For those of you who don't subscribe to this (the best overview of comics since Bart Beatty stopped doing his Previews dissection on comix@) I htought I'd let you have the verdict on the new Doom Patrol:
Doom Patrol #1 (£1-80) by John Byrne. Giving the most reactionary man in comics a title on which Grant Morrison performed such mischievous, marvellous and irreversible alchemy is like handing over the ULTIMATES to Stan The Nan Lee (sic). The results are inevitably going to be backwards. Don't believe me? Have a dose of dialogue:
"Omigosh!! RITA!"
"What in...?"
"We told you guys to stay with the flyer. Why..."
"Never mind that! What the heck is happening?"
Or how about:
"My audio detectors are picking up moaning...?"
"Oh no! Chief!!"
"More of those damn vampires!!"
"How did the get here? No one knows about this place except..."
"That was my doing, smart guy."
From the school of 1970. Perfect for 50-year-olds in nappies. |
