After a steady run, CAPTAIN AMERICA was about to enter the doldrums, a period of frequent fill-ins and creative instability. I obviously didn't know any of that when I picked up this latest issue at the Stationery store, but I did find that I didn't especially care for it. It was fine, but not a … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #237
DAREDEVIL was a series that I had been buying and enjoying for about a year, but right around here it started to steadily get better and better--in such a gradual way that you almost didn't notice it happening. Most of this was down to the arrival of new penciler Frank Miller. As these books were … Continue reading BHOC: DAREDEVIL #160
This latest issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA brought to a finale the long-running six-part Doctor Faustus storyline, one that seemed to amble and move along herky-jerky as though the specifics of the plot were being made up issue to issue. But this final installment made me re-evaluate the entire story, and in fact go back and … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #236
The ongoing CAPTAIN AMERICA storyline had turned into an epic while I wasn't looking. This was the fifth chapter of a storyline that was still going on at issue's end, one that had begun in such an understated manner that I would never have guessed it would run so long. During this time, even a … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #235
I had no way of knowing it at the time, but we were heading into what is largely considered the best, most significant run on DAREDEVIL of all time. I had been enjoying the series just fine since I first started reading it several months previously, and I didn't really sense a shift in the … Continue reading BHOC: DAREDEVIL #159
The new issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA continued on with what would turn out to be a six-part storyline, which was something of a rarity for this period. While you'd get soap opera subplots that might run for months and even years, the A-stories in the Marvel books would typically be dispatched in a couple of … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #234
So my weekly sojourn to the neighborhood 7-11's spinner rack turned up the next issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA, a title that I was then reading regularly. The book was in the middle of an extended six-part storyline, not that I knew that exactly at this moment. This is a solid cover but somehow lacking in … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #233
Well, I'd known this day was coming for several months now, but it was somehow always a surprise when it happened--typically because I was used to budgeting against a particular amount, and now all of those calculations were in the wind again. This issue of DAREDEVIL was the first book I bought where the cover … Continue reading BHOC: DAREDEVIL #158
I didn't know it at the time, but CAPTAIN AMERICA was in the midst of what would turn out to be a six-issue epic story. These things weren't typically announced ahead of time. Rather, stories sometimes ended in a To Be Continued and eventually, they ended and you knew how long they would be. In … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #232
Well, there's a cover that you probably wouldn't see today, as we're all just a little bit more sensitive to this stuff. This issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA, purchased on one of my weekly trips to the 7-11 for new comics, was the start of a six-part epic that I'd wind up really enjoying--even if I … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #231
The Tom Brevoort Experience 