All-New Doop

X-Statix (Collected Editions) #7.5

by Peter Milligan, Mike Allred (Illustrator), David Lafuente (Illustrator)

Living in the margins, Doop has freaked out X-Men and readers alike. But when he gets deeply involved in X-Men business — and Kitty Pryde’s personal life! — Doop will be thrust into the spotlight! Behind the scenes of Battle for the Atom, Doop’s unrequited love for Kitty forces him to drag Iceman into Doopspace for some highly unusual questioning. Doop soon discovers the shapeshifting Raze isn’t really Kitty Pryde from the future — but Raze has a dark secret that just might stop Doop from telling the other X-Men his true identity! Now, Doop must struggle to halt the craziness corrupting the real world! As Kitty and Doop find themselves in the middle of the scariest moment of their lives with no one to turn to, will Kitty finally accept Doop’s proposal of…marriage?

Collecting: All-New Doop 1-5

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, X Men, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book

112 pages, Paperback

First published October 21, 2014

About the author

Librarian note:
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo series Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.

He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.

His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relaunched as X-Statix.

Many of Milligan's best works have been from DC Vertigo. These include: The Extremist (4 issues with artist Ted McKeever) The Minx (8 issues with artist Sean Phillips) Face (Prestige one-shot with artist Duncan Fegredo) The Eaters (Prestige one-shot with artist Dean Ormston) Vertigo Pop London (4 issues with artist Philip Bond) Enigma (8 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo) and Girl (3 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo).

Series:
* Human Target
* Greek Street
* X-Force / X-Statix

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 1 out of 5]

Whuuuuut?
I don't get it.

I've heard that Doop is funny in other comics, so I'm going to assume he's like Deadpool. Amazing when he comes into other titles, but (more often than not) a total miss in a title that he carries.

So, this is Doop, huh?


He lives in the margins (whateverthefuckthatmeans), and he was created because someone doodled him on a sheet of paper, at one point.
Somehow, that horseshit translates into: Doop can time travel!
Uuuuuuuugh.

Ok, part of me wants to congratulate Milligan on how meta (or whatever) it was of him to have Doop be responsible (behind the scenes) for the whole stand-off thing between the All-New X-Men, Future X-Men, and Regular Old Vanilla X-Men.
You know, where the kids from the future decide to stay here in the past?



But most of this story hinged on your love of nonsense to keep it flowing.
Now, I love nonsense as much as the next fella, but even I reach my hard limit eventually.



The freaky marriage proposal to Kitty Pryde with a ring made of rotten meat?
Taking her to the Hairy Armpit restaurant?
Sure, it sounds funny, but the reality of reading issue after issue of that is muchmuchmuch different.
To break up the monotony, Doop also deals with Mommy Issues, hangs out with a group of retired superheroes who live in the Margin, and has a nervous breakdown that (left unchecked) could DESTROY THE UNIVERSE!
Because we all know what happens when you lose touch with reality...



That's right, you end up licking construction tools, and wondering why your boyfriend left you for 'That Sane Girl'.

Would I recommend this to you?
Well, I guess that depends on whether I like you or not.

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Doop!

I went into this book with an inexplicable affinity for Doop, and the story did nothing to dissuade me.

This little green potato dude made his debut in Peter Milligan's X-Force run. He was just a goofy little character who, aside from a full issue feature somewhere in X-Force volume 2, seemed perfectly content to live on the fringe.

All-New Doop takes that idea further, introducing us into Doop's home in the "margins" of reality. From here, in the dimension called Marginalia, Doop is able to travel to points throughout time and space, leading to all sorts of wackiness! I wasn't crystal clear on everything that was happening, but that's probably because I just need more time to process everything.

If you like your stories a little on the meta side, and overwhelmingly on the silly side, you might enjoy this one.

[Gavin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read in conjunction with DD week...D for Doop. Dumb, Dimwitted, Dullard, De-tarded, dispicable, displaced, depressing, desperate, etc.



Doop was a pleasant Lillie addition to the Wolverine and the X-Men book by Jason Aaron, comic relief and inside jokes, but not a focus very often.

I guess he was a hit, so they decided to make a book about him...oh that was a baaad idea.

