COOL COMIC BOOK MOMENTS : JLA

courtesy of Brian Cronin at CBR

To set the scene for JLA #4 (written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Howard Porter), a group of aliens known as the Hyperclan have shown up on Earth, seemingly to help the planet (while at the same time, people with fire-derived powers have mysteriously gotten sick).

But really, they’re bad guys, so the newly formed Justice League of America try to take them down, but they’re having problems, which is magnified when the Martian Manhunter seemingly turns on his teammates.

In any event, the entire team has been captured, including Superman (who is being held prisoner and being tortured with kryptonite). The only one who was not captured was Batman, who seemingly was killed in a plane crash (but we know he survived).

Now the Hyperclan go off to deal with “just one man.”

Nice.