Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol wraps up in a very definitive way in it's final collection. After fighting the Candlemaker, the characters are still alive and they get a series of epilogues, to the point that I don't know how the next writer was supposed to put this back together. Some of the endings were poignant and moving.This series had highs and lows. I felt that the highs were the stories involving the Brotherhood of Dada and The Painting That Ate Paris. It dropped a bit in volumes 3 and 4. A...

At this point, Morrison was completely bored with Doom Patrol. I'd stake your first born child on it.Once the Candlemaker materializes, he becomes another boring villain wreaking a lot of havoc and making things get blowed up real good.Having defeated the Candlemaker (was there ever any doubt), the chapter ends with a rousing cliffhanger in which the DP must again SAVE THE WORLD FROM A GLOBAL INFECTION!How do they do it? I don't know. It happens OUT OF SCENE and literally over the course of SIX

You couldn't ask for a better end to Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol.

Weird and bizarre, Doom Patrol: Planet Love was exactly what I needed as an introduction to the group that is getting a new show at DC Universe. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the characters and I can’t wait for more. This volume is the sixth of the imprint, but it works alone as well. However, I have to be honest and say that even though the writing was terrific and the art was also great, I didn’t love the Doom Force story in the book. Mayne I should read something else from the group to s...

When finishing his run on Doom Patrol, I think Morrison pictured himself walking slowly towards the camera, trenchcoat flapping in the wind as he casually tossed a cigarette over his shoulder, directly onto the pool of gasoline he'd poured around the franchise and setting off a fiery explosion. And he certainly did that, removing most of the characters he'd worked with from contention. I was surprised at how satisfying the ending was, after the way the last trade ended. Sure, the Candlemaker did...

The final volume of Grant Morrison's daring run where he brought "surrealism, Dada and experimental writing" to the superhero genre. For me, it's a noble feat, but not one as long-lasting as an actual surreal genre writer writing a superhero comic book? It's worth a read, and interested a lot of people during its run, but if this is so great, where's its legacy? The far better TV show deals more in dark humour, pathos, angst and loss, and works so far much better in my opinion. 5.5 out of 12 for...

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol goes out with a bang. The Candlemaker has come to earth and it's up to what's left of the Doom Patrol to stop him. This is the closest Morrison has done to a superhero story in this run and it's glorious. You can feel the stakes ratchet up as Cliff and the team dry and delay the Candlemaker. I love the ending. Morrison just gets it all right. I'm so happy that I had as much enjoyment reading this now as I did in the early 90's.The Doom Force X-Force parody also inclu...

The Candlemaker (#58-62). The best Doom Patrol stories are the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega, the scissor-men and the Candlemaker. Which is as it should be. This of course isn't the whole Candlemaker story, which annoyingly starts in Doom Patrol, Vol. 5: Magic Bus where you can find the groundbreaking issue #57, which changes the entire history of the Patrol. But here we get a terrific game of unknown realities with Cliff (#58) and then a shocking battle against the Candlemaker

Brilliant end to a brilliant series, I’ll never read a story quite like this ever again but if it even slightly resembles Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison I’ll be on top of the world!

I could have used a little more with the Candlemaker--the battle with him, and then the Think Tank, ended too quickly. Also ending the volume with the lackluster Doom Force special didn't help. I get it, making fun of Liefield and Wolverine is fun and all, but after so emotional a series, it felt weird to end it there, but then again, where else would they put it.The rest is the same strange brilliance of Morrison. I'm sad there's no more, but it was good to see it conclude.

Reprints Doom Patrol (2) #58-63 and Doom Force Special #1 (July 1992-January 1993). The battle for Earth’s survival is on…and only Doom Patrol knows it. The Candlemaker is loose on Earth and using the Chief’s virtually indestructible robot body to wreak havoc on Manhattan. It is up to Doom Patrol once again to stop the madness that no one can see and not everyone will walk away from the battle unscathed.Written by Grant Morrison with artwork by Richard Case, Sean Phillips, Steve Pugh, Ian Montgo...

Despite its surrealism, Morrison's Doom Patrol might be his most easily digestable runs outside of his mainstream works (JLA, X-Men, Batman). Still, I am convinved I'd appreciate the previous volumes better now that the last chapter/issue basically explained the whole symbolic framework in which the portrayed conflicts are situated, or at least one possible explanation of the insane concepts Morrison employed throughout the series. It ain't perfect, but compared to the majority of other early 90...

A nice finale to Grant's run, though I'm still a little disappointed that they didn't fold Flex Mentallo into the final Doom Patrol trade. I have to wonder a little bit what the ensuing issues were like, since Morrison wrote out the entire team except for Cliff! Lots of imagination, some cool twists, and a sense of "anything goes" -- without the typical "death and dismemberment" theme that usually accompanies "anything goes."

As Rachel Pollack said in the end of the series, Grant Morrison taught us the way in which superhero comics could become surreal art. How a bunch of superpowered freaks could become beacons and guides through visual and narrative poetry. The final issues of Morrison's DP run are the finest example of the Hero's Journey done right, creatively done, full of symbolism, tragedy, and hope. I recommend this as one of the best comics ever done.

To be fair, most every comic series of the modern age suffers the opposite problem of Doom Patrol. What's par for the course is a strong, focused series that fizzles out in half-baked, loony-tunes ideas. But when an entire series is based around CELEBRATING the loony and the half-baked, where's one to end?I've been thinking about this a lot in wake of Twin Peaks: The Return, a series that looked at the deliberate and raw unfinishedness of its predecessor and said only, "Hold my beer." Now, I'm n...

Grand's epic superhero saga concludes with a bang that's so loud yet so quite. I feel kinda emotional to the end as I was so invested into the tell from the beginning. Specially for Rebis and Crazy Jane. Cliff will be my favorite superhero from now on. Can't wait to read that Flex Mentallo spin-off soon. Although I kinda hated that special issue which stands outside the main run.

A lackluster conclusion. Morrison was clearly bored at this point. It's a shame, because this series started out with so much potential and seemed so mind-blowing at the time, but it really only reached full potential in the first few story arcs. After that it just sort of coasts on Morrison throwing out random weirdness. Then suddenly in the final arcs he tries to address storylines he set up earlier, but the execution is not satisfying. As I stated in my review of Volume 5, the Rebis storyline...

Poetic and beautiful ending to a wonderfully amazing run!World: Well the art is gorgeous and the frames are so odd and different that they are just stunningly innovative. The world building here is wonderful. Following the events of the last arc we get more consequence and all the pieces moving into place for a finish. The pieces for the world is great and it does not lose it's oddity and the ending the series chooses is also just as odd. Story: This is as close to a superhero comic book this ru...

Beautiful. Morrison definitely played the long game with Doom Patrol, and it more than pays off. For all the surrealism and weird concepts that saturate his run, he always comes back to the Doom Patrol themselves and what they represent. I just love this ending. Much of volume six (which includes the tongue-in-cheek Doom Force special) is big superhero fighting, and tense fighting at that. But it’s those ending moments that make this series even more special than it already was. Bravo, Mr. Morri...

Kind of disappointed by this book & the way Morrison wrapped up his run on Doom Patrol. By far the weakest of the six volumes.