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Morrison's Doom Patrol in Trade Paperbacks

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01:52 / 17.09.04

I'm surprised I haven't seen this up yet. Last week DC released the new printings of Morrison's Doom Patrol issues #19-25 in Doom Patrol Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage, featuring a new and typically-pleasing-to-the-eye Brian Bolland cover.

Vol. 2: The Painting That Ate Paris will apparently be out by the end of the month.

Also, in the back of the trade there's a 2-page spread advertising DC's Grant Morrison Library, showing that they'll be printing new editions of both Mystery Play and Sebastian O.

I've never had the chance to read Grant's Doom Patrol run so I'm really looking forward to this. I'll post a DP neophyte's thoughts after I've finished it. More later.

02:33 / 17.09.04

I'm hot for vol.2. Got the old print of 1.

Any chance Dan Fish can host the pics missing therein on his lovely webpage?

That'd be nice.

02:39 / 17.09.04

Oooh, wow. Dude, you’re in for a treat. I’m jealous, I wish I could read it for the first time again.

miss wonderstarr

07:27 / 17.09.04

Mystery Play is one of the few GM books I don't own, I think, so I'd be interested to see if it's pretentious wank or not.

08:06 / 17.09.04

it's got that mid-nineties art that makes it look like gaimanian wank, but its tone's like the wicker man, or try to imagine nigel kneale and m.r james collaborating on a special halloween episode of 'tales of the unexpected'. basically a small-town horror story, with some (to my mind) effective cheap'n'creepy metaphysical overtones.

11:42 / 17.09.04

Just read Mystery Play, and I'd have to agree. Muth's art really does very little for me. There's very little consistency in faces, and no pacing whatsoever. It reads more like a storyboard for a film than a decent comic. There are some nice overtones, some of which stray into the heavy-handed, but you get the feeling that it's all a bit half-arsed.
Muth has serious problem remembering he's not painting the US: Our crosswords don't tend to look like that, our coppers don't wear those uniforms, and prisoners are unlikely to be offered Oreos in the UK. After the recent thread on Blood, he's plummeting in my estimation. I'm steering clear of Moonshadow for a while.
LOVE those Bolland covers for DP, though!

17:13 / 17.09.04

I've got a horrible feeling pretentious wank's going to seem like too good a term for The Mystery Play, to be honest. If it's a cliche to say that mainstream comics writers tend to lose it a bit once they step out the world of superheroics, it's perhaps also telling that Morrisson's never attempted anything like it since.

The Painting That Ate Paris though, along with the rest of his run on Doom Patrol, is possibly the best thing he's ever done, and I personally wouldn't love him anything like half as much if he'd never written it, but, and I'm sorry to go on about this, if Vertigo sees this much potential in republishing the guy's back catalogue, why the bloody fucking hell won't they put out the rest of Seaguy ?

19:52 / 17.09.04

I really don't like the Bolland covers. Not sure why, they just ain't doing for me. Love his animal man stuff, but these are just...wrong for me.

20:13 / 17.09.04

I know what you mean. Crazy Jane looks more ...victimized... on the Bolland cover. It would've been nice to have had someone more from the era do a sloppy and tasteful cover that reflected the wacky energy and content.

21:40 / 17.09.04

Thanks for this, i had no idea it had been released. I'm looking forward to getting this now i've seen those two covers, it looks really strange and different, but in a good way.

Wow, i'm obsessed. Whenever i think back to this year in the future i'll probably think to myself "Ahh yeah, that was Grant Morrison year." or "Ahh yeah, that was the year the Grant got me."

I will look back and SMILE dammit.

All that's left now is to spy on him day and night like Alex does. Do you think he'd be able to take us both on if we stalked him Alex? Actually, i might just be too damn lazy to do something like that.

22:31 / 17.09.04

Jack, I'll bet you a virtual fiver you'll be thinking seriously about changing your on-line name to Mr Nobody, once you've finished reading that stuff.

