From
the back cover
“Originally
conceived in the 1960s by the visionary team of writer Arnold Drakes and artist
Bruno Premiani, the Doom Patrol was reborn a generation later through the
singular imagination of a young Scottish author─and the result took American
comics in a wholly unexpected direction.
“In
forging their new path, the reborn World’s Strangest Heroes left behind almost
every vestige of normality. Though they are super-powered beings, and though
their foes are bent on world domination, all that is conventional ends there.
Shunned as freaks and outcasts, and tempered by loss and insanity, this band of
misfits faces threats so mystifying in nature and so corrupted in motive that
reality itself threatens to fall apart around them─but it’s still al in a day’s
work for the Doom Patrol.”
Review
Doom, with
its sly humor, unique and unsettling characters and multiverses as well as its smarty
pants, abstract notions/genre twists, is one of my all-time favorite comic book
series. It does not hurt that the artwork is stellar, straddling the line
between Golden Age and then-Modern Age illustrations and tones; it furthers my
enjoyment of Doom that the storylines are unpredictable and, at times,
mind-bending.
In
this particular Doom volume, our unusual heroes further their acquaintance
with Danny the Street. They also battle The Men From N.O.W.H.E.R.E. (fake and
real), fangsome smoke dogs, and the chaotic Mr. Nobody─escaped from the “Painting
That Ate Paris” he was trapped in, in Volume 1─and his new Brotherhood
of Dada.
Followed
by Doom Patrol, Volume 3: Down Paradise Way.
