With Grant’s impending arrival on New X-Men, I made it my duty to start tracking down some of his old Doom Patrol works… and boy, am I glad I did. I never read an issue because the covers were just so damn creepy and off putting… which is a true shame. It looked as though meat was manipulated into the form of characters… it bugged me. Should be good, right? I mean, he did write Doom Patrol after all.ĭoom Patrol? That book from the early nineties whose covers made me feel uncomfortable? Those covers sometimes looked like what I can only describe as “meat sculptures”. It was announced that (adjectiveless) X-Men would be renamed New X-Men, and would be written by a fresh off the JLA Grant Morrison.
This new regime was quick to fix any series they felt were flagging, including the Claremont X-Run. Marvel was in a bit of a flux at the time, longtime Editor in Chief (and current DC EiC) Bob Harras was ousted in favor of Bill Jemas and Joe Quesada. What we received instead were meandering stories featuring such luminaries as the Neo, The Goth, and the Twisted Sisters. Many a Marvelite was excited that this meant a return to the brilliance of his first decade-plus run. Legendary X-Men creator Chris Claremont had just recently returned to the X-Family after about a decade away.
The mutants were primed to be bigger than ever… only problem being, the books were damn near impenetrable for any potential new reader. It was around the turn of the century, and Marvel’s X-Men had just made their silver-screen debut. Before I try, I suppose I should give a bit of my background with this title. This book dredges up so many emotions, and an odd sensation of comfortable discomfort that I’m not sure I’ll be able to summon the proper words to truly do it any justice. This is one of those runs that I hold in such high esteem that the thought of reviewing it feels rather intimidating. I think today is as good a time as any to dip our toe into Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol. We both have a great affinity for his take on the Doom Patrol, and I think we both employed a tremendous amount of restraint in not totally derailing our topic for a several-hour gush session over his run. One fella we discussed is the (not even British!) Grant Morrison. We discussed such awesome creators as Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Brian Bolland. On this week’s installment of Weird Comics History on the Weird Science DC Comics Podcast (now with a new domain! Reggie and I discussed the British invasion of the eighties into the nineties at DC Comics.
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