CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #7
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s…Superman?! After a gnarly battle between Team Carson and the Whisperer and his cult, Cave finds a quiet moment to reminisce about his long-ago adventures with the Big Red S. But are these just fond memories, or is there a deeper mystery afoot?
DOOM PATROL #5
The team is back together at last, though why they are back together remains an unanswered riddle. After the mind- blowing revelations of the previous issues, Casey Brinke has to figure out what this all means going forward. Or maybe it’s just the end of everything after all? Plus, Robotman punches stuff!
SHADE THE CHANGING GIRL #3
Trying to settle into her new life as an Earth girl, Shade finds the body she has taken over doesn’t have the same skills as it did when its previous inhabitant was in charge. It’s bad enough that her swim team hates her, but now she can’t perform in the water at all. Can Shade find anyone she can trust to give her guidance before the madness takes over and exposes her as an alien to the entire school?
DOOM PATROL #3 by Gerard Way, Nick Derington, and Tamra Bonvillain
Casey Brinke has stepped through to the other side-but where exactly is that? Given all the bizarre, unexplainable things that have come into her life over the last couple of days-robot men and talking ambulances and a guy who literally thrives on negative energy-surely this new and surprising world she has uncovered can’t be any weirder. Right?
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Written by Gerard Way
Art by Nick Derington
Those familiar with the writing of Gerard Way and find his choices delightful will find his incarnation of the Doom Patrol fascinating and exceeding all expectations. Issue #1 of Doom Patrol carries all the questions left to us from previous incarnations (sort of), the resurfacing of old mainstay characters (Robotman, heck yeah), and the cerebral sarcasm that comes with tying cosmic catastrophe with everyday life (The Gyro).
Doom Patrol introduces the reader to a Casey Brinke. Casey drives an ambulance and just wants to do good things. Casey explains casually her fascinating youth in day-to-day life as if it doesn’t come off like the coolest series of adventures a little kid could have had. Most importantly, Casey wants to do good things because her mother told her to do good things, right before her mother flew off into the sun.
Quick
food-related segues and analogies lead to perhaps my most favorite
reintroduction to a character ever. I
really want to get into it and chew on the meat a bit. I wouldn’t know where to
safely start or safely stop so I will not “chew” or “get into” anything. This
single issue is so well-constructed and nuanced that the segues and scene
changes fall like dominoes, one inciting incident after another, gag after
action-packed gag triggers another outrageous moment so if I started somewhere
I would have to spoil the next moment to adequately geek-out.
Nick Derington’s art reminds me of Darwyn Cooke’s character acting with Mike Allred’s line quality and pacing. It is great fun if you aren’t familiar with his other work, and it is a real treat to see him under the new Young Animal banner.
With such expert writing paired with charming art by Nick Derington the Doom Patrol are going to be getting mixed up in some weird weirdness.
Matthew Burbridge is a Digital Editor at ComiXology.
I helped to design this cover for Doom Patrol #1 with Nick Derrington on pencils/inks. Gerard Way wanted us to pay tribute to Warhol’s classic Velvet Underground album cover. True to its inspiration, this cover image is a peelable sticker that conceals a secret, which I designed.
G. Way art directed this thing pretty closely. We went through a bunch of revisions until we arrived at what he wanted. Cool guy!
It’s out September 14th from all good retailers (all the bad ones, too).
