Today Vertigo announced they were finally collecting the much sought-after early Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely collaboration Flex Mentallo.
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| Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
By Pamela Mullin If you’re a fan of Grant Morrison (and who isn’t?), you’ll be stoked to know that FLEX MENTALLO will be published in book form this year. This marks the first time the four-issue mini-series written by Morrison and illustrated by artist Frank Quitely is being collected. FLEX MENTALLO sprang out of Grant’s mind bending and infamous run on DOOM PATROL. Pick up this beautiful Deluxe Edition hardcover with bonus material this Fall. |
Back in late September/early October over a glorious six day period, we (being RevolutionSF) produced
Uncanny Un-Collectibles, which outlined the comics that have never been collected (or were currently not available) but really should be. On October 1, the sixth and final day, Brandon Zuern, manager of the finest comic shop in the land, made this pronouncement.
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| Flex Mentallo, Grant Morrison’s four-issue limited series about a musclebound superhero searching for other champions of justice, might not be for you. It’s too psychedelic for a mainstream audience, yet too much in love with truth, justice, and the American Way for the weirdos and freaks. It’s drug-fueled science fiction fantasy is more than the straight-laces can handle, but has a strangely sweet optimism that cynics won’t get.
But if you simply love comic books, Flex Mentallo is the mondo bizarro comics commentary you’ve been looking for. It’s a love letter to superhero ideals laced with LSD. It’s a beautiful like an explosion, thanks to the stunning art of Frank Quitely. But because of the lead character’s similarity in look and origin to bodybuilder-turned-pitchman Charles Atlas, we may never see a collection of this amazing series. Though DC Comics stood up to the lawsuit-version of getting sand kicked in their face by Charles Atlas Co., they’ve hesitated to reprint the story. Here’s hoping Flex Mentallo uses his reality-changing mastery of Muscle Mystery to flex us up a trade paperback! It could happen, because Flex Mentallo is proof that superheroes are real. -Brandon Zuern, store manager, Austin Books & Comics |
And here we are a scant three months later and Vertigo is announcing that very collection. If that doesn’t demonstrate geek power, I’m not sure what does!*
*To be fair, Brandon was far from the only person clamoring for this collection. But, this does make the second title from the feature to be collected. Not sure if someone is paying attention, but I like to think so.