Comments on: Tom Brevoort's Unknown Greats

By: Marcus Lusk

Marcus Lusk — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:17:48 +0000

I love Sturm’s work going back to “The Cereal Killings.”
But I found “Unstable Molecules” both depressing and unnecessary.

By: Jamie Coville

Jamie Coville — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:00:27 +0000

I didn’t buy it. I loved James Sturms work on The Golem’s Mighty Swing (His Revival isn’t bad either) but really wasn’t interested in his take on a non-powered FF.

By: groonk

groonk — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:53:01 +0000

i wanted to look into Unstable Molecules but i had forgot the title.

problem solved.

By: The Dane

The Dane — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:07:08 +0000

Yeah, I kept looking for the future miniseries that Sturm had talked about, but *sniff* they never came. And I really did love Deadline too. It was just so… weird. Plus Guy Davis is the stuff.

By: Jorge R

Jorge R — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:05:14 +0000

Does anyone know whats happening with the indie creators anthology of Marvel characters? I always hear some little thing or about people working on it but never when it will actually come out.

By: Dale

Dale — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:43:38 +0000

Unstable Molecules was one of my favourite reads. Wish it would continue.

By: John Platt

John Platt — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:17:55 +0000

Man, I loved Unstable Molecules. I would have bought more if they’d done more.

By: Patrick Dean

Patrick Dean — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:52:36 +0000

As for other forgotten gems from that period, I thought Darko McCan and Igor Kordey’s run Soldier X was wonderful. Bonkers writing, Igor Kordey doing his best work for Marvel when he was being rushed from book to book filling in for other artists who dropped the ball, a Cable story I actually cared about… You can find the whole run in dollar bins and it’s quite worth tracking them down.

By: Travis M.

Travis M. — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:36:38 +0000

Say what you will about the Jemas/early-Quesada years at Marvel — but they at least seemed like they were willing to try new things and/or bring in new voices. I miss that sense of experimentation that came from the books listed here, and others (Ultimate Marvel Team-Up comes to mind).

By: Paul O'Brien

Paul O'Brien — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:26:48 +0000

I wouldn’t blame Tom for suggesting it. It’s a bad idea, obviously, but there’s nothing wrong with suggesting bad ideas and then discarding them.

By: Marc-Oliver Frisch

Marc-Oliver Frisch — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:17:50 +0000

“I can recall one early exchange when, trying to find ways to make the series more palatable to a mainstream super hero audience, I suggested adding two more issues on, and picking the characters up again right after they’d received their powers. Sturm wisely didn’t listen to me–he had a concrete vision for what he was trying to accomplish.”

This part made my jaw drop. It explains a lot, certainly.