An entry from my old Marvel blog concerning Peter Parker unmasking himself to his fellow Avengers following the events of "One More Day" Life Behind The Mask April 9, 2009 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I should never be surprised by how certain readers react to some of the stories we … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Life Behind The Mask
A post from my Marvel.com blog of long ago, this one detailing the creation of SKRULL KILL KREW, a series I edited in the 1990s created by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar. Formative Crisis January 29, 2009 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General As far as I can remember and work out, … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Formative Crisis
This was perhaps the first truly excellent comic book that I put out, a single issue that accomplished its mandate exceptionally well and delivered on teh promise-of-the-premise in fine fashion. It's always going to be a little bit awkward talking about books I worked on in such glowing terms, so please understand that when I … Continue reading Personal Best: SPIDER-BOY #1
It's somehow a little bit too self-aggrandizing for me to talk about any of the comics I've edited over the years as a PERFECT GAME, the category that I might have featured this issue under. Given that it won the Eisner Award for Best Single Issue in 2016, though, I feel as though there's a … Continue reading Personal Best: SILVER SURFER #11
This entry goes out to writer Dan Slott, who posted about SKATE MAN #1 on his Twitter stream this past week, causing me to bump this book to the top of my queue to cover here. SKATE MAN #1 and only was published in 1983 by Pacific Comics, the Direct Market comic book company spun … Continue reading Brand Echh: Skate Man #1
Matt Howarth was and remains one of the most splendidly individualistic and iconoclastic creators of comic book stories in the field. While he has in recent years turned his efforts to the worlds of digital self-publishing, Howarth was a bit of a recurring force during the black and white boom years of the 1980s, pumping … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: PARTICLE DREAMS #6
This was actually a series of posts that I put up during my first days of working on my Marvel blog. The idea was to chart my workflow through the course of a single day's work at Marvel--since every day is different, it can be difficult to summarize things for people. This was a snapshot … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – The Working Day at Marvel
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning good comics I worked on, in this instance SPIDER-BOY #1 Looking Back on the Good April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Starting off the week with the first of our profile of Good Comics I Had a Hand In, to see … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Looking Back At The Good
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