Justice League of America #100 - "The Unknown Soldier of Victory"
- Pretty basic bronze age super antics: multiversal threat brings the JLA and JSA together for their annual team-up, they split into teams to defeat the foe, and come together at the end for a classic deus ex machina to tie everything up nicely.
- Ramon Solomano makes a cosmic hand to destroy E2, but wouldn't he destroy himself since he's from that planet? Where is his base at the end of the issue? = I guess he just wanted to blow up the world!
- How did the Hand lose his hand? = in the first loss to the 7S when the machine fell on him.
- We get an intro to Oracle, a cosmic being from the realm beyond who can travel the multiverse at will. His powers can send individuals through time and he can display the past, but he cannot unveil the future.
- Wing is obviously the unknown soldier!
- Unfortunate that Wondy stays behind. This came out during her Denny O'Neil kung-fu I-Ching era!
- So the 7S used a weapon to defeat the Nebula man, and it scattered them across time. The weapon was revealed and mentioned back in Geoff Johns' Stars & STRIPE #9.
- Fun reveal of the Ollie and Roy on the 7S being E2 counterparts!
- So opening page mentions that the hand around the world is made of nebula energy... connection to the Nebula Man that scattered the 7S? = This implies that the Nebula Man is a creation of the hand...
- So nobody remembers the 7S because the feedback from the battle with Nebula Man created what Diana refers to as a time-warp, erasing them from history and scattering them across time.
- This truly was a pretty basic smash-em-up scavenger hunt in classic Gardner Fox style split team fashion.
- We get the additions of Alan Scott, E2 Dick Grayson, and Terry Sloane Mister Terrific as a final team to seek out the Himalayan grave of the unknown soldier.
- In the final page, Iron Hand sneaks in to ambush E1 Diana!
- Great final panel! Loved the sacrifice of Red Tornado!
- The highlight of this issue was Diana absolutely clapping up Iron Hand with a lovely fake-out.
- Zatanna's way of defeating Circe was super fun as well.
- Ultramarine Corps! And their ultra-city superbia!
- Warmaker One, Goraiko, and the Master (formerly known as Pulse-8 IIRC)
- The Knight (Cyril Sheldrake), Jack O'Lantern, and Squire (Beryl Hutchins)
- Contrary to what many on the internet believe, Goraiko doesn't actually speak in haiku, the syllables are off!
- Knight's moto-radio plays Pretty Vacant by the Sex Pistols!
- Magilla was a famed Hanna-Barbera primate!
- Guy the gorilla gangster is reminiscent of Batman's Gorilla Boss and Animal Man's Mod-Gorilla Boss!
- Nebula Man is from the JLA/JSA crossover we just read!
- "Information sent backwards through time..."
- So Cyril is the new Knight after his dad died at the hands of Springheeled Jack, black sheep of the royal family.
- Easter eggs in the sci-fi closet: Thanagarian harness, Dalek, head of Iron Giant...
- JLA is lost saving someone else's universe.
- Neh-Buh-Loh: "A Great harrowing is coming..."
- Cold region of the vampire sun, eternal fogs, last country, huntsman of the wild ride
- Queen of Terror...
- Batman's boom gauntlet and UFO! Secret JLA outpost on Pluto.
- So we have the present version of Qwewq in the Pluto base, and the jla is lost within.
- An adult version of qwewq is Neh-Buh-Loh, and he has come back in time and joined Grodd to take over the world.
- Batman represents Hades, so naturally his secret base is on the planet Pluto, just as future-Batman was responsible for guarding Pluto during the DC One Million event.
- Black Death, meta-human poison.
- Qwewq essentially contains our universe.
- JLA followed him into there, but how did he get access to Qwewq and the Pluto outpost? Did he get in on Earth, and they just transferred it to Pluto afterwards?
- Metaleks, Old King Coal (concepts revisited in Batman & Robin + Action Comics).
- Sheeda spine riders...
- Neh-Buh-Loh apparently seeded his form in the Master but is now separate while Master is possessed by a spine rider.
- So Cyril and Jack served together in Qurac (as soldiers or superheroes, I'm not sure).
- We see an invisible figure which is probably the disembodied aura of warmaker one.
- Goraiko is a receiver remotely controlled by a human.
- Black Death might have poisoned Qwewq from within, and he was sent by Grodd as a distraction.
- Neh-Buh-Loh is bred to kill supermen, sent to destroy seven .
- New additions to the Ultra-marines: Olympian, Kid Impala...
- Cyril was in a coma? Drug and alcohol addiction? Could it be because of his father's murder?
- So Black Death planted a seed of evil in the infant Qwewq, and adult Neh-Buh-Loh + Grodd planned this to ensure his future malice.
- Brilliant! The ultramarine corps is sent into infant Qwewq to save the poisoned earth! An Authority is born!
- Prologue: "True Thomas"
- True Thomas! I, Spyder!
- A black flower is grown for every secret drowned in slaughter swamp!
- Who is the ferryman?
- Solomon Grundy! Cyrus gold, the miser! Was lynched after killing children.
- The swamp is an in-between place.
- "True Thomas" is a ballad, also known as "Thomas the Rhymer," that originates from Scottish folklore and has been passed down through generations. The ballad tells the story of Thomas Learmonth, a historical figure from the 13th century who was known as Thomas the Rhymer due to his poetic abilities and reputed encounters with the supernatural.
