Yes, Invasion! was the event that transitioned it from Kupperberg's relaunch in '87 to the famous Morrison run. this along with in-title events killed off all the members Morrison didn't want, allowing him to create or bring back the characters he wanted to work with
Santiago Díaz They need to do it so they can see the true depth of Miller's insanity. I thought all star was as bad as it got, then I read that and realized I hadn't begun to suffer.
Magoloso OMG! So I helped design a comic based class at my college and one of the books we were reading was Batman: Year One. The professor really liked and asked for examples of what the writer (Miller) had done recently. So I lent her the copy of Holy Terror that someone had given me as a joke. The next day see gave it back to me and asked me if Miller had gone through serious brain damage.
*Dominators:* "Daxamites! You were once our allies, and yet now you work with the metas. What do you have to say for yourselves?" *Daxamites:* "...F these bitches! BUUURRRRRRR!"
hey gents! ive been watching for a little over a year now. I love the show and your friendship through it all. Im a youth pastor and I have a bunch of youth that love comic books. Ive gotten into that world recently and Sal you have greatly helped in growing with whats what in comics. Now my youth and I talk comics and we talk, Back issues. We love you guys! Thanks for being you!
One of my first comics was a Starman comic that took place after this “event” if you want to call it that. Theres sooo many tie ins. The Swamp Thing one to kick it off was really weird. He was making baby cribs out of himself and stuff. Weird issue.
This is one of those stories that is quietly very influential. A lot of things in this come back around in later stories. Also, I'll never look at the dominators the same way.
I keep hearing this comment and in fact, I used to make it every video: "Sal, why don't you do Watchmen with your parents?" Well that's a great idea. But we've seen Back Issues episodes hosted by Sal, Tiff, Joel, and TWP. So how about we have Ethan do it with either Sal's parents or Ethan's parents?
Batfreeze Ethan and Ben don't really read comics, that's what make Back Issues...well Back Issues. I have only ever hosted when I really know the subject matter (ex. Dr. Strange, Saga). Also, Joel and TWP have been on Back Issues but they have never hosted!
TheGotenza he has, but the others were right, it is just not something he is interested in at this time. He honestly has a very limited amount of free time, so I think for him the amount of prep would make it work instead of something fun.
TheRealZubes That is a very good point. And well Ethan wouldn't know the backstory behind its creation like Sal would. I was just saying it wouldn't be impossible for him to do it not that he should do it.
Second video I've seen. Love it. Especially since I'm reading the big events in DC and marvel and boom,there are these videos matching exactly what I read
lol, Ben's comment about the Legion of Super Heroes having trouble with the Dominators. You should read him a LoSH story (like Five Years Later) so he can see how lame the Legion itself sometimes is. With such amazing members as Arm-Fall-Off-Boy, Shrinking Violet, and Karate Kid.
it would be awesome if you guys could also turn this into a podcast. I live in NYC and take the train to work. would love to be able to listen to this on my commute every thursday morning.
ComicPOP SSAAAAWWWWWWEEEETTTTT!!!! you guys are totally my favorite channel. you make thursday morning an extension of wednesday for the nerd world!! :)
Well I’m glad this is an actual episode since I’m reading Inferior 5 right now and apparently it takes place some time after this event. So hopefully it’ll help me understand some of the context of it better.
Can we get a back issues Let's Play channel where all there of the guys play though games together. I know they're big video games fans and I 'd love to see Sauls reactions to numerous video game plots.
I'll be completely honest it did not even occor to me before you mentioned it. I'm kinda surprised CW let the design stand now that you pointed this out to me.
Actually I'm pretty sure that in some story line they mentioned that wally west has the meta human gene which would then mean that Barry Allen and Jay garrick would also probably have it also
To really enjoy the Invasion books, one should read the Justice League Tie-Ins. That was during the famous Giffen, DeMatteis & Maguire run. All of the weird choices described in this video seem a bit more endearing when you consider them as the backdrop of a popular sit-com. The event itself was probably just an attempt to get all the new Justice League fans to take up interest in other books before things evened out again.
36:36 I died laughing! I'm black, and I get that Sal is telling a silly story with some unfortunately named aliens who get off of a ship and do the heavy lifting deemed to low by another race sitting above them. But I laughed from my whole soul yo. I laughed HARD. It's non intentional and not you guy's fault, but Sal's facial expression and the laughter from Ethan. I screamed laughing, my wife got concerned I was laughing so hard man; Sweet Christmas!
daniel dulberg I wanted to ask this exact question. Never heard they were poisoned by the atmosphere. Also, the comment of them being like the Martians to Humans, aren't they like descendants of Kryptonians that settled on Daxam?
