Honestly, we weren't the ones who decided. The series was cancelled, and had there been a surge of interest maybe the characters would come back, but, honestly, how often does that happen? In comics, at least?
This is a great issue. It pulls together so many threads and ends the series on a note entirely in keeping with the rest of the run. This is a very rare circumstance in comics, the suiting ending. Usually when a series ends, there are questions left and threads left unpulled. But we have a nice wrap up of the Madame Rouge story, of the Brotherhood, and of the Doom Patrol themselves, showing that outcasts from society can be every bit as noble as the super-gods that surround them.
The Patrol has a weird publishing schedule until about 1977. For some reason in 1973 there were three further issues of this series published, all reprinting older stories from the run. Then four years later the New Doom Patrol debuts in Showcase, though they're relegated to guest roles for about the next 10 years. It's been a while since I read the new DP, and I don't actually remember enjoying it that much. It's one of the times in the history of the team that the writers tried to make them more mainstream, flashier and more superheroic. It doesn't really work.
On to something different tomorrow, though I may come back to the Doom Patrol sooner rather than later. With the new show on the air, they're in my head all the time these days.
"The we're agreed -- Codsville is dead! But our renamed village, Four Heroes, Maine, is just beginning!"
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