Dear Watchers: an omniversal comic book podcast

It's misunderstood superheroes and their wheelchair bound leader! No, not the X-Men, it's the Doom Patrol! We explain the murky relationship between DC's Doom Patrol and Marvel's X-Men, share a history of the Arnold Drake co-created series and explore the first issue that sees the origins of Rita Farr (Elasti-Girl/Woman), Larry Trainor (Negative Man) and Cliff Steele (Robotman) plus the enigmatic Niles Caulder (The Chief) as the battle General Immortus in pulpy glory. We also travel to a unique alternate Earth to check out the "in name only" Doom Patrol as part of Dan Jurgen's Tangent Comics series for DC that introduces a whole new group of time traveling "heroes". We wrap up by visiting with one of our favorite current tv series, HBO Max's Doom Patrol and share why it has its basis in Arnold Drakes's 1960s work while bringing in the (often queer) sensibility of later writers Grant Morrison and Rachel Pollack.