Welcome to Year Four!
I had a look back, and it was just over a year ago that I stopped my read through of The Doom Patrol, ending on a cliffhanger at the end of season 1. Well, to kick off the 4th year, let's get back to those wacky misfits.
Well, the Patrol do their best to defeat what seems to be an unstoppable team-up, though their enemies fall to that failing that enemies inevitably do: infighting. Though, honestly the Doom Patrol do a lot of that as well. Garguax, General Immortus, and the Brotherhood of Evil use...rays?...to change people in positions of authority into giant crystalline creatures (like Rita on the cover there) in order to take over the world. For reasons. I think it's one of the things I love about this series is that the villains don't really have motivation outside of wanting to take over the world. One of these days I'm going to go back and count how many times the DP have faced menaces that wanted to take over. That no one else seems to have noticed.
Which, of course, is the ideal description of what Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol does.
I was talking earlier this year about how having read the Graham/Roy Prophet, I can take the early Extreme Comics stuff a little more easily, knowing where the characters are headed. There's a similar vibe with the Doom Patrol, reading it in light of what's to come. This is not to say that the stories are in any way bad, just that the added future context gives more coherence to the narrative arc. Actually, maybe it places a narrative arc onto the series that wasn't actually there in the original. This, in a way, is how I think about my Inflection Theory. I really ought to write all that down one of these days.
More to come...
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