"Doom Patrol" is the kind of graphic novel you'll either love or be completely mystified as to why others praise it so highly. After purchasing and reading the first three books based on rave Amazon.com reviews, I have to be one of the few to add my name to the later category. It's an admittedly clever idea with a lot of interesting concepts and artwork, yet it remains a surprisingly tedious and un-engaging read (a la "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier"). I have absolutely no desire to read any more of the series and I cannot recommend it to anyone other than philosophy 101 or pseudo avant-garde art students. DP quickly collapses under it's own pretentious and surrealistic weight, skip it, and move on to the excellent "Ex Machina" or "Y The Last Man" or "Invincible" series for a true dose of current comic genius.