Doctor Who: The Devil’s Chord

Well, that was a right old mess. Before Friday night (and how strange is it to be watching new DOCTOR WHO episodes on a Friday evening?) if you'd asked, I would have predicted that "The Devil's Chord" would be the better of the two opening episodes that Disney+ was dropping in the new season, having … Continue reading Doctor Who: The Devil’s Chord

Doctor Who: Space Babies

Well, a lot to digest about that two-episode premiere of DOCTOR WHO. I'm going to break my thoughts and reactions up into two separate pieces, each one focused more concretely on an individual episode rather than trying to tackle both at once. As always, I don't see these as constituting reviews as such, but rather … Continue reading Doctor Who: Space Babies

BHOC: ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS

Christmas 1978 was a huge comic book windfall for me. Whereas in years past I had filled my wish list with an assortment of toys, starting here, I would instead begin asking for books on comics. ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS had eluded me for months, so much so that I eventually got to read the … Continue reading BHOC: ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS

GH: DEFENDERS #120

As I've spoken about several times as we've looked at assorted issues that I bought over the years, DEFENDERS was a series whose best days were behind it by the time I started reading it. For a long stretch of time, it simply wasn't very good--yet, as a dutiful Marvelite, I kept on buying it … Continue reading GH: DEFENDERS #120

BHOC: PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #28

This was the second of two issues of PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN that were illustrated by a young Frank Miller, before that name really meant anything. Even more meaningfully, Daredevil, the character he would go on to reinvent, was a guest star in these two issues as well. It almost feels like fate. At … Continue reading BHOC: PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #28

Doctor Who: Space Babies/The Devil’s Chord pregame

The wait is almost over. We're less than a week out from the big Disney+ premiere of the new season of DOCTOR WHO--Season One on this new broadcasting platform, of course. And so, as I usually do, I'm going to sketch down a bunch of pregame impressions and desires before we get to the episodes … Continue reading Doctor Who: Space Babies/The Devil’s Chord pregame

BHOC: IRON MAN #120

By the time this issue of IRON MAN came out, there was no mistaking the qualitative improvement the series had experienced, and it became a title that I really enjoyed every month. Whereas the IRON MAN of most of the prior decade had always felt a bit underpowered, prone to attacks from one medical condition … Continue reading BHOC: IRON MAN #120