Jim Shooter Has Passed at 73

Jim Shooter has recently passed at 73 from esophageal cancer. He started writing comics professionally at 14 (yes, really) and had a long career in comics that included serving as Marvel's Editor-in-Chief during its crazy-busy time period of the 1980s. He was invovled in the creation of a lot of great comics in some form or another, and many folks have a lot of stories. Some folks liked him on a personal level, some did not, with the phrases, "Strong personality/he was complicated," thrown around a lot online to describe Shooter. Tons of people give him a lot of credit--credit he is due--for his contributions to comics, however, and he is clearly going to be missed by a number of folks