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Rick Whiting
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I met Drake at an NYC Con about a year before he died. I asked him which of the recent iterations of the DP he liked best. He said that Grant Morrison "got it" the best. So, yes, it's true, Drake liked Morrison's run, it's not a mere rumor. _________________________________ Thanks for clearing that up Jason. I have a question for you. Did Drake say that he had always intended for the Chief to be evil and responsible for the accidents that gave the DP their powers?
Edited by Rick Whiting on 04 March 2010 at 11:04am
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Brian Joseph Mayer
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Does it matter? Have you never some something that someone else added to to create something better thatn what you thought?
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Jason Czeskleba
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Revealing the Chief deliberately caused the accidents which gave the DP their powers is a terrible idea, regardless of what Arnold Drake thought of it. If Drake himself had come back to write the series and had devised that plotline, it still would be a terrrible idea.
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Ed Love
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Remember, what Drake is reported as saying is that Morrison that understood what Drake was trying to do, that he "got it" which is different than saying he simply liked what Morrison was doing. Of course, what Drake doesn't say is exactly what "it" is, what he saw in Morrison's work that echoed what Drake thought was in his own and was lacking in other versions especially since Morrison's version was a complete purposeful deconstruction and destruction of all that had come before.
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Jason Czeskleba
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It's too bad no one asked Drake some more in-depth follow-up questions about exactly what he liked about the Morrison stories and disliked about the stories by other creators. But ultimately it doesn't matter. If Arthur Conan Doyle rose from the grave and said how much he loved the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes movie from last year, that wouldn't change the fact that it was an awful film.
Edited by Jason Czeskleba on 04 March 2010 at 1:43pm
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Andrew Hess
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Joakim - The newest Doom Patrol title DC produced was the one JB worked on. Whatever they're publishing now isn't the Doom Patrol.
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Jason Schulman
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I always presumed that Drake liked Morrison's DP because of how overtly strange it was. I never cared for the revelation about the Chief either, but I loved pretty much everything else about Morrison's run.
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Arc Carlton
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He might have enjoyed certain ideas more than others. That's for sure.
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Monte Gruhlke
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Looking back, I realized today that Doom Patrol was the first "outcast" group I really liked. After not finding any more of their collected works (remember those palm-sized books that gathered 3-4 issues of story?), I transitioned to X-Men, because they that the same vibe going... but not before. ;-)
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Brian Floyd
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I'm a big fan of Paul Kupperberg's DP series, myself. Never even bothered to read Morrison's series and probably never will. But one of the first super-hero comics I ever read was an issue of Super-Team Family (issue #8) that had a reprint from the original DP series in it, which is why I'm a DP fan.
Edited by Brian Floyd on 05 March 2010 at 11:35pm
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Joakim Jahlmar
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Andrew wrote:
"The newest Doom Patrol title DC produced was the one JB worked on. Whatever they're publishing now isn't the Doom Patrol." Except of course in title... which means that it is their newest DP title. Whether it contains DP is, naturally, a completely different question*. ;)
* And one which I myself am not qualified to debate, not having read it.
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