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It's pretty safe to say that DC Universe's live-action Doom Patrol series is not your typical "superhero show" – it makes ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. look like the 60's Batman television series. A fourth-wall-breaking "big bad," a farting donkey and a Spanish priest's stigmata wounds as portals to other places, and an "homage" to […]

I have this cautious optimism about third episodes of new series – especially after a strong two-episode start. By the third episode, shows usually start hitting their stride and season-long story arcs begin to take shape. Sometimes though – more often then we care to admit – the third episde can be a raging dumpster […]

Last week saw the live-action series debut of "The World's Strangest Heroes" with DC Universe's Doom Patrol making an impressive debut in a year set to be filled with dysfunctional superhero teams. In my review of the opener, I explained how I was impressed with the way the pilot for the 15-episode series checked off all the important […]

This week saw the series debut of "The World's Strangest Heroes," with DC Universe's live-action Doom Patrol staking its claim as the most dysfunctional super hero team of 2019. When you consider we have The Boys and The Umbrella Academy this year, too – that's a lofty goal to achieve. With that said, the pilot […]

With only one day to go before "The World's Strangest Heroes" Doom Patrol leaps large and small screens in a single bound, DC Universe is giving viewers a special "valentine" in the form of an extended trailer. Let's be clear: even if you've watched everything else that's been released on the series, you will absolutely want to […]

As 2019's "Dawn of the Dysfunctional Super Team" rolls along and with a week to go before its February 15th premiere, DC Universe is giving us our first in-series look at "The World's Strangest Heroes," with a Doom Patrol teaser that gives us a strong sense of clearly "different" tone to the series. Which is […]

With the "World's Strangest Heroes" set to make their solo series debut on DC Universe on February 15th, the new streaming service is giving each member of this definitely-not-the-Justice-League team their moment in the spotlight–beginning with Brendan Frasier's Robotman, April Bowlby's Elasti-Woman, and Diane Guerrero's Crazy Jane. Here's a look at the first-half of a wholly different super team […]

Cyborg has awakened in a bizarre lab with strangers tampering with his technology. This leads him to panic, and he runs into large robot, which swiftly pacifies the wounded superhero. He later discovers that the lab is an offshoot of S.T.A.R Labs called Starlite Original Businesses. They sprang from S.T.A.R to focus on cybernetics and, […]

A battle between to factions of mechs attracts the attention of Cyborg. One was half-destroyed and abandoned, so Vic brings it back to the new S.T.A.R Labs base on an island. Unfortunately, both factions of mechs want the suit back, and it leads to an all-out assault on the base which leaves Cyborg near death. […]

Metal continues its exploration through the Batman League with its Cyborg analogue, the Murder Machine. On another world, Alfred Pennyworth is brutally murdered by the enemies of the Batman. In a fit of grief, he requests that Cyborg helps him finish the Alfred Protocol, a means of turning Alfred into an AI that can watch […]