Some of you know I love Magpie...
And I want to see her back in the DC universe; last time I saw her, she was running with a candlestick during the underworld unleashed crossover.
Sometimes I wonder what kind of gift would she had asked from Neron...

Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiño
Somewhere in Mexico City.

PS: I don´t believe she's dead.

She was seen in the recent Arkham Asylum mini-series.

>>Sometimes I wonder what kind of gift would she had asked from Neron...<<

Don't know, but I'll bet it would have been something pretty and shinny...

Mike O'Brien

...Give him "the return of Magpie".

:P

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"I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me

I'm more than a bird ...I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It's not easy to be me

I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me

It's not easy to be me."

Superman by Five for Fighting (Taken from "Smallville OST")
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
From Mexico City

Woah - they're right, you know. I try not to be petty, but, look, there's a whole comic out there right now that exists only to put JB's work to the lie, (ie, the Superman/Batman book) - and they've even gone so far as to state that Magpie is dead there, to, yet again, put JB's work to the lie - I'd say that Magpie should appear in DP, just to take a stand against this trend. I mean, even in a small cameo - you know, have a story begin with her being taken to jail, and that's it.

Something like that - just to show she's not dead?

Or is that too petty?

Mike O'Brien

I hope it's not too petty too!

And is not a cry for vengeance, but since when comic characters stay dead? How many times we’ve seen villains die only to return few issues later?

Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiño
Somewhere in Mexico City

Is Ultraa The Multi-Alien still alive? He's strange enough.

Shade, The Changing Man as well. The Ditko version.

I'll be happy seeing the new members and the re-intoduction for the first half year though.

The Doom Patrol were dashing, stunning people who became freaks. Larry was a pilot of experimental aircraft. Cliff was a race car driver (among other things.) Rita was an actress. Personality-wise, they weren't odd or freaky. They were kind of like the Super Handicapped Squad, with people looking at them the way people look at burn victims (no pun intended) or people in wheelchairs (no pun intended.)

To me this is the essence of why they're compelling.

I was thinking of Magpie as a bizarre enemy for the DP, not as a member...

And wasn’t she to blame for the dead and handicapped of many Gotham citizens?

There most be some people wanting a piece of this lady...


Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiño
Somewhere in Mexico City

Rita was an actress. Personality-wise, they weren't odd or freaky. They were kind of like the Super Handicapped Squad, with people looking at them the way people look at burn victim.
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I have to disagree on this a little bit. Rita was still a beautiful actress but she saw her self as a freak and weird. She was the one person (well, outside of Niles as far as we know) that could go out and still pass for normal. It was her own mind that told her she was a freak and outcast.

I also think that Rita found her purpose in being in the Doom Patrol more than the rest. Between her affection for her teammates and the fact she was out saving the world, I think Rita felt she found a place where she belonged, with these "freaks".

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Mike Nebeker - Super Genuis
Good Judgement comes from Experience
And Experience comes from... Bad Judgement

"I have to disagree on this a little bit. Rita was still a beautiful actress but she saw her self as a freak and weird. She was the one person (well, outside of Niles as far as we know) that could go out and still pass for normal. It was her own mind that told her she was a freak and outcast."
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You may be surprised to learn we don't disagree at all. I agree that she saw herself as a freak and primarily she was the only one (outside of the film community) to see herself that way. But that doesn't make her demented, deranged, mentally ill, or otherwise mentally freaky / kinky. Surely you've known someone who when looking in the mirror can see only their shortcomings.

I am concerned that the Morrison run has made it seem that you have to be a mental case to be a Doom Patrol member.

Is Magpie bizarre enough to Double Pen_____???

Yeah, I think she looks as if she is really freaky.


(Okay my lame April Fool's joke is out of the way)

:D

Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiño
Somewhere in Mexico City where we fool on december 28th.

...Give Victor "The Return of Magpie"



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"I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me

I'm more than a bird ...I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It's not easy to be me

I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me

It's not easy to be me."

Superman by Five for Fighting (Taken from "Smallville OST")
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
From Mexico City