Originally conceived in the 1960s by the visionary team of writer Arnold Drake & artist Bruno Premiani the Doom Patrol was reborn a generation later through the singular imagination of a young Scottish author — & the result took American comics in a wholly unexpected direction In forging their new path the reborn World’s Strangest Heroes left behind almost every vestige of normality Though they are super-powered beings & though their foes are bent on world domination all that is conventional ends there Shunned as freaks & outcasts & tempered by loss & insanity this band of misfits faces threats so mystifying in nature & so corrupted in motive that reality itself threatens to fall apart around them — but it’s still all in a day’s work for the Doom Patrol Written by Grant Morrison & featuring art by Richard Case Mark Mc Kenna Kelley Jones Mike Dringenberg & Steve Yeowell DOOM PATROL BOOK TWO collects issues 35-50 of the groundbreaking series &
Includes:: a foreword & special sketchbook section from Morrison Meet the Author Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for more than twenty years beginning with his legendary runs on the revolutionary titles ANIMAL MAN & DOOM PATROL Since then he has written numerous bestsellers — including THE MULTIVERSITY JLA BATMAN & New X-Men — as well as the critically acclaimed creator-owned series THE INVISIBLES SEAGUY THE FILTH WE3 & JOE THE BARBARIAN Morrison has also expanded the borders of the DC Universe in the award-winning pages of SEVEN SOLDIERS ALL-STAR SUPERMAN FINAL CRISIS BATMAN INC & ACTION COMICS In his secret identity Morrison is a “counterculture” spokesperson a musician an award-winning playwright & a chaos magician He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles & Scotland