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Chad Carter
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Don't get me wrong, Joe Staton is great. I just didn't care so much for the DP stuff, though I think his Robotman is inspired (by JB apparently). 
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Paul Greer
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Never read Morrison's Doom Patrol. Never read any Doom Patrol besides JB's run. I can't compare his run to anything. But I dug it and would have liked to have seen more.
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Nathan Greno
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JB: My biggest problem with the Morrison/Brit Invasion version of DOOM PATROL. Seemed like there was crazy just for the sake of crazy. Crazy as in "Hey! Look how KA-RAAAAAZY we are!" Images in my head of people smoking dope and discovering universes in the molecules of their fingernails.
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Interesting.
I never read the book because every image of the team looked so gross and off-putting to me. I didn't feel like I would find any character to relate to... it all looked strange -- in a bad way.
I was just looking at images from the book on google... I find it all so... yuck...
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Nathan Greno
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...yuck.
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Flavio Sapha
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Richad Case's art looked...neurotic...which was...perfect for the book!
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Dave Aikins
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Yup. Everything blended into a balanced package that worked much better THAN Animal man. Now, I'm not saying everything was the peak talent in the world of comics, but it all fit the book:Bisley covers, Case interiors, Morrison story.
Geez, now I want to re-read these things... Give me a year and I'll be back to probably contradict myself... But hey, I still enjoyed Watchmen. But that's mostly cuz I think the giant mutant squid alien is funny. and Gibbons is awesome.
edited to fix bad grammar from 4 hours of sleep due to wife's stomach flu. sigh.
Edited by Dave Aikins on 23 March 2011 at 11:37am
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Gibbons IS awesome!
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Chad Carter
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Well all the Vertigo books had fugly covers. I didn't think Case's art was bad at all. Morrison's ideas were brilliantly pretentious, which I think speaks to teenagers. Just like Alan Moore's Swamp Thing work appealed so much to me at 16. I ate it up, because it "wasn't for kids." It was intellectual. I was intellectual. I believed. I read some Morrison DP and just felt it started off fairly well, kind of weird and gothic, and then went mushroom-enhanced and star-blazingly irreverent in a pretentious way.
Edited by Chad Carter on 22 March 2011 at 9:52pm
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Chad Carter
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This just gives me an excuse to show off stuff I've found online. 
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Tim Farnsworth
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Chad, I know you posted one of those Doc Shaner Doom Patrol images the other day in the movie thread, but there's a full team, poster-style splash I came across the other day that was smashing, too. Has that one made it to this thread, yet?
Re: Vertigo Covers, I myself found myself drawn to a fair number of them in the 90s. I wasn't even really reading Sandman at the time, but the covers fascinated me. And it was probably Simon Bisley's covers that got me interested in the smattering of Doom Patrol issues I bought. And Sandman Mystery Theater had great covers!
I know Vertigo's fumbled plenty of covers, too, but on the whole I think they've been really good. And nowadays you've got rockin' covers on Fables, a really slick, unified look for Y: The Last Man. They got some good stuff.
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Dave Aikins
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"Well all the Vertigo books had fugly covers."PLEASE tell me you mean just the Doom Patrol books.
cuz otherwise.....
yikes.
Actually, Morrison was done with Doom Patrol BEFORE it became an actual Vertigo book. It became Vertigo at issue 64 (Bolland cover) with writer Rachel Pollack. I quickly dropped it at that point. Many of the issues after 64 had covers by Tom Taggert. They were sculpted illustration covers...
and yeah, kinda fugly. So, yeah, if you mean the Vertigo Doom Patrol issues- technically I think you're spot-on...
It ended at issue 87.
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