He's the summary: what rhymes with Doop? Poop. What's a synonym for Poop? Shit. This book is what? Yup.

Art stinks, story is just a suggestion here, not and actual plot, and they make Doop into a creepy voyeur who obsesses over Kitty. He videotapes everything, and then slides through the margins (because he's a MARGINAL character, get it?) to help? Or just manipulate events. He also has a terrible storyline where he discovers that his mother is actually an asexual hermaphrodite. Oh that's so funny! Hahaha someone is different! Also, early on, they let Doop speak English, which kinda takes away any need to be clever at all. This is a big fat turd of a book.


Doop is Poop.

[Sam Quixote · Rating 1 out of 5]

Doop is this weird green potato-like creature who kinda looks like Marvel’s version of Slimer. So why care about this character? He played a wonderful supporting role in Jason Aaron’s Wolverine and the X-Men and his single issue in the spotlight (#17) was one of the most talked about and praised in the run.

I think it was solely because of Aaron’s series that led to Marvel commissioning All-New Doop, a five issue miniseries written by Doop’s co-creator, Peter Milligan, with covers by Doop’s other co-creator Mike Allred. And I was really, really looking forward to it too – I thought it was going to be one of the highlights of the second wave of Marvel NOW! - which is why I was so disappointed with how it turned out.

At the time of writing, only three issues have been published with two more to go, but I’m not going to be reading those so here are my reviews of All-New Doop #2 and #3 from my blog posted below. Why no review of #1? I think I couldn’t be bothered or maybe I was too shocked at how bad it was. Anyways, onto the reviews:

*

All-New Doop #2 Review

When the Doop mini-series was announced, I couldn’t wait because I thought it’d be more of that brilliance we saw in that single issue from Wolverine and the X-Men when Jason Aaron showed us a day in the life of Doop. That awesomeness has been sorely lacking from this mini-series which has - completely bizarrely! - chosen to retell the Battle of the Atom storyline from last year with Doop popping up in between sections of that arc.

Why, why, whyyyyyyyyy, Peter Milligan?!

There is one curveball in here and that’s Doop falling in love with, and proposing to, Kitty Pryde after learning to talk English. This issue shows them on their first date which hits the bricks once Doop reveals that he’s secretly video-taping everyone.

I get that Doop’s existence is between the margins of more popular characters and bigger stories, which is explained in this comic, and that having him pop up in between the Battle of the Atom storyline underlines that idea, but again: why?

Why repeat an X-Men storyline from last year (and not even a very good one)? Why not do something original or different? Do we need to have Doop’s perspective on this storyline? No! His angle changes nothing about the story, and the cliffhanger of this issue means nothing because, to those of us who read the Battle of the Atom storyline months ago, we already know what happens next!!

I love Mike Allred’s covers, I think David Lafuente’s art is really good, but I hate Peter Milligan’s script - it’s so awful, unimaginative and tedious, I can’t believe it got greenlit!

Two issues in and the Doop miniseries is turning out to be the biggest disappointment in the second wave of Marvel NOW! titles. The worst of it is, I don’t think it’ll get better - I think this is all there is to this series: Milligan retelling the Battle of the Atom storyline for some mystifying reason.

Doop deserved better.

*

All-New Doop #3 Review

It’s just a five issue miniseries but I think #3 is the end of the line for me – All-New Doop has been so bad I can’t read any more!

Initially it was a retelling of Battle of the Atom with Doop and Kitty lurking around the edges (or Doopspace, the margins of the story) and now it’s about Doop facing his mother… for some reason.

After a “battle” with Raze, the future offspring of Wolverine and Mystique, Raze reveals that he somehow knows a terrible secret about Doop’s mum. Oh yeah, and Doop has a mum! Wha..? Doop goes into an emotional tailspin because he apparently doesn’t get along with Mama Doop, but not before making sure Kitty and Bobby break up because he wants Kitty all to himself even though she’s turned him down multiple times (nothing like giving the hero a stalker attitude to make you root for him!). Doop’s momentarily reunited with his former X-Statix team-mate, Tike Alicar the Anarchist, who talks him into confronting his mum.

And that’s the issue. One big “what the fuck is going on?!”.

Is that what this whole miniseries has been about – exploring some weird mummy issues Doop has? Ugh.

