Showing posts with label Doom Patrol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doom Patrol. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
The Best Cover You've Never Seen--Doom Patrol #119 (1968)
Straight trippin':
Layouts by Carmine Infantino, pencils & inks by Bob Brown.
Monday, October 9, 2017
Manic Monday Bonus--That Time Cliff Steele Became A Hare Krishna?!?
This sort of thing happened all of the time in the 1960s:
Ouch.
Oh, don't worry. Cliff is fine...
...mostly.
Geez, it was just a truck. Shoddy workmanship, Chief!!
Anyway...
...the power of prayer and meditation fixed him!!
From Doom Patrol #119 (1968)
Oh, don't worry. Cliff is fine...
Geez, it was just a truck. Shoddy workmanship, Chief!!
Anyway...
From Doom Patrol #119 (1968)
Monday, December 5, 2011
Ask The Answer Manic Monday #1--It Only Took 22 Years To Answer That Question
From the Ask The Answer Man column in House Of Mystery #273 (1979):
Well, the answer's obvious now--#1!! Everything must be #1!! Even if it's already had numerous #1's!! You're lucky that, after issue #1, we didn't immediately renumber it to #1 AGAIN!!! Those #2's are just too inaccessible...
Quick bonus prediction quiz: Will we see any anniversary issue numbers for any of the nu52? Will any of them make it to 50 or (gasp) 100, without being canceled and/or reverting to the old numbering? Discuss...
Quick bonus prediction quiz: Will we see any anniversary issue numbers for any of the nu52? Will any of them make it to 50 or (gasp) 100, without being canceled and/or reverting to the old numbering? Discuss...
Saturday, September 11, 2010
TMI?
So, Niles "No, I'm Not Frasier's Brother" Caulder has a male Kryptonian held prisoner, and is doing some pretty nasty dissection & other experiments on him to try to divine the source of their power.
His friendly computer gives him an update on the research:
Ummmm...let's see...urrr...identical to humans "with the exception of certain reproductive organs."
OK, er...well, it's a male prisoner, so those certain reproductive organs would have to be...
*Cough* Ahem Yes, well, different how, exactly? I mean...uh...blush...
...
OK, I give up. Someone else has to deal with this little (?) conundrum.
Thank you, Keith Giffen, for putting all sorts of strange and not at all decent ideas into my head in this week's Doom Patrol #14.
His friendly computer gives him an update on the research:
OK, er...well, it's a male prisoner, so those certain reproductive organs would have to be...
*Cough* Ahem Yes, well, different how, exactly? I mean...uh...blush...
...
OK, I give up. Someone else has to deal with this little (?) conundrum.
Thank you, Keith Giffen, for putting all sorts of strange and not at all decent ideas into my head in this week's Doom Patrol #14.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Four Busy Years?
Don't get old, kids--they'll really mess with your comics history.
You may remember how very, very much I hate "rolling timelines," as comic creators feel compelled to give us specific dates on origins and events. A well-intentioned attempt to keep things "realistic"--after all, you don't want a 95 year-old Superman running around--is all right as long as you're vague about it. It's a comic book, and if we can roll with "stranger from another planet who can survive our biosphere and has cool powers," than we can roll with a "wink nudge Superman really hasn't been around that long" implication. We get it.
But when the writers feel compelled to give us specific dates?? Oh, dear, that makes us think too much, and the results are never good.
Last time we discussed this, I was stunned by Marvel's (subtle) declaration that Captain America was unthawed during the Clinton Administration.
Well, it's DC's turn now. From this week's Doom Patrol:
Blown up a bit:
Oh, Keith Giffen, you magnificent idiot.
OK, we don't want to think about how old some of these characters are--fine. But why in heaven's name do you feel compelled to stick a ridiculously specific date on things?
Garfield Logan was adopted by Elasti-Girl and Mento (the freshmaker!) back in Doom Patrol #110 (1967).
So, in other words, you would have us believe that every single thing in DC history since that point has actually happened IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS. 43 years of stories, compressed into 4 years.
Every Crisis and Invasion and Final Night and Millennium and Armageddon etc; every iteration of broken-up, reformed/destroyed/reformed/broken up/reformed again/etc of the Justice League; four different Robins...everything happened in 4 years.
And, since Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman took a year off (remember that, anybody? 52? One Year Later? Hello??), all of their adventures now took place over just 3 years.
Yeah, yeah, Zero Hour blahbitty blah Mr. Mind/Butterfly 52 jibber jabber Final Crisis hullaballo...fine, even if you say the Doom Patrol was somehow "re-set" in time, and was "created" much closer to current day...even with that benefit of the doubt, by tying it to Beast Boy, you've tied yourself to New Teen Titans continuity. So everything that happens since 1980--including 15 different iterations of the Titans...has happened in the last 4 years.
So, instead of preserving the illusion, they've just gone and shattered it, making the situation far worse than it was when we just simply ignored such issues...
Sigh...do you see why I hate rolling timelines?
You may remember how very, very much I hate "rolling timelines," as comic creators feel compelled to give us specific dates on origins and events. A well-intentioned attempt to keep things "realistic"--after all, you don't want a 95 year-old Superman running around--is all right as long as you're vague about it. It's a comic book, and if we can roll with "stranger from another planet who can survive our biosphere and has cool powers," than we can roll with a "wink nudge Superman really hasn't been around that long" implication. We get it.
But when the writers feel compelled to give us specific dates?? Oh, dear, that makes us think too much, and the results are never good.
Last time we discussed this, I was stunned by Marvel's (subtle) declaration that Captain America was unthawed during the Clinton Administration.
Well, it's DC's turn now. From this week's Doom Patrol:
OK, we don't want to think about how old some of these characters are--fine. But why in heaven's name do you feel compelled to stick a ridiculously specific date on things?
Garfield Logan was adopted by Elasti-Girl and Mento (the freshmaker!) back in Doom Patrol #110 (1967).
So, in other words, you would have us believe that every single thing in DC history since that point has actually happened IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS. 43 years of stories, compressed into 4 years.
Every Crisis and Invasion and Final Night and Millennium and Armageddon etc; every iteration of broken-up, reformed/destroyed/reformed/broken up/reformed again/etc of the Justice League; four different Robins...everything happened in 4 years.
And, since Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman took a year off (remember that, anybody? 52? One Year Later? Hello??), all of their adventures now took place over just 3 years.
Yeah, yeah, Zero Hour blahbitty blah Mr. Mind/Butterfly 52 jibber jabber Final Crisis hullaballo...fine, even if you say the Doom Patrol was somehow "re-set" in time, and was "created" much closer to current day...even with that benefit of the doubt, by tying it to Beast Boy, you've tied yourself to New Teen Titans continuity. So everything that happens since 1980--including 15 different iterations of the Titans...has happened in the last 4 years.
So, instead of preserving the illusion, they've just gone and shattered it, making the situation far worse than it was when we just simply ignored such issues...
Sigh...do you see why I hate rolling timelines?
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