22:35 / 17.09.04

But as far as the surveillance goes, don't worry ( sorry if I forgot to mention this above, ) I do have the place under 24-7, so no problems there.

miss wonderstarr

22:41 / 17.09.04

Cover art should have been Bisley.

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

13:13 / 18.09.04

I'm hot for vol.2. Got the old print of 1.

Any chance Dan Fish can host the pics missing therein on his lovely webpage?

That'd be nice.

Should still be there - Lost and Found - About 2/3rd down the page

15:19 / 18.09.04

I know the first trade's out... but Amazon refuses to acknowledge its existance, still. Dammit, I'm not paying twenty whole dollars for that. *waits patiently*

18:25 / 18.09.04

But as far as the surveillance goes, don't worry ( sorry if I forgot to mention this above, ) I do have the place under 24-7, so no problems there.

Coool, maybe i'll come and visit then, but if he catches us and starts doing Scorpion martial arts shit then i'm running all the way back to England.

04:33 / 19.09.04

I know the first trade's out... but Amazon refuses to acknowledge its existance, still. Dammit, I'm not paying twenty whole dollars for that. *waits patiently*

Amazon gets comics when regular bookstores get them, typically 3-4 weeks after (direct market) comic shops. Want them sooner, try Talesofwonder.com, which offers the same discounts as Amazon but is on the direct market schedule, ie. 3-4 weeks ahead of Amazon. As a slight aside, I've actually ditched Amazon for this service for all my trade paperbacks after getting one too many obviously used graphic novels from Amazon (my assumption is that Amazon's highly liberal return policy--return anything for any reason for a full refund minus shipping--leads people to use it as a graphic novel library, as GNs can easily be read and returned by the deadline; Amazon unfortunately seems to resell returned merchandise regardless of the condition it's in).

12:29 / 19.09.04

That was a good read, so full of energy, like the early Invisibles issues. Not pretentious, neither overlong nor overshort, just barreling along on wonder. I Heart Cliff Steele. I Heart Joshua Clay and I don't even know why. I love the way Cliff relies on Crazy Jane to need him, even though she constantly saves his ass.

The Orqwith story and the Scissormen were great fun (though the ending was rather flat), but I was extremely taken with the Butterfly Collector story. It's interesting how Morrison's early work resonates with lovely, poignant, sado-masochistic moments/perspectives. "Don't leave me... You'll die... With me you'll live forever..." was just so right, so pretty. The usage of wonderful throwaway ideas is much sharper than in some of his other work as well, very honest. I really liked the red slippers issue after reading it - it bugged me at first, but the puberty analogue was another very pretty idea, an extremely succinct thematic idea about terrifying growth that informs so much of Morrison's work, well-handled. I'm greatly looking forward to reading the rest of these.

I'm going to make stickers of that lovely panel of CLiff's head saying "Is this real, or isn't it?".

For any who are curious, the pages omitted from the previous trade, still available on Dan Fish's excellent site, are all included in the newest trade EXCEPT for the first 2-page sequence of Mr. Nobody with Holly from Issue 23. The rest are all in there (and must have been restored from some really old & beat up plates - they don't look so good).

Our Lady Has Left the Building

17:31 / 19.09.04

Poot, didn't have it at Gosh this week...

22:20 / 19.09.04

Just got it from Putney store as I putted past on my scooter after football. Should be a good read, but waiting for vol II and the brotherhood of dada stuff with more excitement.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

04:14 / 20.09.04

Picked up Vol 1. Very VERY nice stuff, and the Scissormen story resonates with the Invisibles stuff he'd write later on.

As to Sebastian O, it was reprinted about...oh, 3 months ago in TPB form. Was quite funky, but I found it far more like "V for Vendetta" than a Victorian setting.

Very interested in this "Mystery Play", though. It's the only Morrison TPB I don't own that's not related to his JLA run (which I've never been able to get into, he really seems to be out of his depth in it, and has trouble fitting people like Supes and MM into his style of writing). On the other hand, "Animal Man" was beautiful. Just beautiful.

