Negative Monday 17

So I just got back from a great weekend at the Fan Expo in Toronto. Kind of a long day as far as "jamming things into one day" goes, but it's done. I managed to score 24 issues of Blue Devil, 3 DP Archives (what can I say, I've been delinquent on getting those) and a DCUC Ronnie Raymond Firestorm.

I also got the first two sketches for my Doom Patrol sketchbook - more on those later this week.

For now, I want to share the most recent Doom Patrol-related Source posting. Elisabeth Gehrlein gave us a sneak peek of the third variant cover for Doom Patrol.

Sticking with variant covers for a minute – you’ve seen the Matthew Clark/Kevin Maguire jam variant covers for DOOM PATROL issues #1 and 2 in previous posts. I love these covers very much, so I wanted to show you the final one for issue #3, starring Negative Man and a Metal Men obstacle course. We’ll start with Keith Giffen’s layout, and then there’s Kevin Maguire’s inks, Matthew Clark’s pencils over Kevin’s inks, Matthew’s and Kevin’s inks together at last, and finally the color by Guy Major.

Giffen's rough shown above and the near-final image below.


Gehrlein also shared the cover for the second Blackest Night issue, issue #5 to be exact, but I will also share that at a later time in a post I'm working on covering DP's Blackest Night involvement.

All in all, I'd say this is a well-timed revelation by Gehrlein. She must have known I needed some Negative Monday material.

Elasti-Girl Friday 14

Sorry for the lack of postiness! I was being lazy. Literally. I had two days off work and went to the cottage on Harsen's Island with my lovely wife and kids to visit with the lovely wife's lovely family from Colorado. Good times. Beers were indeed harmed in the making of this vacation. If you're a fan of the barley pop, take my advice and find yourself some Fat Tire. Brewed in Colorado. Good stuff.

But enough about me!

If any of you were savvy enough to read the comments to previous posts or to follow my good buddy in bloggery, Dan Woodward's posts, you would have already happened across this on your own.

If you haven't here's some news:

Doom Patrol #1 by Keith Giffen, Matthew Clark, Livesay, Pat Brousseau, and Guy Major hits the stands this week. I'm kinda excited about that. Extra bonus, I get to review it for CBR.com

Newsarama (hereafter referred to as the other comic news site, or OCNS) has a preview with a couple more pages than we've seen to this point. I have a copy of the variant cover image, right here.

Nice, eh? Yes, I'm going to be dropping some extra money this week. That variant is just too much fun.