resonantfish (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} resonantfish) wrote,@ 2008-06-25 23:14:00 |
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DOOM PATROL!
Okay, so I cheated. I didn't do a quartet - mostly because I love the Drake / Premiani Doom Patrol stories, and the inclusion of The Chief didn't feel right - he doesn't perform any heroics, and as it turns out, he's a big jackass. I could have included Beast Boy, but he doesn't really appear until much later. No, I am a purist.
I also cheated in the costumes - I've always preferred Negative Man's 'First Appearance' greens, and Elastigirl's red & whites from the later stories. Robotman, fortunately, remains the same - except when Grant Morrison makes him wear a leather jacket. Seriously - I tried Morrison's Doom Patrol stories, and they're just not very well done. Poorly drawn, confusingly written junk.
If you've never read the original Doom Patrol tales, they're really amazing. Lots of 'I'll use this power to counteract threat X!' stuff, but the bad guys are totally out there too.
Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man? Monsieur Mallah and The Brain (which Morrison later turned into homosexual lovers & killed)? Madame Rogue (another DC stretchy person I'd forgotten - though a villain)? General Immortus? All awesome.
(PS - This makes 33 hero paintings!)
Okay, so I cheated. I didn't do a quartet - mostly because I love the Drake / Premiani Doom Patrol stories, and the inclusion of The Chief didn't feel right - he doesn't perform any heroics, and as it turns out, he's a big jackass. I could have included Beast Boy, but he doesn't really appear until much later. No, I am a purist.
I also cheated in the costumes - I've always preferred Negative Man's 'First Appearance' greens, and Elastigirl's red & whites from the later stories. Robotman, fortunately, remains the same - except when Grant Morrison makes him wear a leather jacket. Seriously - I tried Morrison's Doom Patrol stories, and they're just not very well done. Poorly drawn, confusingly written junk.
If you've never read the original Doom Patrol tales, they're really amazing. Lots of 'I'll use this power to counteract threat X!' stuff, but the bad guys are totally out there too.
Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man? Monsieur Mallah and The Brain (which Morrison later turned into homosexual lovers & killed)? Madame Rogue (another DC stretchy person I'd forgotten - though a villain)? General Immortus? All awesome.
(PS - This makes 33 hero paintings!)
