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November 6th, 2009

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The Opening Defense In The Human Game
so, the Human Defence Corps.

Currently the unit General Sam "Wade Eiling 1.1" Lane's in command of, they were created under the Luthor administration to be the one armed gov't group gunning after non-baseline threats that was actually public.

They've got on-the-ball intelligence:

... though one does have to wonder why they'd think Durlans would be interested in anything regarding the political goings-on of a small pastry.

Kinda cool support units!

Cool guns!

And people who can be ready in case, despite all of the above, everything goes south:

meet Specalist Kelly, who'll turn out to be important to the invasion of hell.

but first, he's got some changes to go through:

Like a rank up and a totally boss scar.

nice trick.

and it alerts them to a turn of circumstance that's happened at their underwater testing site:

gah, Starro. Place'll smell of lime for weeks before he's gone.

anyhow, cadets Taylor and Morgan evade the Starro'd, making their way down to the base's labs:

where there're some interesting specimens:

but, alas, the Starro'd interrupt their explorations of Doctor Gorilla's lab.

But then Taylor shoots a Starro'd Kelly, and it turns out that:

haha. Nice. Also, we learn that the HDC has Fort Olympus, an orbital defense fortress; it's Taylor's next posting.

and so the HDC continue operations, dealing with many a weird threat, like the A'Corti:

But eventually, it's time to go to hell once several soldiers realize they've been having dreams about the ones that died on the HDC's first mission...

... well, first, it's time for a seance, courtesy of an HDC chaplain:

during which it is confirmed that, yes, the ' dead ' soldiers are prisoners of Hell.

And then some demons show up, so it's a good thing that one guy from Easy Company was there (it WAS a seance, and one of the 'dead' soldiers was his grandson):

surprisingly, the HDC's prepared for this.. turns out, in addition to 'aliens', they also keep FFIV bosses in the basement:

yeah, see, Cal and Brina's dudes are preparing for a war with Neron, and they need all the juice they can get.

Since the HDC's not too keen on having their fellow soldiers powering up some demons, it's off to hell for a rescue mission!

Oh, and running over Charon in the process:

And so begins a war in hell, with Not Made of Six Dolls demon along for the ride:

Kelly's got " dispose of demon bodies so that they don't rejoin " detail.

meanwhile, Taylor breaks mad:

poor, dumb bastard.

now with his detail gone, Sgt. Kelly's gotta pull something interesting off if he wants to live:

... nice, man.

anyhow, the fight continues; it's a lot of gun shooting, more or less:

in an amusing moment, Corporal Taylor comes back as one of hell's henches, because IT'S FUCKIN' HELL:

heh.

but since things have to wrap up now, Kelly through some amusing circumstances realizes that he's part demon now (turns out, while facing those demons in Galatz? he got demon blood in his open wounds, more or less) and so uses this new part of his nature to seize the plot device powering the spell binding the captured soldiers:

luckily for Kelly, the HDC was prepared for that.

another heh.

and Kelly gets another honor from an incident involving demons:

... I have to chuckle at the fact that, regardless of how this operation panned out, a fact of the DCU American government was planning on setting up a puppet government in a small region of Hell. Just... wow.

Don't really know what else happened to them after this... well, General Lane is now their commander... and based on that Earth/New Krypton war foreshadowing, we might get to see them in action again.

for now, the mini closes out on now ruler-of-tiny-hell-region Kelly, being interviewed by Vicki Vale because apparently a rescue op in hell made the news. Somehow.

bonus: ... and she's definitely a better interviewer than Lana Lang!

(nice segue, huh?)

well, Pre-Crisis Lana at any rate, seen here interviewing Carl Draper, who's designed a supervillain prison:

Lana, most people have the common sense not to yawn when the subject of their interview is right nearby.

Just saying is all; fake mehness at least.

and when Superman swings by to suspend the prison 20,000 feet above ground out of his own good will (supposedly, it makes it more secure, which I can see):

... wait, Lana... another man built this prison... the general public acknowledges it... Superman acknowledges it... but you, more or less, go ahead and prove Man of Steel Lex Luthor right?

