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?

Negative Monday 6 - the Tuesday Edition

So I've focused a bit on those folks negative. I've also had some killer art from Matthew Clark, but what I've blatantly ignored, mainly because I just haven't gotten around to it, is Keith Giffen's handle on the Patrol of Doom.

Below is one single, solitary panel from issue #4 of the 52 Aftermath: the Four Horsemen mini from last year (or late 2007) featuring Negative Man WRITTEN by Keith Giffen. Here Larry's negativity is rendered by Pat Oliffe on pencils, John Stanisci on inks, Hi-Fi on colors and Pat Brousseau on letters.

I like it a lot. A sarcastically scalding Negative Man. Negative Man being negative = positive, right?

Note to self, check in with Matthew Clark to see who rounds out the creative team for August's DP launch. . . .

Whoops.

I just realized today is Tuesday. Which means yesterday was Monday. Which means I didn't post a Negative Monday. Which means I suck as a blogger when it comes to regularly scheduling my posts. Time to step that up.

Honestly, I have no legitimate excuse that goes beyond just saying that life got in the way.

After posting nearly every day last week, I got a little lazy about Monday. I'll drop a Negative Man image - and in my opinion a very cool one - this evening. Might even add a couple more for good measure.

Mento Sunday

Just a little change of pace. Matthew Clark blogged up another sketch recently. He also gave a little insight as to the sketches he's been sharing.

Here's his Mento. Looks cool to me. Some folks in other places raised concerns about the Jay Garrick-like helmet and lightning bolt, but as Matthew states, this isn't the final design.

On his blog, Matthew says, "Working on Doom has been fun and challanging and I'm putting extra time in on the first issue, everyone who's scene pages have left jaws dropped." Maybe I shouldn't say this, but I have one of the dropped jaws.

No, I won't share.

At lest not until Matthew gives the all clear.

Weekend Exclusive from Matthew Clark!

Ok, so it's a little old and it's just one quote, but shortly after Doom Patrol was announced, Matthew Clark started posting sketches over on his blog. Somewhere about then, I started this blog. I asked Matthew if he'd like to do an interview for the blog at some point. He politely requested to wait until closer to the time the series comes out.

Until then, he did give me this quote:

I love the" Doom Patrol" ----a quote from me.

Look for more from Matthew Clark here soon.