Cover Story - Top 10 Silver Age Doom Patrol Covers

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The Doom Patrol, the world’s strangest heroes, have you ever heard of these folks?  I’d bet not for most folks though I honestly have no idea how comic booky my readership is.  Regardless, even as a fan of the Patrol they’ve always been a pretty firmly entrenched C-level property in the backlog of DC Comics superheroes which makes their upcoming streaming show on DC Universe, produced by Greg Berlanti, a real surprise- but a good surprise like twins or a tax rebate.  

To celebrate their ascendance to the small screen and the fact the Doom Patrol show actually looks pretty good and very well cast (putting it ahead of its contemporary Titans) I thought we’d look back at the top 10 Doom Patrol comic covers, specifically drawing from the Silver Age version of the team in the ‘50s and ‘60s because they had the superior cover artwork (sorry fans of the ‘80s Morrison series, I won’t apologize to fans of the John Byrne 2000s comic as I’m unconvinced such people exist but I’m sure we’ll end up talking about that series sooner or later.) 

Comics Rainbow - Apes

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2017 seems to truly be the Age of the Ape.  Apes and Monkeys have always occupied a pretty unique place in the nerd culture pantheon.  They’re not like ninjas or zombies who defined an era before fading away into the collective nerd background noise, and they’re not like superheroes, which just sit atop the pop culture soil like permafrost.  Instead, apes tend to pop up sporadically as pop cultural touchstones that just stand as enduring monuments, like King Kong or Mighty Joe Young or the Planet of the Apes.  

The truth extends to comics as well as everything else, a medium that was once editorially mandated to feature a certain number of gorillas a month.  Given that love of ape characters the annals of comic history are flush with some fan favorites, underappreciated gems, and complete misfire ape characters and today I give you the full spectrum on all of them. 

Nameless #5 Review

I look at the latest issue of famed author Grant Morrison's out there Image Comic series Nameless over on All-Comic.com: http://all-comic.com/2015/nameless-5/

Panel Vision - DC Universe Decisions

Edited by Robert Beach

In case you don’t live in the US, we’re in the midst of gearing up for one of the most overblown and ludicrous election cycles in recent memory. To be fair, the last 2 US Presidential elections have been fairly larger than life in their own way. In 2012, the election was dominated by the heroic confluence of Mitt Romney memes and jokes, and in 2008 the whole world seemed to have caught Obama fever. That latter one is also probably owed to the election falling smack dab in the middle of 4 years of major technological and cultural upheaval. 

At the time, stuff like Facebook and iPhones were supremely new and the crossover of Internet culture into mainstream culture was in its earliest stages. Combine that with the introduction of an all-new Presidential administration ushering in a new political ethos and lexicon and everyone and their brother were desperate to link themselves to the election in some way. As you’d expect comics quickly got in on the act and none were more bizarre or embarrassing than today’s topic: DC Universe – Decisions.