Only just found out that apparently the man himself will be writing and drawing the all new-old Doom Patrol comic book coming to DC in June. Apparently it's a reboot of the original group so will have all the original members (The Chief, Robotman, Elasti-girl and Negative-man) plus some all new members.

Apparently Byrne is a huge fan of the original team who were all blown up dramatically in the doomladen final issue of their original series. The series was revived later on with Robotman leading them, eventually all the original characters came back from the dead bar Elasti-girl (Rita Farr) who - until now - has been one of the few comic-book characters to stay dead!

The group was revived in 1987 (I think) and when it failed to attract readers was given a revamp courtesy of Grant Morrison, after he left the award winning sci-fi writer (and Tarot card specialist) Rachel Pollack took over. Sadly the comic ended shortly afterwards but was recently bought back but also didn't last. Let's hope that with Byrne's name attached to the series this team will survive longer - the series starts in June, but the Doom Patrol are scheduled to guest star in JLA (currently written by Byrne and Claremont).

[I originally posted this in the General Discussion section but thought I would repost here where it's best suited.]