1558 6 месяцев назад +4

    Would love more behind the scenes videos like this! Something like the rise of hickman or geoff johns where you go over their early career and what led to their marquee stories would be super interesting

  • @Drogen0
    @Drogen0 6 месяцев назад +20

    Interesting! I know nothing about editorial drama and history. These videos get my vote for more.

  • @Briaaanz
    @Briaaanz 6 месяцев назад

    Loved the video! Cool to hear about comic book industry history

  • @jacobmethridge2422
    @jacobmethridge2422 6 месяцев назад

    Loving this style of video where it’s a kind of explainer of comic book history/publishing history. Def want more of these !

  • @illerhumpy3867
    @illerhumpy3867 6 месяцев назад +3

    That was damn interesting. Would love to see more videos like this every now and then. It was a bit of fresh air to get a little BTS of the comic book industry and it's apparent DEEP history. It never dawned on me just how long it's actually been around for and going on, kind of crazy in retrospect.

  • @orlandmalon1409
    @orlandmalon1409 6 месяцев назад +5

    That he was overseeing quality work being produced but got fired bc he was mean seems silly. His underlings accidentally performing a spell that destroys him at a barbecue is some real comic book stuff, though.
    The lesson is don't make people hate you enough to burn an effigy if you .😅

  • @xepheres
    @xepheres 6 месяцев назад +1

    Comic History Explained is a great idea man. Especially since you explain things at a level anyone can take in. Please make this a series

  • @kawonewilliams1949
    @kawonewilliams1949 6 месяцев назад

    I love this style of video. Very informative and I like how you just gave the facts and didn't draw a conclusion for us. Let's see more like this.

  • @BlackKingArmory
    @BlackKingArmory 6 месяцев назад +3

    I like this type of style you got going on Rob. I would love to see more of it man.

  • @shaunsutton699
    @shaunsutton699 6 месяцев назад +4

    Excellent job, Rob!

  • @grayson2846
    @grayson2846 6 месяцев назад +1

    Absolutely love this type of video. I enjoy the history and insight. Thank you!

  • @epixlolo
    @epixlolo 6 месяцев назад

    Please do more videos like this! This topic was absolutely fascinating.

  • @jetsurge250
    @jetsurge250 6 месяцев назад +5

    I thought this video was going to be about Ike Perlmutter because he forced Marvel Comics to try and replace the X-Men with the Inhumans and put Black Bolt everywhere in the 2010s 🤣.

  • @STORYTXLLXR
    @STORYTXLLXR 6 месяцев назад +3

    PLEASE DO MORE ROB!!!! Hope geek culture explained comes back :)

  • @GreyFoxxable
    @GreyFoxxable 6 месяцев назад

    Please continue this format! So informative and helps brings to light the Comic Book history of yester years

  • @stevepryor4136
    @stevepryor4136 6 месяцев назад +1

    Brilliant Rob. Do more stuff like this, it's fascinating

  • @MedaMatchaElite
    @MedaMatchaElite 6 месяцев назад +4

    When I saw the title of the vid my immediate thought was Paul Rabin

  • @Frailty8
    @Frailty8 6 месяцев назад +5

    This is sick. Really like this type of video, Rob

  • @jetcitykitty
    @jetcitykitty 6 месяцев назад

    This was a good video, Rob. I like these little documentary style videos explaining the behind the scenes of comics.

  • @jalladin
    @jalladin 6 месяцев назад

    @Rob this video was is ( S tier ) when it comes to information on RUclips. Please make more! I learned more in this video about the Comic community than I could if I did research. Thanks for the effort and time you put in to make this my friend.

  • @adrienrodriguez250
    @adrienrodriguez250 6 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you for making these types of videos. You da GOAT roob!

  • @iLLeag7e
    @iLLeag7e 6 месяцев назад +4

    I dig stories about the industry and the artists / players who bring all of these awesome stories to us. The business / career side of comic books is much less important to the average comic book reader than the comics themselves but those of us who have read them our whole lives really do sit and wonder about the people who run the show. This is good content for your viewers and I support videos such as these. Good shit rob

  • @swirlcrop
    @swirlcrop 6 месяцев назад

    This is a great video. I had no idea of the behind the scenes workings of Marvel. Great job.

  • @Griffongob
    @Griffongob 6 месяцев назад

    awesome video loved the dive into history

  • @UnwantedGhost1-anz25
    @UnwantedGhost1-anz25 6 месяцев назад +6

    When I was younger, I wanted to work with Marvel comics. Boy, am I'm glad that I wasn't born exactly fifty years earlier to have endure Jim Shooter's management.

    • @sawtooth808
      @sawtooth808 6 месяцев назад +1

      I know Jim Shooter would not have approved of comics like Thunderbolts, (Jim Shooter pretty much had a black and white world view {Heroes were good, Villains were bad, end of discussion} ) If Jim Shooter was there in the 90’s we wouldn’t have had Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza’s take on Baron Zemo, which is the Baron Zemo that got used for the MCU

  • @cdeleon3494
    @cdeleon3494 6 месяцев назад +4

    A history lesson is always valuable

  • @noondlite
    @noondlite 6 месяцев назад

    Great video, been watching your stuff for years. Glad to get this behind the scenes info. I've seen these names in my comics and now i know a little of how they all fit together.

