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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...