This was, I think, the most Russell T. Davies episode of DOCTOR WHO in years--which makes it only slightly surprising that Russell didn't write it. Rather, that honor went to novelist Juno Dawson. But she completely nails the tone and the style of the earlier Russell-helmed episodes, making this one of the best outings in … Continue reading Doctor Who: The Interstellar Song Contest
Continuing on with our look at CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2, a xeroxed collection of material that had been spiked due to the DC Implosion and intended to secure copyright to these stories for the company. Only 35 copies of this hand-bound edition were initially made, though over the years others have generated their own copies … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: KAMANDI #61
It was my younger brother Ken rather than me who kept picking up copies of CONAN THE BARBARIAN. I couldn't have been less interested in sword and sorcery adventures back then, any more than I was interested in war or western or romance comics. But given that I was who i was and that Ken's … Continue reading BHOC: CONAN THE BARBARIAN #99
For all that the title was still clearly struggling to get itself out of the scheduling hole that it had been trapped in for the past year or so, AVENGERS remained a consistently enjoyable read. I think a strong part of that came down to the book's artists: George Perez, who had left the series … Continue reading BHOC: AVENGERS #184
This episode was one of the ones that I was the most trepidatious about going into it. From the brief synopsis, the Next Time trailer and the couple of clips that had been released prior to broadcast, it seemed like it was going to be something of a throwback to the previous Chris Chibnall era … Continue reading Doctor Who: The Story & The Engine
The most successful of all of Jack Kirby's assorted creations in the decade of the 1970s was undoubtedly KAMANDI, the story of the last human boy on Earth in a future time when animals have become intelligent and walk upright. It was a sort of quasi-spin on the popular Planet of the Apes franchise, but … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: KAMANDI #60
These next couple of years' worth of THOR stories were truly a mixed bag, and as a reader, I had a difficult time remaining engaged--to the point where I dropped the title more than once, only to come back shortly thereafter on a week when I had spare cash and multiple issues were still available … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #284
The new issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA continued on with what would turn out to be a six-part storyline, which was something of a rarity for this period. While you'd get soap opera subplots that might run for months and even years, the A-stories in the Marvel books would typically be dispatched in a couple of … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #234
When the breakdown of this current season was first announced, this was the episode that I was the most concerned about. Given the premise of the season, this was definitely going to be a "Doctor-lite" episode, one focused on what had been happening in the life of former companion Ruby Sunday since last we saw … Continue reading Doctor Who: Lucky Day
In 1978, plans for a massive expansion of DC's publishing line, which were being promoted as the DC Explosion, crashed and burned as an unusually heavy winter took its toll on comic book sales. The DC line was slashed rather than expanded, and a bunch of staff members were laid off. This became known as … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2
The Tom Brevoort Experience 