  • @cassilee64
    @cassilee64 6 месяцев назад

    Ngl this is a really interesting segment of your channel that I think need to continue. Deep dives into comic book industry history is hella awesome.

  • @williambixby3785
    @williambixby3785 6 месяцев назад +11

    I would take Jim over what we have today… at least the writing stayed inline and was interesting

  • @LastNameTom
    @LastNameTom 6 месяцев назад +26

    I think the most hated person at Marvel is...well...Marvel right now.

  • @richardadcock5450
    @richardadcock5450 6 месяцев назад

    Love it, I wish you would do more videos like that.

  • @J360Productions
    @J360Productions 6 месяцев назад

    Great video, I always was wondering more about Jim Shooter's time at Marvel.

  • @vernonhampton5863
    @vernonhampton5863 6 месяцев назад +9

    Jim Shooter sounds like what in my time as a US Marine called an "ugly leader". It was all about efficiency over empathy. He made Marvel a machine. And being more efficient, made money. But at the same time, you sacrifice friends. So, i think that the real story about exposing corruption, especially seeing what happened to Marvel pre Disney buy, I think there are some nuggets of truth in what Shooter is saying. What the full story is, we will never know.

  • @Hoopergames
    @Hoopergames 6 месяцев назад +6

    4:00 this perfectly describes why I've always preferred marvel.
    DC always felt more like an American corporation before anything else.

    • @thomasstevens1157
      @thomasstevens1157 6 месяцев назад

      I think its the reason why a lot of us liked Marvel, it was less strict and more fun... but there's always a line, a place where business and fun separate, and most people don't know where its at. When I was in the Army I had a great CO, ex-Ranger went green to gold, and loved working for him. He was a little looser than the standard officer, but I always knew that line of being personal and professional. Over time soldiers would get butt-hurt over the way he ran the company, but never realized that they were the ones being the problem. Shooter wasn't perfect, but I'd take him over any other EIC.

  • @DarthBrutal
    @DarthBrutal 6 месяцев назад

    Great video, hope you do more industry, behind the scenes stuff.

  • @johngonzales7130
    @johngonzales7130 6 месяцев назад

    i dig this style of video. its a nice change of pace

  • @BibleAlivePresentations
    @BibleAlivePresentations 6 месяцев назад +4

    Love your presentations. Shooter doesn't deserve the hate.
    This is how it is: From Lee-Kirby-Ditko through Shooter's firing, Marvel gave stories with as much originality as they can have. After? Rehash. Some EXCELLENT rehash -- perhaps the greatest Marvel story ever told is rehash, Hickman's 2015 SECRET WARS and everything that built up to that from Hickman's FF run. But still rehash. CIVIL WAR? Already read that back in the 60s really. AVSX? Yeah, that's an issue of UNCANNY X-MEN before ten issues had been given. Sorry if this upsets you!
    80s Marvel was GREAT. Not good, GREAT. And yes, all of the talents in those days including Claremont and Byrne were enhanced by Shooter. Sorry if that upsets you!
    Shooter knew the characters WELL. He knows Doom has the heart of a lion. It is LONG OVERDUE to give this great (not perfect!) man (who by the way risked his life to stop a woman from being murdered) the praise he deserves. Do you like Lee and Kirby and Ditko? Amen, you should. Do you enjoy the MCU and AVENGERS movies? You should. You can thank Shooter because if he didn't arrive in the late '70s and steer the ship through the '80s as he did, talking about the Avengers might just be like talking about CASPER and HOT STUFF and other IPs that had their day and went the way of the dinosaurs.

  • @MexikanPanda
    @MexikanPanda 6 месяцев назад +15

    I have nothing but nice things to say about Mr. Shooter. Maybe he would of prevented the horrible direction Marvel has taken

    • @oldgordo61
      @oldgordo61 6 месяцев назад +7

      He was dealing with some of the most talented writers and artists such as Chris Clairemont John Byrne who had big egos as well. Jim Shooter probably did as well and when you had that of volitile mix of talented people with big egos there's going to be a lot of contention. But in the end Jim Shooter basically saved the company from financial collaspe. Someone mentioned that the Beyonder a character that was created by Jim Shooter was an extension of Shooter himself and I heard many of writers and artists notably John Byrne hated the Beyonder as a character as much as he disliked Shooter.

  • @ThaKenMan
    @ThaKenMan 6 месяцев назад

    I loved this video!!! More like it please. I do love the behind the scenes type of information

  • @thurmanharden
    @thurmanharden 6 месяцев назад

    Love this type of content. Keep it up!

  • @Bitterman5868
    @Bitterman5868 6 месяцев назад +15

    Marvel Hates Jim Shooter for he was right, and it what led to their downfall in the 90's the rise of the OMD mafia since he wasn't whipping the ego powered people like quesada and slott in their places.
    ANd many of the good stuff marvel made in the 80's, including the origins of many transformers characters came from him and Bob Budiansky.

