The Comics Canon

Episode 31 - Doom Patrol: Crawling From the Wreckage


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In this episode, Curt and Kevin take a break from titanic teens, movie misanthropes and murderous mutants to tackle a truly uncanny topic: Grant Morrison's twisted take on the "World's Strangest Heroes" with a discussion of Crawling From the Wreckage, collecting issues 19-25 of The Doom Patrol, published by DC Comics! Cliff "Robotman" Steele checks into a psychiatric hospital following the near-destruction of the misfit superteam the Doom Patrol. But he soon joins forces with an intersexual spirit-being and a super-powered woman with multiple personalities to prevent an incursion into our reality by the bizarre metafictional menace of the Scissormen! Can this newly reconstituted Doom Patrol survive a trip to Orqwith, the City of Bone, and an encounter with the seemingly all-powerful Red Jack, who may or may not have once been Jack the Ripper? And can they gain admittance to that strange society of freaks and geeks known as … The Comics Canon? Things Discussed in This Episode: • Jan Švankmajer • Struwwelpeter, Little Suck-a-Thumb and the great, red, long-legged scissorman • There Is a Mountain by Donovan • The Ruling Class • What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton • John Workman and Richard Case • China Mieville • Greg Berlanti, get on that Doom Patrol CW show, stat! • The Insult That Made a Man Out of "Mac" • The Painting That Ate Paris • The League of Regrettable Superheroes • From Hell That's it for this episode – join us in two weeks as we discuss the origins of Marvel's space-faring misfits, the Guardians of the Galaxy! Until then, please rate us on iTunes, send us an email, or hit us up on Twitter or Facebook, and we may read your comments in an upcoming episode. And as always, thanks for listening!
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