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Morrison's Doom Patrol in Trade Paperbacks

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15:10 / 19.07.05

yeah, but I thought they were forbidden to sell anything with the Flex Mentallo name on or included in it...

16:37 / 19.07.05

No. They won the case, but agreed to not reprint the title. I don't believe there was anything about the DP comics.

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

20:28 / 19.07.05

As I understand it, they're not allowed to use the imagery for promotional purposes. I would guess that that would allow Flex to be reprinted, but without using a muscleman on the cover. I could be wrong though.

08:01 / 20.07.05

All of you, Shhh! Charles Atlas might be reading this.

08:21 / 26.07.05

New Doom Patrol TPB on the way:

DOOM PATROL VOL. 3: DOWN PARADISE WAY TP

Written by Grant Morrison, art by Richard Case, Kim DeMulder, Kelley Jones and others, cover by Brian Bolland.

The World's Strangest Heroes continue their adventures in this third volume collecting Grant Morrison's career-launching run on Doom Patrol. Reprinting issues #35-41 of the series,Down paradise Way features the debut of Danny the Street, the first appearance of Flex Mentallo, and, through it all, an incredible saga of cosmic war and super-evolving consciousness!

192 pages, $19.99, in stores on Oct. 12.

scroll down to almost the bottom of the page

Essential Dazzler

11:11 / 26.07.05

click back to page 3

15:10 / 26.07.05

Yes yes, Dan Fish1000 was quicker than me. Hm, well, so the good news were told twice!

I promise, next time lazy me will check the thread more thoroughly before posting.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

19:14 / 08.10.05

Guess this comes out this week coming up, yes? I'm really looking forward to it. Only the barest inkling of "What Happened to Rhea Jones," beyond the semi-comatose annulled marriage to Red Jack, and I vaguely remember having one issue of Kupperberg's DP (Celsius on the cover with a tombstone; it was utterly forgettable inside-wise). And more Flex!

19:23 / 08.10.05

Awwwriiiight...

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

19:25 / 08.10.05

Almost makes up for the lack of Zatanna and the All-New All-Different All-Superman.

01:52 / 09.10.05

Jeez October already?

I should pay the shop at visit. Haven't gone in months.

18:19 / 09.10.05

Thanks for the bump of this thread, this should be terrific to see on the shelves.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

03:29 / 11.10.05

I still think I like the Bisley mixed media/college cover for the first printing of the first TPB, but the Bolland covers are okay. Bisley's stuff just seems a lot ... dirtier.

09:49 / 12.10.05

I just got the first one, and I like it so far. I'm upto part 4 of the first story am I'm glad that I've got into it so quickly. I'm really liking Crazy Jane, and am looking forward to seeing what personalities Grant brings to the surface as the run goes on. Yeah I think this is going to be awesome.

"First there is a Mountain, then there is no Mountain, then there is."

Rock on.

12:49 / 12.10.05

I think I prefer that as played out in the pages of spin-off Doom Force:

"First there is Shasta, the Living Mountain. Then there is not."

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:08 / 12.10.05

eon: There's "The Underground," I think it's called, from the second trade - focus on Crazy Jane. It also really establishes that Cliff's the normal schmoe going into madness; or anyway, it's a prime example. I still think that the Empire of Chairs story, which is Morrison's last issue, is a far superior single issue spotlighting Crazy Jane.

Jane works best, I think, when the narrative doesn't give her the chance to solve everybody's problems.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:27 / 12.10.05

Is Vol 3 gonna have the Beard Hunter?

I like the Beard Hunter.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

22:18 / 12.10.05

It wasn't at the store today! Tragedy, it wasn't even on their order form.

So I got the latest Seth Fisher Batman instead. Blah.

22:29 / 12.10.05

Hasn't it been put back to November? That's what Amazon seem to suggest anyway.

22:52 / 12.10.05

Diamond had it listed for this week.

I assume the November 1st date is when Amazon, and bookstore markets, get it in. Direct markets should have it by now...

Bah.

02:49 / 13.10.05

I was able to pick the new trade up today, it's issue #'s 35-41, though the contents makes it sound as if it's been abridged somehow. No Beard Hunter, he's in #45.

