Brevoort's Twitter-Short Story Advice

Marvel supreme editor Tom Brevoort tweeted two items the other day that I thought we spot on. Writers take note. These are definitely deadly ways to wreck your otherwise good story idea.

Things I'm sick of in comics #1: stories in which all of the heroes and villains meet before they met as heroes and villains. Oh, the irony!

Things I'm sick of in comics #2: stories that open by throwing me into a crazy action sequence only to then flash back to how we got there.