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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-09 23:16:00

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creator: keith giffen, creator: kevin maguire, group: doom patrol, group: metal men, publisher: dc comics, title: doom patrol

The Metal Men second feature
People have posted from issues of the new Doom Patrol series, and it's good stuff, but so far we've all been neglecting the Metal Man second feature. That's unfortunate because it's also good stuff.

It's Giffen/DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire doing superhero humor. C'mon, there are two or three fans of that sort of thing in these parts, right?

Tin crashed the van during his driver's license test last issue, so the gang's taking a cab...

Tin springs into the building, while Magnus takes the stairs.

And a bit of the Doom Patrol front feature, as well, while I'm at it...:

(Does anyone recognize the name "Teiresian" from anywhere?)

I'm finding that the tonal contrast between the two features makes for a really nice balance.

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kamino_neko
2009-11-11 12:44 pm UTC (link)

To give you some examples of the characterization (and further explain why the writing hasn't impressed me so far)...

Mercury's not particularly egotistical. He's just a jerk. And obsessed with Douglas, Robot Hunter.
Gold, on the other hand...has become a walking ego. In issue 2, he calls himself 'The World's Greatest Superhero'. And seems genuinely shocked when Tina is kind of gobsmacked by that.
Copper's only consistent character trait is being so forgettable that everyone - including Doc and Tin - are quite able to forget she's there, sometimes while talking to her. In issue 1, Tina actually manages to do so while defending her. That got old real fast. (About the third time it came up in issue 1.)

Iron has barely showed up, and Lead isn't too bad...certainly better than the glacial slowness of the version in that Superman/Batman arc with the OMAC.

They, Tina and Tin all have their dominant character notes intact, if not always executed well (Tina actually comes across as a vaguely dangerous stalker, not an annoyance), at least.

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	psychop_rex 2009-11-11 01:16 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, sounds a bit off, all right. I own a copy of 'Metal Men Achives, Vol. 1' - one of these days, I'll post something from it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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