1989 was the year in which I entered the field, so this will be the final installment of this topic, as I don't think it's possible to be objective past this point. Grant Morrison begins his revelatory run on DOOM PATROL by hearkening back to the earliest stories and remembering that these characters are more … Continue reading 5BC: The Five Best Comic Books of 1989
One of my favorite performers, Derren Brown, is finishing up a Broadway run of his stage show SECRET at the Cort Theater on 48th Street in Manhattan at the end of the month. It's in essence the same show that he performed a year or two back at the Atlantic downtown, but in a somewhat … Continue reading Derren Brown – SECRET
As a brief follow-up to the earlier post concerning the 3M cover proof, I've got a pair of examples to show here that may make understanding how the three primary colors were mixed to make the 64 available colors for printing back in the 1960s and 1970s. Here, I've got two examples where, for a … Continue reading More On Color Separations – AVENGERS #10 and FANTASTIC FOUR #110
A post from my decade-old Marvel blog concerning how we coordinated character appearances across different titles. Fighting Over The Toys October 5, 2009 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Spent a bit too much of my time today dealing with a tempest-in-a-teapot involving multiple creators all wanting to use the same characters, … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Fighting Over The Toys
Still working through my first visit to a comic book shop, that being the Heroes World in Levittown. I also made it a point to pick up a number of more recent books--they were more affordable, so I could walk out with more. Among what I purchased were these two issues of SUPERMAN, the first … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN #296 & 297
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