I've never read one, so probably shouldn't comment, but I have read that the Continuity books have a surprisingly bad reputation for such an otherwise stellar creator.

I could be wrong on this, but I think the only creative part Adams played in any of the Continuity Comics was cover art. It was his company of course, but not his creative vision. Adams is a businessman first, originally using comics as a stepping stone towards getting into advertising, and only returning to comics when that's where the real money was in the '90s.

He was the scripter and co-penciller of Revengers at least, the book I tried in high school.

GCD entry for Revengers #1

and he scripted and inked a young Tom Grindberg's pencils in Armor.

That was the 80s incarnation. By the time the 90s stuff hit he may not have been involved.

-M

I have pretty much most of his Continuity books from the beginning to the 90's books and finally to the books he published under the Valiant Windjammer imprint. I bought it for the artwork which was influenced  by Adams. Of all the books, I only really enjoyed the first volume of Armor. When he brought back the line to cash in on the 90's comic craze, it was a miss mosh of crossover nonsense. I still have all the books. It seemed that he was more involved with MS. Mystic.

My thoughts on Continuity. Their sins are many, starting with the abysmal writing. We are talking high school-level, at best. Some of the dialogue makes Kirby's read like Neil Gaiman. The art, though Adams or Adams-derivative, often suffered through so-so printing and weird coloring. Their stuff looked like no other, with lots or metallic oranges and purples. There was little editorial consistency and the publishing schedule was all over the place.

I met Clarke Hawbaker once, who worked on Samuree, and he said everything passed through Neal's desk for approval; but, that was secondary to his commercial art jobs. When he got around to it, he tweaked art and story, then published it. Neal had his hands in everything, either directly or through influence. He massively edited Esteban Maroto's Cinco Por Infinito, when he published it in English, as Zero Patrol. Adams made art changes, major story changes and made it totally incomprehensible. The shame of it is that it is one of the seminal Spanish comics works and 1960s European works; yet, it has not been published in English, in America.

Basically, the main problem at Continuity was that there was no real editor, especially with a story background. Neal was a fine artist; but was not a great writer and refused to bring in any real writers or editors. Everything about Continuity was visual. It made for nice portfolio work; but, not for great comic stories.

You wanna got through a real rabbit hole? Try Adams' Skateman, from Pacific (where he launched the Continuity hero line, with Ms Mystic). That is also covered in my Other Guys thread. That thing reads like something out of the Twilight Zone and not in a good way.

The only story I've ever read that he wrote was an issue of The Spectre from back during the Silver Age. I really liked it, but I was also holding it to the standard of 1960s DC scripts as opposed to, well, good writing

Oh, it was published; but, Neal pretty much gutted Maroto's work.  He tinkered with the art to the point it no longer looks like Maroto and totally rewrote the story.  The original is an epic adventure, with a group of people who are infused with great power by an alien, to become a kind intergalactic peace-keeping force.  The original was a huge hit in Spain and across Europe, rivalling the works of Moebius and Druillet and the others producing science fiction, in the late 60s and early 70s.

Here's a look at the original...





and the Zero Patrol version...



Adams re-inked panels and flat out changed some, to make it fit more into the Continuity house style (his) and changed a lot of the tone and actual story points.  It was not a respectful adaptation.  I keep hoping Fantagraphics or someone else (Cinebook or Europe Comics, or Titan) will do a faithful translation and collection (Fantagraphics did Hector Oesterheld and Francisco Lopez's Argentinian comic, The Eternaut).  The only collection I have seen is in Spanish and is pretty pricey on Amazon ($1200!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).