  • @dandelatorre1870
    @dandelatorre1870 6 месяцев назад +5

    I met Jim Shooter about 6 years ago. I thanked him for virtually saving Marvel by making the tough decisions that others didn’t want to make. I saw him as a brilliant savant who is uncomfortable with people, sort of what the character Sheldon Cooper is on The Big Bang Theory portrays.

  • @samuelbankston2108
    @samuelbankston2108 6 месяцев назад

    Love the video. Love knowing more behind the scenes knowledge

  • @adamsolis7314
    @adamsolis7314 6 месяцев назад

    Loved this format!

  • @DrDoom333
    @DrDoom333 6 месяцев назад +25

    Isn’t Jim the architect of avengers 200 the worst avengers comic ever. So I’m pretty sure he deserves the hate.

    • @Supremmo
      @Supremmo 6 месяцев назад +7

      But he also brought us Secret Wars so we can forgive him for that.

    • @virtualrealityfitness283
      @virtualrealityfitness283 6 месяцев назад

      Carol Danvers wonted that D

    • @TravelsTTG
      @TravelsTTG 6 месяцев назад +2

      Dude all great comic creators have made horrible shit.

  • @wompastompa3692
    @wompastompa3692 6 месяцев назад +4

    Jim: "Do your job."
    The artists: "AAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

  • @LuyandaMhlanga
    @LuyandaMhlanga 6 месяцев назад

    This was great... I need more of this content... Love it !!!

  • @Hellspwn6
    @Hellspwn6 6 месяцев назад

    Please make more videos like this dude! As much as I love comics, I love the real world history of them just as much and you do such a great job at telling it.

  • @arbhall7572
    @arbhall7572 6 месяцев назад +4

    Tom King?
    Oooooh Jim Shooter....the guy who made Marvel actually work is the bad guy?
    I disagree.
    Yeah he was harsh but that what was needed at the time and truthfully is needed again now.

  • @dinglerrrrrrrrr9480
    @dinglerrrrrrrrr9480 6 месяцев назад +6

    still not as bad as zebb wells

    • @spencerpommier806
      @spencerpommier806 6 месяцев назад

      Nah he wrote Hellions one of the best Marvel books of the last decade. If you're only reading X-Men he's beloved

    • @BlackKingArmory
      @BlackKingArmory 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@spencerpommier806 but if your reading Spider-Man hes absolutly hated and i hate to say it but Spidey is more loved worldwide than the X-Men.

  • @deamon506
    @deamon506 6 месяцев назад

    Excellent and informational brother. You have an incredible gift and I’m glad you share it with us

  • @GearlessMo
    @GearlessMo 6 месяцев назад

    @Rob, I’m a big fan of your history in comics, they are entertaining, informative and thought provoking. Maybe a quarterly video series? Either way loving it and want more!!

  • @UIJulio
    @UIJulio 6 месяцев назад

    I would love for more videos like this Rob!

  • @rybec8500
    @rybec8500 6 месяцев назад

    Love videos like this man! Love hearing about the history! Need more of this! Next time, include more dates and years on the timeline, other than that, this was great!

  • @keonigarcia7605
    @keonigarcia7605 6 месяцев назад

    Keep loving more this channel by each vid man

  • @timothymichael7552
    @timothymichael7552 5 месяцев назад

    Love this format!

  • @izz6760
    @izz6760 6 месяцев назад

    Awesome video rob can’t wait for more like this

  • @zabuzo
    @zabuzo 6 месяцев назад

    this was a breath of fresh air, rob. as someone who dearly misses the content from your second channel, this reminded me of that. excellent research as well.

  • @GraxBishop
    @GraxBishop 6 месяцев назад

    I like this video. I had no idea about this kind of comic book history and I feel like I learnt something. More please.

  • @BloodlyTear
    @BloodlyTear 6 месяцев назад

    Amazing video! Would be cool to see more like this😊

  • @mbcestelle
    @mbcestelle 6 месяцев назад

    I really enjoyed this video. The channel is Comics explained and getting a look at the various ins and out of the industry throughout time works great with the theme. Keep it up! Perhaps occasionally doing a piece on various writers and artists that have impacted the industry.

  • @AjanM2501
    @AjanM2501 6 месяцев назад

    This is a great video. Really enjoyed it. 😊

  • @dumbassasin419
    @dumbassasin419 6 месяцев назад

    great vid rob, very informative looking forward to more of this kind

  • @Alfareon
    @Alfareon 6 месяцев назад

    i really like your history videos, jfc this is well-researched

  • @maryse8
    @maryse8 6 месяцев назад +1

    I loved the video, Rob. I'm a longtime Marvel reader, but I didn't know all of the ins-and-outs of Shooter's tenure at the company. More videos like this please.

  • @montagneicloden
    @montagneicloden 6 месяцев назад +1

    Great video!!

  • @ReQuiem_2099
    @ReQuiem_2099 6 месяцев назад

    Dope video man.
    Really enjoyed it. Like where you're taking the channel, experimenting with new formats, new topics, new perspectives.

  • @nightmistful
    @nightmistful 6 месяцев назад

    Awesome !!! 😃 I've learned a great bit of information this video 🙂