All right, we are about ready to begin our Editorial Simulation game. But first, I need to properly lay out how this is all going to work so that we've all got an understanding as to what we are doing and how it will all play out. So, in the past iterations of this game, … Continue reading EDITORIAL SIMULATION PRE-FLIGHT
A post from my defunct Marvel blog trying to determine with the help of the readership the eight most essential Marvel series. The Essential Eight April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General We'll start today with a brief history lesson, and then move into another "audience participation" question.Back in 1957, … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – The Essential Eight
Picked up INVADERS #28 from the 7-11 as usual. This one's got a rare Frank Robbins cover on it. Robbins' style was so divisive among the readership and so much on the very outskirts of what people thought that a Marvel comic should look like that they rarely allowed him to do covers for the … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #28
Ann Nocenti at the editor's desk in the 1980s. As I mentioned over Social Media earlier today, I have a notion to play another round of the Editorial Simulation game that I ran twice over on my old Marvel blog years ago. In this simulation, players take on the role of editors at a fictitious … Continue reading EDITORIAL SIMULATION: Call For Participants
Let's face it, lightning doesn't strike every month, and sometimes inspiration can be difficult to come by. But comic books still had to come out, ready or not. And so, occasionally, our favorite heroes of Marvel's silver age would find themselves contending with opponents who--well, let's just say they weren't quite up to the usual … Continue reading 5BC: Five Best Dopey Marvel Silver Age Villains
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning the fact that this was the first skip week in the release schedule of teh three-times-per-month AMAZING SPIDER-MAN schedule. No AMAZING SPIDER-MAN this week! April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Sad but true, there will be no issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – No AMAZING SPIDER-MAN This Week
It was back to my local 7-11 on Thursday for that week's new comic book releases--I had worked out over the summer that new books came out on Thursdays, so I never missed a trip to the 7-11 after school on that day. And this week, a new issue of DAREDEVIL was waiting for me. … Continue reading BHOC: DAREDEVIL #152
A million words must have been written over the decades about this issue of X-MEN, the conclusion to the Dark Phoenix Saga and the high point of the fabled Chris Claremont and John Byrne run. And in the shadow of what would follow in the years to come, perhaps the book has lost some of … Continue reading Perfect Game – X-MEN #137
I'm going to keep posting these as I come across covers in my travels that strike me as qualifying for the distinction. This Nick Cardy TEEN TITANS cover is simultaneously of its time and excellent, a prime example of why Cardy became DC's main super hero cover artist in the early 1970s. That hot purple … Continue reading Great Covers – TEEN TITANS #26
A post from my dearly departed Marvel blog from a decade ago talking about a video segment I appeared in attired in a Galactus costume. The Day I Was Galactus April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General By now, some of you may have visited your local Best Buy, and … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – The Day I Was Galactus
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