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Doom Patrol: Down Paradise Way - VOL 03 Paperback – November 1, 2005

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The Doom Patrol faces a merciless attack by the forces of normality, a team member's startling transformation, and a journey beyond space and time to join opposing sides of an ancient alien war.
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    Doom Patrol (1987-1995)
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    192 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Vertigo
  5. Publication date
    November 1, 2005
  6. Dimensions
    6.65 x 0.43 x 10.24 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    140120726X
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1401207267
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Grade 10 Up–A group of rejects recruited as superheroes, the Doom Patrol includes a man trapped in a robots body, an ape girl, and a radioactive hermaphrodite. The story lines, which include the adventures of a transvestite street named Danny and a conceptual showdown in the zone of words that kill, may be too abstract to hold teens interest. While the layouts and drawings are impressively intricate and include nudity, the washed-out coloring dates these 15-year-old comics. Purchase this one for teen collections in which the sophisticated comics of Alan Moore or Neil Gaiman circulate. Otherwise, it would be more appropriate for adults.–Lisa Goldstein, Brooklyn Public Library, NY
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In the 1960s, the Doom Patrol was a -second-string superhero team whose freakish powers caused humanity to shun them (as it did their better-known contemporaries, Marvel's X-Men) and led to them being touted as "The World's Strangest Heroes." In the late 1980s, writer Morrison, recently noticed for drastically rejiggering another marginal sixties character, Animal Man, overhauled the Doom Patrol similarly, giving it a new cast far more deserving of the strangest-heroes mantle. Crazy Jane possesses 64 distinct personalities, each with its own superpower. Rebis is a bandaged hermaphrodite who encompasses a being made of negative energy. Ape-faced Dorothy Spinner can distort reality. The new villains were as outre. Here the DP faces the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E., dedicated to eliminating all eccentricities and anomalies. Another nemesis is Danny the Street, a sentient, transvestite street (no metaphor he) that moves about at will. During Morrison's run on Doom Patrol, plotlines generally took a backseat to outlandish concepts, and later issues bordered on incomprehensibility. This collection's contents, however, balance bizarreness and accessibility relatively well. Gordon Flagg
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vertigo (November 1, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 140120726X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401207267
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.65 x 0.43 x 10.24 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Grant Morrison is one of comics' greatest innovators. His long list of credits includes Batman: Arkham Asylum, All-Star Superman, JLA, Green Lantern, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, The Invisibles, WE3 and The Filth.

The TV series of his graphic novel HAPPY! is showing on SYFY and Netflix.

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Stephanie
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2016
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amazing read!
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James B.
4.0 out of 5 stars Dancing in the street.
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2016
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Down Paradise Way is not quite as good as the volumes of Doom Patrol that preceded it, but it's still quite good. The weirdness factor is as present as ever, and more and more characters are introduced.

The plot of this book can be broken up into three chunks. In the first mini-segment the Doom Patrol take on the men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E., the most hilarious enemy the group has yet faced. This arc also introduced two new characters that I hope to see more of in the future. The second chunk is a series of prequels, setting things up for the next book. Each of these is short, and honestly do nothing for this book. No way to judge how well they work until the next book.

The third plot is where this series runs into problems. On the one hand, it may be the first time I actually understood the plot, and I mean that in a good way. On the other hand, the arc revolved too much around the character of Rhea Jones. This character was leftover from before Morrison's time on the title, so I wasn't invested in her.

Oh well, volume 4 looks like it's going to be good.
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Kevin Mann
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2015
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Mindnumbingly good!
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Wong Ba
3.0 out of 5 stars wtf!!??
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2006
you can see morrison is still perfecting his craft at this early stage of his writing career.... not quite as good as the first two books....
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James Dowd
5.0 out of 5 stars A space soft of beyond belief
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2019
I chose this rating because like Judge Rock it evoked thoughts where none were expected. I was reminded of Dr. Sussex story" The problem with Sneeches". The universe to most of us is a mad nonsensical place full of questions. Often we ( with our limited point of views!) see some aspect of the cosmos and ask the wrong questions for the answers we think we see. The convoluted plotline of this story displays two highly technological races. They are in a war that they created because of false assumptions made by their ancestors. As a result they stopped asking questions or envisioning other possibilities. It took another race to come into the scene without preconceived assumptions to show them the error of their ways. After millennia locked in a mental logjam they destroyed the past and could see the possibilities of a new future.first of
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Carl Waluconis
4.0 out of 5 stars Surreal superhero story
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2018
Lately many people are trying to introduce new weird heroes into the realm of super-heroes. Well, here are among the first and among the best. With an epic scope, the seven issues (1990-91) reprinted here form one story arc. A lot of the drawing is abstract, surreal, and still stunning. Grant Morison keeps the characters crisp and sardonic, somehow matching their consistently mind-bending encounters. One of my favorite lines was "I hope you guys are superheroes because we're out of our depth here." Cliff, trapped in an old robot body, has the final line. This long tale really set the goal for weird superheroes.
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Richard L. Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Doom Patrol, Book 3
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2009
Hassle free purchase. Wonderful series of colleted CLASSIC commics. Thank you.
-Richard
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Enrique Treviño and Yuliia Glushchenko
4.0 out of 5 stars Very Strange, but very creative and fun series
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2010
This comic starts with a story of a transvestite street. A conscious street that can move from one city to another. It was a fun story.

