Comics Syllabus

Thursday’s Throwback is the Doom Patrol Omnibus from DC Comics. @TwoPlai talks about ways to approach this significant, profound, and sometimes impenetrable run of Grant Morrison and Richard Case's Doom Patrol. Let’s dig deep. Images at http://thepaullist.com/post/152775259605/doom-patrol-omnibus-by-grant-morrison-and-richard Great (some spoilery) pieces on Doom Patrol or Morrison– The British Invasion by Greg Carpenter: http://sequart.org/books/26/the-british-invasion-alan-moore-neil-gaiman-grant-morrison-and-the-invention-of-the-modern-comic-book-writer/ RFT with Mike Phillips: http://robotsfromtomorrow.libsyn.com/episode-344-sequarts-mike-phillips Sequart pieces on Doom Patrol (unfin ished) by Desmond White: http://sequart.org/magazine/39773/grant-morrison%E2%80%99s-doom-patrol-a-companion-reader/ Noah Berlatsky in the Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/doom-patrol/360616/ Douglas Wolk in LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-grant-morrison-201