{"product_id":"dc-finest-doom-patrol-the-end-sacrifices-the-means-isbn-9781799509318","title":"DC Finest: Doom Patrol: The End Sacrifices the Means","description":"\u003cb\u003eReality breaks. The Patrol keeps walking. \u003ci\u003eDC Finest: Doom Patrol: The End Sacrifices the Means\u003c\/i\u003e collects Rachel Pollack’s complete, boundary-pushing Vertigo run—a fractured epic of shape-shifting magicians, sex ghosts, pirate robot brains, and a war over the very idea of identity itself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe End Sacrifices the Means\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of broken people trying to find wholeness in a world that keeps rewriting the rules of reality. Cliff Steele’s consciousness is pirated and sold. Dorothy Spinner’s powers and body change faster than she can understand. Coagula, a new hero born from chemical accident and rejection, fights for a place to belong. And Niles Caulder—the Head—dreams of Window Men and Doctors of Void as he questions what “healing” ever really means.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePicking up the remnants of Grant Morrison’s era, Rachel Pollack (\u003ci\u003eDoom Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGodmother Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVertigo Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e) and collaborators Richard Case, Linda Medley, Ted McKeever, the Pander Brothers, Scot Eaton, and others use impossible images—identity addicts, sex ghosts, Wild Girls, messianic \"Healers,\" and the Teiresias Wars—to explore gender, trauma, memory, and chosen family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough all of it, the Patrol keeps showing up for each other, even when they can’t tell what’s “real.” This is \u003ci\u003eDoom Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e as a story about survivors who refuse to let the world define who they are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollects \u003ci\u003eDoom Patrol \u003c\/i\u003e#64–87; \u003ci\u003eVertigo Jam \u003c\/i\u003e#1; and \u003ci\u003eDoom Patrol Annual \u003c\/i\u003e#2. | This volume centers the work of Rachel Pollack (\u003ci\u003eDoom Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVertigo Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e), an award-winning novelist, poet, and acclaimed tarot scholar whose Vertigo run pushed superhero comics into realms of gender, mysticism, and metaphysics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtists featured include Richard Case (\u003ci\u003eDoom Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e), Linda Medley (\u003ci\u003eJustice League International\u003c\/i\u003e), Ted McKeever (\u003ci\u003eThe Extremist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnginehead\u003c\/i\u003e), and Scot Eaton (\u003ci\u003eSwamp Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eX-Men\u003c\/i\u003e). Their avant-garde layouts and expressive character work bring Pollack’s surreal scripts to life, supported by an elite cover gallery from Brian Bolland (\u003ci\u003eBatman: The Killing Joke\u003c\/i\u003e), Kyle Baker (\u003ci\u003ePlastic Man\u003c\/i\u003e), and Bob Fingerman (\u003ci\u003eMinimum Wage\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"DC Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48759448666341,"sku":"NP9781799509318","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781799509318.jpg?v=1775598589","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/dc-finest-doom-patrol-the-end-sacrifices-the-means-isbn-9781799509318","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}