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Rob Liefeld Versus Tom Brevoort. Oh, It's On.
Then Marvel's Tom Brevoort, when asked if there was room at Marvel for Rob now, posted "After that Twitter flame-out, I can't say I'd be in a hurry to get onto that train." And on Twitter, wrote in defence of DC editor Brian Smith, who had edited Hawkman "I wasn't there, I don't know what[...]
Friday Runaround – Getting On The Rob Liefeld Train
The fools. Geoff Boucher — Hero Complex Blogger Exiting LA Times But a reliable Hollywood source tells me tonight that the Los Angeles Times 'Hero Complex' blogger is moving on for reasons unclear. Hey Marvel Fans! Cake Boss Wants to Put You On TV! « Midtown Comics The hit show Cake Boss is filming a very special episode for Spider-Man's[...]
A Hero Initiative Fundraiser In Remembrance Of Mike Wieringo And Mark Gruenwald
Tom Brevoort writes: On August 12, 1996, beloved Marvel Executive Editor Mark Gruenwald passed away. On August 12, 2007, beloved Marvel artist Mike Wieringo passed away. Every year, we commemorate these two gentlemen on what is now known as "M-Day" (formerly "G-Day") This year, we'd like the celebrate the spirit of generosity and cameraderie amongst the comic book community[...]
Marvel And Malibu – What's Five Percent Between Friends
Tom Brevoort has been answering questions about the Ultraverse issues raised by Steve Englehart, on Formsporing Specifically whether it was the 5% royalty issue that caused the non-publication Brevoort had been named by Englehart as someone who had trued to get Ultraverse comics published of later at Marvel. No, it has nothing to do with that[...]
Friday Runaround – Those Damn, Dirty Polar Bears
:) PolarWatch: From Tom Brevoort's Formspring page; FYI, there are no polar bears in Antarctica. As Jonathan says in his AR video in AVX #4, there are Polar Bears in Antarctica in the Marvel Universe–Jonathan knows, because he put them there. There is no Jonathan Hickman AR video in AVX #4. BisleyWatch: Simon Bisley is returning to Judge Dredd, drawing[...]
Saturday Runaround – Bananas, Brevoort And Branson
When the man is Tom Brevoort. Tom Brevoort and Axel Alonso are awesome dudes to work for I did enjoy my time there But I knew Tom wasn't my friend We'd talk on the phone for hours at a time, but I knew we weren't actually friends, he had to keep me at a professional distance[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: Generating Hope
Of all the things I was pondering during this week of mixed news for Marvel, I kept coming back to this… what an unfortunate week for Tom Brevoort to not be on twitter (and I'm reminded of this at the moment because I see he's back in action just now, fresh from a vacation, it[...]
Fanboy Rampage: A Liefeld, Brevoort, Kirkman Sandwich
So go figure why Killraven was not solicited for years? Different rules, different standards for different talent. Time for Marvel Senior Vice Publisher and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort to pitch in; Tom: Yeah, but Rob, we don't have it all from you and the colorist Hard to schedule and ship books without all of the pages! Rob: Complete[...]
Kurt Busiek And Pat Olliffe's Untold Tales Of Spider-Man Omnibus Coming Soon
Now, Tom Brevoort and Kurt Busiek have been tweeting back and forth. Kurt: Nice! THOR: GODSTORM royalties arrived, will cover a big chunk of our upcoming family trip #lovemeabacklist Tom: All seems worthwhile now, doesn't it? Kurt: It's a great-looking book So can we get an AMAZING FANTASY collection when the next Spidey movie's ready to drop? Huh?[...]
Six Guns By Andy Diggle And Davide Gianfelice – A Modern Day Western For Marvel In October
In Comic Book Resources' regular conversation with Tom Brevoort on Friday, he talked about Andy Diggle and Davide Gianfelice's new Western series for Marvel, Six Guns, described as "taking the names of some of the classic Marvel western characters and reimagining them as new modern day characters… a contemporary action-adventure thriller set within the Marvel[...]
Sunday Trending Topics: Marvel As Underdog
And there's Tom Brevoort as the cranky but wise trainer in the corner. Fans on twitter were hoping for Marvel to bring it tonite during the Hero Complex Film Festivities, and while the event sounded supercool and I wish I'd been there, there was no new Marvel comic news forthcoming Perhaps tomorrow during the[...]
Other People Notice $2.99 Marvel Comics Are Slipping To Twenty Pages
And creators certainly won't have to rewrite an already accepted twenty-two page script into twenty pages – as has happened elsewhere…" Yesterday, David Uzumeri revealed this to Comics Alliance's audience, with some hard statistical facts regarding which books have dropped in page count at that $2.99 price point. Shipping April 27: FF #2, Incredible Hulks[...]
Marvel Vs 30 Rock
Marvel's rebuttal to Avengers Academy #8 being destroyed in  last week's episode of 30 Rock with Joe Quesada and Tom Brevoort… Just so you know, Scott Adsit was quite the table hopper at NYCC last year, buying lots of comics. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SprQf2VccWU[/youtube] We thought something like this was coming and here it is[...]
Marvel Senior VP Tom Brevoort Gives DC Comics Some Tough Love
Always-outspoken Marvel Senior VP of Publishing Tom Brevoort has been on quite a twitter tirade this week Just a couple days ago he laid into an unnamed competitor over a subpar book, now he's calling DC out publicly over promotional material for War of the Green Lanterns. As reported by Robot6 on Wednesday, Brevoort told[...]