ACTION COMICS continued on in the manner that it had been progressing, seldom my favorite comic that I bought in a given week but always reliable for some basic round-the-bases entertainment. But the fact that editor Julie Schwartz was continuing to target his stories at the same audience that he'd courted since he took over … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #498
For the next year or two, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA turned into a bit of a forgettable series. I still was buying it every month, but some of that was simply out of momentum. I had loved the series when I was younger, but whether it was that nostalgia made those earlier issues look better … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #169
It speaks to the essential appeal of Green Lantern as a character that I continued to follow his series for long stretches of tie even when I wasn't really enjoying it all that much. And this period that we're in right now is something of a nadir. Hal was still paired up with Green Arrow … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #118
I picked up another idiosyncratic issue of BRAVE AND THE BOLD when it arrived at my local 7-11 spinner rack. By this point I was buying the series semi-regularly, even though I typically found its contents to be a bit weird and off-putting. There were no other writers in the field at that point like … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #152
Despite the overwhelming global popularity of SUPERMAN THE MOVIE, DC for years refused to make any but the most cursory moves towards reflecting that iteration of the Man of Steel in the comics. It's really wasn't until Post-CRISIS when John Byrne took over the character that the influence of the film version came to the … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #497
This week brought another issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, the third and concluding chapter to the League's body-swapping adventure with the Secret Society of Super-Villains, a group whose short-lived series I was a big fan of. This story was also influential on novelist and future DC writer Brad Meltzer, who made it a key … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #168
I'm not certain what compelled me to pick up this issue of BATMAN on my weekly trip to my local 7-11 for comics. It could simply have been a function of me having a bit more change to my name than usual and deciding to branch out a bit further. At some point during this … Continue reading BHOC: BATMAN #313
We talked about this last time, I believe, but GREEN LANTERN (co-staring GREEN ARROW) was in something of a malaise at this time. It was still a book I bought faithfully, but I was finding myself less and less enamored of its content. Quite often, it felt like the logo was backwards, and that it … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #117
I was only a casual buyer of BRAVE AND THE BOLD, the long-running Batman team-up title. And that's really down to the scripting work of Bob Haney more than anything else. Haney had a different perspective on super hero stories than I did as a young reader, he was interested in different things. And so … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #151
This next issue of ACTION COMICS was forgettable, and consequently I've forgotten it. Seriously, I don't remember a single thing about buying this one. I must have done so during my weekly trip to the 7-11 on Thursday, new comic day, as I was buying the book regularly again. But the story contained within really … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #496
The Tom Brevoort Experience 