A post from my old Marvel blog in which I touch on a variety of then-current issues as the week comes to an end. Friday mop-up April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I didn't get to cover as many blog topics this week as I had planned on--largely because of yesterday's unexpected … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Friday mop-up
Now this was a good issue all around, one that catapulted the new X-MEN into the upper tiers of my favorite comics of the era. I'd been growing more enchanted by this strange new team for a couple of issues now, having had to work out who everybody was on the fly a little bit … Continue reading BHOC: UNCANNY X-MEN #113
It's maybe hard to believe when viewed from the vantage point of 60 years of additional history, but heading into the Silver Age of Comics, the Atom was at one point a successful and viable character--more viable than, say, Hawkman, whom he beat to having a series to call his own and in gaining membership … Continue reading WC: THE ATOM #16
Here's another post with me answering questions from the readership from my Marvel blog of long ago. Reader Questions 2 February 18, 2010 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General More questions from you: >Aside from the digital elephant in the room and the obvious "just tell good stories and they will come", … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Reader Questions 2
This week brought out another issue of THOR, a title that I had only recently begun to get into and enjoy. New writer Roy Thomas had decided to lean into the genuine Norse legends for his first big epic, which saw the Gods of Ragnarok once again facing the approaching threat of Ragnarok, the end-of-the-world … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #275
When the strip was first introduced (in the pages of DETECTIVE COMICS of all places), Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Boy Commandos was an immediate sensation. Graduating into its own title several months later, the earliest issues of the series were among the best-selling that DC put out during that period--on a par with SUPERMAN … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: When Brooklyn Was Superman
Another post from my old Marvel blog in which I answer questions posed by the readers of the time. Reader Questions 3 February 25, 2010 | 5:22 PM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Sorry for the delay of game on this, folks--we had some technical issues that stymied us. But hopefully, we're back on … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Reader Questions 3
It was time for a new issue of SUPERMAN FAMILY to drop, and so I dutifully purchased this Dollar Comic from the 7-11 that week. SUPERMAN FAMILY was a bit of an inertial pick-up from me--I wasn't particularly or especially drawn to any of its myriad of strips, and yet I liked Superman and his … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN FAMILY #191
Much as with its sister title ACTION COMICS, ADVENTURE COMICS had adjusted to shrinking page counts by reducing the number of features that it ran from three to two. That second feature position eventually wound up handed over to the Legion of Super Heroes, who promptly took over the entire magazine. But before that, it … Continue reading WC: ADVENTURE COMICS #295
Another collection of questions and answers from the dim past thanks to my defunct Marvel blog of more than a decade ago. That Formspring account is also long gone. Reader Questions 4 March 8, 2010 | 6:28 PM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Back on the horse finally, with more answers to your questions. … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Reader Questions 4
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