This was another book that came out of my local drugstore's Big Bin of Somewhat-Older Comics. It was bought by/for my younger brother Ken, who had eclectic tastes in what comics attracted his attention. He was never all that involved in the medium, for all that he dabbled with it for many years, likely because … Continue reading BHOC: AMAZING ADVENTURES #37
This is the second installment of Italian creator Leonardo Ortolani's four-part fan-drawn final adventure of the Lee and Kirby Fantastic Four. It was originally published in the fanzine MADE IN USA #8 in Italy in 1993, and hasn't ever been made available in English as it was an unlicensed production. While the first episode was … Continue reading Lee & Kirby & Ortolani: The Last Fantastic Four Story, Part Two
S04EP13 - The final episode of BLAKE'S 7 aired on December 21, 1981. As announced over the closing credits of TERMINAL, the show did come back for another season, and with a bit of a style overhaul. These were the post-Star Wars days, and BLAKE'S 7 up until now had been drawing its sci-fi influences … Continue reading Best of Blake’s 7 – Blake
A post from my old Marvel blog touching on some odds and ends. I honestly debated reprinting this entry here, but I've got it, so I figure I might as well repost it. House Cleaning April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I should be heading home to watch a … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog: House Cleaning
This was another older issue that turned up in the drugstore's Big Bin of Slightly-Older Should-Have-Been-Pulped Comics. New books would show up there on a routine and rolling basis, and so any time my family had an occasion to be in there, that's where you'd find me, rummaging through those books for whatever new treasures … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #14
This is a bit of a forgotten masterpiece, both because it saw limited distribution, and because it was published in a non-English speaking country. Between 1992 and 1994, in the pages of the Italian fanzine MADE IN USA, devoted to American comics, cartoonist Leonardo Ortolani (often better known by his simple signature, Leo) was such … Continue reading Lee & Kirby & Ortolani: The Last Fantastic Four Story, Part One
EC Comics were never the biggest sellers even during their heyday, but they were consistently the market leader in terms of the quality of the material they were routinely putting out and the manner in which they attracted a dedicated audience of somewhat-older readers. There's a reason why those five years' worth of EC Comics … Continue reading THE LAST MAN
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
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