Nir‘s vocal band, Funkapella are going to play the Eilat Jazz Festival.
Nir has prepared a publicity poster for the occasion, with the members of the band as superheros:
Of course, I immediately identified the underlying characters as members of the latest and perhaps most obscure incarnation of the Doom Patrol. Writer John Arcudi’s main innovation in this remake of a remake of a wonderful, surreal remake of a remake of a remake of a classic “bizzare superhero” comic is his (remake of) the character of Negative Man: Unlike his predecessors, Negative Man from the original Doom Patrol and Negative Woman from the 2nd Doom Patrol, he doesn’t have any weird anti-matter nega-energy powers; he’s just a guy that’s really negative about everything…