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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
funny
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Just when I thought this could be the next Morrison series I love this volume is almost unreadable. Strip away all good character moments, every other turn and event is fucking weird to point I don't care and worst of all...it's boring.
Story ended up being really good, art was interesting. As Neil Gaiman said “One oddity too many” it was weird for weird sake and it showed.
The weakest yet in Morrison's Doom Patrol, but the final pages made up for it when the author makes fun of himself. The issues with Danny the Street were great, but the parts about an ancient war between two weird forces and the concept of duality, while still imaginative, was too long and it didn't hold my interest.
Didn't like it as well as Book 2: The Painting that Ate Paris. I found the politics a bit tricky to follow, which I think was part of the point...but Morrison creates unique characters and situations. I love how these "superheros" have to deal with philosophical and metaphysical issues regularly.
Flex Mentallo debuts, Morrison makes pedestrian plots feel fairly fresh with a liberal dose of surface madness, and Richard Case does a brilliant job illustrating unreality at its finest.
The Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E., a sort of normalcy police, are guided by the most normal man in the world on a quest to destroy Danny the Street, a travelling sentient piece of road who is also a transvestite. Can the Doom Patrol stop them? Where does Flex Mentallo fit into things and where has he been since 1958? And in the second half, Rhea finally wakes from her coma and the Doom Patrol goes to another world to end a war between two alien races. Robotman gets ripped in half and ends up with a spidery lower half. Can the Doom Patrol get the job done and get back home?
In my review for volume two, I said the weirdness knob must have broken off and rolled under the fridge. Well, the broken stem of the knob must still be able to be turned because volume three is even stranger. Rebis has more lines in this one and actually provides a lot of the humor. Robotman continues to feel out of his comfort zone where the weirdness is concerned and provides a little normalcy. Comparatively speaking, of course.
In my review for volume two, I said the weirdness knob must have broken off and rolled under the fridge. Well, the broken stem of the knob must still be able to be turned because volume three is even stranger. Rebis has more lines in this one and actually provides a lot of the humor. Robotman continues to feel out of his comfort zone where the weirdness is concerned and provides a little normalcy. Comparatively speaking, of course.
Still love the wackiness of Doom Patrol. This volume gets a bit dense at times, but still a great mind-bending experience.