Anyone planning to read Spider-man: One Moment in Time?

[ClayinCA]

Wacker was the person Marvel wooed away from DC as he was doing the weekly Countdown series a few years back.

Most of what you say is correct, but I have to correct you on one thing: Wacker had nothing to do with the train wreck that was Countdown; rather, he went over to Marvel part-way through the run of 52, which (in my opinion anyway) remains the gold standard of weekly comics.

I'm not surprised that Marvel would end the thrice-monthly Amazing if Wacker doesn't have time to do it; there's no one else I can imagine who'd be able to take charge of such a difficult task.

 

[Snaploud]

I read it out of morbid curiosity. Wow. That was one of the most depressing things I've ever read in comic book form. The drunk, emotionally distraught look on MJ (at the end of the issue) pretty much says it all. Joe Q sure knows how to destroy a comic icon's popularity, doesn't he...? I think it's his specialty.

 

[FormerLurker]

Where Marvel is concerned, I think it's his goal.

And yes, I mean the whole company, not just Spider-Man.

 

[Hound of UIster]

But he has done a great job with most of the other characters aside from Spider-Man.

Thor with JMS
Iron Man with Matt Fraction
Captain America with Ed Brubaker
X-Men with Grant Morrison
Daredevil with Bendis
The FF with Waid and then Hickamn
Ellis on Thunderbolts
Civil War by Mark Millar

His management of Marvel has sparked a creative renaissance since the Marvel Bankruptcy of the 90s

 

[Snaploud]

Ah, yes...Iron Man...Mr. totalitarian psychopath during the Civil War Joe Q era...Marvel sure did wonders with that character...

 

[Turtletrekker]

Ah, yes...Iron Man...Mr. totalitarian psychopath during the Civil War Joe Q era...Marvel sure did wonders with that character...

This.

 

[Derishton]

JMS's Thor could go in both the pro- and anti- Queseda columns, given that Queseda allowed JMS to develop something truly cool, and then buggered it up by insisting on building the lacklustre Siege event around Asgard and screwing up the longterm plans for the character.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Quesada may have wangled Marvel out of it's financial woes and brought in big name talent to work on the top books but part of being a good EIC is actually allowing those writers to do their thing without interfering or using "editorial decisions" to alter their suggestions. It's really hard to describe my feelings toward Joe Q without going into incoherent ranting.

 

[Mr Light]

He seems to let Millar and Bendis do whatever they want

 

[Admiral_Young]

True enough and think about where the company would truly be if he didn't Bendis is my next pic to become Marvel EIC.