View Full Version : The new Morrison Doom Patrol tpb is out...
Jared_Humpherys
10-15-2005, 02:10 PM
And I absolutely love it. This tpb has the first appearance of Flex Mentallo, Danny the Street, the return of Lodestone, and a war between two alien races incapable of imagination. Great read.
Expletive Deleted
10-15-2005, 07:17 PM
I grabbed it, too. It wasn't quite as good as the second volume, but, well, what is?
JLarson
10-15-2005, 08:00 PM
Danny the Street!
Can't wait for a fourth volume sometime in early 2006.
Tadhg
10-15-2005, 08:02 PM
My store didn't have it. My store didn't have anything I wanted to buy.
Jared_Humpherys
10-16-2005, 07:08 AM
My store didn't have it. My store didn't have anything I wanted to buy.
I came in right as my store opened, and they only had the one copy. I'm sure there are a few coimic fans is KC who want a piece of my hide now...
Anyway, does anyone have a set date on the next volume?
Tadhg
10-16-2005, 10:22 AM
I came in right as my store opened, and they only had the one copy. I'm sure there are a few coimic fans is KC who want a piece of my hide now...
Anyway, does anyone have a set date on the next volume?
I don't know if the store I shop at even ordered one copy. They did however get 20 or 30 copies of Identity Crisis when that came out.
So I just went to http://www.instocktrades.com and ordered all the stuff they didn't have.
Ryan K
10-17-2005, 12:42 PM
I shall order this from my book store within two weeks (for some reason they can't order any new tpb's for two weeks - give or take a few days). I'm really looking forward to it.
Can't wait for a fourth volume sometime in early 2006.
So they are committed to continuing this then? That's the first I've heard of a 4th volume.
Anybody heard official word yet if the Flex Mentallo series is indeed going to be included in one of the upcoming trades?
sunsetdayglo
10-19-2005, 07:00 PM
My store said that the second book (The Painting that Ate Paris?) is now out of print. Any word on when another printing is scheduled for?
Something else, a little off subject, but you guys would be the people to ask...
I REALLY would like to read FLEX and I've heard the originals are very expensive. I don't even know how many issues there are, but, does anyone have a ballpark idea of what I would have to spend on them.
Wouldn't really mind slapping down a hundred bucks for them, but beyond that, I might have to pass. Just tell me if it's going to be waaay more.
Ryan K
10-19-2005, 10:18 PM
My store said that the second book (The Painting that Ate Paris?) is now out of print. Any word on when another printing is scheduled for?
Something else, a little off subject, but you guys would be the people to ask...
I REALLY would like to read FLEX and I've heard the originals are very expensive. I don't even know how many issues there are, but, does anyone have a ballpark idea of what I would have to spend on them.
Wouldn't really mind slapping down a hundred bucks for them, but beyond that, I might have to pass. Just tell me if it's going to be waaay more.
The are 4 issues of Flex Mentallo.
Are you sitting down?
A quick search on ebay shows a set sold for $62.99 a little over a week ago.
A few people are trying to sell individual issue for in between $30-50 apiece.
My advice: Wait to see if they collect it.
dancj
10-20-2005, 06:07 AM
I really should sell my copies...
Jared_Humpherys
10-20-2005, 11:08 AM
The are 4 issues of Flex Mentallo.
Are you sitting down?
A quick search on ebay shows a set sold for $62.99 a little over a week ago.
A few people are trying to sell individual issue for in between $30-50 apiece.
My advice: Wait to see if they collect it.
My fiance bought all four for my birthday for $52. Ain't love great?
Tadhg
10-20-2005, 11:18 AM
Anybody heard official word yet if the Flex Mentallo series is indeed going to be included in one of the upcoming trades?
San Diego 2004, Bob Wayne said they'd be collecting Flex Mentallo in a Doom Patrol trade. Whether the idea has changed since then, I can't say.
sunsetdayglo
10-20-2005, 05:16 PM
I'm sure most here already know that the reason it hasn't (or may not) be collected is because the charles atlas company sued because of the similarity to their old ads and won a portion of any profits from reprints.
The fact that Flex was partially a riff off of the ads is what originally got me interested in the series.
Tadhg
10-20-2005, 09:15 PM
I'm sure most here already know that the reason it hasn't (or may not) be collected is because the charles atlas company sued because of the similarity to their old ads and won a portion of any profits from reprints.
The fact that Flex was partially a riff off of the ads is what originally got me interested in the series.
Of course, the bit that everyone forgets is that DC won the suit. Though as a sign of good faith, they pulled the Flex trade from their publication schedule.
Screwtape
10-20-2005, 09:41 PM
My guess is that they'll put it in trade with the "Doom Force Special" and the "Who's Who" entry so it looks like a grab-bag-style book and not a transparent excuse to reprint the series. Hell, maybe they'll even throw in the short he did with Dave McKean from "Phobias" for a laugh.
Spiff
10-29-2005, 01:52 PM
Can someone give a rundown on why this Flex Mentallo mini is so godly, because he didn't really do a whole ton in the third Doom Patrol trade.
But for a couple races incapable of imagination, they sure were pretty creative at killing each other. That space plague seemed pretty harsh. Youch.
Can someone give a rundown on why this Flex Mentallo mini is so godly, because he didn't really do a whole ton in the third Doom Patrol trade.
But for a couple races incapable of imagination, they sure were pretty creative at killing each other. That space plague seemed pretty harsh. Youch.
Flex Mentallo will play a more pivotal role in The Doom Patrol Volume 4 TPB when he & the team battles the true Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E.
Morrison devote a whole book to Flex's origin.
dancj
10-31-2005, 06:17 AM
The comic is quite different to Doom Patrol. It's Morrison in full confusing meta-comic territory - but that said, it's possibly his finest moment.
Dan
No137
11-09-2005, 12:15 PM
And I absolutely love it.
Can the TPBs be read out of order without losing anything? Or am I better off starting with the first TBP?
I don't know which issues the first TPB reprints, but I read that the 2nd TPB reprints issues 26-34 and the 3rd TPB reprints issues 35-41.
Who wrote Doom Patrol before Morrison and is it relevant to his storyline?
Thanks for any thoughts.
dancj
11-10-2005, 05:36 AM
I'd really read the TPBs in order. IIRC the first one reprints 19-25.
The first 18 issues were written by Paul Kupperberg, and while they had a couple of nice touches they're really quite missable.
Dan
No137
11-15-2005, 11:03 AM
Thanks for the information, dancj. I'll start with the first Morrison TPB.
Spiff
11-15-2005, 07:16 PM
I think Morrison basically gives you a breakdown of those first 18 issues in his intro to the third trade, but I could be mistaken.
Screwtape
11-15-2005, 10:08 PM
Can the TPBs be read out of order without losing anything? Oh, heavens, no. Better to read Finnegan's Wake in cuneiform. Who wrote Doom Patrol before Morrison and is it relevant to his storyline? I think it was Paul Kupperberg, and basically all you need to know is that the "gene bomb" has changed a bunch of people into superheroes, including Crazy Jane and Dorothy Spinner. Also that this "Rhea" person who's in a coma for the first two trades used to be a relatively normal member of the team.
I do really love these books. My favorite Morrisonia, actually (with The New X-Men in at a close second).
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