My family were big fans of the Muppet Show every since it first premiered in 1976. We watched it with alarming regularity every Sunday evening at 7:30. So when Jim Henson and company brought their chaotic creations to the big screen, we were sure to be there. And so we were when The Muppet Movie … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #75
Another issue of DEFENDERS came out, and this one was a bit more to my liking. It was Earthbound, for one, and it introduced me to Steve Gerber's creation the Foolkiller. I wasn't familiar with the character prior to this--I hadn't much read MAN-THING or similar monster/horror titles. But I immediately understood his shtick, and … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #74
I know that I say this every time we roll around to another issue, but it's positively baffling to me just how long I continued to buy DEFENDERS despite not really enjoying the title for years. I'm sure that some of this was simply having the available funds--I was never confronted with a need to … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #73
This is going to become a common refrain as we move through the next couple of years or so: another blah issue of DEFENDERS came out and was bought by me. It truly is a testament to just how well the mythology that all of the books that were a part of the Marvel Universe … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #72
Well, we're at the point where DEFENDERS became a series of few joys, an interminable slog to get through for the next two years or so. Despite this fact, I never once toyed with dropping it, as I would occasionally do with other books. Why? Beats the hell out of me! I really wasn't enjoying … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #71
DEFENDERS from here on out was rough sledding for a very long time, and I'm surprised that my younger self stuck with it for as long as he did, especially since I had no problem dropping other books that I wasn't enjoying. (Well, in some cases. I bought GHOST RIDER for years too, for reasons … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #70
As I've spoken about several times as we've looked at assorted issues that I bought over the years, DEFENDERS was a series whose best days were behind it by the time I started reading it. For a long stretch of time, it simply wasn't very good--yet, as a dutiful Marvelite, I kept on buying it … Continue reading GH: DEFENDERS #120
It was momentum, pure and simple, that kept me purchasing DEFENDERS each and every month through this period. As it was a Marvel team title, on some level I felt as though i "had to" buy it or risk missing something important. Which is crazy, but also a part of the key to Marvel's success … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #69
My interest in DEFENDERS was rapidly waning, but that didn't stop me from dutifully picking up each issue for some reason. No doubt this was because it was a Marvel team book and seemed like required reading to keep up with the Marvel Universe. This would go on for the next year or two, a … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #68
As a series, DEFENDERS had never entirely hooked me. I didn't really entirely click with any of its cast of characters, particularly in a team setting, and its supposed "non-team" format didn't appeal to me. Frankly, I barely understood it, as the members of the Defenders seemed to spend an awful lot of time hanging … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #67
The Tom Brevoort Experience 