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In a recent appearance on John Siuntres' Word Balloon Comics Podcast, Mark Waid revealed a change that Marvel Executive Editor and Senior Vice President of Publishing Tom Brevoort suggested, which meant a major rewrite. Youtube screencap First, on choosing Brainiac and Doctor Octopus as the villains for his Superman/Spider-Man story through DC[...]

While Marvel Executive Editor and SVP Tom Brevoort may not have wanted to go into detail about his problems with former DC editor Dan Raspler and "one specific mechanism of the plot" of the 2003 crossover event JLA/Avengers in his Word Balloon podcast interview with John Siuntres, Tom was a bit more forthcoming a few[...]

Marvel Executive Editor and SVP Tom Brevoort wasn't just talking about the ins and outs of the current Marvel/DC crossover, but in his Word Balloon podcast interview with John Siuntres, he also looked back at the 2003 JLA/Avengers crossover miniseries by Kurt Busiek and George Pérez.  Tom Brevoort revealed that a key subplot originally planned for issue[...]

Marvel Executive Editor and Senior Vice President Tom Brevoort recently talked about how variant covers are now an established part of the comic book industry economy, and that they have been for years He began by mentioning the neon-green cover of Hulk #377 from 1991, noting that it marked the start of a "gold rush" in sales. "Today,[...]

Digging further into his Word Balloon podcast interview, Marvel Executive Editor and SVP Tom Brevoort talked about the ins and outs of Marvel/DC crossover, both the current ones and those from decades ago, with John Siuntres, beginning with the current Editors in Chief of each respective publisher. "Typically, the way these are done is people get on the phone[...]

In a wide-ranging Word Balloon podcast interview, Marvel Executive Editor and SVP Tom Brevoort offered a rare, candid look at how the company learns from its major crossover events with host John Siuntres, and why the recent One World Under Doom, which dominated much of the Marvel Universe just shy of a year, might have[...]

Marvel Executive Editor, SVP and Senior X-Men Editor Tom Brevoort has a message for fans who get furious about controversial storylines: he welcomes the intensity, because it means they're actually invested As well as discussing whether or not I am myself, or the reality of variant covers, he went on the Word Balloon podcast with[...]

Aside from discussing whether or not I am myself, Marvel Comics Executive Editor and Senior VP Tom Brevoort offered a veteran's perspective on the evolution of variant covers in comic books in a new Word Balloon podcast interview with host John Siuntres He acknowledged their transformation from occasional artistic enhancements in the early 1990s into[...]

Marvel Comics Executive Editor, Senior Vice President and X-Men Senior Editor Tom Brevoort appeared on this week's Word Balloon podcast with John Siuntres, and said quite a lot that I am sure I will get into with you all But they started with this particular exchange that I wanted to get down for posterity. John Siuntres:[...]

Tom Brevoort, Senior Vice President, Executive Editor and X-Men Group Editor at Marvel Comics just gave a big interview to AIPT, which was able to incorporate reader questions, including the proponderance of events Talking about their not-Free Comic Book Day offering for Comics Giveaway Day (both on the 2nd of May 2026), he states, "we're[...]

And that's was the issue that propelled the X-Men to the top for, what, two decades?" Tom Brevoort, the Senior Vice President, Executive Editor and X-Men Group Editor at Marvel Comics, just gave a big interview to AIPT, in which he talked about the character of The Beast Who, as Bleeding Cool reported, had turned full mad scientist[...]

Well, Tom Brevoort, Senior Vice President, Executive Editor and X-Men Group Editor at Marvel Comics, just gave a big interview to AIPT, which saw readers get answers to a few questions, and for Brevoort to answer them as thoroughly and forthrightly as he felt able to, something I always appreciate from him Including what's happening with[...]

Tom Brevoort is the Senior Vice President, Executive Editor and X-Men Group Editor at Marvel Comics His position and prominence has grown at the company over his decades there, and he is central in terms of editorial and creativity at the comic book publisher He just gave a big interview to AIPT, which was able[...]

You know, I wondered why Marvel Senior Vice President, Executive Editor  and X-Men Group Editor Tom Brevoort had fired up his Substack at the end of 2025, for one last post Talking about Doctor Who, Harvey Kurtzman, a little bit of watching unlicensed BBC shows, Genndy Tartakovsky's Cage and the cover of one of 2024's[...]

