It's been interesting to watch how, after a number of years having largely vanished from the radar, conversation about the long-running comedy HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER has picked up in recent weeks. This is, of course, entirely due to the fact that Hulu's quasi-sequel, quasi-remake HOW I MET YOUR FATHER began airing, giving license … Continue reading How I Met Your Mother and the failures of storytelling.
DAREDEVIL was something of a lesser title for Marvel during the 1960s and particularly the 1970s. It had started out as a book nobody wanted to do: Marvel owner Martin Goodman had discovered that the name was available for trademarking, having previously been the name of one of the longest-running series of the Golden Age, … Continue reading WC: DAREDEVIL #14
A post from my old Marvel blog describing a lunch I was a part of attended by the winner of a Hero Initiative contest. I no longer have the picture I speak of in the write-up, though. Lunch of Heroes December 12, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Had a nice … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Lunch of Heroes
This was the second of three consecutive issues of FLASH that I picked up during an unexpected trip to the Heroes World store with my grandparents, after having missed them in the normal course of events. But I almost missed this book for a second time. You see, while I had noticed that there were … Continue reading BHOC: THE FLASH #263
It's one of the great unfinished symphonies in the history of comics. After having successfully teamed up Superman and Spider-Man twice, Batman and the Incredible Hulk, and the X-Men and the New Teen Titans, in 1983 Marvel and DC were prepared to release JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA VS THE AVENGERS, uniting their two flagship teams … Continue reading The Original Plot For The Unfinished JLA/AVENGERS Crossover
Here's another example of the wasted potential of the short-lived ATLAS COMICS line of the mid-1970s and how they unsuccessfully attempted to compete with Marvel Comics head-to-head, in the worst way possible. As we've talked about before, ATLAS was founded by Martin Goodman and his son Chip following the latter's ouster from Marvel. When Martin … Continue reading Brand Echh: John Targitt…Man-Stalker #2
Another post from my long-ago marvel blog, part of a sequence in which I answered questions from the fans about the post-One More Day AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Spidey Answers pt. 7 October 21, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Okay, I think we’re just about finished with our Spidey Q & A … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Spidey Answers 7
A momentous and unprecedented occurrence happened at this point in my young life. For some reason that I no longer remember, i was going to be spending a few days at my grandparents' home in Valley Stream. They came out to our home in Farmingville to pick me up, and I went back with them … Continue reading BHOC: THE FLASH #262
S01ep28 - "Killer's Widow" - "You sent for me, offered me a job in order to accuse me of stealing your money? Mister, you're playing a dangerous game." One of the requirements of a show that ran for as many episodes as did HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL (225 in total) was a pressing need … Continue reading Have Gun – Will Travel – Killer’s Widow
One of the drivers of interest in the Superman series when it was first starting out was the romantic triangle between Lois Lane, her would-be suitor Clark Kent, and Kent's powerful alter-ego, Superman. While this relationship has largely been pushed to the wayside over the past 20 years or so of publishing, it was a … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: The Buried Newspaper Marriage of Superman and Lois Lane
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