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Dec. 18th, 2009 08:33 pmToday has been much better than yesterday. Which is a good thing, really.
Today, I have been thinking about Doom Patrol and how it is basically one of the best things ever. It is one of the few comics that I have both in trades and in scans on my computer because, y'know, sometimes I am travelling but sometimes I am right here and my comics are all the way across the room. Heh. Also, what if I wanted to lend it to people?
Occasionally, I consider reading Doom Patrol comics that aren't by Grant Morrison. I have some downloaded - both very early Doom Patrol and very recent Doom Patrol - but I'm kinda hesitant about both of them because, y'know, there is no Rebis. And Rebis is my favorite. In the early ones, he is still being Larry Trainor/Negative Man and while I'm sure that they are fun in a '60's comics kinda way, they are obviously not my Doom Patrol. And later, apparently John Byrne happened and retconned my Doom Patrol away? Jerkface. Possibly after Infinite Crisis, both Larry Trainor and Rebis are in existence? I don't know. Comics are very confusing and I try to stay away from Crises if possible.
Anyway. There are a great many things I love about Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol. I love Cliffe and Crazy Jane and Dorothy Spinner and Danny the Street. I love the Brotherhood of Dada and the Painting that ate Paris. I love the Scissormen and Orqwith and Red Jack. I love Flex Mentallo and the Pentagon and the Ant Farm. I love the weird of it. But most of all, I love Rebis. Because Rebis is fantastic. I love that it has completely inhuman motivations, that it practices crying in case it needs to know how, that it won't answer to either Larry or Eleanor but only Rebis. I love that it calls itself an ourobourus and thinks of itself as a matryoshka. I even love Rebis-on-the-moon, which is quite possibly the pinnacle of WTF in the whole Morrison run.
They are great comics and Rebis is awesome.
And that is what I am thinking about tonight.
Today, I have been thinking about Doom Patrol and how it is basically one of the best things ever. It is one of the few comics that I have both in trades and in scans on my computer because, y'know, sometimes I am travelling but sometimes I am right here and my comics are all the way across the room. Heh. Also, what if I wanted to lend it to people?
Occasionally, I consider reading Doom Patrol comics that aren't by Grant Morrison. I have some downloaded - both very early Doom Patrol and very recent Doom Patrol - but I'm kinda hesitant about both of them because, y'know, there is no Rebis. And Rebis is my favorite. In the early ones, he is still being Larry Trainor/Negative Man and while I'm sure that they are fun in a '60's comics kinda way, they are obviously not my Doom Patrol. And later, apparently John Byrne happened and retconned my Doom Patrol away? Jerkface. Possibly after Infinite Crisis, both Larry Trainor and Rebis are in existence? I don't know. Comics are very confusing and I try to stay away from Crises if possible.
Anyway. There are a great many things I love about Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol. I love Cliffe and Crazy Jane and Dorothy Spinner and Danny the Street. I love the Brotherhood of Dada and the Painting that ate Paris. I love the Scissormen and Orqwith and Red Jack. I love Flex Mentallo and the Pentagon and the Ant Farm. I love the weird of it. But most of all, I love Rebis. Because Rebis is fantastic. I love that it has completely inhuman motivations, that it practices crying in case it needs to know how, that it won't answer to either Larry or Eleanor but only Rebis. I love that it calls itself an ourobourus and thinks of itself as a matryoshka. I even love Rebis-on-the-moon, which is quite possibly the pinnacle of WTF in the whole Morrison run.
They are great comics and Rebis is awesome.
And that is what I am thinking about tonight.
