Scans: JLA: Divided We Fall (4/4)
So the civilian forms of the JLA show up to save the day.
Or, uh...get completely defeated. The battle is pretty chaotic, so bear with me if I show you just bits and pieces. I mean, you know pretty much what's got to happen, after all...
The Cathexis strike at the civilians and it's pretty much an entire rout, including a couple of my favorite panels:
Consensus says: Eel is still hot. And Clark and Bruce, with Bruce watching out for Clark despite being ill-equipped to do so.
Eel hits on the desperate plan of trying to coax the half-conscious Superman into wishing them all back together. The results are...less than optimal.
Oh, Woobie Clark! Woobie John! (and can anyone read Kryptonian well enough to know what Superman is saying? I never really noticed it until now...) Also, somehow the ruffled Kryptonian suit is gone, but...well, it's all a metaphor anyway.
Diana takes her turn at making a desperate gamble, and taunts the Cathexis into dividing her into the two sides of her essence--turning her into a clay statue and a pure, formless spirit. However, that was her plan all along, because as a pure spirit she can reach out to her teammates:
I can get behind the JLA surrendering to each other. Yes indeed.
Also, I really, really love that last full page, with Batman in the background with his cape like sheltering wings, Superman radiating light against Batman's cape, Flash's smile, Green Lantern's smirk, and Diana's "Hi. We're going to kick your ass now" look.
A lot of psuedo-scientific gobbledygook and righteous beatdown follows, until Flash figures out a way to divide the sixth-dimensional beings into a more manageable form:
For some reason, it's the "Excuse me" that really gets me in that sequence. That and the smiles.
And, uh, linked telepathically they defeat the bad guys and take away their ability to grant wishes, and all is well on Earth-1 once more. Yeah, it's a bit of an anticlimax after all that talk of surrendering to each other, but you can't have everything!
Or, uh...get completely defeated. The battle is pretty chaotic, so bear with me if I show you just bits and pieces. I mean, you know pretty much what's got to happen, after all...
The Cathexis strike at the civilians and it's pretty much an entire rout, including a couple of my favorite panels:
Consensus says: Eel is still hot. And Clark and Bruce, with Bruce watching out for Clark despite being ill-equipped to do so.
Eel hits on the desperate plan of trying to coax the half-conscious Superman into wishing them all back together. The results are...less than optimal.
Oh, Woobie Clark! Woobie John! (and can anyone read Kryptonian well enough to know what Superman is saying? I never really noticed it until now...) Also, somehow the ruffled Kryptonian suit is gone, but...well, it's all a metaphor anyway.
Diana takes her turn at making a desperate gamble, and taunts the Cathexis into dividing her into the two sides of her essence--turning her into a clay statue and a pure, formless spirit. However, that was her plan all along, because as a pure spirit she can reach out to her teammates:
I can get behind the JLA surrendering to each other. Yes indeed.
Also, I really, really love that last full page, with Batman in the background with his cape like sheltering wings, Superman radiating light against Batman's cape, Flash's smile, Green Lantern's smirk, and Diana's "Hi. We're going to kick your ass now" look.
A lot of psuedo-scientific gobbledygook and righteous beatdown follows, until Flash figures out a way to divide the sixth-dimensional beings into a more manageable form:
For some reason, it's the "Excuse me" that really gets me in that sequence. That and the smiles.
And, uh, linked telepathically they defeat the bad guys and take away their ability to grant wishes, and all is well on Earth-1 once more. Yeah, it's a bit of an anticlimax after all that talk of surrendering to each other, but you can't have everything!