User blog comment:20thCentFopp/Why Skrulls Are Pathetic Villains/@comment-4652104-20131114192621/@comment-2031194-20131116152209

He was writing probably close to a dozen titles at once though, you can't ignore that fact. Compared to today, a writer might only do half that amount. I'm sure that's a pretty big reason his quality suffered sometimes; he had to write new, original stuff for a slew of books every month, so not everything is going to be as great as if he would concentrate on just a few or one series. Modern day example: Brian Bendis. That guy was writing so many Avengers titles, plus others, at once, that sometimes his material is, well you know... So far it hasn't happened with X-Men yet I don't think, but then again he probably had a lot more new ideas for them, instead of trying to come up with new material for characters he's worked with for a decade.