So, a day later and like seemingly everybody else, I have a few follow-up thoughts concerning last night's DOCTOR WHO. Time was, I used t be pretty good at predicting were plotlines were going, though of late I've been flummoxed more and more often. So these assorted conjectures will either look brilliant or asinine in … Continue reading Doctor Who: Fugitive of the Judoon — More Thoughts
Based on the fact that showrunner Chris Chibnall had taken a co-writing credit on this episode, I had assumed going in that we were going to get some more of the architecture of the season-long arc story in tonight's episode, and I was braced for that. The timing seemed to be about right as well--you … Continue reading Doctor Who: Fugitive of the Judoon
In 1978, presumably because Stan Lee had begun to break through into the mainstream with his comic book huckster routine, writer Arnold Drake created the running character Ego-Man in the pages of SICK magazine, then published by Charlton. It was anything but a loving parody of the field and those in it, in particular Stan, … Continue reading Brand Echh – Sick #123 – Ego-Man
A post from my old Marvel blog talking a little bit about covers Wednesday, 9:19 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General So let's talk about covers a little bit.It used to be, back when comic books were sold exclusively on the newsstand, that the cover was what sold the … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Covers
I bought this comic in a non-regular venue for me while on a shopping trip with my family to a supermarket some distance from our home. I bought it both because I was reading SUPER-TEAM FAMILY regularly and because the Flash, still my favorite super hero, was headlining in it. This would be my first … Continue reading BHOC: SUPER-TEAM FAMILY #15
For whatever reason, while they would dabble with the genre from time to time, Charlton never quite took the leap into publishing super hero comics on a full-time basis. They seemed content to fill their racks with war, mystery, western, hot rod, romance and even comedy books. But super heroes were an ill-fit for them, … Continue reading Brand Echh – Charlton Premiere #1
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning good comics I worked on, in this instance SPIDER-BOY #1 Looking Back on the Good April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Starting off the week with the first of our profile of Good Comics I Had a Hand In, to see … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Looking Back At The Good
It would have been shortly after Christmas that I found this next issue of what was then my favorite comic book title, FANTASTIC FOUR, on the 7-11 spinner rack. This is another issue that I'm sure my younger brother Ken also had a copy of--he would mimic my purchases a week or so later for … Continue reading BHOC: FANTASTIC FOUR #192
Christmas of 1977 was the last year of my youth where that holiday wouldn't be festooned with gifts of books about comics. In the years to come, I'd get complete sets of the Marvel Origins books and the Olshevsky Marvel Indexes and all manner of other available books reprinting or about comics during the holidays. … Continue reading BHOC: THE POW! ZAP! WHAM! COMIC BOOK TRIVIA QUIZ
A post from my long-gone Marvel blog of a decade ago concerning Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo's first issue of FANTASTIC FOUR Good Comics pt 2 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I've name-checked Mark Waid a couple times in this blog over the past few weeks, because we … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Good Comics Part Two
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