Giffen: Absolutely. Within the first year, you're going to see more characters than you thought showing up in the Doom Patrol, from all of the different Doom Patrol incarnations. And what I try to do is I try to make sure that I'm keeping my promise of a new character or new concept or a new situation in every issue while at the same time, respecting the Doom Patrol's history and realizing that there are Doom Patrol characters out there that the fans would like to see again. You don't just trot them in and make them completely unrecognizable; you respect the creators' work who have come before you.

And I know people are going to say, "But you killed Nudge in the first issue!" There was areason for that.

Nrama: Is she really dead? Or is she coming back from the dead?

Giffen: You know, there's this whole idea out there that death is a revolving door in comics. But I will tell you, Nudge is gone. Nudge is gone and yes, the four-armed monkey carried her body off and fled into the jungle. But that is not the end of the story. It was not an "Ensign Redshirt" moment. In other words, I didn't just take the character and go, "Eh, let's take one of the Doom Patrol characters I like the least and slaughter the character." Because if I was going to take one of the Doom Patrol characters that I like the least and slaughter the character, it wouldn't have been Nudge!