I know Peter Milligan created Doop with Mike Allred but he completely screwed the pooch on this one (though Allred’s covers have been amazing). His Doop miniseries has been one long wasted opportunity and totally boring to boot. It’s so crappy, I can’t bear to buy and read the remaining two issues to see whether Doop and his mum get along – I just don’t care!

If you want to read a great Doop comic, check out Jason Aaron’s Wolverine and the X-Men #17 and ignore Peter Milligan’s tripe.

[Ignacio · Rating 2 out of 5]

Este tebeo me funciona (un poco) cuando más lejos se mantiene de la continuidad de Marvel de 2014 (que, sin ser difícil de entender, tampoco entiendo del todo XD). Son escasos momentos, cuando se acerca a Doop y su curioso (o ridículo) origen. Lástima que después vuelvan los X-Men y Milligan se pierde en lo que nunca puso en riesgo en su etapa de X-Force/X-Statix: esa pertenencia a un universo creativo ajeno a las coordenadas de su creación. El dibujo de David Lafuente bastante bien.

[Mike]

See reviews by Anne & Sam.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The idea of a mini-series surrounding Doop never really seemed like a good idea, but All-New Doop is actually far better than I expected it to be. It threads in and out of the Battle Of The Atom crossover, revealing information about Doop that we never learned in X-Statix (not that we learned anything about Doop in X-Statix), and also manages to be relevant to the crossover without being necessary reading.

It provides some further impetus for Kitty Pryde's decision at the end of that story, coated with the usual Doop-ness of Doop. It's very daft, but it's got a surprising amount of heart, even if that heart's in a green gooey body. I never felt like I was reading something that had just been made for the sake of it - Peter Milligan may send up all sorts of crossover tropes during the story, but that doesn't mean he doesn't care about what he's writing about. And he squeezes some X-Statix cameos in, because of course.

The artwork's a bit all over the place, with three artists (David La Fuente, Jacopo Camagni, and Marco Santagati) all sharing the five issues. None of them really gel particularly well, but they do an okay job of telling the story Milligan is aiming for, even if it's all a bit chunky.

All-New Doop is a book that I expect most people didn't bother with, and I don't blame them, but it's actually not a bad read at all. If you're reading Battle Of The Atom again sometime soon, give Doop a look.

[Russell · Rating 3 out of 5]

I first came aware of Doop in the early 2000's when Morrison's NXM run pushed me into comics and I tried to learn everything I could about everything. I never got the chance to read X-Statix, but Doop is the type of character who you look at and instantly want to know more.

I was glad to see Doop rescued for Jason Arron's X-men run and even more glad to see this at the library. Had to get it. No clue where or when it took place, but Milligan/Allred's names stuck out.

I haven't read the books that it references, but I am very much okay with that. It helps with Doop's Zeppo episode of Buffy powers to not really know the full story of the future/past x-men shenanigans.

And the book flows well exploring Doop, giving insight into them without removing the mystique. I dug it, but not really looking for more and not sure if I'd ever reread.

[ZeN · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't mind a bit of ultraweird and nonsensicality. So this Doop miniseries was a pleasant read. You have to obviously accept the notion of a screw ball heightened reality. Particularly since from issue to issue the story can feel disjointed. However overall the weird was wacky enough to make the wild ride a worthy read. It's nothing to take seriously. The art makes the transitioning panels a color ride. The writing is appropriate for the type of story told but a bit derivative since it's basing itself on the Battle of the Atom Marvel Event.

[C. Varn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love Peter Milligan's X-force and X-statics, and so getting some insight into Doop would fascinating. Furthermore, my love of Kitty Pryde as a character made this promising but seems like written into the marginalia of the Children of the Atom storyline and is mostly nonsensical. Aside from giving us the X-static team in limbo in marginalia--more or less--and some jokes about Ingmar Bergman are humorous, but it is hard to see what I learned. Milligan is not working with his normal satire, but a madcap farce and the consequences and stakes just don't seem there.

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh.

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

A surreal tale told around the margins of the Battle of the Atom X-Men crossover featuring Doop and Kitty Pryde. It was too nonsensical for me to enjoy.

[Rob · Rating 1 out of 5]

I loved Doop in every appearance I've read...until now. If you like Doop, and want to continue to like Doop, don't read this.

