And the reason I'm falling behind, if I'm to be honest about it, is because these stories are just not great. I think that each of the characters have potential, and some perhaps even as members of the Doom Patrol, but there's something missing (or perhaps not missing) from the others that just makes them hard to read.
And, to be honest, of all the old villains to bring back, Garguax is a strange choice. Of the DP's early roster of recurring antagonists, he's easily the most mainstream - an alien overlord who destroyed his own planet, and now wants Earth. And for some reason his army is made of plastic, but I'm not certain why.
I will say, Erik Larsen's Garguax is fucking phenomenal. Gross and huge and every bit as disgusting as the original incarnation should have been, if not for the 60s.
But that aside, meh.
Now the bonus book is another thing entirely. Finally, finally, we get a perspective on Arani that, in some small ways, humanizes her. It is, of course, completely ignored in the story proper. It actually puts me in mind of early Vertigo, narrative and art, a much more human tale of the superhuman - the Patrol was always meant to cling to the edge.
More to follow.
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