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jasmiinaf's review
4.0
I got back my favorite villain! And this volume was pretty awesome, probably better than volume 3. It's hard to say because these comics are so crazy... But in a wonderful way.
matt4hire's review
4.0
Morrison addresses some of his more ongoing plots, like the Pentagon and the Doom Patrol's return from space, as well as the return of the Brotherhood of Dada. Crazy Jane evolves as a character, where the reader gets more understanding of what had happened to her to make her this way (if you know what's coming, her personality of Scarlet Harlot becomes immensely disturbing). There's some foreshadowing of what the Chief is up to, and the Doom Patrol takes on the Devil (having already battled "God" in the much earlier Red Jack story). Flex Mentallo is an immensely delightful character anytime he's on-page, and Josh, as rarely as he's present, is a welcome sense of sanity for this group of misfits.
caractacus's review
3.0
I don't know, man. There's certainly stuff here that I love, but my twenty-years-later reread of Doom Patrol is as much a slog as my reread of Shade the Changing Man at times - some initial bursts of greatness, followed by directionlessness and soap opera in Shade's case, and a sort of ... lack of focus in DP's case. I have kind of a three-star relationship with Morrison in general - he has a handful of things I'd give six stars if I could, and a handful of things I thought were pretty okay, and a lot of things I have to hold my nose to read. But in this case, I can't tell if Doom Patrol's low moments are genuinely mediocre, or just so embedded in the 90s that they can't breathe up here.
slipperbunny's review
4.0
I got back my favorite villain! And this volume was pretty awesome, probably better than volume 3. It's hard to say because these comics are so crazy... But in a wonderful way.
crowyhead's review
4.0
Morrison's Doom Patrol continues to be engaging and amusing. I did find myself wishing at times that Morrison would spend more time on developing the characters, rather than on self-referential witticisms. But seeing as said witticisms are immensely entertaining, I can't complain too loudly.
ladydewinter's review
4.0
As with just about any Grant Morrison book (maybe apart from All Star Superman) I can understand why someone might not like his work. But I do. Doom Patrol is utterly, utterly weird and wonderfully amusing.
the_graylien's review
5.0
Here.
Here is where Grant Morrison's run on "Doom Patrol" really breaks open and shows us the genius.
We've got the origin of Flex Mentallo, all the counter-culture, occult, and conspiracy theory of the Pentagon story arc, the Beard Hunter, the Sex Men, and the return of the Brotherhood of Dada!
Morrison here touches upon his usual strange and interesting themes while paying homage (and even poking a bit of fun at) certain tropes in the medium.
Brilliant.
Here is where Grant Morrison's run on "Doom Patrol" really breaks open and shows us the genius.
We've got the origin of Flex Mentallo, all the counter-culture, occult, and conspiracy theory of the Pentagon story arc, the Beard Hunter, the Sex Men, and the return of the Brotherhood of Dada!
Morrison here touches upon his usual strange and interesting themes while paying homage (and even poking a bit of fun at) certain tropes in the medium.
Brilliant.
skolastic's review
4.0
Starts off really strong with closure on the Pentagon/Flex Mentallo stuff from volume 3, and features the return of the Brotherhood of Dada(!) but some of the other stuff - the Beard Hunter and Mr. Evans - has...not aged that well. I think I'm going to take a break before I go looking for volume 5, especially since I've been reading some of Gerard Way's Doom Patrol, which (surprisingly) I'm enjoying more than Morrison's work.
rabbithero's review
1.0
I didn't even finish this book, which for a comic book is saying something. Frankly, I got about half-way through it when I realized I wasn't enjoying it, and that the loud, rambling nonsense that this series was had totally no bearing on anything and was only serving to clutter my mind with more junk.
This series, I think I've decided, is sort of a catch all for popular/junk culture. Weirdness erupts from its juxtaposition of two innocuous elements of culture, much like how a surrealist painting works. But whereas Surrealism makes its point, but still allows room for interpretation, Doom Patrol, in typical 80s comics fashion, uses really bloated, prosaic captions to explicate its weirdness, with is really just clutter, and devoid of nuance.
What it comes down to, I guess, is that it's a novelty series, which is great for a handful of issues, but once the novelty wears off, its like watching MTV on acid while talking on a cellphone, listening to your ipod and checking your email. Then you realize you don't really care about the characters or the set up, and that you just want to get back to reading a real book.
This series, I think I've decided, is sort of a catch all for popular/junk culture. Weirdness erupts from its juxtaposition of two innocuous elements of culture, much like how a surrealist painting works. But whereas Surrealism makes its point, but still allows room for interpretation, Doom Patrol, in typical 80s comics fashion, uses really bloated, prosaic captions to explicate its weirdness, with is really just clutter, and devoid of nuance.
What it comes down to, I guess, is that it's a novelty series, which is great for a handful of issues, but once the novelty wears off, its like watching MTV on acid while talking on a cellphone, listening to your ipod and checking your email. Then you realize you don't really care about the characters or the set up, and that you just want to get back to reading a real book.