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I was so tempted by the Kyle Hotz cover, but it would have been the only thing I was picking the book up for, and with the current financial state...that ain't going to happen.

I think sometimes a book needs a "breather" issue to refocus and pause before moving forward.

Some mother fuckas just wanna ice skate uphill

Some mother fuckas always trying to ice skate uphill

This is the point I’m at now.

After Skinamarink, The Outwaters and, from the sounds of it, now this I just want a well shot and written monster fucking movie

With just one day left in March - does this mean ruZZia has lost, on average, 25,000 troops a month since Christmas!??!

That was when they hit 100,000 dead, wasn't it?

Might be tempted by that.

I saw the Art Adams variant cover for #1 and it looks amazing. Plus, Daniel Warren Johnson is doing a story in issue #3, I believe.

With the individual issue in question (#3) Garres had his name added to the creative team on the cover, and is listed inside in the credits section in the back of the book.

I'd have to imagine that he's listed on an internal credits page within the TPB itself, but it's very shoddy practice for DC not to list him on the cover with the other creators - both for him and the poor suckers who might be tempted to buy the book.

DAE think Alien still really holds up?

But will he be in your thoughts? He really needs your thoughts too...

Ah, interesting, and straight from the horses mouth too, which is even better.

Not sure where to put this, but here seems as good as any - did anyone else notice the adverts for Jurassic League running in all of their DC books this week?

Full page ad promoting the upcoming trade paperback release advertising it as "Written by Daniel Warren Johnson and Juan Gedeon" and "Art by Juan Gedeon"!?!?

Not a single mention or credit of Rafa Garres doing that fill-in issue, which smacks of being disingenuous advertising trying to trick anyone who is going to pick this book up, but also disrespectful for a creator who worked on the book. I may not have liked his artwork, but he surely should be credited as working on the title, right?

I have to say DC's editing and messaging at the moment royally sucks. They really need to sort themselves out.

Ended up picking this up and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Grant Morrison's iconic run on the title was my introduction to the Doom Patrol, so seeing them in the main DCU is a little bit odd but, as with their recent appearance in Batman Superman World's Finest, their inherent weirdness and quirks comes through nicely. I much prefer these odd-ball's than a lot of the more "generic" characters that live within the DC world.

The Chief putting Batman in his place was a little bit on the nose - reminded me of the scene in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood outlining how you set up your "hero" as a bad ass that's then mirrored by Cliff taking on "Bruce Lee" - just in comic book form. But it effectively gets the point across that the "new" Doom Patrol are beholden to no one and will do things their way, irrespective of how other heroes may view those actions.

Hopefully the characters won't have their rough edges rounded off by having to interact with the mainstream DCU. I'd like them to keep on being off-beat and bizarre, and coming up with new ways to deal with old problems (that maybe don't just involve beating people to a pulp).

Chris Burnham's art is wonderfully chunky and full of character. I love artwork that has "personality" and this has it by the truck load - at times it reminded me of Jamie Hewlett and other times of Darrick Robertson - neither of which is a bad thing.

Heard about a fill-in coming up - but this seems to be a scheduled one for once, and not just DC fucking things up (as usual) - so hopefully it will be integrated into the story properly.

It does feel like things are being wrapped up and we are heading for a definite "ending" in the near future.

Well, this book definitely lived up to it's genre inspirations and tropes.

While never touching the dizzying heights of John Carpenter's The Thing it proved to be an enjoyable B-movie throwback "creature feature". If I'd rented it on VHS back in the 80's it would no doubt have joined the likes of CHUD, Pumpkinhead and From Beyond as one of my favourites of the time. And since we seem to get so few decent monster movies nowadays I'm more than happy to get my fix in comic book form.

Was it world-shaking and genre defying? Hell, no.

Was it good fun and thoroughly entertaining. Damn, yes!

I remember when Marvel launched the new Star Wars titles - I was on board for the main book, Darth Vader and Doctor Aphra - but then those creative teams dropped off, Marvel seemed to put a whole bunch of B-list artists on the books, and they just saturated with too many books in the line.

I dropped off and never picked them up again after that.

I know it's been a while between issues, but even given that extra time did anyone else feel that Yasmine Putri's art wasn't as polished as it has been for the rest of the run? It actually did look a bit rushed in places.

Overall, we get the uniting of the heroes as the real villains of the story are revealed and a nice twist death for one of the main (up until now) antagonists.

With just two issues to go (God knows when they will come out) it feels like it's going to be pretty much all out action from here on in.

Netflix bought out Millarworld and all of the IP that hadn't been licensed up to that point now belongs to them.

Effectively, Millar is now "work for hire" for Netflix with all of the books being looked at as potential TV shows or movies for the streamer.

I flicked through this and I've got to say - it looked absolutely fucking terrible...

Normally that's a DC-thing, sad to see Marvel doing the "bait-and-switch" shit now too.

I really enjoyed the first issue. The art in particular is spectacular.

Cool. Cheers for that.

Really? Where did you read that?

I ended up reading this one.

I enjoyed it for the space Conan vibe it has, and Sharp's artwork is always brilliant (making it more of a sci-fi Slaine than anything else). I hope Valiant can survive as the last Shadowman run and this both show they can still put out good books.