Hasitha Fernando reviews the seventh episode of Doom Patrol…Our titular team is in complete disarray. Each reflecting on their painful pasts, which in turn mirror their current predicament. Cliff Steele suffers a mental breakdown in the process. After recovering from it, he suggests they all gather to have a self-led ‘group therapy session’ to get […]

Hasitha Fernando reviews the sixth episode of Doom Patrol…A potential Apocalypse was successfully averted. But our disparate group didn’t survive it completely unscathed. Some are broken within and others without. Dr. Caulder is once again missing, snatched away from them by the devious Mr. Nobody and they were unable to stop him. In a last-ditch […]

Hasitha Fernando reviews the fifth episode of Doom Patrol season 1…Things are looking rather bleak for our rag-tag band of misfits. The Cult of the Unwritten Book succeeds in their task of unleashing the De-creator; a perpetually glowing eye which gradually disintegrates all things in existence. Cliff and Crazy Jane are trapped in the lost […]

Hasitha Fernando reviews the fourth episode of Doom Patrol…Episode 3 concluded with our weird-some fivesome being whisked away from Paraguay on a jet. The misadventures in Fuchtopia, raised more troublesome questions than definitive answers. Why was Dr. Caulder present during Mr. Nobody’s transformation? What was the ‘important item’ that he stole from Von Fuchs on […]

Hasitha Fernando reviews the third episode of Doom Patrol…Our titular motley crew are right back where they started. The shenanigans involving the devious Mr. Nobody and his vortex of mischief served only as a transitory period of torment for our heroes. Nothing new was gleamed by tumbling down that particular rabbit-hole (or Donkey’s throat in […]

Hasitha Fernando reviews the second episode of Doom Patrol…The opening scene of episode 2 finds our eponymous band of ‘super-zeroes’ in a bit of a hairy situation. To recap succinctly, the pilot of Doom Patrol concluded on a cliffhanger; albeit a rather outlandish one. It involved the appearance of an otherworldly flatulating donkey and the […]

Hasitha Fernando reviews the first episode of Doom Patrol…Doom Patrol first made their comic book debut on the summer of 1963. Co-created by writers Arnold Drake and Bob Haney with artist Bruno Premiani, it was published by DC Comics in the same period Marvel Comics launched X-Men. Suffering a premature death in the next two […]