Doom Patrol: Crawling from the Wreckage

Written by: Grant Morrison
Art by: Richard Case, Doug Braithwaite, Scott Hanna, Carlos Garzon & John Nyberg

Morrison's Doom Patrol is probably his most easily accessible work due to its linearity, but expect to find the usual heady and bizarre in this first volume of his run on the book. Hell the first two pages terminate with a catastrophic car crash and a robot holding its own human brain--"the beautiful bit"--out of the fiery apocalypse. On the next page the robot screams. These ain't your daddy's superheroes.


Cover art to volume one of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol

Nightmarish and high-concept, Doom Patrol examines the nature of reality/unreality and the intersection between the two. Each storyline--there are three--in the book involves some kind of exploration of the metaphorical "head-space". Fictions within fictions within realities, escaping subconsciouses and doors that open into the spaces that exist perpendicular to our own reality abound in the book, and all without having to contend with Morrison's current "missing pages" phenomenon where readers have accused the author of refusing to connect the narrative dots.

Crawling from the Wreckage functions as a worthy entry-point for anyone interested in reading Morrison's work for the first time. It still contains all the abstractions and sheer imagination of Morrison's other works but written with a more directly chronological style.

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