This is way better than the last three cults I joined!

[moon_custafer]

Andrew rewatched episode 5 of Doom Patrol last night, and I’ve got to say it’s my favourite episode so far – the previous one had ended on a cliffhanger, with a cult summoning a god called the Decreator to destroy the world. Turns out the Decreator was actually constructed out of the cult’s faith, so the only solution is to go back in time forty years and start a rival cult who will be able, when the time is right, to summon the “Re-Creator.”

Obviously.

The more I think about it, the more I like that the good-guy cultists are all patients (and some staff) from a 1970s mental hospital, led by a chain-smoking, oxygen-tank-toting, rock’n’roll grandma. I think the main reason they succeed because they’re not simply a mirror-image of the original Cult of the Unwritten Book—one of their commandments is that when the Apocalypse comes they are to “Dance. Dance like there’s a giant eye in the sky watching you.”

Also, Ezekiel the cockroach is once again disappointed by the human race’s failure to be destroyed.

Comments

[pedanther]

I feel John Constantine would be amused by the fictional existence of obvious cut-rate file-offs of himself.

And there are several of them around, because Morrison wasn't the only writer who wanted to use Constantine in a non-Vertigo title and decided to just work around the ban. Phil Foglio's version was named Ambrose Bierce, complete with hints about how he may or may not be the Ambrose Bierce who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1913.

[sovay]

Phil Foglio's version was named Ambrose Bierce, complete with hints about how he may or may not be the Ambrose Bierce who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1913.

That's also great.