- The ballad begins with Thomas encountering the Queen of Elfland while he is out walking. The Queen entices him to join her in her magical realm by offering him gifts and promises of knowledge and beauty. Thomas, unable to resist her enchantment, follows her to the Otherworld. Thomas spends seven years in the fairy realm, where time moves differently. He becomes the Queen's lover and is granted the gift of prophecy and poetic inspiration. However, Thomas also learns that he is bound by the fairy realm's rules, and when he eventually returns to the mortal world, he will be compelled to serve the fairy queen whenever she calls upon him.
- The poem is rich in supernatural elements, exploring the themes of love, temptation, and the blurred boundaries between the mortal world and the realm of the fairies. It showcases the allure and dangers of the Otherworld and highlights the complex relationship between humans and the supernatural.
- Sheeda soldiers riding mosquitos/flies, are they spine riders? And they suck blood via spear into a container on its back?
- Another schmuck with bows and arrows: are they referring to Ollie and Roy from the OG soldiers? Or maybe Thomas' dad?
- Seven Unknown men of slaughter swamp. Seven Doors. Six colored speech bubbles, is the ferryman the seventh?
- Who sent Thomas to kill the seven = they did themselves!
- Tailor...
- Are they cleaning the poison out of Thomas, or are they revamping his personality? Is that what they mean when they want him to "kill himself" = yep, just like dc comics writers who rebirth characters
- Thomas' dad was Alias, The Spider + his brother was just the Spider.
- Part One: "Shelly & The Super-Cowboys"
- Shelly Gaynor, the Whip. Her gramps was the golden age Whip and part of the All-Star Squadron.
- Part Two: "Big Time Country"
- Vigilante fought the buffalo spider in the 1800s when he was lost in time due to the battle with nebula man, before the jla/jsa picked him up.
- Miracle mesa, hunting ground of gods that revolves through many worlds.
- Gimmix, Boy Blue, Dyno-mite dan. Seventh soldier got cold feet.
- Boy blue sonic horn.
- Jacqueline Pemberton, any relation to Sylvester, the OG Star Spangled Kid? Gimmix knows Zatanna. Therapy group. Demonic abuse. = see Zatanna #1
- Part Three: "Midnight At Miracle Mesa"
- Buffalo spider lures them to miracle mesa, where the Sheeda attack them. Neh-buh-loh!
- The harrowing, the harvesting of man! I think they're all dead.
- Epilogue: "Save Seven"
- "And thrice enough to fill great Arthur's ship, we went into it. Except seven, none returned from castle revolving."
- The unknown men are putting items of the new batch of seven soldiers: guardian's helmet, shining knight's cape, Frankenstein's gun and gloves.
- They leave the time-sewing machine behind. Is that what they used to revamp I, Spyder?
- We see six exit, is the seventh (the ferryman) staying behind as the sheeda invade?
- Six more black flowers grow in slaughter swamp.
- Sheeda invade Camelot. They've come to reap the city from the future, and will come again when a new kingdom rises to destroy it.
- Lancelot, Gawain, Caradoc, Peredur, Bors, Galahad.
- Neh-Buh-Loh kills Lancelot. RIP
- Castle Revolving.
- Catacombs of Oethanoeth.
- Justin and Vanguard.
- True Lantern.
- Arthur is now zombified. They call Justin a "false knight" = see Shining knight #4
- The inexhaustible Cauldron. The Undry. Brings the dead to life and heals all wounds.
- "It once sang in Murias, at the mighty Dagdas table."
- Olwen, passed around Gloriana's court.
- Gloriana Tenebrae, shadow queen of the Sheeda, the Morrigan.
- Caliburn Ex Caliburn, Arthur's sword. Treasure of Findias. Only pure of heart can draw the blade.
- Snow white imagery: apple, fairest of them all.
- Ystin threw the cauldron into the time liquid of castle revolving.
- Olwen is revealed as a fetch, a changeling. Is Ystin wounded with venom?
- They bust out of castle revolving, but shards of other-glass get in vanguard's neck and they crash into modern day Los Angeles. Ystin is taken into custody, while vanguard is left bleeding on the pavement.
- Are the Tuatha Dé Danann representations of the New Gods?
- Is the dagda a representation of Aurakles?
- Is Nuada a rep of Arthur? = Nuada is orion
- Falias, Findias, Murias, Gorias; stone, sword, cauldron, spear
- Great stuff!
- Pirates of Manhattan: No-Beard and All-Beard.
- No-Beard (Moz): he can't figure out how to work a camera, a cheeky reference to Grant's disdain towards tech?
- All-Beard's rituals a reference to Moore's pagan fanaticism?
- A map of New York's secret subway!
- New York is referred to as the Cinderella city, between Metropolis and Gotham.
- Jake Jordan.
- Carla, Lauren, and Larry Marcus.
- Manhattan Guardian newspaper, ed stargard: is he an AI? HE was apparently a kid crimebuster = see Guardian #4
- Golems Four...
- Gets a costume, a car, a horse, and a helicopter...
- Mister Miracle, Shilo Norman, to escape an artificial black hole = See Mister Miracle #1
- Newsboy army...
- What is the ultimate treasure All-Beard is searching for? = see #2
- The taxi in this street scene has a pumpkin on the side. Weird. I wonder whether we’ll see that again later. (Yes, we will.)
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