Operation Migration in progress!

Hello, folks! Having been a bit befuddled and unhappy with the recent changes being made over at Tumblr, I decided to take the plunge and move all of my ongoing efforts over to this page. Here is where you will find the new home of the Brevoort History of Comics, in which I review and … Continue reading Operation Migration in progress! →

DOCTOR WHO

It’s Christmas Eve as I write this, and for the last near-decade, at least in my household, my children have learned about the true meaning of Christmas. Christmas, you see, is when Dad watches Doctor Who. Since the show came back in 2005, viewing each year’s Christmas Special has been something of a ritual, a … Continue reading DOCTOR WHO →

BHOC: INVADERS #14

I didn’t know when I pulled up this issue of INVADERS from the big box of slightly-older comic books at my local drug store that the new characters depicted on it, the Crusaders, were meant to be analogues for the Freedom Fighters, characters published in the 1940s by Quality Publications and eventually purchased by DC. … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #14 →

In Our Next STAR BLAZERS Adventure – Episode 24

EPISODE 24 “Leader Desslok, we must stop fooling ourselves. You said it yourself. It’s almost as if we’ve been fighting a ghost ship. How can an old Earth battleship defeat all of Gamilon? We’ve been fighting a force we don’t understand, let us stop fighting them before they destroy us!” - General Krypt This is … Continue reading In Our Next STAR BLAZERS Adventure – Episode 24 →

In Our Next STAR BLAZERS Adventure – Episode 23

EPISODE 23 “What are you thinking, Venture? You think I made a mistake in trusting the message from Iscandar? That after coming all this way I’ve gotten us into a trap? That I’m not capable of being Deputy Captain?” - Derek Wildstar Finally, after four and a half weeks of episodes and adventures, the Star … Continue reading In Our Next STAR BLAZERS Adventure – Episode 23 →

BHOC: INVADERS #3

In addition to new old issues of FANTASTIC FOUR and MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS, the drug store’s big bin of somewhat older comics had also received copies of a few issues of THE INVADERS, which I picked up as well. This one had a somewhat messy cover–how is it that Captain America is seemingly standing in … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #3 →

BHOC: MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS #66

The other issue of MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS that had turned up in my drug store’s big bin of slightly-older comics was this one, the start of a four-part Doctor Doom sequence inspired by the television series The Prisoner. I hadn’t seen the Prisoner at the time when I first bought this issue, so it seemed … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS #66 →

In Our Next STAR BLAZERS Adventure – Episode 22

EPISODE 22 “You are a brave man, Captain. But as you have a mission, so have we. And we consider your presence in the galaxy a threat to our survival. You must return to Earth at once!” - General Lysis This episode features what is easily the most spectacular and well-choreographed battle sequences in the … Continue reading In Our Next STAR BLAZERS Adventure – Episode 22 →

BHOC: MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS #65

Also in the big big of somewhat-old comics on this particular trip was a pair of issues of MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS featuring the Fantastic Four. This was the earlier of the two, a reprint of a classic Stan Lee and Jack Kirby issue (albeit one that had pages edited out of it in order to … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS #65 →

BHOC: FANTASTIC FOUR #176

Back at the Drug Store, I was astonished and elated to find this issue of FANTASTIC FOUR in my latest dive through its big bin of somewhat-older comics. And the reason is that this issue pre-dated all four of the FANTASTIC FOUR issues that I’d previously found there. It was evidence that it was possible … Continue reading BHOC: FANTASTIC FOUR #176 →