Jim Shooter ODIABA el Spiderman de John Romita Sr. Ni la forma de dibujar el traje (lo simplificó) ni la forma de moverlo por las páginas le gustaba, y hacía todo lo posible para evitar que su visión del personaje influyese a los demás dibujantes de Spiderman:
"(ASIDE: I never liked John Romita’s approach to Spider-Man. I love John. He’s a Hall-of-Famer. All-time great. Grandmaster. And a great human being. But his theories of how to draw Spider-Man appalled me. I hated the fact that he simplified the costume. I’d hear him explaining to some young artist that one of the lines on the mask represented the bottom of Spider-Man’s nose and one his mouth. What?! Worse, he’d tell people not to worry about the physics of web-swinging. Just have the web-line go off panel, he’d tell them. It’s just a trumped-up device to justify “flying,” said he, think of it as pulling Spider-Man along.
ARRRGH!
As Editor in Chief, I could have insisted that re-Ditko-izing Spider-Man was policy, and that John should represent it. But, I inherited John and his long-established philosophies when I became boss. They were grandfathered in, sort of. Seemed like it would be a difficult conversation: “John, I know you’ve drawn Spider-Man for a long time, and to a great extent your version has become the accepted benchmark, but you’re doing it all wrong.” I just don’t think that conversation would have gone very well.
Stan agreed with my take on the character and proper presentation of Spider-Man for the most part, but, if I understood Stan at all, he had the same reservations as I did about criticizing or correcting John. He actually did try to gently nudge John toward a more Ditko-y approach in some respects—so did I—but when you have an Exalted Elder, a Superstar like John who does so many things brilliantly, sometimes it makes sense to benignly neglect a thing or two.
So when John drew the web-line going off panel and apparently pulling Spider-Man along into the air, I gritted my teeth, imagined that the web-line was attached to a passing helicopter and comforted myself with a handful of jellybeans."
http://www.jimshooter.com/2011/10/ultimate-comics-all-new-spider-man-1.htmlTengo que admitir que con estas cosas Jim Shooter me gana completamente