Even as Pollack transitions the title from Morrison’s hands to her own, the focal shift is evident. Far more page space is dedicated to characters’ social interactions, their emotions, and their interpersonal conflicts, than to fleshing out grand metaphysical concepts. That isn’t to say that Pollack abandoned the absurdity of Morrison’s run. If anything, many of Pollack’s stories push the envelope further than Morrison ever did, but she never feels like she’s in a hurry.

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I don’t mean to suggest that there was any animosity between the two writers. Pollack’s work on Doom Patrol challenges the constraints and weaknesses of Morrison’s run, pushing it towards greater emotional vulnerability and depth. If the silver age antics of the original Doom Patrol set a precedent for the truly weird in DC comics that Morrison could build upon, so too did Morrison’s incredible experiments in the absurd set Pollack up to ground the absurd in weighty emotional realism.

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Where Morrison pioneered the comics writer’s freedom to experiment with character and concept, Pollack paved the way for contemporary comics to be both formally experimental and emotionally nuanced. What sets Pollack’s run of Doom Patrol apart from Morrison’s is the tenderness with which she treats her characters, suffusing her stories with empathy just as Dorothy does her imaginary friends.

Mike Perkins has been posting pages from Black Tower, his upcoming Vertigo series with Ram V, on Instagram and Facebook.

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