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As my friend, Petar, covered on the Doompedia earlier (like yesterday) the Patrol will be in the May issue of The Brave and the Bold #34. This is their second time appearing in this current incarnation of the series. Here's the cover and solicit:
THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #34
On sale MAY 19
32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Art and cover by JESUS SAIZ
Don’t miss this first chapter of a most unexpected two-parter! This wouldn’t be the first instance where the Legion of Super-Heroes have gone back in time looking to add to their ranks. But the sheer craziness the Doom Patrol will bring into their lives just might make it the last time... and the Legion’s mission will lead to some rather unexpected consequences next issue!
I've been really enjoying JMS's run on B&B. It's been fun so far.
Then there's
DOOM PATROL #10
On sale MAY 5 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Written by KEITH GIFFEN Art by MATTHEW CLARK & RON RANDALL
Cover by MATTHEW CLARK & LIVESAY
What looks like a life-size statue washes up on the shore of Oolong Island and all hell breaks loose – the Porcelain Assassin has arrived! The Doom Patrol focus all their efforts on fending her off, but the fight isn’t nearly as brutal as the revelation of who sent her!
"The Porcelain Assassin" - cool! One of Matthew Clark's contributions to the book front and center.
And also the first of the trade paperbacks for the new DP.
DOOM PATROL: WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE TP
On sale JUNE 9 144 pg, FC, $14.99 US
Written by KEITH GIFFEN Art by MATTHEW CLARK, JUSTINIANO & LIVESAY
Cover by MATTHEW CLARK
The first issues of The Doom Patrol’s new series are collected as the team deals with a black hole and comes face to face with death in a BLACKEST NIGHT tie-in.
. . . and some more reprinty goodness featuring the Doom Patrol (albeit it's a former DP). Good stuff here, all in black and white!
SHOWCASE PRESENTS: SUICIDE SQUAD VOL. 1 TP
On sale JUNE 16 552 pg, B&W, $17.99 US
Written by JOHN OSTRANDER, KEITH GIFFEN & J.M. DEMATTEIS Art by LUKE MCDONNELL, ERIC LARSEN & OTHERS
Cover by LUKE MCDONNELL
Captured villains are offered an ultimatum: Go on near-impossible covert missions or rot in jail. For the first time, DC collects SUICIDE SQUAD #1-19, DOOM PATROL/SUICIDE SQUAD SPECIAL #1 and JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #13.
I pulled the info straight from Comic Book Resources, if you want to check out the rest of the solicits for DC in May.
Along those lines, Giffen is starting his run on Booster Gold with J. M. DeMatteis and Chris Batista. It looks like it's going to cross over with Giffen and Judd Winick's biweekly extravanganza Justice League International: Generation Lost. For some odd reason, I've seen more than a few people point out how much Booster looks like Michael Keaton on this cover, but no one mentions that Ice looks like Teri Garr.
Magog also continues under Giffen's writing. Additionally, DP alum Beast Boy continues to serve alongside the Teen Titans.
Completely unrelated to the Doom Patrol is the release of Brightest Day. Rather than go with one weekly series for the summer, DC is running two biweekly series. Kiss your wallets goodbye my friends!
While we're throwing money away, in the interest of fairness to both of the big two, and of (potential) particular interest to Doom Patrol fans, Marvel brings the Agents of Atlas back in May under the title of Atlas. If you haven't checked out any of the previous (the six-part mini or the eleven issue series or the Versus minis featuring the X-Men and Avengers) Atlas stories by Jeff Parker, you really should. They're good, clean, Silver Age fun - and they even have a talking gorilla.
Check out Marvel's May solicits here.So what are y'all looking forward to in May?
Yeah, in May I think I'm just going to hook up a vacuum to my wallet. On top of the honourable mentions above I'm looking at snagging The Return of Bruce Wayne, and also Paul and Yildiray on the new Legion.
ReplyDeleteCBR had a great interview with JMS where he spoke on the idea he had on how to make the two-parter. Wont spoil it here if you didn't catch it - but it sounds like it'll be fun!
Cheers for the mention!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to more Negative Mondays, when you get the chance. Will definitely link to them!
