Oh man. I'm certain now, Morrison's Doom Patrol is my favorite run ever. It's just pure joy to read. I can't remember ever so thoroughly and consistently enjoying a run of comics. To me, Doom Patrol represents exactly what comics ought to be.
Also, this is by far the funniest Morrison book I've read. The book definitely isn't a comedy book, but some of the lines of dialogue are just hilarious.
Something I've been most impressed by is the insane amount of ideas Morrison came up with for this run. He builds these pretty deep fictional occult cultures and groups for every arc, and they're always wildly unique and creative and very detailed. And the craziest thing about it to me is that the arcs only tend to last two or three issues. The fact that he builds these detailed mythologies just for a quick story arc is incredible and allows the comic to be continuously fascinating and surprising.
The best part is that I still have 700 pages of it left to read!
It is from the omnibi, yeah. All this Final Crisis talk got me in the mood to reread all of the Fourth World.
And sadly as a lot of people have been finding out, they are all out of print and volume 2 seems to be the hardest to find.
Well, I really hope DC decides to reprint them sometime. I'm really interested in reading them.
I guess I'm just gonna go with my usual trade-reading position. I like to lie on my stomach and have the book opened in front of me.
Oh, yeah, if that's comfortable for you then that totally works. I find reading like that to be horribly uncomfortable. I'm jealous that you can do that. Haha