This is still the diference with Marvel and DC comics: On Marvel, if someone said to the world "hey! we are here to take your metahumans away!", they would say "yes, please!!"
the raising of the UN flag image is sort of HOMAGE to the famous photo of the raising flag in the Iwo Jima battle in WW2, it was highlighted in the movie "Flags of our fathers"
I'm always amused when forgotten events get some recognition. Wonder when and if the likes of Eclipso: The Darkness Within, Punisher: Suicide Run, or Deathmate will get a feature.
Even some of the random idiots who got shot and gained powers in the beginning were old characters that they just threw into this. I never thought I'd see the day that I'd be nostalgic for Snapper f--king Carr, but here we are, and there he is.
I've saved this episode until I got around to watching all of the CW's cross over episodes. Didn't want to ruin it for myself before I watched it. They definitely made them look a lot less racist
Hey Sal, I'm trying to clean off one of my shelves of trades. Would you want any of the following: Superman Our worlds at war, Superman Godfall, legion of superheroes the great darkness saga, or some red sonja? I also got supreme power nighthawk if you want a really messed up Batman story.
dmeadville Yeah I got three omnibuses of Red Sonja that I haven't read in awhile. But boy it really seems that the population of that continent should be like Sonja and five other folks. And based off the series four of those guys would be a warlord and his rapist squadron.
spiderbatman97 Yeah Our Worlds at war was surprisingly kind of bland once the plot showed up. Also whoever drew the Loeb issues made Clark look ridiculous.
Ian McKee Wasn't Ed McGuines or something. The Loeb/Kelly era before Out Worlds At War was pretty cool (i like Emperor Joker, don't judge me) but afterwards that whole black shield mopey thing was pretty annoying, althought Kelly gave a satisfied conclusion to that arc. Sadly that kind of plot led us to things like Grounded when Sups became the Naval-Gaizing Man
Cool show. I didn't read the Invasion when it came out. Though did read when Marvel made fun of it in X-Men. It was a continuation of when they had the Other members of the X-men meet Jubie for the first time in a mail fighting Ghost bust rip off that fought Mutants. Still cool show as always. The Tv show with the CW has been pretty cool. With Super Girl in Super Man's role.
Funny enough, I did start thinking about what a modern Invasion Book would probably be like and came up with a hypothetical Comic Pop video title: The JUSTICE LEAGUE replaces the UN? | DC's Invasion (2019)
haha as a history buff when I saw the what the dominators looked like I was like...why is the Japanese red Sun on their forehead...was this like some form of racism...
I want a button that when pushed it plays an audio file of ben saying " all those charts and graphs, what the f...hell" And another button with sal saying "fuck em'"
Pick up the volume here: amzn.to/2gGLRV3
This is an important event for the Doom Patrol fans. As it ends up killing a lot of them, cementing them as a team with a high mortality rate.
Yes, Invasion! was the event that transitioned it from Kupperberg's relaunch in '87 to the famous Morrison run. this along with in-title events killed off all the members Morrison didn't want, allowing him to create or bring back the characters he wanted to work with
Its the briefly mentioned "meta-human bomb" that kills them
+Ian Laue The same one that croosver with Byrne Superman?
Can't recall from memory, but wouldnt be suprising since Byrne was doing Superman and Doom Patrol at the time.
I'm still waiting for Holy Terror, Sal.
You can't run away from it
+Santiago Díaz I promise, we'll do something with it.
ComicPOP
I am so ready.
Japanese invading aliens are nothing next to HolyTerror
Santiago Díaz They need to do it so they can see the true depth of Miller's insanity.
I thought all star was as bad as it got, then I read that and realized I hadn't begun to suffer.
Magoloso OMG! So I helped design a comic based class at my college and one of the books we were reading was Batman: Year One. The professor really liked and asked for examples of what the writer (Miller) had done recently. So I lent her the copy of Holy Terror that someone had given me as a joke. The next day see gave it back to me and asked me if Miller had gone through serious brain damage.
ComicPOP Burn it hopefully
Something SAL never read?! How is that possible? Sal reads all, Sal knows all.
