I picked up this issue of GREEN LANTERN on one of my weekly comic book runs to the 7-11. It has to be said that, after issue #100, I really wasn't enjoying GREEN LANTERN all that much. I really liked the character, having first been exposed to him in his back-up series in the pages … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #104
S06Ep08 - "The Predators" This was the first episode of HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL that I ever watched, having become interested in the series based on what I'd been told by Marvel writer David Walker. This one was from the very last season of the show, and originally aired on November 3, 1962. And … Continue reading Have Gun – Will Travel – The Predators
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning a few 1970s Marvel Stickers that Steve McNiven sent me along with a Christmas card. These things were ubiquitous in my youth. The three stickers shown below are not the ones Steve sent me, though. Stick it! April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Stick It!
I bought this issue of PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN at my local 7-11. I think I was motivated here in reading about the wrap-up of the Champions, a title whose last issue I had read a few months earlier, and liked well enough. That book had promised a resolution in the pages of AVENGERS, … Continue reading BHOC: PETER PARKER, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #18
If there's one thing that DC has loved to do over the years, it's to explore strange story avenues and then abandon them. In some ways, that's become their history ever since CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS--it feels that you can't go but a few years anymore until everything you've read is thrown out and they … Continue reading 5BC: Would You Believe Five More Forgotten DC Retcons
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning the art and science of editing. Tuesday, 4:04 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Let's talk about the secrets of good comic book editing for a little bit.It's a strange and misunderstood science, editing comic books. Nobody's written any books about … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Comic Book Editing
An exciting day at the 7-11 when a new issue of FANTASTIC FOUR showed up. This one was the second half of a two-parter featuring Diablo and Darkoth the Death-Demon, and was set during the year when the FF had broken up, with each member going his or her own separate way. I didn't believe … Continue reading BHOC: FANTASTIC FOUR #194
It's a difficult thing to talk about the work of Dave Sim these days. For a start, he's fallen largely into obscurity since his masterwork, the 300-issue CEREBUS series, wrapped up in 2003. And the back half of that run was tainted by Sim's growing misogyny, his strange and often-deliberately-provocative belief that women had been … Continue reading Perfect Game – CEREBUS #36
A post from my defunct Marvel blog concerning the constant need for new villains. More Villains, Please April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I'm running into a big problem this week with villains. Not planet-shaking world-breakers, but the smaller villains, the in-the-trenches costumed super-villains that make up the backbone … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – More Villains, Please
At the same time that my Uncle Jerry and Aunt Clem bought me the Flash Dollar Comic, they also brought a comic book for my younger brother Ken--this issue of STAR WARS. And like with my book, my Aunt dutifully wrote Ken's name on the cover, so that the world would forever after know that … Continue reading BHOC: STAR WARS #11
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