Deconstructing Comics #751: Rachel Pollack’s ‘Doom Patrol’

In the mid-’90s, Grant Morrison‘s innovative run on Doom Patrol was followed by that of Rachel Pollack, who took advantage of Morrison’s legacy, the greatest variety of sexual minority characters of any mainstream comic at the time, to express her feelings about being trans and a lesbian herself. Her run also examines a number of standard comic book tropes. This run, which was far ahead of its time, has been unavailable in a collection for some time, but these issues (64 to 87) are finally available in an omnibus. Kumar and Emmet discuss this gender-bending run.

• • How Rachel Pollack Created DC Comics’ First Trans Superhero (them.us)
  • “One Of The Things They Definitely Are Is Queer”: An Interview With Rachel Pollack (The Comics Journal)
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  • The Bebop Bao Kickstarter

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