So it is indeed out - go savage an Airborne Express driver and bathe in his blood if your local didn't get it in.

I enjoy that leafing through it gives me absolutely no idea of plot or events, produces no spoilers - just a sea of confusion and misfired anatomy.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

04:06 / 13.10.05

I'm presuming foul up with the one shop. Tomorrow after work I'll journey downtown and see what I can find.

14:57 / 13.10.05

>> I still think I like the Bisley mixed media/college cover for the first printing of the first TPB, but the Bolland covers are okay. Bisley's stuff just seems a lot ... dirtier.

I agree completely.

Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

20:08 / 13.10.05

THis has got to be one of the most surreal Doom Patrol stories I've ever read.

...though I LOVE Rhea's dialogue towards the end. Her lack of a face makes it all the more hilarious, becuase you can just sort of pretend she's making funny expressions as she's talking.

Damn I love this comic.

Flex Mentallo DOES show up, making his first appearence and what-not. Dunno if he'll be there later, though.

Still, "Down Paradise Way" is DEFINITLY worth picking up.

22:32 / 13.10.05

Wonder if the DOOM PATROL trades are a success, if they'll relaunch another series that's a little closer to GM's run, ie offbeat, eccentric (the surreal bit has already been done to perfection).

Is anybody reading Byrne's series? I know it's a far cry from the good stuff, but am curious if it at least tasty meat and potatoes...

22:39 / 13.10.05

Why do you need more doom patrol? More to the point, why do you seem to want to buy more comics that are less good than your estimation of Grant Morrison's doom patrol?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

23:54 / 13.10.05

I did it; I found it. I trekked through the kiddie-friendly family comic book shop that didn't have any evidence of the Doom Patrol's latest trade. I went to the more game-focused shop that stinks of unwashed thirty-year-old virgin. And then I went to the shop with the cute guy working at the till, that doesn't smell too bad and offers more "obscure" options. It was there.

Happy! I read it this afternoon over sushi while I nursed the cold-stricken boyfriend. I think I preferred the Danny-the-Street storyline to the interplanetary war, but both were wild and full. Kelly Jones provided art at one point and it worked for me; usually, I find his people too eerie and skeletal to look at for long, but it worked so well and Cliff became - well, gorgeous. Sometimes it felt like Crazy Jane didn't have much of anything to do but be sensible in a weird insensible fashion.

I think I will always love that everybody else is handles everything with a relaxed veneer while Cliff is doomed forever to freak out at any little thing. He's a big tough guy who doesn't want to think too hard about things, but he keeps having Woody Allen moments.

Cowboy Scientist

18:56 / 16.10.05

There's been some rumors of DC publishing Flex in the last Doom Patrol TPB (the 8th), along with the Doom Force special and a couple other things

21:21 / 16.10.05

All of you, Shhh! Charles Atlas might be reading this.

That means no sleazy/abusive potshots at Mrs A, folks.

22:53 / 16.10.05

For the record, I never glassed Mrs. Atlas.

23:17 / 16.10.05

Where did you hear these rumors Nonexistent Man? The Flex Mini is so it's own thing it seems strange to reprint it along with Doom Force (!) of all things as part of a final DP collection. I wouldn't complain mind you, it just seems odd ...

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

02:04 / 17.10.05

Wow. The chance to finally read Flex #2.

05:07 / 17.10.05

Wonder if the DOOM PATROL trades are a success, if they'll relaunch another series that's a little closer to GM's run, ie offbeat, eccentric (the surreal bit has already been done to perfection).

Is anybody reading Byrne's series? I know it's a far cry from the good stuff, but am curious if it at least tasty meat and potatoes...

Aha! you are psychic my freind! Over on Silverbulletcomics.com All the Rage column, just that possibility may be cooking, spearheaded by GM himself. This run would ignore Byrne's run, which ignored GM's run.

Nothing could ever recapture the original GM run, but there's more mileage left in the concept and I'd LOVE to see him reboot himself as it were (cue one legged man at an ass kicking contest jokes).

05:09 / 17.10.05

Streuth! I quoted myself by accident and gave myself praise! Sorry. I really am quite humble. Occasionally. But I was right (maybe), wasn't I?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

05:32 / 17.10.05

Care to provide a link? That site's awful to navigate around.

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