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Morrison's Doom Patrol in Trade Paperbacks

  
  

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Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
22:58 / 18.09.06
iamus: I think Scarlet's manifestation is that healing process. It's Jane's denial of Scarlet's nature that's helped her to survive to this point, but it also keeps her fragmented and allows personalities like Black Annis to the fore.

Good reading. Taking the "forbidden" sexual impulses and saying that they're okay and accepting/revelling in them breaks into the integration scene in the next chapter - Baby Doll and Scarlot Harlot merging Rebis-like the Virgin and the Whore into Baby Harlot.

I admit that I was a little disappointed with Scarlot Harlot's appearance, given the bits and pieces of synopses I've read - she crops up in Shaviro's Doom Patrols and I was expecting her to be chasing people around with her ectoplasmic sex toys more.
 
 
Mark Parsons
00:49 / 19.09.06
V 6 is out in early january. How many volumes have been released in the space of one year? How many more v's to go till the run is all collected.
 
 
ghadis
08:05 / 19.09.06
I'm sure it's mentioned earlier in the thread by someone but i'd say we'd be done in 7 trades. And then, hopefully, a bumper deluxe hardback absolute type thing with the Flex Mini. and maybe Doom Force to pad it out a bit.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
01:32 / 11.12.06
Just saw an ad for V6, listed as out on January 2nd, in The Other Side #3, with a creepy rendition of Alias the Blur and NOBODY FOR PRESIDENT. Sometimes a ruler is just a cigar metaphor is just a penis size reference.

I'm -really- looking forward to this as I've never read the conclusion of the second Brotherhood of Dada storyline with the whole presidential thing. Query: can we expect more Jamie Hewlett art?
 
 
Billuccho!
02:17 / 11.12.06
I think it's volume five that's out in Jan.

I just ordered v. 3 and 4, myself. Can't wait for them to arrive...!
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
05:36 / 11.12.06
Jamie Hewlett only did pencils for issue 50 IIRC, so no, no more crunchy goodness from him.
 
 
D Terminator XXXIII
06:10 / 11.12.06
To be pedantic, however, he did provide the cover to # 52.

Coincidence? I think not.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
19:27 / 04.01.07
Did this actually come out this week? I couldn't see it anywhere at the shop.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
20:10 / 04.01.07
I didn't see it either, but I might have missed it somehow..
 
 
Corey Waits
23:56 / 04.01.07
Well Amazon has it listed as January 31st.

I know Amazon isn't the most reliable of sources, but they'd at least know if it had already been out.

The cover looks more like it was done by Philip Bond than Bolland, but apparently it's still him.

Personally I'm loving the reprints - I got into comics late and never even heard of Doom Patrol until I was being indoctrinated by The Invisibles.
 
 
FinderWolf
00:38 / 05.01.07
That may not be the final cover. I thought they were having all-Bolland paperback covers for the new printings - that looks like an individual issue cover painting by Jamie Hewlett.
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
01:29 / 05.01.07
that was a regular series' cover. still a mucho groovy illo, but doubtful that it'd be used in the TPB.

a bit of a stupid question, but still: are the letter pages anywhere over the intarweb? don't think those are being reprinted, are they. legal issues and whatnot.
 
 
Billuccho!
02:45 / 05.01.07
Just finished v.4 today and I'm dying to read Magic Bus now. Blast their scheduling.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
03:47 / 05.01.07
Indeed. I wish me some Rebis.
 
 
Dicodisco
09:57 / 13.01.07
Is the "Magic Bus" TPB out yet ?
 
 
uncle retrospective
13:17 / 13.01.07
End of the month, same day as the last trade of Seven Soldiers. DC seem to want all my money at once.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
17:36 / 13.01.07
I can not wait, as this one has a bunch of stories in it that I've never actually read before. Kind of like the Beard Hunter and the bulk of the Flex Mentallo stuff last time. The confusing DC Comics site solicits are irritating.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
17:25 / 29.01.07
Hopefully this will actually come out this week, because otherwise I'm going to have to write my own version of Mister Nobody running for president, and it's damn-well going to include (a) leather-daddy geishas and (b) Cliff Steele learning the true meaning of Labour Day.
 
 
Cowboy Scientist
18:25 / 29.01.07
Go for it! Writing your own end would be so Doom Patrol-y.
 
 
Cowboy Scientist
19:48 / 29.01.07
The actual cover for v5 has been released:
  
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
21:37 / 29.01.07
Should've sent...a poet...

No...wait. I am a poet.

I love the little windows of previous covers along the side, in the Grande Olde Vertigo(e) Style(e). But I still think I would have liked the bolder, grittier, dirtier Bisley collage work that graced the first collection's original printing (back in the dawn of time and acquired some time ago using means best left to the imagination, possibly) to Bolland's straightforwardness. But I like the photo-eyes on Alias the Blur's glassy visage.
 
 
matthew.
00:27 / 30.01.07
Will Volume 6 complete the run? And have they announced it yet?
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
01:38 / 30.01.07
Look up, my son. Probably seven volumes.