Regards,
Petar
Really looking forward to seeing with Ron Randall (the second penciller listed for Doom Patrol 10) brings to the book! Saw his personal website and he's done some really nice work! Perhaps if they can bring in a second penciller close in style to Matthew, it will help even out the art on the title!
ReplyDeleteDan-I'm none too keen on the Return of Bruce Wayne, but I understand the interest from others. I've never been a Legion fan - just too MUCH for me, but Cinar's art looks waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to cool to pass up.
ReplyDeletePetar - how could I not mention you? DP sticks together, so do us bloggers! Hoping to get some Negative Mondays/ElastiGirl Fridays back up and running soon.
Nathan - I kinda thought Justiniano made for a nice compliment to Clark, but I agree with you, if they can get someone to job share with Clark things might be easier. Of course poor Matthew Clark has mentioned that he's been a bit under the weather off and on this year so far. Maybe he needs a good rest to bounce back fully.
The Legion/DP team-up looks like a lot of fun! Those are two teams who have distinctly different world views right there (and who I had no concept about before like 2 years ago). I wonder if the Legion's computers will even have any record of the Patrol?
ReplyDeleteThat the Metal Men backup is done is disappointing, but the DP feature is so awesome that I am easily enough consoled. So is "Thayer Jost" putting together an Anti-Doom Patrol? Sort of like an Anti-Chief?
I'm certain someone's possessing Jost (from the internal 'dialogue' in #7), but I haven't figured out who. If it was the Black Hole, Jost couldn't respond. Jericho (who fought Cliff in "DCU Decisions") is almost certainly dead. Houngan? Some obscure '60's character? Someone completely new?
ReplyDeleteInteresting speculation there PB, but Jericho is far from dead. He's the luckiest darn unkillable character in DC's collection it seems like.
ReplyDeleteHoungan I don't think had that capability.
I'm thinking, from "Jost's" comments, that it might be someone with a little more history with the DP. I'll make a post of this real soon.
I think Nudge is the one possessing Jost. Didn't Giffen or someone say somewhere that she never would have been included and then offed so quickly without a plan to use her down the road? Meh, Nudge.
ReplyDeleteMeant to post earlier, but I personally felt issue 7 was FINALLY moving this book forward. The returns of Jost (I loved Arcudi's run), A-V-M-Man (don't change his name please, Mr. Jost!) and especially Crazy Jane were great. A-V-M-Man was such a surprise, and as a fan of Morrison's DP Jane is such a beloved character to me - I only hope Giffen doesn't drop the ball with her. The sucky thing about the whole issue is that the core DP team only got one page of story. Maybe the team needs to get off of Oolong Island since I don't really get what that element brings to the book. I could care less about Oolong Island, and it seems every new solicit that comes out has someone else attacking the DP on Oolong Island. What happened to this team being a proactive group that takes on weird missions? That, and the art on this title is so inconsistent. Matt Clark has definitely won me over, but the title suffers by really subpar fill-in artists who don't compliment Clark's style.
I wish the book could continue with the DP taking over the extra pages Metal Men occupied. I feel like Giffen has built up some interesting subplots, but there's never enough room each month. And why waste pages on Oberon's moving crew? Am I the only one asking "What is going on with Bumblebee? What is going on with Mento? Why are any of these characters still working for the Chief when he's such a flippin' bastard?" I feel like there's so much DOOM PATROL just beneath the surface, but each month we never get it because we've got Oolong Island characters and Blackest Night crossovers and all this other junk that is just distracting and taking away from the DP team. I do, however, like Rocky the priest, he makes a nice counter to the heartless Chief.
The DP/Legion crossover looks cool. Did they previously appear in this run of Brave & Bold alongside the Flash?
The reason I didn't speculate about Nudge is because Jost seems to be wrestling with whoever is controlling him, whereas Nudge's subjects (for lack of a better word) used to bliss out while she guided them or not remember the experience. It could be Jost is stronger than Superman, but I doubt it. And Houngan was another grasp at straws; he can control bodies, but he never exhibited the kind of fine-tune control such as speech and facial expression. If Nudge is still alive, but it's not her, are there any votes for Gary Kwon? If Nudge is dead, there's your motivation. Well, that and having to spend his formative teen years in comic book limbo.
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