*Dominators:* "Daxamites! You were once our allies, and yet now you work with the metas. What do you have to say for yourselves?"
*Daxamites:* "...F these bitches! BUUURRRRRRR!"
hey gents! ive been watching for a little over a year now. I love the show and your friendship through it all. Im a youth pastor and I have a bunch of youth that love comic books. Ive gotten into that world recently and Sal you have greatly helped in growing with whats what in comics. Now my youth and I talk comics and we talk, Back issues. We love you guys! Thanks for being you!
+Chester Pepper Thank you so much! That's incredible!
dude ethan i was 100% thinking of how hard it was to take Australia in Risk like 10 seconds before you said it. you rule.
I don't why but I think this is 1 of my favorite episodes of the show
I love it when sal does really old school DC obscure, comic books that I have zero contacts for.😄
I never thought of the Dominators in that way until this video... I can't believe I didn't notice it before
As an Australian, I appreciate that Drop Bear reference Sal.
Austin Skywalker me too
as a new Zealander I say get out
As an aboriginal you should of added a kangawallafox or Howie but much appreciated
We have off shore detention centres here. In case of alien invasion.
Superman would return to war footing with Superman, Worlds at War.
A lot of the major DC events i've at least heard of. This one, I have no clue whatsoever. Let's see where the crazy train takes us.
I've never heard of this event, so this will be a great back issues
ChickenHam Movies there's a reason why you never heard of it.
One of my first comics was a Starman comic that took place after this “event” if you want to call it that. Theres sooo many tie ins. The Swamp Thing one to kick it off was really weird. He was making baby cribs out of himself and stuff. Weird issue.
And superman surrounded by a legion of daxamites, informing them that it is a war zone thinks better give them a handicap and tosses a bat over
Sal really dropping some koala knowledge at 15:37. "Dropbears?" "Chlamydia?" Just casually inserting this terminology and moving on, haha.
Oh this one was so much fun. I'd never heard of it either! Great job, guys!
we watch back issues at our shop panther comics and we enjoy every episode.
+Steven Price Thank you, man!
damn, i really thought you were finally gonna do ultimate spiderman or black mirror. i was excited all week. bummer
This is one of those stories that is quietly very influential. A lot of things in this come back around in later stories.
Also, I'll never look at the dominators the same way.
I hope you guys at comic pop had a wonderful and delicious Thanksgiving.
+Mark Allen Thanks Mark! You too!
+ComicPOP could you do the 2006 moon knight comic. im imagining the reaction
I keep hearing this comment and in fact, I used to make it every video: "Sal, why don't you do Watchmen with your parents?" Well that's a great idea. But we've seen Back Issues episodes hosted by Sal, Tiff, Joel, and TWP. So how about we have Ethan do it with either Sal's parents or Ethan's parents?
Ethan barely reads comics...
Batfreeze Ethan and Ben don't really read comics, that's what make Back Issues...well Back Issues. I have only ever hosted when I really know the subject matter (ex. Dr. Strange, Saga). Also, Joel and TWP have been on Back Issues but they have never hosted!
Batfreeze Ethan has read Watchmen and it's one of his favorite stories.
TheGotenza he has, but the others were right, it is just not something he is interested in at this time. He honestly has a very limited amount of free time, so I think for him the amount of prep would make it work instead of something fun.
TheRealZubes That is a very good point. And well Ethan wouldn't know the backstory behind its creation like Sal would. I was just saying it wouldn't be impossible for him to do it not that he should do it.
I like the blue streaky cutaways. Forgot to point that out a couple of weeks ago.
Second video I've seen. Love it. Especially since I'm reading the big events in DC and marvel and boom,there are these videos matching exactly what I read
Glad you enjoyed it!
lol, Ben's comment about the Legion of Super Heroes having trouble with the Dominators. You should read him a LoSH story (like Five Years Later) so he can see how lame the Legion itself sometimes is. With such amazing members as Arm-Fall-Off-Boy, Shrinking Violet, and Karate Kid.
That ending part with darkseid is probably my favorite part of the video
He shows up I can't let you take the earth I need it. Then he thinks there guys will never succeed and leaves
Ooooo perfect timing with the DC tv crossover (:
Mon- El was poisoned with lead by super boy. Lead is the kryptonite of daxamites
it would be awesome if you guys could also turn this into a podcast. I live in NYC and take the train to work. would love to be able to listen to this on my commute every thursday morning.
