Special Guest Interview: Jim Shooter

[@bc_scrubs]

Fantastic interview! So insightful and I loved learning more of Marvels history. Thank you for asking my question!

[@omniversecomicsguide]

Thanks for sending it in, dude!

[@robl6933]

Great interview. Jim Shooter is the reason for my love of comics. I was already a Star Wars comic fan, because it was Star Wars. I never thought about super hero comics, but my brother and I went to a grocery store back in '84. He came over to me with a comicbook. He wanted a super hero comic, but he picked it based solely on the cover. It was Secret Wars number 1. When we got home he read it first, then I read it. We loved it, we couldn't wait for the next issue. From that point on we bought everything from Alpha Flight to X-men.

[@omniversecomicsguide]

@@robl6933 Secret Wars was a winner, right? Sounds like you got into the superhero stuff around the same time as me, though my first was issue 8 of the Marvel UK reprint series!

[@robl6933]

Yup, to this day I don't think there was a better story then Secret Wars

[@resistancepublishing]

Jim Shooter is the second person I would want to sit down and talk to about comics. Hands down the greatest editor in the comic book industry. Fight me on that.

[@omniversecomicsguide]

@@resistancepublishing Nice! Hey, who’s your first?

[@resistancepublishing]

@@omniversecomicsguide George Perez. But unfortunately…

[@omniversecomicsguide]

@@resistancepublishing Ahh… don’t blame you at all, dude. Man, what a guest he would’ve been too!

[@resistancepublishing]

@@omniversecomicsguide yea. I’m sure he had stories about the industry to tell

[@kellyishikawa]

This is incredible. Great job!

[@omniversecomicsguide]

@@kellyishikawa Hey cheers, Kelly! Thanks so much for watching!

[@riddlr6358]

Jim Shooter is one of the coolest guys. Bar none! man...I wish he would write a book on his time at Marvel.

[@omniversecomicsguide]

@@riddlr6358 Yeah, I’m surprised he hasn’t!

[@Mrdorf14]

This is one of the best interviews I’ve seen with Shooter. Great questions dude.

[@omniversecomicsguide]

Thanks, man! Eric aced it! Looking forward to seeing Jim come back to talk Valiant, too - Dave

[@Mrdorf14]

@@omniversecomicsguide Same here!

[@winevinylclub3414]

Interviewer is great but these are always the same things Shooter talks about, no real new questions or answers.

[@omniversecomicsguide]

@@winevinylclub3414 A follow-up is on the way that’ll go into some different areas

[@frankandstern8803]

23:01His Expression is priceless.

[@BenCh14]

Such a great interview, well done Eric! Would be great to have Jim back again. Do you know what the Captain America art is behind Jim?

[@omniversecomicsguide]

It’s really hard to see it here, but I’ve seen it elsewhere and it looks like a Kirby piece! Perhaps Eric will get to a chance to ask Jim when he comes back!

[@BenCh14]

@@omniversecomicsguide I'm eagerly looking forward to part 2!

[@winevinylclub3414]

Complaining about characters getting new identities with different races is kinda amazing when you consider that James Rhodes was IRON MAN for several years in the Eighties. Which Shooter approved.

[@resistancepublishing]

This change was done organically and it made sense. The way creators are race swapping and gender swapping in 2024 makes no sense and the writing is garbage

[@mathewsydney8929]

Great interview. I know he has his detractors but Marvel comics could really use a Jim Shooter now to fix the hot mess they've made of their comicsverse continuity!

[@omniversecomicsguide]

@@mathewsydney8929 Hey cheers, Mathew!!

[@frankandstern8803]

45:40 momentum

[@ReaperXC]

Funny how people care so much about Jane as Thor, Riri as Iron Heart, Sam as Captain America. Rhodey was the Iron Man of Secret Wars 1985. 'The creators intention' for James Rhodes was for him not to be a hero at any stage, but these characters are corporate not independently owned. Things will change, if you dont like it dont read it. And when it inevitably changes back you can see if you like that take. Read what you like.

[@omniversecomicsguide]

Also reminds me of the uproar around Otto as Spidey! Like no character had ever been switched out before!

[@backissue7373]

Rhodey as Iron Man was actually an original idea in the 1980s. It was a logical step that allowed Tony Stark to address his personal demons. Now race and gender swapping of characters are incredibly common and forced, often by creators who have no regard for the history of the character. If they really wanted to do the industry a service, modern writers and artists would create brand new characters that can stand on their own. That's how we got the Marvel Universe in the first place. If all they can do is create variants of established characters, manga will be the only comics we have in the future. True creativity still exists in Japan.

[@MandatoryReporter2015]

33:15 I’m 60. I picked up issue 1 of Star Wars. I hadn’t watched the movie and hated the artwork and put it back. I just checked out the Kindle Omnibus and still hate it. Not my cup of tea, I guess.

[@omniversecomicsguide]

I used to buy the Marvel UK reprints of Star Wars as a kid, just because it's Star Wars, but rarely liked the comic! Perhaps some of the later issues are better, but I'll admit I'm not overly bothered about giving them another go! - Dave

[@MandatoryReporter2015]

All those creators who burned effigies and badmouthed Shooter in the eighties, ya gotta wonder …

[@omniversecomicsguide]

They're all sides of a bigger story, i guess! Perhaps we'll manage to get some more '80s creators on the show to delve into the era a little more!