[Krzysztof Grabowski · Rating 2 out of 5]

Przykład na to, że nie tylko DC ma zapchaj tytuły, które z założenia mają być śmieszne, to wywołują tylko jęk zawodu i może nie był on tak głośny, jak można byłoby się spodziewać, to i tak oczekiwałem nieco więcej.

Bo i Doop bodajże w jednej serii z Wolverine'em rozjechał mnie na kawałki. Było to tak świetny, śmieszny i świeży zeszyt, że z radością sięgnąłem po solowe przygody tego zielonego pulpeta. I dostałem liścia w twarz.

To, że Doop odgrywa zasadniczą rolę w działaniu szkoły dla mutantów już wiemy. Teraz dowiemy się, że odgrywa on jeszcze ważniejsza kwestię, choćby przy crossoverze zwanym Bitwa Atomu. Autor nagina tutaj nieco fakty, stosując prostacki i wyświechtany zabieg z wymazaniem pamięci na końcu... A jest co wymazywać.

Doop to gość łamiący bariery czasu. Dosłownie potrafi przecisnąć się przez ścianę i znaleźć na innym kadrze. Dodatkowo w tej mini serii chłopak postanowił zabujać się w Kitty Pryde... I to tak w stylu narwanych, ześwirowanych psycholi podglądających dziewczyny... SERIO?

Nie wspomnę sceny z "mięsnym" pierścionkiem czy pewnej kolacji, albo dostosowaniu się korzystania z języka angielskiego. Czyli, że Doop przez ten czas wcale nie musiał używać tego swojego dziwacznego języka... Tutaj robi się dziwnie, pomyślicie. Nie, zrobi się dalej, zwłaszcza gdy nadejdzie moment konfrontacji z matką stworka...

Tak, to taka przechera rodem z Martwicy Mózgu. Toksyczna Matula, oskarżającą syna o wszelkie nieszczęścia, w dodatku wyżywająca się na synu za odejście ojca. Tyle, że wytłumaczenie tego dalej czyni całość jeszcze bardziej absurdalną niż była, powodując u mnie syndrom WTF.

Ja wiem, że z założenia miało być to śmieszne. Nawiązania, chociażby do Bergmana są w punkt, ale całą reszta sztyni. Jest miejscami niesmaczna, żenująca. Stawiałem, chociaż że relacja z Wolverine'em będzie chociaż jakąś... Nie, to też skopali. I gdyby to jeszcze wyglądało jakoś.

Miejscami jest naprawdę brzydko. Sylwetki postaci potrafią być niezłe. Tym bardziej mnie to dziwi, bo jeżeli chodzi o wykorzystanie scen z Bitwy Atomu, to jest ono zaskakująco nieźle. Gmatwa całość przyjemnie, ale kończy się tak, iż status quo pozostaje bez zmian... No i te okładki... Dlaczego?

[Adam Stone]

This was a tough book to read, and a tough book to rate, so I'm going to skip the rating this time.

I don't think Peter Milligan has ever shown any talent as a comic book writer. His dialog is stiff, his ideas aren't very interesting, and he has no sense of characters. Sometimes, though, he gets to work with artists who make his work look much better than it is. X-Force: Famous, Mutant and Mortal and X-Statix, Vol. 1: Good Omens being the best of it, thanks to Mike Allred and Darwyn Cooke.

This is also a really cool art book, if you just ignore all of the text. The story starts off being about how Doop is in love with Kitty Pryde, and how Doop effected X-Men: Battle of the Atom because he exists "between the margins". It's not nearly as creative, fun, or kooky as Milligan imagines. It's just incredibly proud of itself and blissfully unaware of how unfunny and uninteresting it is. It looks like there's more to the story but I'm not going to waste my time reading any more of his garbage.

If you've enjoyed any of his work anywhere, maybe this will work for you. I hope there's no more of his work ahead of me.

[Andy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've no idea who Doop is. I've never encountered him before but this series came onto my radar at some point and I saved it for later.

Doop and the Marginalia are interesting creations and I quite enjoyed the randomness of it but it didn't really mean much to me. I'm not in any way up to date with then X-Men so the background events meant nothing to me.

