A review by projectmayhem7
Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage by Grant Morrison

5.0

This one is hard to explain. I'm not entirely sure why I loved this so much, but I know it's now my favorite superhero genre comic. So weird, so good. I wouldn't even consider myself a fan of the typical superhero comics, outside of X-Men, Weapon X, and Old Man Logan, but this one is special. I always enjoy a comic that's just bonkers out-there weird. There's a subtle comedic mood behind it all that I particularly enjoyed. The writing and art are both insane in the best way possible.

There's this fabulous mummy-looking man/woman:


Crazy, crazy Jane:


These guys who speak in their own awesome gibberish language:

(Totally ridiculous bad guys that I couldn't get enough of).

Our main metal man robot dude Cliff who has some phantom genital issues:


Josh, who so did not sign up for this, poor guy:


This Professor X-like superhero team recruiter guy:


This kooky villain (with an awesome art panel):


These...people...things:


A crazy segment about a priest looking for god in some trash at the dump before it starts raining fish...and a fridge?:


Then there's just plain awesome art like this:

The colors! The colors throughout are delicious and mesh so well with the over saturated vibe of this comic.

And awesome, simple issue intro pages like this:


Creepy/funny/weird/random panels like this:



And the whole story is basically a crazy reality mindf*@# that, to avoid a spoiler, I won't go into other than this photo:


It's pretty great.