The only way this column could end — although I’m still partial to:

“I give. What DO you do with a vast floating invisible base-thing?”

“Anything we want.”

Either is a perfect expression of what comics could and should be.

Thanks, Greg.

Congrats on finishing your daily feature, Greg! Thanks for the interesting ride.

A great page from one of the best issues of my favorite run of all time.

Becca: I thought of a few issues to use for this final day, and that was one of them, but I just HAD to go with this one! And I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Da Fug: Thanks! It was quite fun.

I can count the amount of times I’ve cried reading a comic book on one hand. Doom Patrol #63 is one of those fingers.

“Come in out of the rain”

Is there a better, more moving, more convincing, more REAL relationship in the Big Two than Cliff Steele and Crazy Jane? I haven’t read it.

What everyone else has already said. Well done, Greg!

Thank you for the great year of a consistently interesting column. I’ve learned a lot about how to look at comics, especially when it comes to things I usually overlooked, such as coloring and lettering. You’ve done a great job of finding things to point out and examine. Bonus: I’ve found a few new series to read and enjoy thanks to the column.

Thanks again!

Congratulations on 365 consecutive essays! You’ve earned your break.

A happy (and hopefully relatively relaxing) 2013, Greg.

Bravo, Greg! 366 straight days, what an accomplishment, you should be proud. What a fabulously moving page to end on, too, you really landed the ending which is important. A quotation frm the Smiths’ lovely Asleep is always welcome even more so in the context of one of Morrison’s better works; I really can relate to that concept, ending, and sentiment. One of my other choices for GreatGrant moment is the “I can save him. I can save everyone” scene in All-Star Superman, when Clark *can’t* save his father. So moving and one of the greatest embodiments to what drives super-heroes with none of that cynical crap or edgy adolescent posing but eith a poignant humanity instead.
Kudos on your achievement Mr Burgas.

It’s interesting that you choose to call Jane and Cliff “lovers”… It’s certainly implied that there might be more than friendship going on between the two, but it’s never explicitly stated that they anything other than friends. I think one of the strengths of DP was how subtly Morrison depicted the growing affection between two people who couldn’t really, due to their circumstances, do any physical acts of love.

BeccaBlast, what is that from? It sounds awesome.

Thanks again, everyone. I really appreciate the nice words.

Tuomas: I think Doom Patrol is one of the great love stories in comics, and one of the most tragic, obviously. That’s why I call them lovers even though, as you note, there’s not a lot of hanky-panky going on.

David: That’s the end of Nextwave. If you haven’t read it, you should!

A great series of 365, Greg. Didn’t know that was a Smiths quote. Morrison’s DP is a cracking read.

366, sorry!

Great job Greg, this is a wonderful page to end things on. I’ve actually never read this issue, I’ve only read Morrison’s Doom Patrol through the end of the second trade. I keep meaning to come back to it someday. This page makes me want to do that sooner rather than later.

Does anyone know what Smiths song (or solo Morrissey) is being quoted here? And is that John Workman on lettering? His style is so distinctive, it always makes me think of Simonson’s Thor run.

This page made me think about what some of my favorite final pages are, and surprisingly, a lot of my favorite works don’t have particularly great final pages, such as Sandman or Moore’s Swamp Thing. But I do love Watchmen’s last page, and I would argue it might have the best final panel ever. I also really loved the last pages of Batman: Year One, Preacher, Marvels, and Y: The Last Man.

Congrats on finishing this Greg, I’ve enjoyed reading it quite a bit during the last year. Since you’ve become so good at analyzing pages, my request/suggestion/recommendation would be during your monthly trade paperback reviews column, you pick one page from each trade you review and display it with some notes/thoughts/analysis. Not necessarily your favorite page, but a page that you think is most representative of how good (or how bad) the book is. And likewise with Comics You Should Own, how about some full page spotlights instead of just panels. See, this is what happens when you spoil us.

Third Man, it’s ‘Asleep’ by the Smiths. (Coincidentally, as I type this, I’m writing a review of a Morrissey concert.)

There’s a reason why Crazy Jane still shows up on my list everytime CSBG runs the “Top 50 DC characters” list, even though she’s barely been used in 20 years. Morrison created such a wonderfully likable, complex, and sympathetic character that few writers have been able to manage before or since. This issue especially was such a fitting farewell to the character, and I can add myself to the list of those who choke up everytime they read this page…

Third Man: I’ve been thinking about doing something like that. We’ll see. I occasionally post full pages in Comics You Should Own posts, but just wait until my next one, which I’ll probably post next week. It’s full of stuff like this!

Way to go, Greg. Thanks for a very entertaining and educating year of entries.

Great job Greg! It’s been really edu-taining.

Have a good rest, but come back soon!