A review by caractacus
Doom Patrol, Vol. 4: Musclebound by Mark McKenna, Steve Yeowell, Mike Dringenberg, Grant Morrison, Rian Hughes, Jamie Hewlett, Richard Case

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.