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Title: Our Army at War
Release Date: February 1999
Writer: Grant MorrisonPenciller: Mark PajarilloInker: Walden WongJLA Members: Superman,
Batman,
Wonder Woman,
Aquaman,
Huntress,
Plastic Man, and
Zauriel.
Guest Stars: The
Ultramarine Corps (
Warmaker One,
4-D,
Flow, and
Pulse 8),
Hourman,
J. J. Thunder, and the
Thunderbolt.
Bad Guys:
The General.
Cameos: Jack O'Lantern,
Vixen, and others I didn't recognize.
So what happens?Batman, Plastic Man, and the Huntress battle the General: the mind of
General Wade Eiling in the shaved-
bald body of the
immortal and
indestructible Shaggy Man. But they make no headway against him--even when they blow his limbs off, he regenerates them back within seconds. He plans to destroy the JLA, let his Ultramarine Corps die of their toxic superpowers, then rule the world forever in a one-man
military dictatorship.
Back in
Phoenix, Superman is able to convince the Ultramarines and the
Army that Eiling has lied to them, and the JLA and the Ultramarines charge out to confront the General in
Nevada. Though they interrupt Batman's almost-successful attempt to hypnotize the General, they are able to knock him onto a teleporter pad and transport him into the
asteroid belt. He can't die, but he'd have trouble getting himself back to Earth...
In the end, a way is found to keep the Ultramarines from dying, and they set up shop as an
international peacekeeping force based in a floating city called
Superbia at the ruins of the recently-
nuked city of
Montevideo.
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