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A review by saif42
The Doom Patrol Omnibus by Grant Morrison
5.0
Instant. Favorite.
So this series is part of the "UK writers reviving dying DC series" like Alan Moore on Swamp Thing and Morrison on Animal Man. It suffers from the same issue of it basically starting sort of in the middle but just like most of the revival series, you don't need any prior knowledge of Doom Patrol to start or enjoy this series. All you need to know is one thing.
It gets weirder.
I don't want to spoil anything in this series. I believe that Morrison's writing is so insanely absurd that to tell you anything here is to take away from future readers joy when they get to it, read it, and go "Seriously? What in the actual fuck am I reading?" so I'll try and keep this spoiler free.
Doom Patrol is a superhero team like no other. Freaks and rejects that hate themselves, but somehow save the world from things weirder than themselves. How weird are these superheroes? The team in Morrisons run consists of:
Cliff: a human brain in a robot body
Rebis: a hermamphrodite ghost/alien
Crazy Jane: a woman with 70+ personalities. Some of them have superpowers.
Dorothy: a little girl with a face like an ape, also has psychic powers.
Josh: Black guy
Niles Caulder: wheelbound supergenius (The original Doom Patrol preceded the X-Men FYI)
And that's the heroes. The side characters and villains are even weirder. Its a lot of fun.
The entire run as a whole is very strong. It has a lull towards the final arc but the ending was fantastic. Its rare to maintain the such quality over 50+ issues but I felt the same sense of wonder and awe reading the first few issues as I did reading the last few issues.
If you like absurdism, surrealism, art, parodies, fun, or good things, you'll love this series. Highly highly recommended.
So this series is part of the "UK writers reviving dying DC series" like Alan Moore on Swamp Thing and Morrison on Animal Man. It suffers from the same issue of it basically starting sort of in the middle but just like most of the revival series, you don't need any prior knowledge of Doom Patrol to start or enjoy this series. All you need to know is one thing.
It gets weirder.
I don't want to spoil anything in this series. I believe that Morrison's writing is so insanely absurd that to tell you anything here is to take away from future readers joy when they get to it, read it, and go "Seriously? What in the actual fuck am I reading?" so I'll try and keep this spoiler free.
Doom Patrol is a superhero team like no other. Freaks and rejects that hate themselves, but somehow save the world from things weirder than themselves. How weird are these superheroes? The team in Morrisons run consists of:
Cliff: a human brain in a robot body
Rebis: a hermamphrodite ghost/alien
Crazy Jane: a woman with 70+ personalities. Some of them have superpowers.
Dorothy: a little girl with a face like an ape, also has psychic powers.
Josh: Black guy
Niles Caulder: wheelbound supergenius (The original Doom Patrol preceded the X-Men FYI)
And that's the heroes. The side characters and villains are even weirder. Its a lot of fun.
The entire run as a whole is very strong. It has a lull towards the final arc but the ending was fantastic. Its rare to maintain the such quality over 50+ issues but I felt the same sense of wonder and awe reading the first few issues as I did reading the last few issues.
If you like absurdism, surrealism, art, parodies, fun, or good things, you'll love this series. Highly highly recommended.