[3] It was developed in collaboration with Gerard Way, an American musician and comic book writer, author of The Umbrella Academy.
[4] Gerard Way has said that a shared theme of the Young Animal comics is "relationships between parents and children".
Other themes he has cited are alienation, fame, change ("self-actualization and becoming something else"), as well as bullying, teenagers and drug use (in Shade, the Changing Girl), and eventually "a lot of personal stuff for me in Doom Patrol that deals with mature themes".
In the middle of 2018 was a five-part crossover involving members of the Justice League, which was called Milk Wars.
The line was placed on hold in August 2018, with the 12th issue of the delayed Doom Patrol series going on sale the following October.