Well, folks, like I mentioned last week, I’ve got some stuff going on this week that’s going to prevent me from pulling together an entire new Newsletter this week.
Not a reply to your Avengers question as such Tom as I haven’t read any of it yet, but I did enjoy the Millie The Spy digital chapters you did. The character is always welcome back, have recently been enjoying some of the old early 70’s Millie reprint issues.
I’m genuinely bummed Avengers Unlimited is ending, I’ve really enjoyed having a weekly dose of Avengers fun and especially appreciated the return of some rarer classic villains (such as the Fixer this week)
Some favorites have been:
Murewa Ayodele’s run - really great art and storytelling choices
Patrick Zircher’s run - great artist and having him write meant he could create just the story he wanted to draw
Alex Segura’s story with Cap, Spider Woman and Moon Knight - I liked the strange combo of heroes!
The MC2 issues - just pure nostalgic good times with Tom and Ron
Eve Ewing’s underseas story felt like a great combo of classic and modern.
And most of all I loved the Jeremy Adams issues. He just gets the Avengers and how to tell great and contained stories that give the characters interesting things to do. The Rick Jones one was probably my favorite but all of his were wonderful. I’m more of a Marvel reader these days and really hope he’s brought over from DC full time as I think he, Jed MacCay and Kelly Thompson are the three best writers working who aren’t huge names (yet). I’ll read almost anything by any of those three.
Just to add: thanks for your hard work on this title! I know I won’t cancel my MARVEL UNLIMITED subscription while these Unlimited titles keep running.
One of the answers reminded me of something I (and other rec.arts.comics folk) wondered about way back when; why the insistance that Rita DeMara, the female Yellowjacket, was an Avenger? In my and others opinion, she clearly wasn't. She appeared in only one story as a non-antagonist, only because an assemble alarm in her stolen from Hank Pym suit went off and she couldn't figure out how to shut it off; i.e. she wasn't recruited for the mission. At the end of the mission, she goes her way and the Avengers go theirs; no mention of inducting her or considering her an Avenger. As Alan Sepinwall wrote back then, if she's an Avenger, anyone who's gone on a mission with them is. But y'all kept listing her when listing all the Avengers and the like, and in the trivia answers you included her among Avengers who'd never had their own book. It seemed to us that she was accidently listed as an Avenger once, and instead of saying "Oops, that was a mistake", y'all double-downed on her being one.
Good afternoon Mr Brevoort I read your last column yesterday and saw that you had no questions for her, so I hope I don't abuse your kindness and ask you if, although I am enormously happy with the Spider-Woman series, there is any possibility that we can see it in 2024 in some team series or some novel prose or, not to be so specific, if apart from her Regular series we will see Spider-Woman somewhere else in 2024, that is, are there more plans for her? Thank you Mr Brevoort and although there is still a long way to go I am VERY curious to see you as editor of the X office and see where you take it.
Fantastic questions. As a trivia buff, I love them!
So I've been re-reading Bendis's Avengers run and the related books, and I read the AvX story with the Thing vs. Juggernaut Colossus. Ed McGuinness draws a really good Thing! To the best of my knowledge, this is his only story work with Ben Grimm. I know he did the cover for the Mark Waid/Neal Adams story, and I'm sure he's done other variant work. Has he ever been approached for other Fantastic Four work? I'd love to see him do a few issues of my favorite comic.
And as the editor of the book, what do you look for out of an artist taking on Ben's bricks? I know fandom used to be quite fussy about staying on-model with Ben, and I remember Byrne's instructions on how to draw him. But since you're the one assigning the work, what's important to you when picking an FF artist?
Hey Tom, I was curious if your transition to the X-Office impacts G.O.D.S. Will you continue on it, or is it under the umbrella of books you're passing on?
Thanks for another great newsletter! I used to love trivia contests like this at old conventions. I remember winning turtle wax as a consolation prize at a version of Comic Book Hollywood Squares. Lol
One strange personal question: I’ve decided to read all the Marvel superhero comics for their first 5 years (62-66). Would you suggest I read Sgt Fury as well as all the other stalwarts?
Great piece. I always look forward to these as they always broaden my horizons.
