Following the editors recommendation for Doom Patrol in this months Megazine I was wondering if the GN of this is any good.
The reviews on Amazon seem to imply that it is not the best part of the series.
Is it still work it, or shall I get Swamp Thing as I was originally planning?
Both Doom Patrol and Swamp Thing are excellent.
DP Trades:
Crawling from the Wreckage
(It is uncertain whether any more trades will be made. This is because of an issue regarding copyright on the Flex Mentallo character, who turns up in later issues)
ST Trades:
Saga of the Swamp Thing
The Curse
Love and Death
Earth to Earth
Morrison Doom Patrol good.
Stuff immediately after Morrison sh*te.
Newest Doom Patrol okay but I wouldn't recommend it.
Get Grant Morrison's stuff instead, or Swamp Thing's definitely better.
- Trout
I'm thinking of getting the T.P.s of Morrisons run on New X-Men, anyone read them ? Are they any good ?
a good tip to get is the swamp thing graphic novel which reprints the storyline which has heavan and hell threatened by an evil creature i can't remember the storys name but its the one where zatara and sargon are killed and mento driven insane. it is truly brilliant
Having read X-books as a teenager, wised up and not returned for years, I'm delighted to say that Morrison's New X-Men is the best X-stuff I have ever read.
It's exciting, engaging, nasty, beautifully drawn (when Frank Quitely does it :-)) and one of Grant Morrison's best-ever comics.
Buy it now.
- Trout
Who's the chap with the metal head in Morrisons X-men, he looks a bit f*cked up ?
Still no word on those Morrison 'Zenith' GN's I take it ?
Anyone wanna join me in ram-raiding the secret underground bunker Titan must be storing them in ?
Doom Patrol was the first comic that made me seek out a proper comic shop,and it's still one of my favourite series ever.Crawling from the wreckage is great,and to be honest the back issues can be had really cheap if you look around.however avoid the last 20 odd non-Morrison issues,they are an affront to humanity,and I love Ted Mckeever's artwork.
Flex mentallo is getting harder to find though,and it can't be reprinted because of a courtcase with Charles Atlas.
And the guy with the metal mask in New X-Men is Xorn,the healer,who has a star for a brain.The Chinese had him hooked up to the national grid,which wasn't very nice.
Morrisons X-Men books are cracking reads. Well worth the wadge.
"Doom Patrol was the first comic that made me seek out a proper comic shop,and it's still one of my favourite series ever.Crawling from the wreckage is great,and to be honest the back issues can be had really cheap if you look around.however avoid the last 20 odd non-Morrison issues,they are an affront to humanity"
Agreed. Morrison's run on DP was, quite possibly, his finest hour - kick-ass action, great steaming dollops of surrealism, bizarre mathematics, laugh-out-loud humour and a hugely engaging cast. An off-the-wall melting pot in the finest 2000AD tradition!
Also, this run contained one of the single funniest issues in comic-book history:
"Niles Caulder - I've come for your beard."
Fookin' priceless.
I think I only managed to stomach two or possibly three of the Rachel Pollack post-Morrison issues. Bleurgh!
Cheers
Jim
>>I think I only managed to stomach two or possibly three of the Rachel Pollack post-Morrison issues. Bleurgh!
'Rachel Bollocks' as she was quickly referred to by DP fans everywhere. Which is kind of amusingly ironic, considering that.....well, you'll have to guess that part for yourself.*
She's actually an award-winning science fiction writer, although, curiously none of the bibliographies I can find on her list her misbegotten and mercifully short-lived work in comics.
*Check out the piccie of her on the website link below, and see if you can guess what I'm getting at...
Link: Blimey, I don't fancy yours much!
I take it back. Her website does list her comics work. Right at the end, with no details give.
Oooh, better watch it Gordon, she might put a curse on you.
Check out the piccie of her on the website link "below, and see if you can guess what I'm getting at..."
Mary, Mungo and Midge! That is one *ugly* woman!
Yeah, GM's Doom Patrol was fantastic, as was the Flex Mentallo mini that followed it- hard luck for those of you that missed it as it was brilliant and beautifully drawn.
Quitely's finest hour, in my book.
Take a closer look, my friend.
That ain't no woman...
I will say this as a warning to any Morrison or Ellis fan:
What Morrison/Ellis starts off Millar will finish.
Be warned...
J.
Morrisons Doom Patrol was great.
Totally bizarr, surreal, the stories ranging from great parodies - like Issue 31, a genuine funny parody of all things Hellblazer and weird things "I knew that the Cult of the Unwritten Book was still active in the area. This morning everyone in the city had forgotten his or her telephone number for fifteen minutes, that?s one of the signs" - to creepy stuff. And his last issue was a definite ending for the series.
The trade shows how radical a gifted writer can take a tired and boring group concept and change it for the better. Imho this was some of Morrisons best writing, a test for his Invisibles which sadly never got as good. The trade collects the first seven issues.
The Pollock stuff after issue 75 avoid at all cost. *g*
I would like to point out Pollack was allowed to write Doom Patrol after badgering the editorial staff THROUGH THE LETTERS COLUMN for ages.
That's the wrong way to get a comics job, IMO. You should never turn up in the lettercol first.
Mr Spurrier?
:-) Heh, heh, heh.
- Trout
I remember her letters,they were awful,sycophantic gibberish,always going on about wanting to write the comic.When I found out she really was taking over from Morrison I thought it was a joke.I always thought she was a youngish goth type,but looking at her website I was clearly mistaken.
Never appear in the letter col before you appear in the comic propper... do both at the same time!
heh heh heh
The current series is very good indeed. You might be vaguely interested to know that as part of the current tale they've wiped out everything post Morrison, so that all the Pollack stuff was just a dream.
Same thing was done with all the post Morrison Animal Man stuff as well.
Morrison's New X-Men is a must read but I'll never forgive Quitely for what he did to Jean (although Emma Frost never looked better). His art in New X-Men was one of the most talked about changes in X-Men for years. You either love it or hate it. I may be in the minority but it's the only Morrison stuff I've read that I actually liked.
Bought the first two New X-Men graphic novels the other day, you're all right - fooking brilliant stuff.