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Grade 10 Up–A group of rejects recruited as superheroes, the Doom Patrol includes a man trapped in a robots body, an ape girl, and a radioactive hermaphrodite. The story lines, which include the adventures of a transvestite street named Danny and a conceptual showdown in the zone of words that kill, may be too abstract to hold teens interest. While the layouts and drawings are impressively intricate and include nudity, the washed-out coloring dates these 15-year-old comics. Purchase this one for teen collections in which the sophisticated comics of Alan Moore or Neil Gaiman circulate. Otherwise, it would be more appropriate for adults.–Lisa Goldstein, Brooklyn Public Library, NY
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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In the 1960s, the Doom Patrol was a -second-string superhero team whose freakish powers caused humanity to shun them (as it did their better-known contemporaries, Marvel's X-Men) and led to them being touted as "The World's Strangest Heroes." In the late 1980s, writer Morrison, recently noticed for drastically rejiggering another marginal sixties character, Animal Man, overhauled the Doom Patrol similarly, giving it a new cast far more deserving of the strangest-heroes mantle. Crazy Jane possesses 64 distinct personalities, each with its own superpower. Rebis is a bandaged hermaphrodite who encompasses a being made of negative energy. Ape-faced Dorothy Spinner can distort reality. The new villains were as outre. Here the DP faces the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E., dedicated to eliminating all eccentricities and anomalies. Another nemesis is Danny the Street, a sentient, transvestite street (no metaphor he) that moves about at will. During Morrison's run on Doom Patrol, plotlines generally took a backseat to outlandish concepts, and later issues bordered on incomprehensibility. This collection's contents, however, balance bizarreness and accessibility relatively well. Gordon Flagg
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Excellent, Feb 12 2006
By Uncle Deercamp "www.UncleDeercamp.com - Every... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Doom Patrol: Down Paradise Way - VOL 03 (Paperback)
This story line is not my favorite from Grant Morrison's Doom Partol run, but it's still very good.I gave up on comics around the time Grant quit Doom Patrol, Shade the Changing Man made it to issue 50 and The Sandman plodded to it's long winded end. While Preacher and the Invisibles were excellent series', nothing compares to Grant's Doom Patrol.
Fans of the strange should do themselves a favor and grab this book. Although I believe that The Painting That Ate Paris trade paperback is a superior collection.
Hopefully DC will continue to pound out these Doom Patrol collections.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very Strange, but very creative and fun series, Jun 27 2010
By Enrique Trevino - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Doom Patrol: Down Paradise Way - VOL 03 (Paperback)
This comic starts with a story of a transvestite street. A conscious street that can move from one city to another. It was a fun story.The next story was not that fun for me. It was full of interesting ideas, such as an abstract world called "kaleidoscope" and wars without words, etc. However, the story was a bit boring for me. Most of the story wasn't that funny and it wasn't that interesting. In fact, the most interesting part for me in this story arc was the prologue at the beginning of each issue, a prologue which had nothing to do with this story but was probably setting up the next story.
The art in this series is okay. I don't think it is that great, but it gets the job done and the job is quite difficult when you have to draw things that seem impossible to draw . So much imagination is flowing in this title, hard to keep up for the artist.
Overall, the series is quite interesting and it has plenty of funny moments, but I think it too often gets bog down by having so many concepts floating around at the same time. I'll read the next volume because I was intrigued with the prologues in the issues here, but if the next story is not great, I am going to stop reading this series.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Yep, Jun 17 2006
By Elizabeth C. Stege "Lizy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Doom Patrol: Down Paradise Way - VOL 03 (Paperback)
I love Grant Morrison Doom Patrol soo much, but this one is not as good as Tha Painting that Ate Paris is. Buy that one first, then this one if you can.The little bit at the beggining with them at group therapy is one of my favorites though. Danny the Street is cool, but maybe a bit too random w/o purpose, and the alien designs and overall story from Persephone onwards is really creative and cool, but lacks luster as far as the detials go.
I would recommend it though.
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