Grant Morrison has made a career out of throwing around tons of wildly creative ideas and waiting to see which ones stick. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But I admire his creativity and willingness to try to work out even his strangest ideas (and DC's willingness to let him do as he likes, for that matter) whether it works or not. And the Doom Patrol that I've read so far, especially this volume, is where he did a remarkable job of pulling it all together.There are enough head-tilting, what-did-I-just-read moments to leave the reader confident that this is, indeed, Morrison writing. The big, overarching storylines are more bizarre than they are well-written (but only slightly so, this time). But the Flex Mentallo and Beard Hunter stories are brilliant, true classics, and the collection as a whole does a better job of telling its story than some of Morrison's other work (before and after this).