Doom Patrol/JLA Major Confusion

[khaosworks]

I just read the rebirth of the Doom Patrol in the latest JLA, which seems to treat the DP as never having existed before, and Robotman, Elasti-Girl, Negative Man and the Chief as forming a brand new for the first time team.

What the fuck?

Someone explain this to me?

Comments

[acrobatty.livejournal.com]

It was a prezzie for John Byrne. According to one of the comicbook industry gossip sites, they asked him if he'd take over DP, and he said, gee, the only thing I would want to do with DP is the old team in a modern setting. So they said, sure, why not.

Phweee.

I cannot imagine that DP team catching on in today's environment. I suspect this is going to be another retroactively non-canon Byrne project like Spider-Man Chapter One.

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

Three words:

John. Byrne's. Ego.

[billroper]

It's a retcon. Most seriously affected is Beast Boy, among active characters.

I'm going to take the contrarian position here, though. I don't blame Byrne for rebooting the Doom Patrol. They were always some of my favorite characters and I missed them after they were blown up.

For all that people rave over Morrison's DP, I was only moderately engaged by it and I was completely turned off by his gratuitous retcon that turned Niles Caulder from a benevolent (if cranky) organizer to an evil mastermind who had destroyed three lives in order to see what would happen as a result.

So, yeah, reboot that pile of garbage. Let's see if we get a better result this time.

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

My difficulty is not so much the retconning away of the Morrison series, but that it removes what was probably one of the more heroic deaths of the Silver Age, really.

[billroper]

I can hardly argue with that. :)

Of course, first we found out that Robotman survived, then Negative Man, then the Chief...

I was waiting to hear that Elasti-Girl's clone was actually the source of the bones that they'd found in the ocean and that she too had survived.