“It’s like, in this universe, we process time linearly. So, it was with great awe and recognition when I heard Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) tell the detectives interviewing him (and through them, the audience): For 20 years The Invisibles has been a secret handshake, a shibboleth, that has defined me and expanded my friendship circles. Somehow, both these two circles overlap, forming a venn diagram with Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles in that place where those universes cross.
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It’s March and I’m watching and obsessing over the HBO series True Detective whilst attempting to reduce the most important books in my life down to five for inclusion in BookPeople’s official 100 Best Books list. Not here, where the fonts are interesting yet don’t diminish the overall clarity.“It’s the same old song, but with a different meaning.”– The Four Tops Many times, when see an interesting font used, it is either distracting or unreadable. Nevertheless, Workman brings a fine eye for both interesting fonts and clear text.
At the same time, letting is a job that usually disappears into the background. It takes a lot to bring as much to a job as Workman does… and that is so important.
He has a style that lends itself to a book that includes a living street, a painting that eats Paris, and a main character whose physical appearance changes with each of her many separate personalities.Īnother standout is John Workman, the letterer. Richard Case, except for a few issues, is in charge of the pencils and never fails to bring the insanity to life. The other standout here is the rest of the creative team. The villains here are as likely to rant in quotes from philosophers or launch a metaphysical attack as they are to have a straightforward plan of any sort.Īgain, despite the odds, this all somehow works. Somehow, though, they do save the world, against a series of villains most of whom are only a touch more or less functional than the Doom Patrol members themselves. Doom Patrol becomes a collection of not just off-beat superheroes but a collection of broken individuals who can barely keep it together… let alone save the world. Might be he felt like he had to, before someone took away his toys. From page 1, it was the same destination in mind.īy contrast, Doom Patrol feels like Morrison was trying to get as many ideas out of his head as quickly as he could. And despite its length, The Invisibles felt like Morrison always knew where it was headed (even if that place might have been somewhere completely insane and totally deranged). Animal Man struck me as an attempt to sneak the crazy that Morrison is known for into a mainstream book. Much more than either Animal Man or The Invisibles, Doom Patrol feels like an episodic comic book serial.
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But, for whatever reason, Doom Patrol never made it to the top of the pile.Īfter devouring the TV show, I made some space for the comic and do not regret this at all. A while back, I made it through The Invisibles – which I loved – and I own the entirety of his Animal Man. I had read and liked his shorter works, but his longer runs have taken me more time to get into. Until recently, I had not read his run on the comic. The run of Doom Patrol I am looking at is from February 1989 through January 1993, otherwise known as issues 19-63. The show manages to be respectful to the source material without being slovenly beholden to it, and in translating it to a new medium, it adds something to the story. That show is one of the best comic book adaptations out there, which – in the golden era of comic book movies and TV – is high praise. The Doom Patrol show (currently on the DC Universe streaming service, for as long as it still exists) is heavily based on Morrison’s run. You could be forgiven for forgetting his Vertigo days with The Invisibles or even his books that helped lay the foundation for Vertigo: Animal Man and Doom Patrol. A career that is long enough that you might know him from one of his long runs from X-Men to JLA to Superman – or whatever he is doing now. Grant Morrison has a long and storied career. Looking at how having the same creator(s) on the same comic book for a long time can create some amazing stories… or can be totally overrated. Classic Comic Runs is a feature where we revisit classic, and maybe some not-so-classic, comic book runs.