Here's a fun challenge: Review this book without using the words "weird" or "strange." Now I feel tempted to start my review with the word "bizarre." But we're all clear on this, right? You understand going in that this is an intentionally, even aggressively bizarre comic, yes?I love good surrealism. There is, unfortunately, very little of it. We have Lynch's films, Kafka (especially The Castle), Jim Woodring's Frank comics, and maybe a few others. There is, however, lots of bad surrealism, the

I don't know anything about the guy, but, reading Doom Patrol, one gets the sense that Grant Morrison is one weird dude. Probably a lot of fun at parties, but weird. This is an older run of comics collected in one massive tome heavy enough to brain a panda with, certainly. I mostly know the Doom Patrol as "that DC group that is always compared to the X-Men." I can understand why that comparison comes up, but the differences between them seem more significant here than the similarities. This is d...

This book is absolutely massive and it ends up being a hindrance, because the story should have ended a lot earlier.The best thing about the Doom Patrol are the characters. You have...Robot man - a man who's brain was implanted into a robot body to prevent him from dying. He whines a lot! Verdict - He's absolutely useless. Crazy Jane - she's probably my favourite. She has countless different personalities and each personality has its own power, whether that be spitting fire, being a wolverine ty...

I stopped buying comic books many years ago, but always leap at the chance to read one. This is a real gem: 5 years of Doom Patrol bound in one enormous volume. I watched the TV series last summer, and was pleased to find some of the story arcs originated in the comics themselves. There were some real surprises, such as a “crossover” issue done in the style of a Fantastic Four comic. The stories are even darker than the TV show, which is saying a lot.I read a few issues of the original Doom Patr...

"I simply refuse to bear any more of this hideousness without some booze."Let's go back to the brain of Grant Morrison in 1989. Art history, fantasy, science-fiction, meta fiction, psychedelia, humor, horror, and surrealism can all be found in Doom Patrol, weirder even than Invisibles. And what a "barrel of chittering chimps" it is!Totally ape shit crazy and fun, the best and most impressionable series ever. But I would almost definitely say that you should be a diehard Morrison fan to enjoy thi...

Well this was... interesting...Heard mixed things on this. Some people lauding it as one of the greats, others saying they struggled to make it half way.I'm sure it was great when it came out in the late 80s/90s from that new Scottish writer who wrote Arkham Asylum and is a little weird.It's not your classic superhero team book, which is fine, but it's also not very coherent at times and is a little hard to follow. I think l like having read it more than I did actually reading it, if that makes

Finally, after years of being a Morrison fan, I have finished one of their most famous big runs. I’m happy to say that Doom Patrol ended up being everything I wanted and expected it to be — smart, funny, at times absolutely wild, at times quietly devastating. For being the original Weird Morrison Comic it’s also surprisingly approachable and easy to understand and follow, going a bit too far with its crazy concepts and narrative in only a couple of instances. I was also pleasantly surprised by R...

So patchy. I loved the series the first time I read it just because it was completely out there. Where else would you see a character that is a transvestite talking street? Or a supervillain group called the Brotherhood of Dada (as in the art movement)? The story arc called The Painting That Ate Paris is worth the price of admission alone, with the characters trapped in a painting that has different "zones", each representing a different art style.10 years later, it feels like Morrison threw eve...

In my review of Boris Groys's In the Flow, I somehow failed to note the thesis in art history for which Groys became famous: his main claim was that, as the avant-garde's dream before the Russian Revolution was the total transformation, along artistic lines, of their entire society, then the "official" Socialist Realist art of Soviet Russia was in fact the legitimate successor and fulfillment of the avant-garde since it inherited the function of aesthetically recomposing the social. The avant-ga...

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol is one of the modern masterpieces of the comic industry. It's Vertigo before there was Vertigo, taking "normal"(ish) DC Heroes and transforming them into something weird and surreal.At its best, Doom Patrol doesn't just question authority, it questions reality, and stories like "Crawling from the Wreckage" (#19-22) and two different stories where the protagonist isn't sure what is real (#58, #63) are some of the highlights of the run. But, the surrealism is also wond...

I first read this in floppies almost 30 years ago and I'm happy to say it still holds up for me today. However, it's not for everyone. This is peak, oddball Grant Morrison. The stories are strange and absurd in the best ways but some of it may be too out there for some readers, especially if your previous exposure to Morrison is from one of his straight up superhero runs like JLA, X-Men, Batman, or Superman. Where I think he excels is his character work.Robotman- Part of the original Doom Patrol...

It is my opinion that if we had to appoint someone to do massive amounts of hallucinogens and produce art, Grant Morrison would be a fine candidate. Filled to the brim with mind-bending, nonsensical, and the palpably weird, Doom Patrol is a classic of the weird comic genre that lives up to its quite impressive hype. The motley crew that makes up the Doom Patrol features the following misfit superheroes: *A man and woman fused together by a negative spirit!*A robot with a man's brain!*A normal su...

Maybe my favorite comic by Morrison I've read yet, only Flex Mentallo can compete with it. I really like the stories from this run. They were really creative, unique, and enjoyable to read. The characters were the same, Rebis, Crazy Jane, and Mr Nobody being my favorites. The art was weird, but not difficult to follow. It so cool to see how this run continues to influence the team even in the most current run.

I read the comic books Doom Patrol volume 2 - #19-39 in which Morrison revolutionises the series with his allegorical, metaphorical and satire laden surreal fest! 6 out of 12I then read the comic books Doom Patrol volume 2 - #40-63 & the Special … the final year/run on this book is one of the best pieces of work in an ongoing series (as good as New X-Men by Grant Morrison: Ultimate Collection, Book 1), a genuine masterpiece! 9 out of 12.I can see why and how this series put Morrison on the map!

This is easily in my Top 5 favorite comics of all time, and quite possibly the best thing from either Marvel or DC. So great. Heartwarming, heart breaking, hilarious, scary, and just plain weird. Grant Morrison pulls no stops here. Definitely a comic that's better experienced than explained.

I've had a lot of extra free time for some reason the last few weeks, so I decided to use part of it to re-read this massive, 1200+ page tome that serves as the Platonic ideal of a Grant Morrison series. And, I gotta say, I loved it all over again. It's rare that a comic comes along that is this purely imaginative and genre-breaking. Sure, it happens from time to time, but this book feels like reading a living creative brain, coming up with new ideas as quickly as its synapses fire, and you're j...

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 t...

"There's a better world. There has to be."

It’s Grant Morrison’s take on a team of misfit heroes on the outskirts of the DC Universe. Some of the stories go way out but that’s to be expected from Morrison. This probably isn’t a book for readers who are new to comics. But those well versed in the medium will likely love it. It’s brilliantly weird and weirdly brilliant.

Took me more than two years to get through this because there are more ideas in a single panel of it than most superhero comics have in their entire runs and sometimes you need a break from that. Every page there's a weird three-legged dog with a fork for a head running up to our heroes out of the shadows and telling them that the Diamond Of Langreene is overcharged and must be returned to The Subspace of Reality (which, the book will tell you, was initially conceptualized by Freud on his first