I always liked the connection to The Doom Patrol that Gar Logan provided for the New Teen Titans. The issue where they run into Robotman still remains one of my favorites, with the cover being among the best in the series. Changeling/Beast Boy may have one of the least convincing origins in comics, but I can forgive that given his cool power set.
A power record cover from another earth if ever i saw one
ReplyDeleteA bad guy who looks like Bombu and Egg Fu had a love-child? Interesting!
ReplyDeleteJust saw an episode of Teen Titans animated with Beast Boy going home to visit the Doom Patrol. Not a lot of "grace", but some interesting concepts being played with.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, has it ever been decided if Gar could imitate Krypto and have his powers?
You want "unconvincing" origins, consider Timely's original Whizzer who gained superspeed from an injection of Mongoose blood (given to him in the hope that it would cure the poisonous snake-bite he'd just suffered)...
ReplyDeleteor Quality's Black Condor, who had gained the power of flight by being raised by giant Condors in Outer Mongolia (despite the fact that Condors in RL are purely a New World type of bird)...
:D
I've always suspected that the "mongoose" was either an Eternal or a member of Clan Destine. And maybe that giant Mongolian vulture was simply a metamorphic Homo magus! As for Richard Grey, Junior's power of flight? That would probably get him classified as a telekinetic mutant in the Marvel Universe.
ReplyDelete@Anon: legitimate hypotheses, both. In the immortal words of Jeff Christiansen?
ReplyDelete"Leave it in till it becomes canon."
@ D.T.---Animal Man has a better chance of replicating Krypto's powers.
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ReplyDelete"@ D.T.---Animal Man has a better chance of replicating Krypto's powers."
Especially after the upgrade that he received in '52', that let him copy the abilities of ANY animals ANYWHERE rather than just animals nearby: After all, if he could copy the migrational sense of something as alien as a Sun-Eater, as he then did in that story...
But can his greenness do it too?
ReplyDeleteHe'd probably have better luck changing into a Sun-eater. Then, again, if he changed into an emerald-green Talky Tawny, he might be able to further transform into Battlecat of Eternia!
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Come to think of it? Battlecat's 0-for-14 in appearing here, alongside He-Man. :-(
ReplyDeleteOne final thought re: this image. Apparently, that's supposed to be the Brotherhood of Evil's Brain in a giant android host body called "Ultimax!" But, of course, as most cover art back then was merely the illustrative version of click-bait, the depiction of Ultimax within Doom Patrol v. 1/#107 was more stereotypically robotic.
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