Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol

Just picked up the first two collections today.

(with the times, that's me)

WOW.

Why didn't anyone tell me?

I see some... common ground here.

I think The Monolith from beyond Space and Time would be a fine and not out of place Doom Patrol adventure. And I think they'd have a "fun" time down in Pembrooktonshire.

8 comments:

  1. You didn't ask?

    Yeah, everyone in the world should read that whole thing. Especially the late Richard Case issues.

    The Painting That Ate Paris, the Decreator, the driver 8 thing, the Flex Mentallo arc...well the whole Grant Morrison series. Except the Stan Woch stuff--horrible ugly.

    And, of course, that issue where they had the artists draw pin-ups and then wrote the stories around them.

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  2. Yes, it's probably the high point of his career; although I really did like his X-Men stuff, The Invisibles and Vimanarama, I'm not sure he's ever hit those Doom Patrol heights since.

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  3. It's great stuf, that's for sure.

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  4. I read it back in the day when it first came out. I liked a lot of it, and the characters were great, but by the end it just seemed like weird-for-the-sake-of-weird. The Brotherhood of Dada was cool, though.

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  5. I caught the end of Morrison's run on the Doom Patrol. I'd been recommended them by my FLCS; something to do with why they kept calling me "Chief". I started reading them just in time to learn that I had a namesake in comics and then he betrayed the Doom Patrol.

    I bought as many back issues as I could but there were too few. Of course now I should be picking up the trades but I have more important things to buy.

    Personally I think that The Invisibles were the high point of Morrison's career, but if it wasn't for his run on the Doom Patrol my wife and I would never have met.

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  6. If I ever get to run a campaign in Vornheim, you can bet that Danny the Street will be there.

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  7. Check out his awesome "Kid Eternity" mini series if you want to see a take on the Order vs. Chaos struggle from Chaos' point of view (in a more IOT/Chaos Magic instead of Moorcockian sort of way).

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