Category: Comics

Top Ten Who’s Who gives insights into the characters from Alan Moore and Gene Ha’s terrific ensemble cast cop series set in a surreal city where everyone is a superhero.

Also, under their entry for Shock Headed Peter, are several links to Heinrich Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter , a ghastly “classic children’s story” (actually a series of horror fables in verse about misbehaving children). The entry points out that one of these, The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb, inspired the villains in Grant Morrison’s first issue of Doom Patrol:

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…

Warren Ellis is going to get this girl to redesign one of his websites. Her personal info page had a link to this Alan Moore Fan Site which looks semi-promising.