Doom Patrol #11 - June

As usually happens this time of the month, Newsarama sneaks some of the solicits out for us. As if knowing what's coming up three months in advance, we now know three months and TWO DAYS earlier in some cases.

The DP steps aside from appearing in The Brave and the Bold, but they do still have their book.

DOOM PATROL #11
On sale JUNE 9 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US
Written by KEITH GIFFEN Art by MATTHEW CLARK & RON RANDALL
Cover by MATTHEW CLARK
What kind of people call themselves "The Brotherhood of Evil"? Not this group; not if a certain pan-dimensional business tycoon has anything to say about it. After all, image is everything. But it doesn't matter how they rebrand themselves - the Doom Patrol has found them, and it's not going to be pretty.

All I have to say after seeing that image is more Matthew Clark drawn dinosaurs, please! (Before the flurry of comments berating me for being an oaf even have a chance to appear, I KNOW that's Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, but he DOES have a dinosaur for a face - or at least part of it!)

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In what is sure to be a pivotal moment for the Doom Patrol - and Rita in particular, the sniffer expels itself from Rita's giant-sized hand. Not much of the hand remains intact following this episode. How this all plays out in next month's issue remains to be seen.

I really like Clark's layout for this page. He does a nice job of giving pages a unique feel by dropping seemingly unrelated shapes in to add contrast and fight negative space.

Doom Patrol and Ambush Bug

So I asked Matthew Clark if Ambush Bug would indeed be in the next issue of Doom Patrol.

He answered me, one single word, three little letters. That's all I'm going to say about that.

If the "he" were to equal "Ambush Bug" (hypothetically) then what would the "it" be?

Conversely, if "he" is not "Ambush Bug", does "it" not exist?

Tune in next time* as I take us way back to another time when "Doom Patrol" and "Ambush Bug" were mentioned in the same comic. . .


* yes, this is, indeed, going to further delay the already delayed analysis and/or review of Showcase #94

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You loyal followers of this lovely Doom Patrol blog may wonder where it is that I disappear to when not blogging. As my profile says, I'm the father of three and the husband of one, so there's where some of my time wonderfully fades away to, moreso lately as nice weather creeps onto the scene.

I've also got a day job. Beyond that I'm writing a Red Tornado blog (yes, seriously) and I do reviews for Comic Book Resources.

In advance, and with that said, I apologize for not posting every day, but there's some other options of where you can get a dose of Doug.

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Phillip Sloan-Thomas Munroe-Larry Trainor is being stalked. By a pelican.
The exchange between Larry and Cliff - and the signpost behind Cliff - are absolutely priceless!

Of course, whenever a moment like this pops up in DP, there's an explosion, alien invaders, or repo men from another dimension right around the corner.

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So it's not Friday, but it is another Elasti-Woman entry for y'all!
I had every intent to post this last night, but spent some time with the family hound at the vet, which is no way to spend a Friday evening.

Anyway, here's one Rita page from the issue that just came out Wednesday.
The art on this one is clearly from Ron Randall as opposed to Matthew Clark, but Livesay, in my opinion, did a fabulous job providing the visual glue to hold this issue together.

After the events of Blackest Night (which is in our future, two weeks or so from now) the Patrol retruns home, and Rita has a score to settle with a certain Mr. Steve Dayton. Lucky for Mento, there's an explosion that brings the core DP running to the Oolong airfield. We've seen the preview at the end of issue #6, Rita's destined to have it out with Dayton. How that all plays out remains to be seen.

One point of interest - at least to me - is the color shift in Rita's eyes. They were very green to start this series, but now they're rather olive, almost gray. Keith Giffen made mention that there was some significance behind this, but what it truly is remains to be seen.