JLA/Doom Patrol Special #1
Steve Orlando/Gerard Way (w), Aco (a)
DC Comics

Liz says: Unsurprisingly, the first chapter of ‘Milk Wars’, DC’s Young Animal/Justice League of America crossover, is utterly bonkers, borderline-incomprehensible and darned entertaining at the same time.
The Justice League of America (not the Justice League, to be clear) are the perfect characters to make the first contact with the Young Animal branch of the DC universe. They’re the misfits of the DCU, a team formed of ex-villains and anti-heroes, brought together by Batman to better themselves through teamwork. The Doom Patrol, meanwhile, is an even stranger bunch, composed of high-concept ideas in human(-ish) form. Their collision was bound to be strange, and strange it most certainly is.

It all kicks off when an extra-physical corporation called Retconn sends a brainwashed copy of Superman (called Milkman Man) to Earth-Prime to condition the current population into something less idiosyncratic and more (ahem) homogenous, using Retconn’s brand of mind-controlling milk. One sip is enough to turn the entire JLA into a 1950’s-style neighbourhood-watch of the Pleasantville-esque town of Happy Harbor, Rhode Island. It falls to the Doom Patrol to save them.