Doom Patrol: Down Paradise Way - Vol 03

Hassle free purchase. Wonderful series of colleted CLASSIC commics. Thank you. -Richard

Nestled between the Cult of the Unwritten Book storyline and the Flex Mentallo/Pentagon epic, the storylines of "Down Paradise Way" offer a brief side-track. The Doom Patrol encounters alien civilizations locked in an endless war as they attempt to rescue Rhea (Lodestone), a former team member altered by the Gene Bomb (from DC's "Invasion" crossover). But what Rhea has become will shock you - and rock the Doom Patrol to their very core. While not quite up to the impossibly high standards of the volume before and after it, "Down Paradise Way" still surpasses most of the comic-book fare out there, now or at the time it was published. Well worth the purchase price.

I love Grant Morrison Doom Patrol soo much, but this one is not as good as Tha Painting that Ate Paris is. Buy that one first, then this one if you can. The little bit at the beggining with them at group therapy is one of my favorites though. Danny the Street is cool, but maybe a bit too random w/o purpose, and the alien designs and overall story from Persephone onwards is really creative and cool, but lacks luster as far as the detials go. I would recommend it though.

This story line is not my favorite from Grant Morrison's Doom Partol run, but it's still very good. I gave up on comics around the time Grant quit Doom Patrol, Shade the Changing Man made it to issue 50 and The Sandman plodded to it's long winded end. While Preacher and the Invisibles were excellent series', nothing compares to Grant's Doom Patrol. Fans of the strange should do themselves a favor and grab this book. Although I believe that The Painting That Ate Paris trade paperback is a superior collection. Hopefully DC will continue to pound out these Doom Patrol collections.