How Marvel Comics Senior VP, Executive Editor and X-Men Group Editor Tom Brevoort writes as much as us does on his blog and newsletter and everything else is beyond us Maybe he and Dan Mora have done some kind of DC/Marvel infernal pact As Tom has noticed, it is not uncommon for him to write[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool looked at Marvel Executive Editor and Senior Vice President Tom Brevoort's take on artificial intelligence in his Substack newsletter, playing with image generation in a purely personal fashion before posting the results on Substack, while also acknowledging the various issues around it That column, as well as Bleeding Cool's take on it,[...]

But it seems that Marvel editor Tom Brevoort had already pitched something similar a few years earlier to EIC Bob Harras, who was also EIC when the Ultimate line began Posting on his Substack newsletter yesterday, Brevoort recalled that it; "probably had something to do with John Byrne's either upcoming or then-being-published SPIDER-MAN: CHAPTER ONE and the conversation[...]

Which led to social media responses, in anger against Group X-Men Editor Tom Brevoort, with one saying, "Tom Brevoort is retconing yet another Krakoan achievement Mysterium – which, if you recall, was a huge plot point in S.W.O.R.D and was harvested only through mutant circuits – has been retconed into being Pym particles all along[...]

And Marvel Executive Editor, Senior Vice President and X-Men Group Editor Tom Brevoort is the man to tell them Or should that be Group SeXXX-Editor? Because in his latest Substack newsletter, which should be required reading for all you, he recalls an comic he edited twenty years ago, Captain America #7 by Ed Brubaker and[...]

Marvel Executive Editor, Senior Vice President and X-Men Group editor Tom Brevoort continues to make himself available to the Marvel Comic fanbase in a way his predecessors never had, with his continuing Q&A in his Substack newsletter Such as whether or not certain characters in the X-Men will get their own series, and who will or[...]

Comic Store In Your Future asks how long it takes comic book stores to get new customers into reading comics.

Marvel Executive Editor and SVP Tom Brevoort starts his Substack newsletter off this week by saying "I feel as though I should start off every one of these Newsletters with the phrase BLEEDING COOL SCOOP! given how often the contents of what I pound away at here on Saturday becomes multiple "news" articles on that[...]

Weapon X-Men by Joe Casey and ChrisCross has been cancelled, retrospectively made a five issue limited series.

Marvel Comics SVP and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort recently wrote in his Substack newsletter about how the Peter Parker of the Marvel Universe is going to remain unmarried to Mary Jane Watson forever. And this weekend, he answered criticism by asking, "So nothing in ASM is going really matter in the long run? Then why should I[...]

In his most recent Substack column, Marvel Executive Editor, SVP and X-Men Group Editor Tom Brevoort was asked by a reader "In your opinion, is there a threshold that a book like Ultimate Spider-Man (or Renew Your Vows, or Spider-Girl, or any of the other "Peter and MJ are a married couple" projects through the[...]

That is the intent." And recalled it when Marvel recently cancelled NYX, X-Force and X-Factor at issue 10 despite seemingly decent enough sales. At the weekend in his Substack newsletter, Marvel Comics SVP, Executive Editor and X-Men Group Editor Tom Brevoort answered concerns being expressed about the Exceptional X-Men comic book series, less action packed and[...]

At the weekend, Tom Brevoort used his Substack newsletter to break down the editorial departments at Marvel Comics right now in response to reader enquiries regarding just who works in what editorial group after the whole editorial switch around after the X-Men changes last year. Of course, it might change again next week; these things have a tendency[...]

In his most recent Substack, Marvel Executive Vice President Tom Brevoort revealed his first e-mail he sent to then-X-Men Group Editor editor Jordan White, after a brainstorming session between the two about how to lay out a new X-Line in the aftermath of the end of the Krakoa era This came before David Buckley offered[...]

In Marvel Executive Editor, Senior Vice President of Publishing and X-Men Group Editor Tom Brevoort's most recent newsletter, he is beginning what he calls The New Warriors Chronicles, looking at the creation of that series, and the subsequent iterations and issues caused by the book… hopefully including the one that was killed by Joe Rogan[...]

In Marvel Executive Editor, Senior Vice President of Publishing and X-Men Group Editor Tom Brevoort's most recent newsletter, reader Montana Mott was cited, "this past week it was reported that months ago, C.B Cebulski on stage at Osaka Comic Con announced Young Avengers, in some form, would return to Marvel comics in 2025 — but[...]