Official Word from DC

Alex Segura has made it official on The Source, offering up some concept sketches from Giffen and some finished pencils from Clark.
As hard as Clark is rocking the redesigns, the action and the characters themselves, I gotta say, his design of the Negative Man - not Larry - is pretty frickin' creepy.

Oh yeah, there'll be another sliver coming later this evening/early morning too!

Countdown to Awesome!

You got some more sneak peeks yesterday, but today, I've got a Doom Patrol sneak peek that just appeared in my email! Not only that, but it actually asked me to share it with you!

Crazy, I tell ya, and Grant Morrison's nowhere to be seen.

Every day today through Monday, I'll be adding a little more of a peek for you.

Here's the first:
That's right, readers and picture-lookers, you're looking at a My Greatest Adventure 80 blogspot exclusive image.

Maybe now that cover from the other day is starting to make some sense.

More to come. See you tomorrow!

Two For Tuesday

This post falls just after yet another Negative Monday and way too long before the next installment of Elasti-Girl Friday.

DC, on their little ol' blog The Source, dropped some charcter sketches on us today.

First up is Negative Man. I love how the "mummy wrappings" tie off on the back of Larry's head. The militaristic apparel gives Negative Man adistinct soldier of fortune look that will be interesting to see play out.
Elasti-Girl is straight forward and sassy. Nothing overly stunning, a serviceable outfit that wouldn't cause too many problems when Rita decides to employ her powers. After years of wearing a skirt into battle, it makes a little more sense to give Rita a more practical outfit.

If you want to check the direct link, make with the clicking here.

One thing is for certain, this is not your daddy's Doom Patrol.

Negative Monday 8

At the risk of being a complete jerk, I present you with the cover - and a crappy scan of it at that - to Doom Patrol (first go-round) #106, featuring a tale of the Private World of Negative Man - dun dun duuuuuuuuuun!

Why this image?

Why now?

Let's just say things will be a little more clear soon.

And yes, that's all I'm going to give you today. Happy Negative Monday!

Elasti-Girl Friday 8

A quick one today. This is from the Jim Krueger-Alex Ross-Dougie Braithwaite Justice series from 2005-2006. Ross claimed it was his love letter to the Super Friends, but he didn't hesitate in the slightest to include more of the DCU.

Available in floppies, hardcovers, softcovers and a soon-to-be-released Absolute edition, this book is an amazing spectacle of characters and creative talent. Not only did the Doom Patrol appear, but they once more took a shine to Aquaman (who is central to the action and plot of this story) and Elasti-Girl tussles with Giganta.

DC Direct went on a tear making figures from this story, but stopped just after the Justice League, some wacky variants and adjunct members Batgirl and Supergirl. I cannot help but wonder how cool it would have been for them to continue making figures and offer up a Doom Patrol based on Ross's art.

Negative Monday 7

It's Rebis time!Astute observers of this little blog may have noticed I haven't been resplendent with my observations of Morrison's time on the DP. There's a good reason for that - it chased me away! Morrison hit the DP around the time I was doing the whole "finding girls, learning to drive" scene. I just didn't need to try to figure out Morrison's take on the Doom Patrol when I was already spending precious braintime trying to figure out the fairer sex.

That said, Rebis needs a little love on a Negative Monday. What better way to introduce "hir" to these virtual pages than with a Who's Who entry, rendered by DP series artist (at the time) Richard Case.With my confession out of the way, as I begin to dive into Morrison's DP, I'll be taking the lot of you with me. I've read some of the issues when they were released a few since, but I walked away from Doom Patrol for a time, destined to return when the team returned to the DC Universe proper - not necessarily by design.

Please do not take this as Morrison bashing. It is quite the opposite, I just couldn't handle Morrison, girls, my first job, looking into college, driving, girls, and girls at the same time. Morrison's Animal Man remains one of my favorite titles ever, and it didn't cause me mental gymnastics as I recall encountering with Grant Morrison writing Doom Patrol.

Elasti-Girl Friday 7

From the same issue as Negative Monday for this week - as a matter of fact from the panel BEFORE Monday (time travel as only made possible when reading or talking about comic books) Giffen offers us a Rita Farr who is not afraid to take charge.

Not content with merely being the cheerleader of the Doom Patrol, Rita decides to dictate some strategy here. I'm hoping Giffen is just giving us a sample of the strong characterization we can hope to expect with his Elasti-Girl in the Liz Gehrlein-edited Doom Patrol coming up this August.

Did y'all catch the subtle mention of another member of the team pumping out DP for you this fall?