Believe it or not, we're working on it!
ComicPOP SSAAAAWWWWWWEEEETTTTT!!!! you guys are totally my favorite channel. you make thursday morning an extension of wednesday for the nerd world!! :)
Same man, awesome that you're working on it.
i believe i do want a copy of this book. ive never heard of the event and a book that thick has got to be worth a read.
When are you uploading creating an event part two
Friday
Awesome! Will you guys ever do Alan Moore's Miracleman?
YAAAAASSSSSS
Well I’m glad this is an actual episode since I’m reading Inferior 5 right now and apparently it takes place some time after this event. So hopefully it’ll help me understand some of the context of it better.
You should do a Back Issues of the Millennium event.
Can we get a back issues Let's Play channel where all there of the guys play though games together. I know they're big video games fans and I 'd love to see Sauls reactions to numerous video game plots.
Nil Fox They used to have a show called Bonus Round with Tiffany and Danelle
Nil Fox Sal did play Telltale's Batman for a while on out Twitch channel. I'll remind him about continuing.
That was a genuinely great time, I'm really glad I watch you guys
JUST IN TIME ... THIS WEEK IS SO AwESOME...I'm Whelmed
Just finished the Arrow part of the cross over =. It was the greatest episode of arrow.
saintlugia so good
saintlugia Best Arrow episode since season two
I wish you guys do more back issues on Green Lantern comics. Cause I now u have a copy of Sinestro Corps War.
Watching this in 2019 and just noticed Ben says Piraka Teeth @ 2:51 yo yo
I'll be completely honest it did not even occor to me before you mentioned it.
I'm kinda surprised CW let the design stand now that you pointed this out to me.
Actually I'm pretty sure that in some story line they mentioned that wally west has the meta human gene which would then mean that Barry Allen and Jay garrick would also probably have it also
I don't mean to badger, but is Annihilation ever coming?
It's in the pipeline. Remember, that sucker is B.I.G., big! And dense.
Please do a Grant Morrison JLA trade, preferably either Rock of Ages or his last arc
Are you guys gonna do 300?
I can only assume making those look-alike bombs is very cathartic for Lex.
37:17 that laugh though lol.
I know right
Ethan master risk strategists
To really enjoy the Invasion books, one should read the Justice League Tie-Ins. That was during the famous Giffen, DeMatteis & Maguire run. All of the weird choices described in this video seem a bit more endearing when you consider them as the backdrop of a popular sit-com. The event itself was probably just an attempt to get all the new Justice League fans to take up interest in other books before things evened out again.
You know the DC editor who greenlit the design of the Dominators must have grown up in Pearl Harbor.
You guys should finish the entire Wonder Woman New 52 Brian Azzarello run. It's pretty satisfying by the end
haha great timing guys!
great vid especially the meta human explanation bit. =)
Meta-gene comes from the God Wave.
This was the first event comic I read. Good stuff because It wasn't just a template for the crossovers, but was a bit character-driven.
great episode guys ! you're definetly the best youtube channel around ! also the aleiens in this appeared in an awesome x-men issue from the 80s
great stuff
Sears and McFarlane greatness. it's a pretty wild event especially when the Dominators force the Blasters to evolve
theres even a great Animal man crossover during Morrisons run with Animal Man vs a Hawkwoman and a Hawkman
and this is where L.E.G.I.o.N starts with Lobo and a young good Brainiac clone
“WE MIGHT NOT GO BACK IN TIME BUT WE’LL FUCK SOMETHING UP!”
Invasion was my first exposure to Animal Man and this series led to Justice League Europe!! Awesome Goodness.
great video guys sal ;)
36:36 I died laughing! I'm black, and I get that Sal is telling a silly story with some unfortunately named aliens who get off of a ship and do the heavy lifting deemed to low by another race sitting above them. But I laughed from my whole soul yo. I laughed HARD. It's non intentional and not you guy's fault, but Sal's facial expression and the laughter from Ethan. I screamed laughing, my wife got concerned I was laughing so hard man; Sweet Christmas!
but isn't the daximites one true weakness lead
daniel dulberg lead, red sun and earths air (sometimes)
daniel dulberg I wanted to ask this exact question. Never heard they were poisoned by the atmosphere. Also, the comment of them being like the Martians to Humans, aren't they like descendants of Kryptonians that settled on Daxam?
