DC put a huge push behind the roll-out of their Dollar Comics line of titles, but for the most part they weren't very appealing to me. And the reason for that is that none of them were really very good. Oh, they were all adequate, competent comic books. But each one contained a ton of … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN FAMILY #186
#5 - S6Ep1 - "Genesis" HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL ran for six seasons between 1957 and 1963, racking up an impressive 225 episodes throughout its run. I'm opting here to focus on what I think of as the 5 best episodes of the series. As you'd expect, this is going to be a very … Continue reading Best of Have Gun – Will Travel – Genesis
My brother Ken went through a period during which he was somewhat enamored of war comics. War comics never did much for me for the most part--I had no aspirations to fly into battle, shooting at the enemy. That seemed like a good way to get hurt--and I was far from an athletic kid to … Continue reading BHOC: SGT ROCK #310
I've been brainstorming some new features and pieces that I want to write for this new space, and here's where I roll out the introduction for the fist one. I saw some other site do something similar to this in my travels (though, sadly, I didn't take note of exactly which site so that I … Continue reading 5 BEST COMICS (5BC)
I got this issue of INVADERS at the same time as the other two, from the drug store's big bin of slightly-older comics. It's got the best cover of the three for sure (though Tommy Lightning and Spitfire seem like giants in the background there.) And because I bought them both at the same time, … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #15
It was when we had just started working on the short-lived series OCCUPY AVENGERS when writer David Walker introduced me to HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL. (Check out his upcoming series NAOMI with Brian Michael Bendis.) I was describing my conception of the book, which owed a lot to the A-TEAM, and he came back referencing … Continue reading Have Gun – Will Travel
Hello, folks! Having been a bit befuddled and unhappy with the recent changes being made over at Tumblr, I decided to take the plunge and move all of my ongoing efforts over to this page. Here is where you will find the new home of the Brevoort History of Comics, in which I review and … Continue reading Operation Migration in progress!
It’s Christmas Eve as I write this, and for the last near-decade, at least in my household, my children have learned about the true meaning of Christmas. Christmas, you see, is when Dad watches Doctor Who. Since the show came back in 2005, viewing each year’s Christmas Special has been something of a ritual, a … Continue reading DOCTOR WHO
I didn’t know when I pulled up this issue of INVADERS from the big box of slightly-older comic books at my local drug store that the new characters depicted on it, the Crusaders, were meant to be analogues for the Freedom Fighters, characters published in the 1940s by Quality Publications and eventually purchased by DC. … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #14
EPISODE 24 “Leader Desslok, we must stop fooling ourselves. You said it yourself. It’s almost as if we’ve been fighting a ghost ship. How can an old Earth battleship defeat all of Gamilon? We’ve been fighting a force we don’t understand, let us stop fighting them before they destroy us!” - General Krypt This is … Continue reading In Our Next STAR BLAZERS Adventure – Episode 24
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