Your awesomeness
Tom - your blogs are always a bright spot in my day. Long may you reign.

Posted by jszilla on 2008-08-04 18:31:36
Reminds me of when I declared war on my class mates desk. I had him on the ropes until reinforcements from a previously neutral classmate arrived.

Posted by doncorswhazie on 2008-08-04 18:41:13
Of course your coup failed. The correct procedure for annexation has been well-documented by 400 years of British mischief:

Step One: Declare existing society to be in chaos and incapable of self-rule;
Step Two: Plant flag and name a colonial governor.

You could probably cut-and-paste something from a previous blog post of Cup O'Joe to satisfy the first requirement. As for the second...perhaps you could send over an ice cream cake with the X-Men logo on it? If they eat it instead of sending it back that's as good as planting the Union Jack, I reckon.

When it comes to choosing a colonial governor, make sure it's someone who will look good on the money. It's these little details that make or break an empire in the early stages.

Posted by Ihnatko on 2008-08-04 18:58:44
hahaha
Hilarious...I want photos!!!

Posted by spacekicker on 2008-08-04 19:00:59
Your blogs....
Are always entertaining to say the least.

I second (or would it be third/fourth) the annexation of DC territory in the name of the Emperor! SPACE MA- Oh wait, I can't say that. Meh, Good luck in the coup Brevoort.

Also looking forward to future updates! :)

Posted by Aziroth on 2008-08-04 20:21:42
Heh. I want to see the banner.

Posted by beta-ray on 2008-08-05 00:10:03
Becoming Dan Didio's nightmare one office at a time XD.

Posted by freyes2000 on 2008-08-05 08:23:49
Dear god, soon we'll all be living in the United States of Holland.

Who can stop this rampaging Bonepart.

Find out

Same Bat-time,
Same Bat-blog,
Next Bat week.

All hail Mein Fu....ahem, Mr President!

Posted by cjmcaree on 2008-08-05 08:43:00
Tom,

Given all that you've told us in this blog, I never thought i'd say this, but man, you have way too much free time. Go revamp Fantastic Force or something!

Posted by MattDiCarlo on 2008-08-05 11:59:16
(...) 'Go revamp Fantastic Force or something!'

I was going to say something...

Posted by notapotatoe on 2008-08-05 12:19:40
Dear Mr. Brevoort
Today (august 5th) is my birthday. I was hoping that in the spirit of celebration, you would like to share with me some awesome Marvel secrets. Perhaps the name of a new series or two that will be spinning out of Secret Invasion? Or, if that information is too sensitive, I guess u could just send me a Marvel over-sized hardcover or two! Thanks Tom! And until Dan Didio pops out of my birthday cake singing "Happy Birthday Mr. President," Make Mine Marvel!

Posted by cryhavok01 on 2008-08-05 13:26:17
I can't help now I'm thinking about it, to my question about ' will we see the shining team of Peter Milligan and Chris Bachalo onto something in Marvel ? '...
surely the answer is Spiderman, Bachalo is already on the title, a liitle too caricatural to me ,as his work on X-Men. I remember an annual with Cyclops and Storm after a crash-plane,it was just ...INCREDIBLE !!!
But no, it had been too much for the X-Men, things would hadn't been the same after that for sure, same for 'Generation X ' had pursued.
I mean : 'what the f...?
I'd be really curious to know the readers reason that makes him change his style so much. Why did you hired him ? And I'll be really interested about the reader's wishes about CHANGES.

Posted by notapotatoe on 2008-08-05 14:32:59
Invasion
Come on Tom show the guts of our founding fathers. March right over and hammer your declaration right on the front door of Dan Didio's office. Ask yourself, what would Nathan Hale do?

Posted by izzatrix on 2008-08-05 14:45:40
Happy birthday
cryhavok01, it is also my birthday. '81.
27 today. So, Tom, can you recommend 27 separate issues of stand alone Marvel greatness that I should rummage through the long boxes for while using up my gift certificate at the LCS?

Posted by TConway on 2008-08-05 15:39:15
Annex DC
Would annexing part of DC give Marvel another lame excuse for butchering the continuity of a central character?

And as a preemptive strike to those who complain about the OMD/BND haters like myself, I'll stop complaining once Marvel starts Makin' Mine again.

As for continued high sales of ASM, I have tons of crappy issues from ASM and Spec. SM and Web SM (see clone saga) but I feel that there were plenty of subpar issues from my fathers generation, I wish he hadn't sold them along with the suitcase he kept them in back in 1975 but he was trying to buy led zepplin tickets. I decided not to make that same choice (i would never consider led zepplin tickets a mistake, I could sell some blood first). So I will pass this hobby onto my son and be sure he understands that you have to get through some of the low points such as this because their will come another hight tide (see upcoming return of JRJR).

The night is always darkest before dawn.

Mephisto shot J.R. Ewing.

So please Make Mine Again Marvel.

Posted by coolhanddave on 2008-08-06 16:10:03
coolhanddave, don't ruin this for everyone el
coolhanddave,
Tom Brevoort doesn't have to do these blogs, show us behind the scenes stuff, or any of this. He takes time out of his day to post these things for the fans. Please stay on topic. There are plenty of entries here for you to voice your displeasure at OMD/BND. This isn't one of them. Please don't be the kind of fan who ruins this for others.

Posted by harveytherabbit on 2008-08-06 20:44:33