r/DoomPatrol

Started consuming Doom Patrol via the show, and in that she was a goop monster which resulted in her having stretchy powers.

Has since then gone back and read all the old Silver Age and Bronze Age stuff, up until the end of the Morrison run. Was surprised to learn that Rita Farr, despite being called Elasti-girl, did not actually have stretchy powers. She could only grow and shrink in size, and eventually was able to isolate her size changing to individual parts of her body. For comparison sakes, Rita's powers were closer to Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan embiggen powers than they were Mr. Fantastic/Reed Richards (and even then Kamala is shown to still have greater elastic power than Rita). In fact, Madame Rouge of the Brotherhood of Evil is the one with explicit stretchy powers.

In the newest comic run by Darcy Van Polgeest and Niko Henrichon, Rita Farr is depicted as performing what you would traditionally consider shape shifting stretchy powers and not *just* limited to growing/shrinking. I have not read all the runs yet, is this something that she has been shown to be able to do before? Or is this something that was taken from the TV show? Did the TV show just simply give Rita stretchy powers because it made sense and was more interesting than just size changing? Or did this actually have presecedent in the comics?

I've noticed that this current comic run also makes reference to the gas Rita was exposed to turning her into a goop monster, but the goop stuff is *not* a Silver Age thing. So I was wondering if the goop is from a different run? Or something that was made just for the show, and subsequently referenced for the current run?

Some people have theorized that maybe this incarnation of Rita is taking some inspiration from Madame Rouge (due to similarity to her Teen Titans cartoon appearance), or is perhaps maybe Madame Rogue in disguise herself. But the run only has one issue yet, so at this point it's all just theories. Also I know Rita Farr is alive in the current canon, although I haven't finished reading the intermediate runs yet, and thus do not know why or how.

I can't be the only one that wants to see a street level dp/robotman story, am I?

I was thinking about this earlier but Robotman shares a lot of similarities to The Thing, over with the Fatastic four who has his own street level ventures here and there, and I cant help but be curious how a solo series would go.

Robotman has a lot of history to pull from, lots of potential storylines that a competent writer can absolutely milk (for example cliff being human again). Like maybe he can still encounter chaos, but more "villain of the week," type of characters, like someone or something that directly clashes with his internal struggles.

As much as I adore the world ending chaos and weird shit in doom patrol comics, a down to earth, human story about a guy trying to figure himself out a bit would be kind of cool.