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How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On the Farm After They've Seen Paree? Justice League Europe #1 Cover Date:  April 1989 Released:  28th February 1989 ⋅ Writers:   Keith Giffen / J.M. DeMatteis  ⋅   ⋅  Pencilers:  Bart Sears    ⋅  Inkers:  Pablo Marcos  ⋅   ⋅  Colourists:  Gene D'Angelo  ⋅  Letterers:  Bob Lappan   ⋅   ⋅  Editors:  Kevin Dooley / Andrew Helfer ⋅    So I owe this comic an apology... That being that all through the last post about JLI #24 about how all of the plot development set up about Pee Gee was going to be ignored going forward to her being a part of JLE. Well, at least she name-drops the Lords of Chaos a couple of times! Actually, she seems really intimidated about joining the JLA, giving it some real cache that doesn't seem to be something if you look at it from the outside.  The first half of the issue is introducing all of the main charact...

Across a Crowded Room… Justice League International #24 Cover Date:  February 1989 Released:  13th December 1989 ⋅ Writers:   Keith Giffen / J.M. DeMatteis  ⋅   ⋅  Pencilers:  Ty Templeton    ⋅  Inkers:  Joe Rubinstein  ⋅   ⋅  Colourists:  Gene D'Angelo  ⋅  Letterers:  Bob Lappan   ⋅   ⋅  Editors:  Andrew Helfer  ⋅  Let's start with a little story!  When I was a lowercase symbol I wasn't really into superhero comics, reading 2000ad, Transformers, and Spider-man and Zoid, meaning I can honestly say I read Grant Morrison before they were cool! A sign of how out of the loop I was about super comics I knew about Detective deWolf and Sin Eater, but not about Venom, a character I completely missed until I got into comics proper at the turn of the millinium! The one superhero comic I did get was DC Action, a reprint comic in the UK with the hottest DC stories from...

Fortunes of War Starman #6 Cover Date:  Janurary1989 Released:  29th November1988 ⋅ Writers:   Roger Stern  ⋅ Pencilers:  Tom Lyle  ⋅     ⋅   Inkers:  Bob Smith  ⋅  Colourists:  Julianna Ferriter  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Bob Pinaha  ⋅  Editors:  Robert Greenberger  ⋅  Continued from Starman #6 So whilst the cover isn't a lie its tie into the Invasion! is very minimal. Blue Beetle is just there to provide a lift to bring Starman back to his hometown to carry on with his own plots. Okay, to be fair the Power Elite at the bottom are the main baddies through the back half of the story.  But a quick aside as to the weirdness that is Invasion! the whole invasion! is over by part two, the heroes win and the aliens leave Earth alone. This comic comes between part two and three and I know what you're thinking, how can there be a part three if the Invasion! is over in part two? Well as it happ...

 Don't You Know There's a War On? Starman #5 Cover Date:  Holiday 1988 Released:  25th October 1988 ⋅ Writers:   Roger Stern  ⋅ Pencilers:  Tom Lyle  ⋅     ⋅   Inkers:  Bob Smith  ⋅  Colourists:  Julianna Ferriter  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Bob Pinaha  ⋅  Editors:  Robert Greenberger  ⋅  Continued from Firestorm #80 (sorta). We start before the previous issue picked up with Starman having been captured by a group of government-created single-powered heroes called the Power Elite. The vaguely military supes have some very Aliens-tinged conversations where we pick up the single character trait that each of them has. Alas, the only power the only female trooper seems to have is to just be around as the token female. One of the Power Elite however is an alien shapeshifter apparently placed there before the Invasion! began. They contact the Khund commander, our aliens for the issue (apart ...

The Battle Joined Firestorm #80 Cover Date:  Februrary1989 Released:  11th October 1988 ⋅ Writers:   Robert Greenberger  ⋅ Pencilers:  Tom Grindberg  ⋅     ⋅   Inkers:  Sam De La Rosa  ⋅  Colourists:  Nansi Hoolahan  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Duncan Andrews  ⋅  Editors:  Dennis O'Neil / Dan Raspler  ⋅  Compare to modern event comics Invasion! is a weird beast. The main comic is three oversized issues, at 81 pages, in between all the running issues pick up on various parts of the invasion. Ah yes the Invasion, basically the various aliens of the DC Universe decide that Earth's metahumans (a term used first here) are a threat so team up to invade (duh) the planet. The first episode is set up and invasion, the second part is about the heroes fighting back, and the third is about the fallout of the victory. Among the aliens are some well-known ones like the Thangarians (Hawkgirls lots) and Daxa...

Journey to Eden Firestorm #77 Cover Date:  November 1988 Released:  12th July 1988 ⋅ Writers:   John Ostrander  ⋅ Pencilers:  Joe Brozowski   ⋅     ⋅   Inkers:  Sam De La Rosa  ⋅  Colourists:  Nansi Hoolahan  ⋅ ⋅  Letterers:  Duncan Andrews  ⋅  Editors:  Dennis O'Neil  ⋅  Apart from the dodgy gender politics of her early appearances Power Girl rarely gets to deal with any kind of political issues. And in case anyone is confused I mean politics as in the societal sense, the kind of things a certain type of fan decries as being shoved into modern comics when it's been a thing since Captain America punched Hitler on the cover of his first comic! Personally, I have no problems with such things in comics, I wouldn't be spending so many words on it here if I didn't, I might not want it every week but I enjoy media to sometimes challenge me to think about a subject. Which is good as Kara ...