Okay, it's really just nickname stupidity that doesn't matter, but jeez woman, don't you know this is the kind of thing that makes supervillains happen?

alas, it's too late; the Master Jailer is born... well, he was born a while ago, but still.

... okay, he's Deathtrap these days, but still.

Current Music: King Gainer Over! - Yoshiki Fukuyama
Tags: creator: norm breyfogle, creator: ty templeton, group: human defense corps, in-joke: tl;dr, publisher: dc comics

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From:	zordboy
Date:	November 7th, 2009 06:54 am (UTC)

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"I have to chuckle at the fact that, regardless of how this operation panned out, a fact of the DCU American government was planning on setting up a puppet government in a small region of Hell. Just... wow."

Hell's deep underground, maybe there's oil there? It's a thought.

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From:	blakeyrat
Date:	November 7th, 2009 05:42 pm (UTC)

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Manifest Destiny!

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From:	aaron_bourque
Date:	November 7th, 2009 07:56 am (UTC)

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What the . . . what the . . . what?

What?

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From:	daningram
Date:	November 7th, 2009 06:43 pm (UTC)

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What? What's the what about?

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From:	01d55
Date:	November 7th, 2009 10:23 am (UTC)

It makes perfect sense

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"Set up a puppet government" is the USG's answer to everything.

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From:	qob
Date:	November 7th, 2009 04:03 pm (UTC)

Re: It makes perfect sense

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hmmm Kermit as regional Governor and Miss Piggy as head of Security?

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From:	icon_uk
Date:	November 7th, 2009 10:23 am (UTC)

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There's some good stuff here. I really like the idea that the military in a world where aliens and demons are real do what military are supposed to do; adapt and combat them.

It's why I like the notion of UNIT in Doctor Who, where they have developed a variety of exotic weapons for dealing with aliens; armour piercing bullets for Daleks, high explosive rounds for Yetis and gold bullets for Cybermen (and shortly to add silver bullets for semi-demonic entities. Torchwood SHOULD have done the same thing, but had such ridiculous notions as facing down the Daleks with human weapons they knew from the outset wouldn't stop them, despite having access to alien weaponry.

There are some odd spelling mistakes in one page "I've plotted a fully loaded F28 Nighthawk"... no, I think you've PILOTED one. And when he picks up the magical doohickey and goes "I realised I could do nothing with this power", I think he means he could do ANYthing with this power, otherwise it's VERY anticlimactic a moment. :)

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From:	cyotix
Date:	November 7th, 2009 10:32 am (UTC)

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Master Jailer/Deathtrap is the head of security and webmaster at Checkmate now.

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From:	robogeek
Date:	November 7th, 2009 12:21 pm (UTC)

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Given Reign In Hell, I doubt we'll be seeing this version again. But if you like this, Larry Hama's SPOOKS minis (for DDP) have a similar feel.

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From:	auggie18
Date:	November 7th, 2009 04:37 pm (UTC)

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I like it it when the army (or police) show up and don't just get killed to show how bad a situation/villain is.

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From:	blakeyrat
Date:	November 7th, 2009 05:43 pm (UTC)

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The most impressive part is that they've somehow managed to get access to Thunderbird-2. (First scan.)

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From:	daningram
Date:	November 7th, 2009 06:55 pm (UTC)

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I loved this mini series, mostly because it was inspired by the equally cool Micah Stormwatch series that was being published at the time. I giess it took a while for the stink of his lie to come off the concept, even though it was set in DC.

Looking at that last issue, it's kind a shame they went with a whole new magic kingdom in Superman's Earth vs. Krypton plot. I'd think that creatures from hell work better than your standard Orcs as cannon fodder. Though I'd still lost as to why that conflict needs a magical kingdom...

Also, fun fact. There was an awesome fanfic with Batman vs. President Luthor where the Human Defense League was revealed to have actually been created to fight metahumans, as evidenced by their emphasize on infantry as opposed to space ships and weapons platforms. Awesome fic, with link below.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1712787/1/Power_Play

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