Not a reply to your Avengers question as such Tom as I haven’t read any of it yet, but I did enjoy the Millie The Spy digital chapters you did. The character is always welcome back, have recently been enjoying some of the old early 70’s Millie reprint issues.
I’m genuinely bummed Avengers Unlimited is ending, I’ve really enjoyed having a weekly dose of Avengers fun and especially appreciated the return of some rarer classic villains (such as the Fixer this week)
Some favorites have been:
Murewa Ayodele’s run - really great art and storytelling choices
Patrick Zircher’s run - great artist and having him write meant he could create just the story he wanted to draw
Alex Segura’s story with Cap, Spider Woman and Moon Knight - I liked the strange combo of heroes!
The MC2 issues - just pure nostalgic good times with Tom and Ron
Eve Ewing’s underseas story felt like a great combo of classic and modern.
And most of all I loved the Jeremy Adams issues. He just gets the Avengers and how to tell great and contained stories that give the characters interesting things to do. The Rick Jones one was probably my favorite but all of his were wonderful. I’m more of a Marvel reader these days and really hope he’s brought over from DC full time as I think he, Jed MacCay and Kelly Thompson are the three best writers working who aren’t huge names (yet). I’ll read almost anything by any of those three.
Just to add: thanks for your hard work on this title! I know I won’t cancel my MARVEL UNLIMITED subscription while these Unlimited titles keep running.
One of the answers reminded me of something I (and other rec.arts.comics folk) wondered about way back when; why the insistance that Rita DeMara, the female Yellowjacket, was an Avenger? In my and others opinion, she clearly wasn't. She appeared in only one story as a non-antagonist, only because an assemble alarm in her stolen from Hank Pym suit went off and she couldn't figure out how to shut it off; i.e. she wasn't recruited for the mission. At the end of the mission, she goes her way and the Avengers go theirs; no mention of inducting her or considering her an Avenger. As Alan Sepinwall wrote back then, if she's an Avenger, anyone who's gone on a mission with them is. But y'all kept listing her when listing all the Avengers and the like, and in the trivia answers you included her among Avengers who'd never had their own book. It seemed to us that she was accidently listed as an Avenger once, and instead of saying "Oops, that was a mistake", y'all double-downed on her being one.
Good afternoon Mr Brevoort I read your last column yesterday and saw that you had no questions for her, so I hope I don't abuse your kindness and ask you if, although I am enormously happy with the Spider-Woman series, there is any possibility that we can see it in 2024 in some team series or some novel prose or, not to be so specific, if apart from her Regular series we will see Spider-Woman somewhere else in 2024, that is, are there more plans for her? Thank you Mr Brevoort and although there is still a long way to go I am VERY curious to see you as editor of the X office and see where you take it.
Fantastic questions. As a trivia buff, I love them!
So I've been re-reading Bendis's Avengers run and the related books, and I read the AvX story with the Thing vs. Juggernaut Colossus. Ed McGuinness draws a really good Thing! To the best of my knowledge, this is his only story work with Ben Grimm. I know he did the cover for the Mark Waid/Neal Adams story, and I'm sure he's done other variant work. Has he ever been approached for other Fantastic Four work? I'd love to see him do a few issues of my favorite comic.
And as the editor of the book, what do you look for out of an artist taking on Ben's bricks? I know fandom used to be quite fussy about staying on-model with Ben, and I remember Byrne's instructions on how to draw him. But since you're the one assigning the work, what's important to you when picking an FF artist?
I always think about the Sliding Doors universe where Larry Hama’s Fury Force would’ve been published if GI Joe never happened.
Any chance of Marvel publishing a Fury Force mini-series with Larry writing it?
Speaking of Larry, I’d love to see an Nth Man collection!
Hey Tom, I was curious if your transition to the X-Office impacts G.O.D.S. Will you continue on it, or is it under the umbrella of books you're passing on?
Thanks for another great newsletter! I used to love trivia contests like this at old conventions. I remember winning turtle wax as a consolation prize at a version of Comic Book Hollywood Squares. Lol
One strange personal question: I’ve decided to read all the Marvel superhero comics for their first 5 years (62-66). Would you suggest I read Sgt Fury as well as all the other stalwarts?