Here are the pencils for a Doom Patrol pin-up I've been working on for a while. It's not for a commission, or for anything official. I've been a "DP" fan for a long time, even before Grant Morrison's run, which is my favorite era on the group. So this is just me drawing something I liked and wanted to draw for a while.

I basically cast my own version of the team, made up of different members from various incarnations, and redesigned them to the way I think they should look. There's The Chief, Robotman, Negative Man, and Elasti-Girl, from the original team. The Chief was pretty much the same, but I thought his chair should be something a little different from a simple wheelchair. Robotman is possibly my all-time favorite character, so I wanted him to look like a big bad-ass with a heard of gold, and wear clothing I thought he would wear (a cog T-shirt, khakis, and boots). For Negative Man, I took a bit of Nightcrawler's look from "X2", and Claude Rains' Invisible Man from the classic film. I don't remember the original NM smoking, but I wanted to throw that in there, too. The 'negative spirit' is a little more ectoplasm-y than previous versions, but I wanted to do my own version. I have to admit that I pretty much stole Elasti-Girl's look from Frank Quitely's design for Emma Frost during Morrison's run on "New X-Men". It would be colored white and red, like her original costume, but still, it's a swipe.

Mento came a bit later. I combined his original purple and black costume with his more sophisticated yellow and blue "Teen Titans" era suit.

Danny the Street (in the background) is from Morrison's days. I named him 'Danny the Street Jr.', as I was going for Danny's kid from a fling with the Pentagon or something. I tried coming up with something 'military', as he would be more military-minded and would provide a strong strategic base for the group, but I couldn't think of anything good enough. So it became just 'Junior.

Fever was from the Arcudi/Huat run. I put her in mostly because I thought she had an interesting look. I don't know anything else about her, really. I gave her more of a punk look, whereas she seemed to be more of a girl who wore track pants and sneakers in that version.

I didn't throw in anyone from the John Byrne run because, frankly, I thought the new characters blew, and none of them were really very interesting to me.

Bumblebee and Vox (formerly Guardian and Herald), because they're members of the latest group, I guess, and because I always liked them from their "Teen Titans" days and thought they were wasted there. Bumblebee's costume is a combo of her George Perez-designed costume from "TT" and the costume from the "TT" cartoon, which they now seem to have adapted to the comics. Vox's suit is my attempt to make his current costume look a little more casual. I did add throat speakers like Songbird from "Thunderbolts", just to give him a nicer look.

My favorites on the page are Robotman and Negative Man's 'negative spirit'. Hope you enjoy some part of this. Thanks for listening to my rant!


KAB

EDIT: If anyone wants to color this, feel free to ask, and I'll glad to send you the large file!