Doom Patrol: Difference between revisions

''"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 Discontinuity|downright ignored by other DC books of the time.]] It eventually ended with the [[Crisis Crossover]] ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', which undid most of Byrne's changes and restored the team's history. Byrne did finally manage to bring original member (the ''only'' one who had yet to return) Elasti-Girl [[Back From the Dead]] , though. After an appearance in the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' comic and [[Teen Titans (animation)|Animated Series]], their popularity resurged enough for them to get their own new series in 2009, written by Keith Giffen (of ''JLI'' fame) who was practically begging for the position.

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.

* [[Kill'Em All]]: Almost every version of the Doom Patrol ends with almost all of the main team dead, in a coma, etc., as a way to make room for the next writer to do what he wants. (Grant Morrison did not do this, however. Aside from the Chief, who had died already, everyone just walked into the sunset, so to speak.)

* [[Name's the Same]]: Elastigirl from ''[[The Incredibles]]''.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Danny the Street is named for Danny laRue (Rue is French for "street"), a well known British drag queen.

** Crazy Jane's "manager" personality is named Driver 8, after athe [[REM]] song.

* [[Transvestite]]: Danny the Street (has male geared stores, (like gun shops) covered in pink lance and the like), and a number of people who live on him.