Brand Echh: Dr. Who and the Daleks

By the middle of the 1960s, Dell, once the leader in the field, was battling for market share and audience attention. Their split from Western Publishing had caused them to lose most of their creative staff as well as a number of licenses, and so the quality of their output had seriously dipped. Dell continued … Continue reading Brand Echh: Dr. Who and the Daleks

Personal Best: SILVER SURFER #11

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

Blah Blah Blog – The Doctor Is In

A post from my now-vanished Marvel blog concerning my history with Doctor Who. The Doctor is In April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I'm a big fan of the British series Doctor Who. The old show, the new show. I've been watching it since the very early '80s, and … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – The Doctor Is In

5BC: Five Times Marvel Misappropriated Characters

Most long-running comic book companies, if they're in business for long enough and have a wide enough diversity of creators working on their releases, reach a point at which those creators begin to pull inspiration for their stories and characters from other media. Comics in general have a long history of reflecting the trends of … Continue reading 5BC: Five Times Marvel Misappropriated Characters

Best of Blake’s 7 – Star One

S02EP13 - This was the finale to the second season/series of BLAKE'S 7 and is a watershed episode in both for the transition moment that it represents and the unfulfilled potential of what might have been . It aired in the United Kingdom on April 3, 1979. By this point, a lot had changed since … Continue reading Best of Blake’s 7 – Star One

Best of Blake’s 7 – The Way Back

S01EP01 - The pilot episode of BLAKE'S 7 is one of its best, in part because it is so tonally different from much of what comes after. It's also an interesting bit of television in that, going into the episode originally, most viewers had no idea what the show was going to be about and … Continue reading Best of Blake’s 7 – The Way Back

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

I'm not really a believer in the concept of a "guilty pleasure". I like enough stupid stuff from all across the spectrum that there's really no other way to handle it all other than to embrace the assorted flaws and failings of it all, and just love it unironically. And yet still, with REMO WILLIAMS: … Continue reading Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

Doctor Who: Spyfall part one

I've been a regular viewer of DOCTOR WHO since around 1981, starting with Tom Baker (his first three seasons, which were ubiquitous here in the U.S. for many years) and I've watched it regularly and continuously since then--albeit with the huge gap in the middle that everybody suffered through in the 90s. In my household, … Continue reading Doctor Who: Spyfall part one

DOCTOR WHO

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

DOCTOR WHO

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