Too little, and far, far too late.

Poor guy deserved better.

And remember, this is the same Jim Shooter who, with the deadline screaming for mercy, had plenty of "time" to get ENTIRE PAGES redrawn in the return of Jean Grey story in FF, after I announced I would be doing SUPERMAN and therefore had to be PUNISHED. There was also an AVENGERS issue that was terminally late by the time the plot got to me, up in Canada, so Roger Stern, as editor, told me to do loose breakdowns and he would get several inkers to finish them. Alas, Shooter was in one of his "moods", and so, despite the lateness of the book and Roger's protests, Shooter insisted the pages be sent back to me to be "finished properly". Plenty of time for THAT, apparently!*

This is, of course, operating on the assumption that there really WAS something that needed to be changed, and that the penciller had not merely drawn exactly what he was told to draw.

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* When Shooter complained to me that I had left out backgrounds in many panels (this was the second part of the Absorbing Man story) I pointed out that I had done so only where the backgrounds would be covered by copy, and that the inkers, pressed for time, would probably have dropped what little would have been visible anyway. This was the issue that was lost in the mail, en route back to me, and so had to be inked on overlay, over xeroxes. True to my prediction, the inkers left blank the same areas I had left blank, which were subsequently filled up with balloons and captions.