Unstoppable Doom Patrol (2023) #1

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Da Chief: This time around, Kay Challis is the new Chief, having created a new alter that specializes in team management.

Fun with Acronyms: Dr. Syncho can channel a collective of five fifth Dimensional intelligences; Jxchn, Eylhm, Rez, Raz, and Yzd. They're called J.E.R.R.Y. for short. DENNIS:I re-read everything, and I’m hitting all of it. If you’re a lifelong Doom Patrolsuperfan, you’re going to see the easter eggs in there. But I make sure you have everything you need in there if you’ve never read any. Personally, I grew up reading the Grant Morrison run, so that’s kind of my home base of Doom Patrol,but I’ve followed every version before and after that. I think Burnham, you like the original stuff, right?

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THE CHIEF, Jane's new alter created to lead the new Doom Patrol team. This isn't just Jane wearing a mask but a wholly new identity.

Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Defied in the first issue, which opens with the Doom Patrol fighting a company experimenting on a metahuman in Gotham. Batman chafes at their intervention, but gets brushed off as not making enough effort to insure the safety or well-being of metahumans. Issue 3 has Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner discuss this and how they're stepping on a lot of toes, with Guy thinking they're not so bad if they stood up to Batman. The same issue has Robotman attempt to shake off the pursuing Green Lanterns by cutting through Smallville, reasoning that they'll stay out of Superman's home turf. It doesn't work. The Mole: In issue 2, the Worm is sent by Peacemaker to infiltrate the Doom Patrol. They aren't the actual mole, though, it's actually their pet worm Velvet.

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More to the point, the Doom Patrol is perfectly positioned as the superhero team to take point in the DCU in the ongoing absence of the Justice League. Yes, there is a relaunch of the Titans coming later this year, but the Titans have always been something of a younger extension of the core Justice League members’ legacies. The Doom Patrol, on the other hand, have always been the unique misfit team, the quirky outcasts who usually don’t get to play with the DCU’s cool kids. In between the Titans relaunch and Justice League’s inevitable return, now’s the time for the Doom Patrol to thrive in the spotlight, reminding readers that the DCU is just as welcoming to its misfits as its legends. And in that sense, the Doom Patrol are legends themselves, uninterested to what the world that they’re saving thinks of them as long as they have each other. Culver then described what he considers a giant pillar in the DCU - all the characters associated with the Justice League, their protégés in Titans titles, and the Justice League's mentors/inspiration the Justice Society.