Now that the Glasgow Worldcon is in the rearview mirror, it’s time to head off to this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con.

First up — dinner with Tom Brevoort, who holds the record for being the longest-running editor ever at Marvel Comics, having been hired there in 1989 right out of college. Over the decades, he’s overseen titles such as New Avengers, Civil War, and Fantastic Four. He became Executive Editor in 2007, and in January 2011, was promoted to also serve as Senior Vice President of Publishing. He’s an Eisner Award-winner for Best Editor, and is currently the Group Editor of The X-Men.

We discussed how a guy whose first love was DC Comics ended up at Marvel, why he hated his early exposure to Marvel so much he’d tell his parents not to buy them because “they’re bad,” the pluses and minuses of comic book subscriptions (and the horror when issues arrived folded), how Cerebus the Aardvark inspired him to believe he could build a career in indie comics, the most unbelievable thing he ever read in a Flash comic, how he might never have worked at Marvel had I not gone to school with Bob Budiansky, the prevailing Marvel ethos he disagreed with from the moment he was hired, what it takes to last 35 years at the same company without either walking off in disgust or getting fired, the differing ways Marvel and DC reused their Golden Age characters, how to prevent yourself from being pedantic when you own an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of comics, and much more.

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And here’s what you would have seen us nibbling had you been with us at Rec Pier Chop House —

AC’s Meatballs
with whipped ricotta and sicilian oregano

Broccolini
with garlic and oil

Rustic Potatos
with rosemary and parmigiano

Tom’s 8-ounce Boneless Center Cut Filet

My ribeye
apologies for the extremely blurry pic — it was dark in there!

And here are a couple of panels from The Flash you’ll hear us discuss.

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Coming up two weeks from now — my lunch with Martha Thomases, who has worn many hats. From 1990-1999 she was Publicity Manager at DC comics, plus she was the co-creator of Dakota North with Tony Salmons at Marvel.

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