These days almost all new comic titles have trouble finding its audience. JB's new Doom Patrol also seems to have also encountered this problem. Though most of us who frequent this board are JB fans, its likely not all of us are currently reading Doom Patrol. Let's try to create a win-win excercise that will help D.P. and any other comics which would benefit from more readers.

Post up the name of your favorite "in need of more readership" book. Doesn't matter which genre or publisher, so long as you think it deserves more people enjoying it. Then one of us Doom Patrol readers will agree to try out an issue of the book*. In return you try an issue of Doom Patrol or the Blood of the Demon.

Let's use this thread to also say how we liked the other's comic, and whether we will continue on with it.

A few more rules to keep things fair (which also apply to BotD)

- Current readers of DP cannot suggest a book to other DP readers.

- Non-DP readers can suggest only one title. If you want other titles to be considered then please ask friends or fans on other boards to participate and suggest those titles here.

- A DP reader cannot accept a suggestion of a title he / she is already reading.

- The "comic swap" is a one-to-one exchange. For example if Jim suggests MutantMan and Frank accepts the suggestion first, then Jane cannot also accept Jim's suggestion later on. A different person will have to propose MutantMan for Jane to accept.

* "Try out"  and "reading" means buying it from a retailer. Not from the secondary market, reading it at the shop, or downloading a bootleg !

** There has been a troll posing as "Joe Zhang" on other forums, trying to disrupt trading. Please note that Byrne Robotics the only board I post on as Joe Zhang.

I bought all the JLA DP issues, and was not impressed enough to buy the ongoing series.  Sorry, but I just did not care about the characters who were involved.  Now, Demon, I will try!

Just try one issue of Doom Patrol, and suggest a book that someone on the board hasn't tried and we'll make a swap. What have you got to lose besides three bucks? I'm willing to try something new if you guys are.

And don't forget that you are getting a much "purer" JB product with DP than you were with JLA...no Claremont scripting and Hazlewood's inks are far more faithful to JB's pencils than Ordway's were!

Rob Walker wrote: Shouldn't this thread be started on another board where most of the posters are not already reading Doom Patrol?  I don't really go to other boards but I think there are several other comic boards where this 'swap' would be more effective in increasing DP readership.

I'll be inviting folks from other boards to take a look here. All part of the plan ;)

Brendan Howard wrote: I have to give Joe Zhang credit ... he is truly passionate about making sure non-believers take a look at this book! Thanks for your efforts, Joe! Brendan Howard

I've just too much time on my hands, that's all !

I think it be a very unreasonable thing to expect everyone here to read DP - that's certainly not the idea.

When I picked up Plastic Man in a "swap" on another board, I really thought I was throwing three bucks away. I never liked Kyle Baker's inking and his pencilling even less. But I was suprised when I found I really enjoyed his Plastic Man. The guy who was supposed to pick up DP never replied, but that's OK, I found a funny, zany book I would have never considered otherwise.

I'm one of those guys who have had his fill of the spinoffs about Wolverine's cousin's mutant hairdresser and the 40-part Batman crossovers. I want to find new books to read and I think this is one fun way to go about it.

BTW, I think Doom Patrol is a $2.50 book, not $3.

Tim O'Neill wrote: I want more people to read this title for selfish reasons - I want to keep reading beyond 18 issues!

That's exactly my reason too.

Victor .R. Rodgers wrote: The only book I read is Dragonball. I try to tell people how good it is, but they look at me like I farted in church.  They do this because they saw one or two episodes of the American dub..

Victor, I'll pick up a Dragonball this Wednesday then, if you will a Doom Patrol (and the latest issue #7 seems to be the best yet, though I haven't had a chance buy a copy so far.) Which publisher is it by?

Viz publishes it. They sell it in eight dollar trade paperbacks.  They are currently at volume #32. But thats the equivilent of five normal books. Viz use to do it in a normal comic format, but the direct market wouldn't support it.

Though one thing the series is divided into two parts Dragonball and Dragonball Z (due to the tv series popularity). The Dragonball half is all good, but DBZ becomes slow around the Androids storyarc. Geez im making this more complicated than it is.

 I will pick up an issue of Doom Patrol soon. I've been looking for a monthly comic to read.