![]() ![]() ![]() The first great idea in Morrison’s incarnation of the series was playing up the idea that “superheroes” could mean “people who have something terribly wrong with their bodies.” The group’s mainstay is Cliff “Robotman” Steele, a former race-car driver whose brain powers a robot body as he puts it in Morrison’s first episode, he’s a “total amputee.” ![]() The Doom Patrol had been kicking around in one form or another since 1963, a team of superpowered weirdos and outcasts led by a genius in a wheelchair (and yes, that premise has a lot in common with the X-Men, apparently by coincidence). Their “Doom Patrol” run, close to 1,300 pages in all, is collected in this massive hardcover book considered as a single work, its master plan is much more clearly evident. Before Grant Morrison was a huge name in mainstream comic books - the writer of series like “New X-Men,” “All-Star Superman” and the forthcoming “Multiversity” - he was the brilliant weirdo who wrote “Doom Patrol.” Morrison and artist Richard Case took over that fourth-tier superhero series at the beginning of 1989 and spent the next four years driving it through zones of surreal madness that comics had scarcely visited before (and mostly haven’t revisited). ![]()
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