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Of course there'll be a paperback edition at some point assuming no legal wrangles. But are you willing to chance it? I'd imagine that each phase will come out as seperate softcover so you'll be paying £50 - £60 for all 4. Does the hardback seem so bad?

This time I treated myself to an a3 scanner. This meant the pages could lie really flat. I made sure to write the page number on every page before cutting them out and scanning. I resized and retouched them in photoshop at 300dpi- the photo stories were a right pest because of the black bar and they bleed to the edge of the page. I tweaked the contrast before importing all the files to Indesign. This allows the pages to be seen as double page spreads plus add page numbers and titles to multiple pages at once. Designing the contents, cover and extras is the fun part. These 3 books (approx 1350 pages) have taken over 6 months to format. I printed them out myself - having a duplex (double sided)  printer is advisible. The local bookbinder charges £45 per book for thesis (a4) binding which includes blocking type on the spine. Getting Henry Flint, Dylan Teague and chris Weston to do convention sketches was the icing on the cake. Finding extras from the superb Hibernia doomlord book (my inspiration) and the Eagle flies again was also great fun.

It's complete but split into 3 volumes roughly 450 pages in each. If you look at the YouTube link all 3 volumes are there - photo stories included!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5mXVyUv0gg

Here's a link to the COMPLETE DOOMLORD Volumes - the missing opus by Dredd writers Wagner & Grant. I've put a link to volume 3 because of the fantastic HENRY FLINT sketch,
Check out the other 2 volumes with sketches from Dylan Teague and Chris Weston.

I wish more writers could go off the boil and still write Flex Mentallo, We3, the Invisibles, New X-Men and All Star Superman. Not every Morrison projects strikes gold but I think he really tries hard to push the medium and not repeat himself. I don't think he could ever be accused of treading water as a writer. I too have great affection his Animal Man and Doom Patrol days but I think its very strange to dismiss his work since then.

It did feature Britney Spears being sexually assaulted by Robot Archie.
I can see how that could seem like parody.
It was pretty good for the page count. And lovely to see Steve Yeowell recreate Zenith in a different style

I'd usually agree with you. Many strips have changed artists and I've enjoyed seeing the strengths of different interpretations - particularly nemesis the warlock or Slaine. Zenith is a different kettle of fish since Steve yeowell drew 99% of it and was too busy to do the extra stories. I mean no disrespect to Jim McCarthy and Carmona but I'd love to see what yeowell would have come up with from the same Grant Morrison script. An I the only one?

Please put this in....

What can we expect from THE COMPLETE ZENITH? Well phase I is 81 pages, Whitlock and Payne add 10 more. phase II is longer at 93 pages. The non Steve Yeowell Maximan and Mandela annual/special stories add 16 more pages. Phase III is a whopping 133 pages of inter dimensional warfare. Mark miller pops in for a 6 page barely Zenith related (although good fun) text story Tales of Alternate Earths. Phase IV adds 82 pages. ZZzenith is 8 pages of craziness plus the 1 page from a night 2 remember. This gets us to 430 pages plus 3 star scans, 17 covers from 2000ad and the 2 best of covers. Perhaps the Titan reprint covers and the odd datafile and the odd pin up. I'd seriously love it if Steve Yeowell could redraw the 2 stories he didn't illustrate. Did I miss anything? Putting COMPLETE on a cover is a serious boast!

I really loved the House of Daemon - the earlier stories seemed better planned. Eagle suffered from having 3 page strips which was barely enough for a recap and cliffhanger. I'd love to see the Ortiz art from Eagle get the love it deserves. I thought thirteenth floor had a great long run - and strong scripts.

Really hope the "A Night to Remember" and the "Mandela" Annual story is in there, plus "ZZZenith.com"

Thanks for all the Doomlord love. I've split the approx 1200 pages into 3 hardback books. One is bound and the other 2 I'm still printing. This leaves me with all the original pages from the weekly, annuals and all the holiday specials. Not suitable for binding themselve as I've numbnered them all but does anyone fancy owning every page of doomlord?

comic vine are great  with the info....
http://www.comicvine.com/doomlord/29-80563/
Doomlord was in eagle until issue 395 when older stories were reprinted. The first year however wasn't continuous - I'm guessing they didn't know how popular he'd become!

Thanks for all the help. I now own every issue of eagle with doomlord pages.

Thanks I've had another very generous offer of help. But I'm sure I'll need more progs in the future