They were poisoned by the lead in the air.
Cool story, where's Future's End?!!!
You guys should do preacher
This is still the diference with Marvel and DC comics: On Marvel, if someone said to the world "hey! we are here to take your metahumans away!", they would say "yes, please!!"
If you haven't, do "Panic in the Sky", somewhat similar where the world unites to fight War World
i came here after the doom patrol episode i was...curious
the raising of the UN flag image is sort of HOMAGE to the famous photo of the raising flag in the Iwo Jima battle in WW2, it was highlighted in the movie "Flags of our fathers"
Good news. It's 2021 and racism against Asians is making a huge comeback.
I'm always amused when forgotten events get some recognition. Wonder when and if the likes of Eclipso: The Darkness Within, Punisher: Suicide Run, or Deathmate will get a feature.
Even some of the random idiots who got shot and gained powers in the beginning were old characters that they just threw into this. I never thought I'd see the day that I'd be nostalgic for Snapper f--king Carr, but here we are, and there he is.
I've saved this episode until I got around to watching all of the CW's cross over episodes. Didn't want to ruin it for myself before I watched it. They definitely made them look a lot less racist
Superman can compress air. He can breath more air in than normal people.
This is the earliest I've ever been to a Back Issues and I have nothing to say. Fuck!
I need segments from back issues animated in my life
+extreme animation studios You and me both
i wish they would do invasion in the injustice universe
sal you should do futures end
Hey Sal, I'm trying to clean off one of my shelves of trades. Would you want any of the following: Superman Our worlds at war, Superman Godfall, legion of superheroes the great darkness saga, or some red sonja? I also got supreme power nighthawk if you want a really messed up Batman story.
I would love it if they did Red Sonja on back issues!
dmeadville
Yeah I got three omnibuses of Red Sonja that I haven't read in awhile. But boy it really seems that the population of that continent should be like Sonja and five other folks. And based off the series four of those guys would be a warlord and his rapist squadron.
Those 2 Superman stories remind me of how the 2000 to 2011 period was one of the best periods for the charather and also one of his worst eras too.
spiderbatman97
Yeah Our Worlds at war was surprisingly kind of bland once the plot showed up. Also whoever drew the Loeb issues made Clark look ridiculous.
Ian McKee Wasn't Ed McGuines or something. The Loeb/Kelly era before Out Worlds At War was pretty cool (i like Emperor Joker, don't judge me) but afterwards that whole black shield mopey thing was pretty annoying, althought Kelly gave a satisfied conclusion to that arc. Sadly that kind of plot led us to things like Grounded when Sups became the Naval-Gaizing Man
they have teleporters? lol
also the reason why the daximites try to kill Superman is because there is a long standing rivalry between the daximites and Kryptonians
Nice glasses, looking good.
Yes the Flash had a gene that was activated by the accident that was created by himself creating the speedforce
Please do matt fractions hawkeye!!!
such a classic episode.
I hope you guys do Bloodlines one day
Of fuck. I missed the CW episodes..
Cool show. I didn't read the Invasion when it came out. Though did read when Marvel made fun of it in X-Men. It was a continuation of when they had the Other members of the X-men meet Jubie for the first time in a mail fighting Ghost bust rip off that fought Mutants. Still cool show as always. The Tv show with the CW has been pretty cool. With Super Girl in Super Man's role.
can you do Hellboy in Hell for a back issue maybe?
Lead is Kryptonite to Daxamites.
I feel that the obvious comparison this book would have is Independence Day.
Funny enough, I did start thinking about what a modern Invasion Book would probably be like and came up with a hypothetical Comic Pop video title: The JUSTICE LEAGUE replaces the UN? | DC's Invasion (2019)
are you guys going to review the CW's attempt on Invasion?
Trying to remember... didn't Hitman spin out of that?
So, it has that going for it.
I know you guys don't watch the CW shows, but I would love a review of the crossover
haha as a history buff when I saw the what the dominators looked like I was like...why is the Japanese red Sun on their forehead...was this like some form of racism...
are this the same lords of order and chaos that appear in sandman? didn't know specter worked for them:)
Isn't this Superman the same one that's in Rebirth?
I want a button that when pushed it plays an audio file of ben saying " all those charts and graphs, what the f...hell"
And another button with sal saying "fuck em'"
So how long until CW adapts Bloodlines?