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rerun
08-10-2007, 11:09 AM
Is there still one more Doom Patrol TPB due from Grant Morrison?
Does anyone know when its due out?
I'm about to finish up Magic BUs but it looks like there's about 6 issues or so more of his run to go.
FanboyStranger
08-10-2007, 03:15 PM
Is there still one more Doom Patrol TPB due from Grant Morrison?
Does anyone know when its due out?
I'm about to finish up Magic BUs but it looks like there's about 6 issues or so more of his run to go.

There should be one more tpb on the way, two if they decide to reprint Flex Mentallo and the Doom Force Special. Morrison's dP has been reprinted one book a year for the most part, so I would expect the closing volume sometime early next year.
Pink Bat Max
08-10-2007, 04:23 PM
There should be one more tpb on the way, two if they decide to reprint Flex Mentallo and the Doom Force Special. Morrison's dP has been reprinted one book a year for the most part, so I would expect the closing volume sometime early next year.

The Doom Force special is Hi-LARious.
MartinRedmond
08-20-2007, 08:29 AM
Doom Force isn't worth it. It's way too long. All the good stuff is in the first 8 pages. What with the guy using his powers to trigger a call announcing a dead relative. Then it's dull.
Kid Monster
08-25-2007, 09:18 PM
There should be one more tpb on the way, two if they decide to reprint Flex Mentallo and the Doom Force Special. Morrison's dP has been reprinted one book a year for the most part, so I would expect the closing volume sometime early next year.

I really hope the legal issues involving Flex Mentallo are resolved so that it can be reprinted. It's the single best thing Morrison has ever done, his heartfelt and very personal love letter to the superhero genre.
dancj
08-29-2007, 06:38 AM
I'm not too fond of the Doom Force special either - but then I don't think I was reading the stuff it was ripping the shit out of
Expletive Deleted
08-29-2007, 08:37 PM
I really hope the legal issues involving Flex Mentallo are resolved so that it can be reprinted.The legal issues are long-since resolved. It's just a matter of pulling the trigger at this point.
ultramandingo
08-31-2007, 01:14 PM
...... you know flex mentallo will show up in morrisons final crisis and save the day
GreatLakesAvengers
09-14-2007, 02:42 PM
I really hope the legal issues involving Flex Mentallo are resolved so that it can be reprinted. It's the single best thing Morrison has ever done, his heartfelt and very personal love letter to the superhero genre.


The legal issues have been resolved. DC just has to pay the Charles Atlas Company royalties when it reprints the Flex series. Therefore, DC has not reprinted it.
FanboyStranger
09-17-2007, 09:15 PM
Is there still one more Doom Patrol TPB due from Grant Morrison?
Does anyone know when its due out?
I'm about to finish up Magic BUs but it looks like there's about 6 issues or so more of his run to go.

The final volume, Planet Love, will be released in December.
Yellowjacket
09-20-2007, 09:53 AM
How much knowledge of the Doom Patrol does one need to pick up Morrison's run?
Jared_Humpherys
09-20-2007, 10:21 AM
How much knowledge of the Doom Patrol does one need to pick up Morrison's run?

I went into it with almost no knowledge to speak of.
rerun
09-20-2007, 12:38 PM
Zero. I don't even think a lot of the characters are even around anymore, but I could be wrong.

Great- can't wait until December.
Jamie
09-21-2007, 10:56 AM
Zero. I don't even think a lot of the characters are even around anymore, but I could be wrong.


Almost every version of the Doom Patrol (the Drake original version, the Kupperberg 80s version, the Morrison version, the Pollack version, the Arcudi version) is completely different from the one that came before, so you don't really need to know anything to get into the title. Even the Chief, who is the closest thing to a continuing character, isn't present for large chunks of two of the runs.

The original DP set the tone for this by killing off all of the characters at the end of their series. :)
GreatLakesAvengers
09-22-2007, 09:41 AM
A set of Flex #1-4 just sold for $196!
ultramandingo
09-22-2007, 11:26 AM
.....i got mine autographed by morrison . weeeee
dancj
09-24-2007, 05:33 AM
Even the Chief, who is the closest thing to a continuing character, isn't present for large chunks of two of the runs.
Cliff is blatantly the only consistently continuing character
dancj
09-24-2007, 05:36 AM
A set of Flex #1-4 just sold for $196!
Damn! Time to sell my set! (after reading it one last time)
Jamie
09-24-2007, 01:01 PM
Cliff is blatantly the only consistently continuing character

How could I forget him?! Duh. :o
Jack Destruct
10-02-2007, 07:12 PM
The legal issues have been resolved. DC just has to pay the Charles Atlas Company royalties when it reprints the Flex series. Therefore, DC has not reprinted it.

I thought the issue wasn't royalties, rather the fact that DC isn't allowed to use the name 'Flex Mentallo' to promote the book, ie the name can't be on the front cover, in the solicits, on posters or any of that.

Still if they had in big writing on the front page "With Bonus Grant Morrison Mini-Series related to the DP universe!" or something, then anyone who knew anything would know exactly what they were getting at.

But I could be wrong, it could just be royalty issues.
Kid Seven
10-04-2007, 12:02 AM
I was lucky enough to get my set of Flex on eBay for just sixty bucks. Yay me.

But to get things back on track, I love Morrison's Doom Patrol and can't wait for the last volume to come out.