It's been just over a year since I migrated all of this material over from Tumblr and set up this page as a clearinghouse for whatever nonsense i wanted to write about. And, being of fannish nature, I was curious about what the most popular features I'd done here were--both to guide me in future … Continue reading End Of The Year Stats
Day: December 25, 2019
The Death of #711
As we spoke about earlier, the deaths of super hero characters didn't really become a thing until the 1960s, and didn't become an industry-wide trend until the 1980s. Nowadays, virtually every character has died and been resurrected at least once over the years, but back in the day, this was relatively unthinkable. The Comet was … Continue reading The Death of #711
Blah Blah Blog – Youth
One of the more controversial pieces I wrote at my old Marvel blog, where I talk about the fact that Spider-Man is about youth. Youth April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Okay, while we're gathering up nominations for the GOLDEN LOEB AWARDS (still available in the previous blog thread), … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Youth
BHOC: FLASH #259
A month had gone by, and so the mailman brought me my latest subscription copy of THE FLASH. This was getting towards the end of my subscription period. Now that I could, and was, visiting the 7-11 every Thursday when new comics dropped like clockwork, there wasn't as much of a need to make sure … Continue reading BHOC: FLASH #259




