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Post by badwolf on Feb 26, 2018 10:49:02 GMT -5
I'm up to Doom Patrol #52! It's the concluding chapter in a storyline about the new Brotherhood of Dada! With Mr. Nobody running for president! It was a lot of fun! I was tempted to use Number None as one of my favorite villain designs for the recent Xmas event. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Feb 26, 2018 12:42:05 GMT -5
Doom Patrol #45 was originally solicited with art by Brendan McCarthy, who tweeted a couple of pages from Morrison's script with added doodles by himself. Apparently it was going to be a Danny the Street story. linkI have always missed on this story, and apparently it'll never see print because Morrison and McCarthy had a falling out. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 27, 2018 14:38:03 GMT -5
Silver Age Doom Patrol is quickly becoming my favorite DC comic of the 1960s. I read the first few pages of #106 and I had to stop and post about the latest developments in the wake of the wedding of Rita and Steve. Rita has to rush off from a Doom Patrol meeting because she is making a special elaborate dinner for Steve. She dismisses the servants, makes dinner herself, uses her giant arm to open a can of asparagus and then turns tiny when the cork breaks and she has to get into the wine bottle opening to stomp the cork out. "WHEE!" she says. It's hilarious. I'm rather under the impression this isn't the first bottle of wine she's opened today. After dinner they retire to one of the cavernous parlors in Steve's house. Steve probably thinks they are going to fool around but Rita has something else in mind. She's buttering him up because she's worried about Beast Boy. I think she's trying to lead up to the idea of adopting Gar. But Steve is a colossal a-hole, and he doesn't believe that Beast Boy's guardian is embezzling his money. It's the one thing he agrees with Cliff and Larry about, that Gar is making up this Dickensian story of a wicked guardian for sympathy. Then they have a fight because Steve wants Rita to quit the Doom Patrol and stay at home. She grabs her coat and stomps out. (And we know that Rita can REALLY STOMP OUT when she wants to.) Steve shouts after her: OTHER WOMEN GET ANGRY AND GO HOME TO MAMA!
BUT YOU GO HOME TO FOXY GRAMPA AND
HIS BROTHERHOOD OF BASKET CASES! Oh! Burn! Anybody who's curious about the Doom Patrol should just start at the beginning. I've enjoyed quite a bit of Morrison's Doom Patrol, but I LOVE Silver Age Doom Patrol! |
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 28, 2018 18:48:52 GMT -5
Arnold Drake even managed to throw in a reference to the early-20th-century comic strip "Foxy Grandpa": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxy_GrandpaI wonder how many readers caught that when DP #106 was published. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 1, 2018 20:11:37 GMT -5
Arnold Drake, creator of the Doom Patrol, was born on this date, March 1, in 1924.
I have been meaning to look into Arnold Drake's other work and I finally got around to looking at his Wikipedia page today ... and it just happens to be Arnold Drake's birthday. He would be 94 today if he was still alive.
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Post by MDG on Mar 2, 2018 8:48:05 GMT -5
Arnold Drake, creator of the Doom Patrol, was born on this date, March 1, in 1924. I have been meaning to look into Arnold Drake's other work and I finally got around to looking at his Wikipedia page today ... and it just happens to be Arnold Drake's birthday. He would be 94 today if he was still alive. You can see some of his non-comic work here: And don't forget, he created Deadman. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 2, 2018 9:52:46 GMT -5
Arnold Drake even managed to throw in a reference to the early-20th-century comic strip "Foxy Grandpa": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxy_GrandpaI wonder how many readers caught that when DP #106 was published. I certainly didn't, even when Hoosier quoted it up there.^^ Nice catch, Rob! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 2, 2018 14:25:57 GMT -5
Arnold Drake, creator of the Doom Patrol, was born on this date, March 1, in 1924. I have been meaning to look into Arnold Drake's other work and I finally got around to looking at his Wikipedia page today ... and it just happens to be Arnold Drake's birthday. He would be 94 today if he was still alive. You can see some of his non-comic work here: And don't forget, he created Deadman. I've seen it! When I lived in Hollywood, one of my neighbors made a big deal about getting a copy of The Flesh Eaters. He knew that I liked cult-type films and he asked me to look for The Flesh Eaters. So I found it in the Sinister Cinema catalogue and ordered it for him. The main reason he wanted to see it was that he knew star Martin Kosleck in the 1960s and he had been wanting to see The Flesh Eaters for 30 years. When the film arrived, I watched it with him. It's pretty good! I wish I could remember any of the things he told me about Kosleck. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 2, 2018 15:32:30 GMT -5
I'm up to Doom Patrol #109, and it's another good one! I don't have a lot of time today to write up all the great things about this current storyline, but I did want to mention one panel that is ADORABLE! Garguax is showing the Brotherhood of Evil his latest plan. His entire android army is marching up to a giant vat and they are tossing each other into the vat. He is using the material of their bodies to manufacture an ultimate android creation - Mandred! And two of the androids loyally marching to their destruction look like they are holding hands! Aww! |
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Post by brutalis on Mar 2, 2018 16:24:26 GMT -5
I'm up to Doom Patrol #109, and it's another good one! This was my 1st ever Doom Patrol comic found MANY years after it's printing. funny how memory can be so clear and specific on some things and absolutely blank on others. Found this Doom Patrol issue and Adventure Comics Featuring Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #373 (with the Tornado Twins) at at a mom and pop's used thrift store while visiting my grandparent's in the little mountain retirement town of Payson. Maybe because they were the only 2 comics I had up there at the time and read them over and over every day it ingrained into my mind my ongoing love for both the Doom Patrol and LOSH. But dang it all ain't giant over-sized good ol' blue Mandred the Executioner the ginchiest android you have ever seen? They just don't make killer androids that darn cool anymore. That cover has always stood out in my memories and is one of my favorites of all time and space!!! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 3, 2018 16:35:06 GMT -5
