This.
This felt like a Doom Patrol comic. The team is sucked into a bizarre dimension by an agent of the Lords of Chaos, and shit goes insane. Oh, and Power Girl is there too.
I have to say, if this is any indication of the Power Girl series that Mr. Kupperberg wrote at the same time, I may have to track it down. It's some weird stuff, but always maintains a particular iconic superhero point of view. No matter how surreal things get, the heroes mostly tend to keep their shit together.
Which is a fair description of the team under Mr. Morrison's aegis. Mostly.
Day 1800 of my project also features the first appearance of Dorothy Spinner, the ape-faced girl. I had forgotten that Dorothy was created by Messrs. Kupperberg and Larsen. While this run is never lauded in the same ways that the original, and subsequent, runs, some of the most important through lines of the next 70 or so issues stem from this very issue. It's fitting that it is by far the weirdest one in the run.
Fans of the Doom Patrol who don't really want to invest in the whole run (collected last year, apparently), this one will give you a nice taste of what the run wasn't like, but should have been.
1800 days is a lot of days. A lot of crazy things have happened to me in the intervening years.
More to follow.
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