'huge, queer and tawdry' but 'much admired by the public'

Likewise. And there were just little bits increasingly creeping in which indicated to me that it wasn't just Ellis losing interest, but the artist too. Like the Galactus issue, say, where the scale of the corpse was changing radically from one panel to the next. I spotted something similar in the later days of Transmet too, where that once madly detailed Darick future seemed increasingly blank of background just as the plot was increasingly fixated on the boring, implausible Smiler.