Why was DOOM PATROL rebooted? Was the decision connected to INFINITE CRISIS?
Has JB been thinking about re-booting DOOM PATROL for a while now? JB: No. I have been thinking about doing the Doom Patrol for, oh, 30 years or so, but only when the book was finally handed to me did it become apparent that a reboot was the best approach. So very, very much had been piled onto the concept since the Drake/Premianin days. (8/24/2004) Was it always JB’s understanding that the DOOM PATROL reboot would tie into INFINITE CRISIS? JB: INFINITE CRISIS was barely a glimmer in anybody’s eye when I was approached to do DOOM PATROL. Mike Carlin and I discussed how to approach the project, realizing it would probably take six issues or more just to “rebuild” the Patrol to their proper shape — something we did not want for the start of a new series. It was Mike who said “Do you want to ‘MAN OF STEEL’ it?”, and I said “Yeah!
Has JB been thinking about re-booting DOOM PATROL for a while now? JB: No. I have been thinking about doing the Doom Patrol for, oh, 30 years or so, but only when the book was finally handed to me did it become apparent that a reboot was the best approach. So very, very much had been piled onto the concept since the Drake/Premianin days. (8/24/2004) Was it always JB’s understanding that the DOOM PATROL reboot would tie into INFINITE CRISIS? JB: INFINITE CRISIS was barely a glimmer in anybody’s eye when I was approached to do DOOM PATROL. Mike Carlin and I discussed how to approach the project, realizing it would probably take six issues or more just to “rebuild” the Patrol to their proper shape — something we did not want for the start of a new series. It was Mike who said “Do you want to ‘MAN OF STEEL’ it?”, and I said “Yeah!
