One the weirdest pairings I have ever heard of. And it's surprisingly sweet???

(Side note this is best gorilla I have ever drawn. Remember to use references guys, it really pays off in the end!)

DC characters - Brain

Monsieur Mallah & The Brain

(1964)

Rita Farr in Unstoppable Doom Patrol #7

Niles Caulder Hate Club (2023)

I did the linework for this one months ago, and then forgot to come back to it lol. Doom Patrol, when will you return from the war...

My commission sheet is here, and this design and more available on my Redbubble :-)

I'd be rooting for them SO hard if they weren't evil murderers.

The New Teen Titans #29 (1983) by Marv Wolfman & George Pérez

Blue Beetle versus Madame Rouge and Monsieur Mallah by Barry Kitson

"magneto was right" boyfriend and "batmans mouth is visible so the cops know hes white" boyfriend. is this anything.

In celebration of my favorite best worst ship being violently sunk in Unstoppable Doom Patrol, what is Monsieur Mallah up to in the headverse?

Mallah's backstory is a bit different because while he was technically experimented on by The Brain/Lionel Luthor before he lost his body, headverse!Mallah was kidnapped from Gorilla City as an infant. The experiments were instead an attempt to advance the Thorul Society's Ultra-Humanite Hypothesis. Lionel kept Mallah around afterwards because it amused him to watch Lex consistently fail to one-up a literal gorilla. Mallah's commitment to Communism--while sincerely held--is also something allowed by Lionel bc it pisses off arch-capitalist Lex so goddamn much.

For most of his career, Mallah mostly only interacts with The Brain, who he thinks is the only surviving part of Lionel, though by that point Luthor the Elder's split his consciousness (via cloning his own brain, natch) into at least The Brain, Ultimax, The Ultra-Humanite, and Mister America (adding Galatea and an Apokoliptan clone of his original body much later). Mallah's time with The Brain plays out similar to canon, up to falling in love before betraying him...only to continue serving The Brain as a double agent inside the Caulder Institute (metatextually as a nod/parody to Beast and Dark Beast for this era)

He's also got a pretty tense relationship with Grodd, to the point they can't be in the same room together without trying to kill each other, which might just be that since a. he was kidnapped as a baby, b. never attempted a violent coup, and c. is in line philosophically with their current political system, Grodd's just big mad Mallah can go back to Gorilla City whenever he wants while Grodd is cursed to walk Man's World until he dies.

Also, idk what it is, but Grodd strikes me as homophobic? Like, I don't he killed Mallah in canon bc Mallah was guy, but even considering they were an evi brain in a jar and an evil French ape, they were also two males in love who Grodd just murdered for no real reason.

Anyway, uh yeah, tl;dr: he's a Gay Communist Gorilla loyal to a Mad Scientist in a Jar, still.

In The Uncanny X-Men 199# (cover date November, 1985), Mystique reformed the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants as the government backed Freedom Force. Rachel Summers almost told Cyclops that in her reality, he and Jean Grey were her parents. She has now taken on the Phoenix identity. Magneto and Kitty Pryde, both Jewish, got confronted by Freedom Force while attending a holocaust memorial gathering. When the X-Men finally got the upper hand on Freedom Force, Magneto chose to turn himself in to stand trial for his past. ("The Spiral Path", The Uncanny X-Men 199#, Comic, Event)

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Val Semeiks

*Aster tiredly pays the union dues for The Malerous*

@remthalas @justanothalyehr You guys are good for the month.

Wow...DC also has a Brotherhood of Evil too