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632:. After Superman helps save them, they decide to withdraw from the Alliance and help defend Earth. To that end, a small fleet of troop transports arrive and demand that the Alliance withdraw from Earth. The Dominators decide to ignore them, unaware of the effect a yellow sun has on Daxamites, until the fleet deploys several thousand soldiers into space as a near invincible attack force. This, combined with key defeats in various theaters, and a full-scale and uncontrollable riot aboard the Alliance Gulag, leads to a quick collapse for the Alliance and individual surrenders by each former member. 342:, considering the animosities many of the members shared for one another (particularly the three races of the Vega system). As it worked out, the Dominators provided the overall strategy for the invasion, with input from each member world while the Khunds acted as the shock troops for the first wave of attack that overran Australia. Each member world was then tasked with invading or subverting a particular sphere of influence: 725:
One of the Dominators ended up under the control of the Queen Bee, ruler of the fictional country of Bialya. Though he did not long survive her anger, the technology he introduced was used against the Justice League multiple times. Several other Dominators were left on Earth for years and appeared in
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However, a young Dominator, aspiring to prominence among his people, manages to isolate the "metagene" in humans that enables a person to develop superhuman powers. On his own initiative, he develops and deploys the Gene Bomb, a device that bathes the Earth in an energy that affects every metahuman
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leads a counterattack against the main Alliance base. The counterattack is temporarily disrupted by the Daxamite observers, who become the equal of Superman and temporarily defeat him, but fall prey to Earth's atmospheric differences from their own world and how it affected their extreme and lethal
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to allow Earth's magicians to join in Earth's defense, only to be told that he must instead ensure their neutrality for fear of provoking the Lords of Chaos from intervening on behalf of the invaders and escalating the conflict into a cataclysm that would mean the destruction of everyone involved.
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exposed to it, causing them to lose control of their powers and fall into a coma. Since the point of the invasion was to harness these beings, not eradicate them, the Dominator is imprisoned by his own government. A group of heroes unaffected by the Gene Bomb, led by the
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of potential opponents and experimental subjects; the Psions were charged with (or left alone to) conducting biological research on humans; and the Daxamites were largely an observer group, providing medical and scientific assistance to the Alliance.
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The emotionless, calculating Dominators have put together an Alliance to invade Earth and eliminate the threat posed by their unpredictable "metahumans". After purging the galaxy of numerous potential threats to their plan - securing
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Additionally, some members of the Alliance were tasked with specific areas of responsibility and played little part in the military operations side. The Citadelians were given charge of administering the Alliance's vast
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was its introduction of the metagene as the explanation within the DC Universe as to how some people gain superhuman abilities. The Flash's father, Rudolph West (a Manhunter agent) appears to die in an explosion in
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All tie-in issues between #2 and #3 ended with the gene bomb being detonated in Earth's atmosphere, so that the coloring of the artwork is flipped to a photo negative.
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a clean slate to revamp the book, including the addition of new metahumans having powers awakened by the Gene Bomb. They started with
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The invasion of Earth and the Gene Bomb had some long-lasting effects on the DC Universe. In particular, the recently relaunched
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The Alliance tenders an offer to spare the human race provided that the world's governments surrender their metahumans, but the
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yet another species from the Vega system, a reptilian race of amoral scientists, the result of ancient experiments in
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stories, including the acclaimed "The Death of the Red Mask". Also, the Gulag storyline introduced the character of
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The alien coalition consisted of several disparate races; several had only appeared before with the
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one thousand years in the future. Assembling this alliance was a major diplomatic victory for the
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the driving force behind the Alliance and the invasion of Earth, and consequently the Alliance's
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various comics (usually briefly) including one in Captain Atom (became a farmer), a few in the
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Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Manning, Matthew K.; McAvennie, Michael; Wallace, Daniel (2019).
1212:#245. Among other elements, the "Gene Bomb" became the "Jean Bomb" (modelled in appearance on 1131:#22 (in which Jim Corrigan's team investigates cattle mutilations and continues directly into 1601: 1264: 1037: 842: 664:. The Blasters would make several more appearances, fighting further alien threats to Earth. 548: 388:
an aquatic race of conquerors that live within hovering, armed and armored cybernetic shells
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and establishing a base there from which to conquer the rest of the planet. Meanwhile, the
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the twisted clone-race that comprised the armies of the Vega system empire known as
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as a tie-in to the storyline (the front page of which appears on the last page of
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The Gil'Dishpan established a major underwater base of operations within the
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The Gene Bomb was also responsible for giving powers of mind control to
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mentioning she must attend a special council with regard to Invasion.
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artist Todd McFarlane's interpretation of the characters". Although
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In the reading order presented in the back of each main issue:
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without being explicitly tied-in via their covers, including
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The Warlords of Okaara launched a major attack on European
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A number of stories make oblique or explicit reference to
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have the episodes of the crossover titled as "Invasion!".
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was adapted into the storyline for the second season of
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shot by a Durlan before seeing the invasion fleet, and
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The Psions conducted secret experiments on humans in
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and the combined Soviet metahuman forces, led by the
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Index

Invasion (comics)

Bart Sears
Publisher
DC Comics
Mini-series
Justice League International
Keith Giffen
Bill Mantlo
Penciller(s)
Todd McFarlane
Bart Sears
Keith Giffen
Inker(s)
P. Craig Russell
Al Gordon
Dick Giordano
Letterer(s)
Gaspar Saladino
Colorist(s)
Andy Helfer
Collected editions
ISBN
978-1-4012-2066-2
comic book
limited series
crossover
DC Comics
Keith Giffen
Omega Men

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