Some thoughts about Doom Patrol #3

The Doom Patrol will need to be reunited.

Casey has realized that her life has always been strange and Flex Mentallo wants to convince her that they need her help for what is about to come.

Jesus Christ, I swear to God this almost seems like a Grant Morrison parody.

Gerard Way offers a new chapter where he plays with a lot of classic concepts and themes from the Doom Patrol, particularly from Morrison's run obviously. The old history of the team is apparently preserved and this serves pretty much as a continuation of such story with the Doom Patrol being literally created by Niles Caulder and facing bizarre threats. The writing style can be interesting at times with different segments exploring unique settings and even the usual meta sections like Casey's life being told in old comic book style.

THE PROBLEM is that the overall style becomes too overwhelming for its own good with characters speaking in weird and awkward ways to sound unique, several technobabble lines and a pacing that wants to justify the different segments but fails at telling a cohesive story. Even during the craziest moments from Morrison's Doom Patrol, he knew how to follow a cohesive story or at the very least the erratic nature of the storytelling wasn't as obvious as here.

Nick Derington remains in art duties and his work is still beautiful while depicting each strange scene as well as possible. He seems like an appropriate choice for this kind of book.

However, this simply doesn't work for me. I wanted to keep reading because I love Flex Mentallo but this kind of pretentious writing irritates me a lot.