After 63 Years, Iconic DC Team Introduces Permanent New Member

Published Oct 6, 2026, 8:30 PM EDT Nicolas Ayala is a Senior Writer for the Comics team at ScreenRant, with over five years of experience writing about Superhero media, action movies, and TV shows. One of DC Comics' best superhero teams welcomes a new member with mindblowing superpowers. Finding a team isn't a formal requisite for costumed vigilantes, but joining a superhero alliance is an eventual necessity for nearly every hero in the DC Universe. Besides basic safety in numbers, a team provides unmatched tactical benefits like centralized resource sharing, high-tech communication networks, and advanced medical facilities that most individual heroes could never afford on their own. Perhaps most importantly, teams offer isolated heroes a community of peers who truly understand the crushing psychological burden of their duties. The Justice League has evolved into a global hub for superheroes. As the Justice League Unlimited, the world's most powerful heroes are now a planetary defense network that guarantees a near-immediate response to crises anywhere on Earth. However, since the League focuses global threats, many alternative teams allow other heroes to fulfill their duties on a smaller scale. Younger heroes can gain experience with the Teen Titans, while those looking to honor the traditional roots of heroism align with the Justice Society of America. Elsewhere, the Legion of Super-Heroes protect the far future, and a newly blooming Suicide Squad offers an entirely different, government-sanctioned avenue for dangerous anti-heroes. Some teams prefer to keep a low profile, rarely interacting with the Justice League as they fight even more eccentric threats. Doom Patrol Welcomes Evelyn X Doom Patrol #4; Written By Darcy Van Poelgeest; Art By Niko Henrichon This December, the Doom Patrol expands its misfit family with the arrival of Evelyn X, a powerful and deeply conflicted young woman who debuts as the team's latest protegée. Formerly serving as the literal avatar for the Cult of the Eternal Void, Evelyn X possesses reality-warping abilities tied to the vacuum of space, which give her the power to manipulate voids and weaponize emptiness. Like her new teammates, Evelyn X's immense power is complemented by a deep emotional vulnerability, having been traumatized by her time as a cult weapon. Whether Evelyn X will stick around as a permanent fixture of the Doom Patrol remains highly suspect, in great part due to how every fortuitous arrival into the team's lives is rarely a simple coincidence. Given her dark history with the Cult of the Eternal Void, there's a strong likelihood that Evelyn X will inadvertently act as a Trojan horse, drawing the very cosmic terrors she fled straight to the team's doorstep. The Doom Patrol has a long track record of taking in incredibly powerful and unstable individuals, only for their internal chaos to eventually break the team from within. Only The Doom Patrol Could Have Welcomed Evelyn X Evelyn X Makes Her Case For A Permanent Doom Patrol Membership The Doom Patrol has always cycled through recruits who either find a permanent home or vanish into tragic obscurity. Throughout the years, short-lived members like Arani Desai-Caulder a.k.a. Celsius, Joshua Clay a.k.a. Tempest, and Casey Brinke have drifted through the ranks, often departing either because they fall in battle or because they experience personal downfalls. Meanwhile, Robotman is the only member to serve in every single iteration of the Doom Patrol, and both Negative Man and Elasti-Girl are just as essential. Beast Boy and Cyborg also left a lasting mark on the Doom Patrol before moving on to the Teen Titans. The Doom Patrol's fluid lineup is currently on display in Darcy Van Poelgeest's ongoing series, where a cash-strapped team resorts to a heroes-for-hire model, so no matter who joins, they're a sanctuary for those too eccentric for conventional heroism. Other teams rally around righteous ideals, but the Doom Patrol bond over their shared alienation and a mutual struggle to survive a world that sees them as outcasts. Evelyn X fits right into the Doom Patrol's ranks, and her incredibly useful abilities could become a game-changing advantage for the team. Still, her uncontrollable void-based powers and unresolved cult ties put her recruitment at risk. Which member of the Doom Patrol is your favorite? Doom Patrol #4 is available December 9 from DC Comics Release Date 2019 - 2023-00-00 Network DC Universe, HBO Max, Max Showrunner Jeremy Carver