I finished Doom Patrol #110 and it's another great issue and it ties up some of the story threads dangling around since the introduction of Beast Boy. Gar Logan's guardian is shown to be an embezzler and loses his guardianship of Beast Boy. And then Steve manages to overcome his almost chronic dickishness to adopt Gar, thus Rita and Steve and Gar are now a family. Also, the Brotherhood of Evil is defeated again. Also, it's revealed that Madame Rouge has a crush on the Chief! I would suggest that anybody who is curious about Silver Age Doom Patrol should read #99 to #110 because it's a nice little wandering story arc with several key moments for the DP. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 6, 2018 15:25:32 GMT -5
I read Doom Patrol #111 and it's pretty cool for a couple of reasons. First off, the Doom Patrol decided to try to trick Zarox-13 into believing that the people of Earth are much more powerful than they really are. The basic idea is right out of a comic-book monster story from the 1950s or early 1960s. (I know I've seen this several times in the pre-hero Marvels like Tales of Suspense and Journey into Mystery.) And the way it's attempted in Doom Patrol #111 is hilarious. Zarox-13 is a powerful alien who's come to take over Earth for his own people. The Doom Patrol confront him, I think it's in the Arctic somewhere. Larry (Negative Man) pretends to be a baby. He talks baby talk to Zarox-13 for a few word balloons, then he calls "Momsy! Momsy! Come see the nice man I met!" So Rita shows up (in a chic parka of course) about a hundred feet high. Zarox-13 thinks "Hmm, my sources didn't tell me the people of Earth are GIANTS!" Then Rita gives Larry his toy robot. It's Cliff of course, pretending to be Larry's toy. Zarox-13 thinks "It's rather a crude robot compared to those of my civilization." But Rita says "All the children of Earth have toy robots like this. They build them themselves as a start for advanced robotics." So Zarox-13, not wanting to tackle a planet with a race of genus giants, excuses himself. He was just visiting, and he starts to amble off. But he's in league with Garguax, and Garguax shows up to tell Zarox-13 that it's just a ruse. So they mix it up for a few pages with no resolution. And then after a few more pages of various Silver Age Sillinesses, Mallah, Madame Rouge and the Brain show up at Doom Patrol headquarters. They want to form an alliance with the Doom Patrol because they have realized that Garguax and Zarox-13 are a menace to ALL EARTH and must be stopped! To be continued! (I forgot to mention the scenes where Mento and Beast Boy are being jerks to each other. But that's a given at this point. Mento is such and arrogant a-hole that I don't blame Beast Boy a bit for being rude and disrespectful.) And there's also the conclusion of the Negative Man backup story arc. O Boy! To help a faltering senior center, Larry uses his powers to help the old folks bake and sell some yummy cookies. And Larry's weird energy-being guy takes some cookies to the president and the vice president. So yes Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey are in this comic. (You only see them from the back.) But the cookies have a secret ingredient that causes suicidal thoughts! It was all a very elaborate plot by Dr. Death! So the president jumps out a window and the vice president drives his car off a cliff! However, the Chief has been monitoring Dr. Death and he helps Larry save the day and the energy being rescues the pres and the veep at the last minute, and at the very end Larry is recruited for the Doom Patrol! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 9, 2018 17:32:12 GMT -5
I'm up to Doom Patrol #112, and it's another great issue! The DP and the Brotherhood make a pretty good team and they manage to foil the plans of Garguax and Zarox-13, even if the aliens escape to plot mischief another day. Only nine issues to go before the DP's last Silver Age issue, and it's making me feel sad that it's almost over. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 21:16:28 GMT -5
I'm up to Doom Patrol #112, and it's another great issue! The DP and the Brotherhood make a pretty good team and they manage to foil the plans of Garguax and Zarox-13, even if the aliens escape to plot mischief another day. Only nine issues to go before the DP's last Silver Age issue, and it's making me feel sad that it's almost over. That's my favorite too ...  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 19, 2018 13:34:09 GMT -5
I read Doom Patrol #120 last night, so I'm almost done with the Silver Age Doom Patrol. It makes me a little sad that I only have one issue left. I digressed a little over the last few days and read New Teen Titans #13 to #15. The Titans are being discussed in another thread and somebody mentioned that there's a Doom Patrol storyline in these issues. I knew a lot of DP characters ended up in New Teen Titans (I remember the first time I saw Mallah and the Brain was when I read Teen Titans for a short time) but I didn't know which issues were key and I never looked it up. So I was happy to get this information and to read these issues. They are pretty good! If I had known this storyline was almost a direct sequel to the tragic events of DP #121, I would have waited a few days and read them after I had finished with the Silver Age DP stories. That Perez/Tanghal art is eye-popping! It was great seeing my old buddies like Cliff Steele, Beast Boy, Madame Rouge, Mallah, the Brain and even (ugh!) Mento looking so good! (Mento's new costume is even worse than any of the old looks from the Silver Age. Which I wouldn't have thought possible.) One scene did bug me a little bit. Gar has been rescued by the Amazons and he regains consciousness on a table surrounded by a bunch of beautiful Amazons. But he can't leave the table and walk around because the Amazons lose power if a man "sets foot" on Paradise Island. And Gar starts moaning because he thought he was in heaven but it's more like hell! Yeah, right, Gar. They saved your life, and all you can do is moan because you can't walk around the premises and sexually harass the Amazons, you know, the women that saved your life! What an a-hole! To me, this seems incredibly self-centered and whiny, even for Gar. |
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