Originally Posted by
Jim Kelly
I remember liking the book on its own merits. It was kind of great to see Byrne doing a throwback to the original Doom Patrol. There wasn't anything horrible about it on that score. It was just hard to accept it, as it would have wiped out everything else that had ever been done before with the Doom Patrol.
Mind you, by that point a lot too many different versions of the Doom Patrol had been done. After the Grant Morrison run, the various attempts to breathe new life into the Doom Patrol were driving it into the ground and making it seem like a concept that had seen better days. Just like the publisher had done with Hawkman, the Titans, the Legion, etc. etc. If a concept keeps getting revived only to die quick deaths--it starts to stink like a corpse.
So I can see why they let John Byrne do his own revival and go back to first principles.
I remember there was also a crossover with his Generations comics in the series--suggesting that there were many different Hypertime realities and this was just one of them.