See the thing is, you literally don't understand how reviews work given how you keep parroting the same shite over and over. I mean you're persecution regrading a slightly negative review that still talked up the book has lead you to cry about anti-DC bias on any number of comic articles. I think you misunderstood,…

Bias is implicit in the very act of reviewing, if you don't understand that it might explain why you get so antsy when DC books get even the most basic of criticism rather than faux reviews in the form of "The Flash did this, there was a call-back to a better issue under another writer, someone fought" reviews.

Bias is implicit in reviews, each of the reviews here feature the personal opinion from various people. The fact that they came down as slightly negative about certain aspects of Doom Patrol does not mean that the site is playing favourites.

I mean if you actually bothered to read any of the reviews featured above outside the one DC book you'd see they feature more than blanket praise but your persecution complex regarding DC books got in the way of that.

They aren't shitting on mainstream reviews, they just aren't giving them the blanket praise you want them to. The point of the comparisons to Morrison's Doom Patrol is that Way is drawing a hell of a lot from it, you really need to ignore a whole lot to pretend that his influence isn't all over a book that is pretty…

Big claim with little back up, in fact it's so blatantly just you being upset that Oliver didn't entirely sing the praise of the book.. Way's Doom Patrol does have a different feel to Morrison's run but you'd have to be wilful blind or reading from a wikipedia article about the latter to actually claim his influence…

It's impossible to do a review without bias, there's nothing in the review to suggest Oliver hasn't been reading the book only that he's drawn a different conclusion regarding it than you have, indeed the entire basis of your complaint lies in the fact that he disagrees with you about it.

I can't disagree more, the AV Clubs coverage of mainstream titles is refreshingly free of the cloying fanboyism that defines so much of comics journalism. If the medium wants to be perceived as more than cheap dreck it needs to be able to deal with criticism that goes beyond the basics.

Crazy Jane and Danny the Street are Morrison originals.

I don't agree that it's a mess but it's lacking the clear drive but there's still enough there to keep my interested.

Hernandez did a variant for the first issue, I was lucky enough to get it. Flex Mentallo in his style is to die for.
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Yeah I fully understand it's place in a lot of people's hearts, just Hal and Green Lantern's outside of a larger team context don't do a lot for me on top of Johns as a writer.

I'll treasure any work that has characters just sit down and take the time to talk over their issues when it makes sense. Plus that final issue revisiting "the real world" fucking great stuff.

I think Johns is a bad writer outside of his JSA work and Stars and Stripes and a few of his Wally centric stories so this is probably a big source of difference on this front. His attempt at pushing Hal back into the spotlight really brings out what I see as his worst tendencies as a writer, his characterisation of…

Plus Morrison and Pollack really run with the notion of thematic follow ups to the original DP. You can have bandage wrapped figures, bestial children and people with normal powers that are treated as freaks because of psychological; issues or society without digging up the corpses of Larry* and Rita.

I think Cliff is an encapsulation of the group as it should be, odd to look at, maybe a bit gruff but fundamentally good people doing the right thing.

Waid maybe, McDuffie could have had a good run but DC fucked his run with various tie-ins, events and so on. Morrison really set the gold standard for the League and sadly everything since then has constantly opted for that bullshit "core seven" direction.

Yeah I find Olvier's focus on smaller indie titles refreshing given how much of a sway cape books hold on most comic related sights, the narrow focus that the big two get even at the expense of other companies putting out superhero fair really undersells how much can be done with the medium.

It's still different enough that it's worth sticking with for the moment, especially while Kate Kane goes through the arduous process of becoming just another Batfamily member.

I assuming he'll appear as an ally at first and then when the "Evil" German's are stopped some hapless British type will turn out to have been the real mastermind all along. That way they can do a by the numbers black and white morality tale set during WW1 while pretending to treat the war with depth.