^But Flex was on the cover of DP Musclebound

Hmm.... I guess when he said it "might" only mean that that it didn't even mean that much. Or maybe I misremembered and he actually said they wouldn't be able to name him on a cover

Reading this comic gave me some kind of bizarre high. Flex Mentallo ate my brain and changed my life. I will forever adore it. It deserves a trade collection.

Reading this did make me see it as a bit of a "greatest hits" compilation of all Grant's favourite themes but, unlike yourself, I think most of them are handled better elsewhere. That's not to say there aren't things to like - the sequence where the two realities merge is pretty spectacular (if reminiscent of the end of JLA) and "being clever's a fine thing son, but sometime's a boy's just got to get out and meet some girls" is a classic line - just that too much else seems like a reheat of better things.

The astronaut is all a bit Barbelith. The stuff about children and their view of the world is done far better in The Invisibles. The questions of what are reality and identity have been big parts of just about everything he's done and again I prefer the way they're dealt with in The Invisibles and Kill Your Boyfriend respectively.
"A cannonball fires but once. Words can detonate across centuries."

Finally, it usually sells for substantially less on e-bay.co.uk, even allowing for the exchange rate.

Oh, the art is pretty good though.

A few years later a DC bod said that the outcome of all that might just mean that Flex Mentallo can't appear on the cover of any TPBs - and I believe since then they have released Doom Patrol trades featuring the character.

By now I imagine they could release a reprint if they wanted to, but they might have to either bury it in a Doom Patrol TPB or just not mention him or show a picture of him on the cover. I'm sure it's nothing they can't work around. IIRC the story in teh Flex Mentallo miniseries is actually called After the Fact.

Am i right or my memory is playing tricks on me?

Apparently the same thing I am, because I totally agree with that. Amazing run of comics.

I still have my Flex issues and I remember just being blown away when I first read them back when they came out. I'm also holding out hope that if reprinted Flex's DP issues, then they'll eventually get to the Flex mini-series (not to mention the last DP trade to collect #58-63 and the Doom Force special).

I could have just as easily said The Invisibles or The Filth.

As for Doom Patrol being the "greatest long-form story in comics history," wtf are you smoking?

I do so wish that Morrison and Case would do another 45 issue run of Doom Patrol. The first run made Morrison's run on X-men and JLA look like child's play by comparison.

Mental series which I didn't fully understand, but somehow it doesn't really matter. It's also some of Frank Quitely's best work

That may be the best single line in comics history.

Doug M.