Episode 72: Raiding the Larder for Salami with Fractures! OR Salami on the Mind

A little delayed, but here's the post to correspond to the most recent auditory adventures from Mike and Paul! The Doom Patrol-loving duo are joined by Frak on this episode, and, man, do they have fun! Double- and triple-entendres abound as Chief takes his consideration of Madame Rouge to a whole new (only somewhat less pervy)  level and Rita reminds the rest of the Patrol that teamwork makes the dream work. 

Here's the skinny from Podbean: 

Episode 72: Raiding the Larder for Salami with Fractures!This week Mike and Paul are joined by friend and fan of the show, Fractures, as we take a look back at some 60's shenanigans!! 

• Down on Derington Way - 9:38

• Doom Clock - 10:01

• Doomsplaining - 47:14 - This week we take a look at issues #117 and #118 from volume 1, by Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani!

• Mailbag O Doom - 47:14 - We read your responses to the question, "What did you think of the new Doom Patrol #1?

So, let's get to the images from #117, shall we?

Beware the Black Vulture!! 

Cliff provides a couple opportunities for the reader to imbibe this issue, and here is the first one. 

The Chief simply cannot be bothered right now. (Cue Marvin Gaye music)

The Frenchiest of French arguments. 

That's no chicken Chief is choking! That's a condor he's killin'!

That thunderbird (or missile-carrying eagle as we call them in Michigan) better watch out. Chief ain't done bird-bashin'!

Rita's getting large and taking charge! 

Take another drink. 

Here's the page that's getting everyone set for equality training. 

Yes Poppa! 

That was one wildly entertaining strange read. Readers who may have discovered the team with Volume 6 really should take a dip back into the first volume. Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani really do the bizarre like no other - from yesterday or today! 

Now, how about issue #118?

The Chief looks awfully distressed here. 

SPLAT

The Dame Patrol. Perhaps a new Young Animal title in the works?

WilFreD missed a spot to drop the Marvin Gaye track. 

With a foe like Videx, the Doom Patrol sure would have been a killer toy line in the 1970s. 

This page gets mighty splashy. 

Trippy. 

I love Rita. She's so damn awesome. 

KAWHOOM

The first volume of Doom Patrol is just so much wacky fun. Each issue finds a way to be more wacky than the previous, and the pieces left behind for Gerard Way and Nick Derington to pick up are just so plentiful. 

And speaking of Nick Derington, here's a sketch from Derington from his Houston signing - Terry None to sing you a peppy tune to brighten your day. 

And that's Waiting for Doom Episode 72 for you. The blokes left us with the Question of the Week: 

What is your favo(u)rite fictional conflict?

Waiting for Doom Episode 71: The Wait is Over OR Gyros for Everyone!

IT
IS
FINALLY

HERE!!!

Two of my favorite Australians, Garve and Flanger grabbed their gyro covers, peeled off the stickers, slapped them on each other's foreheads and gave us Episode 71 of Waiting for Doom! You can get yours (Episode #71, not gyro sticker) right here on Comicosity.

Fire up the action chair, question normality, and take a drink (preferably a large one) as your favourite Patrologists get their hot hands on a comic they’ve been waiting for all this time: an all new Doom Patrol #1. What a time to be alive! LET’S GET PATROLLING!

• Down on Derington Way – 6:11

• Doom Clock – 7:48

• Doomsplaining – 10:55 – The moment we thought may never happen is finally here. Doom Patrol Volume 6, Issue 1. The beginning of the Way/Derington era! Enjoy. Potential spoilers for those who are yet to read this issue.

• Mailbag O Doom – 49:43 – We read your responses to the question, “What is something you didn’t know about comics at first?”

The bulk of the issue focuses on the introduction of Casey Brinke and her EMT partner Sam. It gets a little existential, but in a fun way, and, as the boys note in the podcast, Sam and Casey are immediately likeable.

Maybe we're all inside of someone else's gyro. 

Cliff even appears in this first issue of Doom Patrol. 

Could we actually be seeing Crazy Jane as well? 

I debated sharing this page, but how could I not? Just look at Niles Caulder's self-satisfaction in that bottom panel. Great job to Nick Derington! 

And Cliff fights his way back to our world, if for no other reason than to remind you to drink. 

DRINK.

Later on in the issue we meet Terry None through events that are rather spectacular. And bizarre. And bizarrely spectacular. 

The beginnings of a whole new Patrol? 

Zero days since the last Doom Patrol book. Well, maybe A day right now, but go back and re-read it! 

Or check out my review of Doom Patrol #1 over on Comicosity. 

One more shoutout to my LCS, Pieces & Pages for hooking me up with a Doom Patrol poster. And a Cave Carson poster. And a Shade, the Changing Girl poster. And a Mother Panic poster. Good people and good stuff over at Pieces & Pages. 

Question of the week: What did YOU think about the new DOOM PATROL #1?