DOOM PATROL... Grant Morrison's laundry list of weird ideas

The Doom Patrol debuted in 1963, just a few months before the X-Men. The two titles had a lot in common: a group of superpowered misfits led by a man in a wheelchair. But while the X-Men soon found their way into the pop cultural canon, the Doom Patrol could only muster a cult following — and only recently started rising into the mainstream due to the eponymous HBO TV series.

But Doom Patrol still had a succession of heavy hitting talent inventing consistently weird challenges for the team to fight through, from John Byrne to Gerard Way to Grant Morrison. This week on Quarantined Comics, Raman and Ryan will review half of Morrison's 45-issue run, which started in 1989.

Morrison established themselves as one of the hottest writers during the 80s, bringing his odd sensibility from the pages of the British sci-fi series 2000AD to DC superhero stories, including a long run writing the series Animal Man and the one-shot Batman: Arkham Asylum.

But with his their run on Doom Patrol... well, maybe it was just a little too much Morrison for Ryan and Raman to handle...