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So this morning I was reading what few single issues of Grant's run on DOOM PATROL I have and I found myself opening a funny little time capsule from the letter pages of Doom Patrol #60, must've been in 1992 or 93, just as the news of Grant's departure was making rounds. Two letters that made me smile.
Dear Doom Sayers,
“Aenigma Regis.” Wow. Some story, huh? Reminds me of some friends of mine (no, really, you should meet these guys over in Kingston They could even scare Grant Morrison. No, really, I mean it). All I can say is, that Grant sure is some writer. It’s going to be tough showing him up. Anyway, this is my third letter, so when do I get to write the magazine? And do I have to wear bandages? I guess my friends in Kingston could help with that.
Ready and waiting,
Rachel Pollack
Rhinebeck, NY
No, Rachel, you’re not going to write DOOM PATROL; and yes, Rachel, you have to wear bandages.
Hey,
“So anyways, I’m walkin’ down the street, right, just mindin’ my own business and thinkin’ about how often people actually use the word ‘tensile’ and whether or not we really need it in the English language, when all of a sudden I run into an old friend of mine. So we exchange pleasantries, and then he says to me, he says: ‘You still into comics?’ and I says ‘Yeah’ and he says ‘Got the new DOOM PATROL?’ and I just about have a God damn FIT when he says that, right, ‘cause that just happens to be my favorite comic and I didn’t know the new one was out.
“So I hop on the train with this guy and we go down to the local comics shop, you know, the one with the sign? So we get there and we go to the back shelf and sure enough DOOM PATROL #54 is sittin’ there. And I hear this funny kinda music, like a chorus of angels or somethin’, and it feels kinda tingly in my hands.
“So then he says: ‘Nice cover. Almost as good as that Richie Rich one a while back.’ And I nod and open it up. So I’m lookin’ through it, okay, and then he looks me square in the eye and says (this always gets me) ‘Stay here. I’m gonna check out the X-Men.’ So I’m laughin’ away at his folly and readin’ this cool comic and then it hits me: ol’ Reebie (as I like to call her) has a fur collar on her coat! What the hell? Isn’t that Scots guy who writes this thing against killin’ animals? But I don’t really care ‘cause I like the comic anyway, enough to actually buy the damned thing instead o’ just readin’ it there.
“So I get my friend and I go to buy it and the guy behind the counter looks at me like I’m somethin’ he just scraped off his shoe and says: ‘This thing’s too weird for me.’ And then he makes some crack about how shitty the art is, and that is when I snapped, man. I hit him right in the jaw and took the comic without payin’ for it. I like the art.
“There are some weird people in this world”
Grasshoppers are ticklish,
Cameron M. Stewart
(address removed)
How very tensile of you, Cameron. As superior as we feel to boobs who hate the art in DOOM PATROL, and as understandable as your actions were, we can never, ever condone taking DP without paying for it. Maybe if your dealer sells enough copies of DP, he can afford to take an art appreciation course. |
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