Mediocre comics are a crime, and sadly Giffen's Doom Patrol is largely mediocre. Every once in a while there's a glimmer of something great, like Black Lantern Cliff, but Giffen never fulfills the potential. 
 A mediocre Doom Patrol is worse than a crime. Giffen really tries to live up to Morrison's example with intelligent black holes and a creep-crazy Mentallo, but he never manages to figure out exactly what was great in Morrison's writing. 
 I do have to give Giffen some credit for trying to respect the entire long history of the the Doom Patrol, but unfortunately the final issue's spotlight on Larry points out what a horrible, horrible mess DC made of it following Morrison's run. I mean, I couldn't make heads or tails of what Larry was talking about with his multiple deaths and rebirth. 
 So, a mediocre comic, made worse by its place in Doom Patrol history.