I don't think anything officially been announced, but I could be wrong.
 
 
This Sunday
18:18 / 30.01.07
There's always seven volumes.

'New X-Men', 'JLA', 'The Invisibles', 'Flex Mentallo'... Um. Okeh, usually seven. Unless it's three. Which, with 'The Invisibles' can be broken down to seven trades. Or, like 'Marvel Boy' can be permanently stalled out at one.
 
 
Cowboy Scientist
21:16 / 30.01.07
Those little covers for 6 and 7 are the real covers for those vols? No wonder this took so much to be released, Bolland had to make all the covers before making this one.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
01:53 / 31.01.07
You know, looking at the Comics.Org Cover Gallery, I'd guess that there's only six volumes altogether for GM's run of Doom Patrol. After #50, his run only went to #63 with "The Empire of Chairs."

Musclebound had nine issues' worth of material in it, so if we follow that pattern we're left with a sixth volume with only four comics...unless they pad that out with the Doom Force special or (fingers crossed!) Flex. If they did both that would lead to nine comics' worth of story to match up with the rest.

As Flex tells the tale of trying to exert influence over the Pentagon, I love that little itty-bitty panel of Little Nemo ripped from Slumberland and dumped onto the floor, next to the Mona Lisa in negative.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:20 / 31.01.07
Brilliant- read the first four again back-to-back last week, so this is good news.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
18:54 / 01.02.07
SEX.


SEEEEEEX.


In other words, after hurried, confused, erratic, horny searching, I FOUND VOLUME FIVE. Manna, I say, from Heavens. Pair o'Dice. Manana with an accent. Iamtheinvisiblefire.

Philip Bond inking Richard Case? Sex.

The Aenigma Regis? Sex with angels made of pearl & silver.

The actual secret secret other origin of the Doom Patrol?

"Mr. Steele? Mister Clay? I need help."

More when my brain stops gibbering and starts working in four dimensions again.
 
 
FinderWolf
20:03 / 01.02.07
...you mean you read the individual issues that compose Vol. 5?

Or is the actual new paperback out as of Yesterday, as good ol' Amazon promised...?
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
20:15 / 01.02.07
It's out!
 
 
Sylvia
21:07 / 01.02.07
Oh dear god.

I just finished the 5th volume yesterday night, and while there are those lovely transcendent personal triumphs for some of our beloved cast...

Poor Josh. Poor Cliff (although I suspect his demise is temporary whereas Josh's is permanent). Poor, poor Dorothy. Poor brotherhood of Dada (I saw the Doom Patrol's team dynamic starting to fray a while back, but the Brotherhood biting it caught me totally unawares)

I finished up the last Seven Soldiers of Victory trade before tackling Doom Patrol's penultimate volume. I should have done it the other way around because while Seven Soldiers' story and character arcs were satisfyingly wrapped up*, I'm consumed with jittery anxiety every time I look at my Doom Patrol trades. When's that last one coming out?




*It seemed like 90% of the internet complained that 7S #0 made no sense. 90% of the internet was pretty wrong.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
22:44 / 01.02.07
Poor brotherhood of Dada (I saw the Doom Patrol's team dynamic starting to fray a while back, but the Brotherhood biting it caught me totally unawares)

They are, potentially, the most endearing team of super-villains to ever walk the Earth.

The stuff with Jane, her unravelling, Liza Radley taking those deep dark steps toward final transformation...wow. Reminded me of Three Faces of Eve, for all its psychological errors...
 
 
Cowboy Scientist
01:40 / 02.02.07
Argh! Still not here!

...

Does this one have that issue with Rebis on the Moon? That was one of my favourites. So mindblowing!

"iamtheinvisblefirethatworksinsecret"
 
 
Sylvia
04:05 / 02.02.07
Heat Vision: Oh yes it does. Moon Rebis is go.

I have to wonder how much I would've 'gotten' of the Rebis' focused issue if I hadn't already read about Lord Fanny's own gendered-blurred journey through the muck of the world. Did anyone here read Doom Patrol before they read The Invisibles?

Puzzled or not I'm sure I would have dug the visuals just as much as I do now. I want a poster of what Rebis finds on the moon that we weren't allowed to see. Glorious.
 
 
Dan Fish - @Fish1k
08:03 / 02.02.07
I read the DP issue when it came out, and thought it was fantastic, but didn't understand it at all (in the conventional sense). Then the following issue came out and didn't explain it all either. It was great to read Invisibles years later, and realise it was the same story, and finally understand some more of the original DP issue.
 
  

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