The next story was not that fun for me. It was full of interesting ideas, such as an abstract world called "kaleidoscope" and wars without words, etc. However, the story was a bit boring for me. Most of the story wasn't that funny and it wasn't that interesting. In fact, the most interesting part for me in this story arc was the prologue at the beginning of each issue, a prologue which had nothing to do with this story but was probably setting up the next story.

The art in this series is okay. I don't think it is that great, but it gets the job done and the job is quite difficult when you have to draw things that seem impossible to draw . So much imagination is flowing in this title, hard to keep up for the artist.

Overall, the series is quite interesting and it has plenty of funny moments, but I think it too often gets bog down by having so many concepts floating around at the same time. I'll read the next volume because I was intrigued with the prologues in the issues here, but if the next story is not great, I am going to stop reading this series.
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Pete House
5.0 out of 5 stars Grant Morrison pulls it off again
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2014
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Just buy the whole Grant Morrison run of Doom Patrol and read it. Go on. NOW! You won't be sorry.
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Stefano
5.0 out of 5 stars La run di Morrison prosegue al meglio
Reviewed in Italy on March 27, 2014
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Continua al meglio la run folle di Morrison. Personaggi strambi e situazioni al limite sono il marchio di fabbrica dello scrittore. Divertente davvero.
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R. Zalewski
5.0 out of 5 stars The Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison - Is this real?
Reviewed in Germany on August 27, 2009
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Aahh, ich liebe es, endlich einmal eine Rezension zu Grant Morrisons & Richard Cases "Doom Patrol" schreiben zu dürfen!
Ein echtes Kult-Comic!
Vielen Lesern war "Doom Patrol" Anfang der 90er-Jahre zu surrealistisch und manchmal auch zu psychedelisch, andere wiederum erkannten den intellektuellen und künstlerischen Tiefgang der Serie, die Autor Grant Morrison und Zeichner Richard Case damals im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes revolutionierten.
In einer Welt, in der Menschen fliegen können, unverwundbar sind, auf Grund eines Ringes übermenschliche Kräfte haben und von den Planeten Krypton, Mars und Thanagar stammen, war es nur konsequent von Mr. Morrison, den Comic-Lesern klar zu machen, dass das Medium Superhelden-Comic bereits eine surrealistische Angelegenheit ist. Er überspitzte die Storys und bereicherte sie mit realistischen Charakteristikas und Zwischenmenschlichkeiten, die seit Alan Moore nicht mehr auf den bunten DC-Seiten zu lesen waren.
Dadaismus, Science Fiction, Quantenphysik und Mystik wurden zitiert, variiert und benutzt, und der etwas gewöhnungsbedürftige, aber hervorragende Zeichenstil Richard Cases illustrierte Geschichten, die teilweise wirklich bewusstseinserweiternd waren.
Leider erschien dieses geniale Comic niemals auf Deutsch, und jedem, der jetzt diese Rezension liest, sei geraten, die Lektüre von "Doom Patrol" nicht mit Vol. 3 zu beginnen, sondern mit Vol. 1, da die Gesamtstory sonst etwas undurchschaubar ist, andererseits sollte man nach Vol. 1 sofort mit Vol. 2 fortfahren, da Vol. 1 noch etwas schwach ist und die Geschichte "wächst".
Als begeister Leser und Sammler der damaligen Hefte bin ich wirklich glücklich, dass die gesamte "Doom Patrol" von Morrison & Case jetzt in 6 dicken Bänden vorliegt, die obendrein die atemberaubenden Original-Covers von Simon Bisley enthalten.
Grant Morrison wurde übrigens 2009 zum zweitbesten Comic-Autor der Welt gewählt (nach Alan Moore, vor Neil Gaiman), und das zu Recht, wenn man außer "Doom Patrol" auch das preisgekrönte "All Star Superman" kennt!
Kaufen, lesen, staunen!
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