The explanation for this cover is actually almost as extra as the cover itself…Detective Chimp tried to find a spell to bring his dead best friend back to life but he was so drunk when he did it that he left the magical realm he was meant to be defending FULL OF SKELETONS
Maybe it’s me. Maybe I have the wrong idea about Detective Chimp, because I first became aware of him when there was a photo on a wall of detectives in an issue where Scooby-Doo crossed over with Batman and Robin. So he gets involved in this issue and there’s Diana and Swamp Thing (?) and I come to find out someone put him in charge of a magical realm and he’s nursing a broken heart and a fifth and now there’s skeletons and some blue asshole is going to axe him a few questions. And I’m just like. How? Why? What’s wrong with being Saturday Morning??
IDK if it helps to make things better and happier or not but the story does end with him saving the day thanks to the Power of Friendship from Diana who believes in his basic heroic chimp goodness and him realising that he needs to not try and run away from his problems and it quite a wholesome tale despite its grimness at the start <3
And it has a cute and precious lesbian bartender making friends with a mutant science bat so that is neat :)
Important Question: is the Criminal Cosmos a cosmos that is full of criminals
Or is it a sentient cosmos that does a lot of bank robbery and telemarketing?
This being Doom Patrol, the latter actually seems more likely than the former…
Why not both?
BOTH IS GOOD :D
I also love how despite his funky Super Science helmet and his lofty status as “King of the Criminal Cosmos” rather than attack Cliff with Weird Rays or some kind of alien army on this cover Zarox just launches himself at him with an expression like someone angry about the fact someone just spilled their pint and smacks him with a giant green space fist O.O
Wait a minute… green space fist… green space hand…
I’m not sure if things make more or less sense now, but I am sure that that’s a crossover I’d like to see
I mean we know that the Star Trek universe takes place in the same continuity as a version of the 80′s Transformers cartoon now thanks to IDW so why not the Doom Patrol :D
CONGRATULATIONS TO SANDRA OH, WINNER OF 2019 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS BEST ACTRESS IN TV DRAMA she is now the first asian woman to win golden globes in multiple categories
i like korras wintery look so i kept the baggy pants and fur !! her spider symbol is raava ofc and her webs are water based so that means she can freeze them too 👀👀
asamis outfit is more sleek/skintight to contrast w korras !! her spider symbol is gear shaped and she can electrocute her webs like her equalist gloves ! ALSO IDK HOW asami fits all her thicc gorgeous hair into her mask but she just can LOL
As much as I complain about James Tynion, I’ll forever be thankful for Victoria October’s existence, as well as the canonization of Harper Row & Cassandra Cain pining for each other.
<3 Quality additions <3
We need more Victoria October and hella bisexual Harper Row in the Bat-comics right now :)
And I’m not about to let you destroy a priceless antique clock on my watch!
Oh…and I guess I’ll prevent the murder of one of my fellow superheroes as well…maybe…I mean if there’s time…
‘And Motor Man makes three’ Talk about a third wheel amirite?
And you never say Put ‘X’ down to someone wielding a heavy object. They will more than likely say ‘I’ll put it down alright’ and then smack you in the head with it
Right?
Peter your leaving yourself wide open to a “Very poor choice of words!” moment of supervillain fuckery here O.O
Fun fact: Meteor Man renamed himself “The Looter” in this story and went on to become quite possibly one of the most hillariously nonsensical villains Peter has ever faced thanks to his Meteor Crimes and his belief that the meteorite that gave him his powers is some kind of sentient alien being
Which he might actually be right about O.o
I swear that said Motor I cannot read today
Ever since Venom crashed in that spaceship everyone’s been really friendly to things falling from space
Awwwww it’s okay I knew what you meant!
And right?
Sadly the meteor that Norton G Fester, aka the METEOR MAN did not give him a symbiote friend to pal around with but rather just made him both super strong and a very violent kleptomaniac O.O
He had bad luck with meteors
Are they fighting in a hallway, or is that room just really skinny?
It’s the economy…this was the biggest store that the propietors of this antique clock shop were able to rent to sell their wares…
J Jonah Jameson: “SPIDER-MAN is KILLING the Antique Store industry!”
That would absolutely be the headline. (Actually, that would be fun to see - a Spider-Man comic where the cover is the front page of a Daily Bugle newspaper, the title is the headline of that newspaper, and the narration is literally just Jameson telling us what he thinks happened while we see the actual events unfolding. Has that been done yet?)
There was a story where the same event is shown from different perspectives and one of them is Jonah’s which is played for comedy but that’s the closest I can think of…
I’d love to see an issue like this happen…it would be hillarious seeing just how little the Bugle’s um…”Reporting” reflects what actually happened….