18:47 / 20.09.04

does anyone know if they are doing volumes 3 + of doom patrol

Matthew Fluxington

19:40 / 20.09.04

There were 44 issues of Morrison DP, so it'll probably come out to five volumes.

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02:14 / 21.09.04

I read Doom Patrol about a year ago. I was lucky, got all the issues in one fell swoop off eBay for a fairly low price. I still say it's probably the best thing GM's ever done, even better then "The Invisibles". I actually felt more emotionally moved by it then The Invisibles, actually. What probably helps it was the fact that it wasn't meant to be a spell or anything: It's just good storytelling. And it really is bizarre. Austin Spare, Chaos Theory, Burroughsian cut-ups, the church of the SubGenius, Morrisey, Gnostic archons, the Decreator, Dada villians, bizarre cults, shadows that kill their owners, Crossing the Abyss, sentinet transvestite streets, strange aliens involved in idiotic wars, a bad-ass looking mummified hermaphrodite, an entire issue of alchemical imagery, the end of the world... This series had it all! Hell, the good guy base was even situated in Rhode Island...

I really liked Mr. Nobody also. Probably in my top 5 favorite GM characters. And Cliff Steele and Crazy Jane were perhaps two of his greatest hero characters.

02:42 / 21.09.04

That's sounds neat Fabulous, i guess this is what i'm getting next then!

(I only read half of your post because i'm paranoid of hitting spoilers, but it sounded exactly like what i'm looking for.)

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

17:58 / 21.09.04

Rebis and Crazy Jane were fantastic characters. I really, REALLY liked Rebis. S/he was just such a...cool concept.

19:54 / 21.09.04

I loved the Mr Nobody origin when I read it all those years ago, that and the Invasion crossover from Animal Man still rate as my GM highlights.

It's quite funny reading these stories, where they are trapped in a real DCU structure, just the mentioning of Giffen's Justice League seems so odd.

I hope that they keep going beyond GM's run, as I really enjoyed the way this series finished.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:22 / 21.09.04

Excellent... I read most of GM's run at the time, but all the issues in "Crawling..." were new to me. So that was a damn good read!

Can't wait for the Beard Hunter, personally. Or Danny the Street.

Matthew Fluxington

14:51 / 23.09.04

Just an FYI - I bought a copy of Volume 2: The Painting That Ate Paris yesterday at Midtown Comics in NYC. I didn't expect to see it, since I was under the impression that it was coming out in November. I'm thrilled to have it, though, since it contains the only issues of the series which I do not own as single issues aside from Crawling From The Wreckage, which I bought as a trade several years ago.

For those of you who may want to know, The Painting That Ate Paris contains issues 26-34.

Volume 3 is going to start with the introduction of Danny The Street and the Men From N.O.W.H.E.R.E. in #35, and will probably finish with that big Rhea storyline.

16:37 / 23.09.04

Was there character designs by Morrison as the ad's said there would be? How much extra's?

Matthew Fluxington

18:06 / 23.09.04

There are no extras in Volume 2.

The original version of Crawling Through The Wreckage had a couple sketches by Grant, so it's probably in there. If I remember, it's just a Scissorman and Rebis.

21:56 / 23.09.04

Yeah, two pics of Rebis (one Morrison, one McCarthy) and a Scissorman by the latter too.

I bought a shitload ('bout 20) of post #34 DPs on Tuesday from FutureShock in Glesca, which seems to be the only store with anything resembling a back-issue section nowadays. Really great; however, no Beard-hunter, which I expected in the ish covered with Flex Mentallo looking a lot like Alan Moore. Nevermind.

22:32 / 23.09.04

FYI, No extras in this new version of Crawling From The Wreckage.

There's no solicitations for further volumes of Grant's DP run. They may be waiting on sales figures for these early bits.

Matthew Fluxington

11:42 / 24.09.04

No solicitations yet, but they fully intend to do the whole thing. Volume 3 is projected for the first quarter of 2005.

11:57 / 24.09.04

Where'd'you get that scoop, Matthew?

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