WARNING! SPOILERS GALORE! I AM SPARTACUS!
Title: World War III, Part II
Release Date: January 2000
Writer: Grant MorrisonPenciller: Howard PorterInker: John DellJLA Members: Superman,
Batman,
Green Lantern,
Oracle,
Plastic Man,
Huntress,
Zauriel,
Steel,
the Martian Manhunter,
Wonder Woman,
Barda, and
Orion.
Guest Stars: Metron.
Bad Guys: The new
Injustice Gang (
Lex Luthor,
Prometheus,
the General, and
the Queen Bee) and
Mageddon.
So what happens?The new Injustice Gang has just delivered a crushing attack against the JLA. The Huntress has been blown out into
space by a hole ripped into the Watchtower, though Superman saves her at the last second with a well-timed
liplock (to get her some
oxygen, ya see. Ahem. Yes). The Queen Bee is summoning her bee-troopers to Earth and is controlling Green Lantern with some of her
hypno-pollen.
Back on Earth, Prometheus verbally spars with Oracle for a while and offers to heal her
paralysis before getting bored and throwing her through a
window (but hey, Oracle used to be
Batgirl, so she saves herself from falling
and breaks Prometheus' helmet.
You go, girl!).
On the
moon, Superman and Steel take on the General, but Steel almost gets his hand bitten off and is then
hypnotized by the Queen Bee's
pollen. Huntress is able to talk GL out of his hypnosis. GL discovers Luthor with some weird,
scarlet,
gooey stuff starting to grown over his head, Prometheus gets back to the moon and knocks out Huntress right before Batman shows up to challenge him, the Queen Bee and the
hyp-mo-tized Steel are planning the
invasion of Earth, the General is literally stomping on Superman, every nation on Earth is going to
war, Martian Manhunter finally gets on the scene--this is seriously
crazy shit goin' down, man!
And 12 light-years west (that's what the caption says), Wonder Woman, Orion, Barda, and Metron finally encounter Mageddon. It's
octopoid, it's
ugly, it's the size of a
sun. Hoo boy...
Cool Moments!Oracle vs. Prometheus.
Cool Quotes!Prometheus: "It would be easy to kill you now. That would hurt them, wouldn't it?"
Oracle: "It wouldn't be easy, but yeah, you could probably kill me..."
Prometheus: "I notice you're wearing worn
shoes in last year's style. The
chair's a new little friend, then? What's the first thing you really miss when you realize it's for life?
Dancing? Running to the
deli?
Sex?"
Oracle: "I try not to live in the
past. Do you miss your
baby carriage?"
Plastic Man: "Earth is under attack from
killer space-bees? Just when you think there can't possibly be anything
funny about
interstellar warfare, huh?"
Green Lantern, after waking up from his hypnosis: "
Maple syrup--I was trying to drown that weird
Old Testament cereal Zauriel brings in, next thing I know the bad guys are dining out on my brains."
Prometheus, not acting very friendly to Batman: "I beat you
senseless last time, just to show you I could. And now I'm going to
hamstring you,
lobotomize you with an
icepick and leave you
drooling for the others to find."
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