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''"Doom Patrol''" vol. 2 was launched in October, 1987. Eventually, most of original team was revealed to have been resurrected in some way or alive all along, and the new book added a number of other characters which colored within the superhero lines and didn't quite set the world on fire. Then came [[Grant Morrison]], who dedicated them more specifically to fighting "weird" crime and disasters. His first [[Story Arc]], "Crawling from the Wreckage", built up the weirdness of the comic to extremes and delved into some adult subject matter. There were scissormen from imaginary worlds, the Brotherhood of [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|Dada]], the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E and a friendly "[[Genius Loci|transvestite street]]" named, well...Danny the Street. Just in case you were wondering, {{spoiler|he dresses like a boulevard}}. No, really. And then it got even weirder. He left and, with the switchover of the book to [[Vertigo Comics]], Rachel Pollack, more well known as a tarot expert and prose fiction writer, took over. She had much the same approach, but the book did not retain its popularity and it got cancelled. The title ended with issue #87 (February, 1995).
Since then there have been a few subsequent revivals which reverted the series back to a traditional superhero comic. John Arcudi wrote an unsuccessful series turning them into Corporation superheroes. John Byrne did a [[Continuity Reboot]] that was ill-fated to begin with and [[Canon
The team got [[A Day in the Limelight]] in ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', fighting Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man and General Zahl.
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* [[Reality Warper]]: Dorothy Spinner
* A species of [[Retcon]] yet to be assigned taxonomy, inverting [[Remember the New Guy?]] and related to [[Multiple Choice Past]], in which Rachel Pollack retcons Crazy Jane out of existence through the introduction of a character called "The False Memory", who displays Crazy-Jane-like powers plus the ability to create false memories, and who instructs the protagonists to "remember me in the Doom Patrol all these years". The reference to "false memory syndrome" appears to [[Writer on Board|express Pollack's disgust]] with Jane's [[Dark and Troubled Past]]. This was such a widely decried dick move that Pollack [[Lying Creator|denied that this was her intent]].
** This move was so unpopular that it is apparently [[Canon
*** Was it really? From the way I read that issue, the False Memory had used her abilities to insert herself into the team and had just been screwing with Cliff's memories of Jane. In that same issue Cliff had finally explained the circumstances as to why he left Jane and Danny the World.
** A more obvious, if [[Mind Screw|wild]] example is the recontextualization of the group's origin by [[Grant Morrison]] at the end of his run.
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