A post from my long-gone Marvel blog about a comic I wrote. A Not So Excellent Comic April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Continuing on through our odyssey of BAD COMICS I WROTE, we come to BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT COMIC BOOK #8.The BILL & TED comic book was … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog: Bad Comics I Wrote
SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS was approaching its final days, not that that was known either to me or to the people who were producing it. It would become a casualty of the fabled "DC Implosion" in just a few short months. But for now, it was continuing to be published and it was still a … Continue reading BHOC: SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS #14
S03EP13 - And so BLAKE's 7 came to the end of the road--or at least it was supposed to. At the end of a season that was a bit haphazard and lacking in overall direction--while at the same time containing several of the show's best episodes,--BLAKE's 7 was going to be airing its final episode … Continue reading Best of Blake’s 7 – Terminal
A post from my old Marvel blog about sometimes putting out a stinker. Monday, 5:08 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I hate to put out a bad book. It's really disappointing. But sometimes, despite everybody's best efforts, it happens. Nobody bats 1000 all the time.There are a number … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog: Bad Books
I was continuing to follow GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW regularly, even though I wasn't quite enjoying it as much as I felt I ought to--certainly not as much as those short Green Lantern stories that used to run in the back pages of FLASH. As much as anything, I think this was due to the odd … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #103
Reader Steven Thompson asked me a question about this recently, so this piece exists entirely due to his interest--you can thank him if you find anything here of value. There was a time-honored tradition of writers and artists inserting themselves into their stories, and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were no different. In general, the … Continue reading Lee & Kirby & Goldberg & Hartley: The Unlikely Cameos of Jack Kirby
A post from my vintage Marvel blog concerning the making of CIVIL WAR Civil War Record April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Missed a day yesterday unexpectedly, so I'm going to try to double-up a little bit here on the progressing story of CIVIL WAR's development.After the outline and … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog: Civil War Record
As usual, it was an exciting day when a new issue of FANTASTIC FOUR turned up on my 7-11's spinner rack. We were in the midst of an extended "FF breaks up" storyline, one that had been running virtually since I began buying new issues, and I was very much invested in what was going … Continue reading BHOC: FANTASTIC FOUR #193
S03EP08 - In the aftermath of the conclusion to series 2 and the departure of star Gareth Thomas, BLAKE'S 7 was forced to reinvent itself moving into its third series. It did so over the course of the year's first three episodes, much in the manner that the series began. In this new era, it … Continue reading Best of Blake’s 7 – Rumours of Death
A post from my decade-old Marvel blog concerning trying to please the demanding and mercurial fan audience. What the Fans Want April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Spent the past weekend at Wizard World Philadelphia, where Marvel met a great crowd of enthusiastic readers. Got to spend a little … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog: What the Fans Want
