Doom Patrol: Crawling From The Wreckage

Last time I reviewed a volume of Grant Morrison's terrific and bizarre Doom Patrol, I forgot to mention the art by Richard Case. Well, it's great, because if you're going to write a story in which a girl's head turns into a sun that shoots little suns or floating miniature castles suddenly appear in a monastery you need an artist who can make it come to life. Case's art is "realistic," in that it isn't very stylized and when it's just people walking or talking it looks like a lot of the standard hero books of the 80s and 90s. But that average style really helps make the surreal stuff stand out when it happens. I wonder whatever happened to Richard Case, anyway? Oh yeah, the plot of this is the Doom Patrol reassembles to fight some scissor guys who were conjured by accident from some people's imagination to cut people out of reality.

RATING: 73%