Still, there are some nice/random scenes with Doop and Kitty and it was a reasonably fun read.

[C · Rating 1 out of 5]

Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...

I enjoy Doop. I freaking *loved* X-statix (and it was nice to see a few of those characters cameo here). So it was with great anticipation that I tackled this volume.

And I was really disappointed. The idea of the marginalia was interesting but ultimately a bit boring.


And that is more or less the whole series in a nutshell. Interesting ideas that ultimately fall flat in reality.


This is definitely one to skip.

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

Milligan "reveals" that Doop has been a driving force behind influencing recent crossover-itis in the X-titles in an incredibly clever skewering of crossover events (and, by subtext, the social media influencer). LaFuente's distinctive pencils are present here, but the guest artists don't help the overall aesthetic.

[Vinton Bayne · Rating 2 out of 5]

Doop is one of my favorites but I just couldn’t get into this. It had some good moments and some great laughs, but the main plot and a lot of the “revelations” of Doop were just bad.

Don’t read this, read Wolverine and the X-men issue 17 instead.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surreal and a lot of fun. Welcome to Doop's life, and how he helps Kitty make a decision.

This really is different, a great tie in. Sometimes what happens to the smaller characters is more important than the big storyline. A great read.

[Mike McDevitt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Get a Doopspeak decoder and accept the challenge. Worth it.

[R Qualls · Rating 2 out of 5]

A little slight. A few jokes. Very tied into Battle of the Atom so you won’t get those references if you don’t know it.

[Santiago González · Rating 3 out of 5]

Qué.

[Gabriel James Maurice Rodriguez · Rating 3 out of 5]

love seeing tike alicar

But otherwise the worst xstatix book. Dead Girl was fun as hell, if you are looking for more xstatix, start there.

[Zero MC · Rating 4 out of 5]

El nuevo y viejo Doop en un crossover hilarante.

[Logan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'd read a Rachel and Kitty book drawn by LaFuente, Doop I could do without. Everything with Tike made me smile tho, I could never hate Milligan writing X-Statix again.

[Dony Grayman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tomo que podría considerarse como anexo de X-Statix y como crossover tramposo con La Batalla del Átomo.

[Rick Ray · Rating 1 out of 5]

A prime example of how an intriguing secondary character should never get the spotlight since the most interesting thing about them is the enigma. I would have imagined Peter Milligan learned how to best do a Doop-centric story from the classic wordless issue, X-Force #123 (collected in X-Force, Vol. 2: Final Chapter). There, Doop is an inscrutable entity who happens to work for our superheroes but the underlying mystery compounded the intrigue. Later, we do get another Doop feature story with the two-issue Wolverine/Doop miniseries (collected in X-Statix, Vol. 2: Good Guys and Bad Guys), but that one begins to demonstrate more of the "too much of a good thing" adage.

Here, we follow Doop as we learn more about his history and upbringing. Adding to the mix is the weird fixation on Kitty Pryde, Doop's unrequited crush. The story lacks the satirical punch of the main X-Statix series, and Milligan really struggles to recapture the whimsy of the original series. Perhaps a lot of that has to do with the lack of Mike Allred on the artwork duties, a key contributor to the success of the original series. Laura Allred does do the colors here which is a nice touch, but overall All-New Doop is simply missing some of the critical ingredients needed to recapture the magic.

[Christopher E. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Peter Milligan's returns to X-Statix are demonstrations in how people should be careful what they wish for. He forgets the history of his own characters (see: Doop saying he learned to speak English in this series when previous stories revealed he could already speak it perfectly, and a drawing of U-Go Girl fighting alongside Venus Dee Milo) and the errors mount up to the point that it becomes impossible to believe this has any actual bearing on "Battle of the Atom." Jason Aaron wrote a much better Doop story around this time, drawn by original X-Statix artist Mike Allred. That's the one worth checking out.

[Alex Sarll]

Milligan returns to the enigmatic, potato-shaped X-Men affiliate he created, and encounters the problem which everyone from Angel the vampire to Frasier Crane has had before - to make a supporting character the star, you have to round him out, and in the process risk diluting what made him special. The final issue at least seems to realise this, and return Doop to the margins of the story, but feels forced in so doing, almost like a late rewrite.