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Post by Spike-X on Jul 27, 2017 19:32:37 GMT -5
 No Spike not the pic I posted, which is indeed Mike Allred, but the pic at the top of this page, which is by Richard Sala loathe, you don't like Allred ? I love his stuff and was honored to meet him in '97. Really great guy. I'm 6'3" and he's taller than me ! He was a newscaster before deciding to take the plunge full-time into comics. Sorry, I misunderstood. Mike Allred comics are a joy to read and a treasure to be treasured. I'll buy pretty much anything he does, sight unseen. |
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 27, 2017 19:54:33 GMT -5
That's me too. I love his stuff.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 28, 2017 7:07:22 GMT -5
I have very few trades with material published post-Bronze Age but two Madman collections, purchased at a con a few years back, are among them. I dig Allred's art.
Cei-U!
I summon the thumbs up!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 10:26:44 GMT -5
I just started reading my Omnibus and I've not read any Doom Patrol stories so long it's brings back memories when I was a teenager enjoying these stories. I'm about 20% in and decided to stop reading it and read another 20% tomorrow. It's a beauty of a gem and it's very nostalgic to read it.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jul 28, 2017 15:33:01 GMT -5
I always liked the original Doom Patrol, even though my entire exposure to it back in the day was one issue of the DP title (the one where Madame Rouge gets her shapeshifting powers) and the B&B team-up with Flash. I think I was most fascinated by the atypical-of-the-genre Bruno Premiani art, though I also dug the wheelchair-bound Chief (a much better role model than lazy-ass Professor X, who had two working arms but couldn't be bothered to push his own chair). It wasn't until my pal Bill Wormstedt gave me a CD with scans of the complete original run about fifteen years ago, though, that I truly became a fan of the series. The two volumes of Showcase Presents were must buys for me. As for later version, I was unimpressed by the New Doom Patrol (I'm not a Joe Staton fan), though I enjoyed the hell out of their team-up with Superman in the DCCP issue that introduced Ambush Bug. I bought the first few issues of the Steve Lightle-drawn revival but didn't stay with it long, not because of a problem with that particular title but because I walked away from comics entirely around that time. I've never read the Grant Morrison run and have absolutely no desire to. Cei-U! I summon my own Action Chair! Worth pointing out that Arnold Drake really liked Morrison's stuff. (Or so I've heard, apocryphally, from quite a few different sources.) I really, really like the Morrison run. In terms of sheer volume of cool ideas it's the strongest mainstream comic I've ever read. He wasn't great at dialog (everyone basically has the same speech pattern) or working to the strengths of his artist yet - and his understanding of mental illness is pretty much 100% wrong - but writes like a smart guy with a really diverse set of interests and he'll come up with stuff I have never seen in comics before. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 28, 2017 16:52:55 GMT -5
I always liked the original Doom Patrol, even though my entire exposure to it back in the day was one issue of the DP title (the one where Madame Rouge gets her shapeshifting powers) and the B&B team-up with Flash. I think I was most fascinated by the atypical-of-the-genre Bruno Premiani art, though I also dug the wheelchair-bound Chief (a much better role model than lazy-ass Professor X, who had two working arms but couldn't be bothered to push his own chair). It wasn't until my pal Bill Wormstedt gave me a CD with scans of the complete original run about fifteen years ago, though, that I truly became a fan of the series. The two volumes of Showcase Presents were must buys for me. As for later version, I was unimpressed by the New Doom Patrol (I'm not a Joe Staton fan), though I enjoyed the hell out of their team-up with Superman in the DCCP issue that introduced Ambush Bug. I bought the first few issues of the Steve Lightle-drawn revival but didn't stay with it long, not because of a problem with that particular title but because I walked away from comics entirely around that time. I've never read the Grant Morrison run and have absolutely no desire to. Cei-U! I summon my own Action Chair! Worth pointing out that Arnold Drake really liked Morrison's stuff. (Or so I've heard, apocryphally, from quite a few different sources.) I really, really like the Morrison run. In terms of sheer volume of cool ideas it's the strongest mainstream comic I've ever read. He wasn't great at dialog (everyone basically has the same speech pattern) or working to the strengths of his artist yet - and his understanding of mental illness is pretty much 100% wrong - but writes like a smart guy with a really diverse set of interests and he'll come up with stuff I have never seen in comics before. I'm not the world's biggest Morrison fan but I did like All-Star Superman and Flex Mentallo ... and precious little else that he's written. His Batman especially is really terrible, though I do like Damian when somebody else is writing him. But I do like what few issues of Morrison's Doom Patrol that I've seen. It's something I have on the list to look at eventually. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Jul 31, 2017 11:50:43 GMT -5
