The Comics Canon

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, long, red-legged scissorman
• There Is a Mountain
• The Ruling Class
• What the Butler Saw
• 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!

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