I really, really like the Morrison run. In terms of sheer volume of cool ideas it's the strongest mainstream comic I've ever read. He wasn't great at dialog (everyone basically has the same speech pattern) or working to the strengths of his artist yet - and his understanding of mental illness is pretty much 100% wrong - but writes like a smart guy with a really diverse set of interests and he'll come up with stuff I have never seen in comics before. I don't consider his dialog differential any worse than most writers; I never got his characters confused. I thought his treatment of MP/DID was pretty spot on. I loathed beyond words his incredibly racist treatment of Tempest, though. |
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Post by brutalis on Aug 4, 2017 8:03:16 GMT -5
Slowly savoring my way through the new Omnibus with an issue or two every few days. Loving the team arguing/bickering constantly over who is the most freakish and despairing. Liking that the Chief isn't the evil savant that he has been retroactively turned into. He is just a man of the times obsessed scientifically in a time when science fiction was so quickly becoming reality in the atomic age. Can't get enough of how creatively the Robotman's body is constantly being destroyed and how much he will dismember himself to defeat the villains. Rip off my arm and beat you over the head? No problemo. Take a leg off and hop all over to club you with it? No problemo. Stick my arm into a hole and watch it melt? No problemo. And for a guy whose only human part is his brain he sure was doing a lot of head butting and smashing with his most important and delicate piece that is left.
The quirkiness is starting to amp up now with the introduction of Steve Dayton/Mento the suave egoist millionaire that makes Bruce Wayne look wimpy. Coming up is the fun and strange Beast Boy/Robotman jocularity. Such good times...
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Post by Spike-X on Aug 4, 2017 23:13:17 GMT -5
I'm about where you are, and I'm really enjoying it. That original Mento helmet is one goofy-looking piece of equipment!
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Post by Spike-X on Aug 9, 2017 20:51:07 GMT -5
Doom Patrol #94 - although the title isn't mentioned, Rita recalls a movie she worked on in Argentina, where an Argentine cowboy taught her how to throw a bolas.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 9, 2017 21:25:10 GMT -5
Doom Patrol #94 - although the title isn't mentioned, Rita recalls a movie she worked on in Argentina, where an Argentine cowboy taught her how to throw a bolas. Maybe they turned this true-life Batman adventure into a movie?  (Among my favorite comic story titles ever.) |
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Post by brutalis on Aug 23, 2017 13:24:38 GMT -5
Curious minds need to know. As I am reading through the DP Omnibus it struck me that originally Rita Farr enlarged/shrank her entire body. Then suddenly during a later story (would have to dig up the issue) she suddenly just enlarges one arm/hand to slap Mento across the way from her. No explanation given for this sudden physical change in her growth ability within the story. So I has to ask the question: was it Arnold Drake or Bruno Premiani who came up with this extremely odd idea which does suit the "freak" aspect of the DP? Anybody know or hear of anything about this?
Did Bruno write something in the story and forget to include or explain it? Or did Bruno come up with the idea on his own just to keep himself interested and creative without becoming bored with the series? noyt that it truly matters but it quickly becomes a regular aspect of Rita's abilities and is artistically quite the oddity when you see it. Then Dick Giordano draws her enlarging one leg to reach the ground safely while "falling" in a Brave and the Bold issue and that is verbally addressed by Rita in the story while doing it. so from here on in Rita continues to enlarge/stretch her arms and legs while remaining "human" sized. Quite the quirky new power up...
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 23, 2017 20:46:14 GMT -5
That is indeed more freakish.
Don't think I've ever seen her like that.
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Post by Spike-X on Aug 24, 2017 6:49:25 GMT -5
I had a look back just now, and the first time she embiggens just part of her body is in Doom Patrol #95, page 3, panel 1 (page 354 of the Omnibus). I thought I'd remembered her going with the classic, "I've been practicing this new aspect of my power in secret for a while now," explanation, but I seem to be mistaken, as there's no explanation given at all. She just does it.
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Post by MDG on Aug 24, 2017 8:36:38 GMT -5
On the cover of my first exposure to her, B&B 65, she shrinks her body and enlarges her arm.  |
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