Invasion!

Invasion! is the next major crisis in the DCU, following Crisis on Infinite Earths. An alien alliance, formed by most of the staple alien races in the DCU: the Khunds, the Gil Dishpan, the Okaarans, the Daxamites, the Thanagarians, the Durlans and the Citadelians are all united by the calculating Dominators to launch an attack on Earth, specifically targeted at Earth's metahuman population.

Keith Giffen, the mastermind behind this work, weaves in just about every major plotline and character in DC continuity in this work, moving seamlessly from storyline to storyline as our favorite heroes attempt to repel the alien invasion.

Aside from tying up a few storylines and eliminating several players from the DCU, this story makes an interesting comment on the relationship between Earth and its government and the metahuman population. At the onset of the invasion, the Dominators demand Earth's metahuman population in exchange for Earth's safety. The leaders of the U.N. surprisingly refuse and Superman leads an attack on the alien alliance. The notion that the United Nations would not exchange its metahuman population for the safety of the entire planet bears examination.

So often in the DCU and beyond we are privy to the interactions between human and metahuman, but most of the time their is a certain amount of resentment for metahumans. Most recently, Marvel's Secret Invasion and Civil War titles explore this notion. But it is rare to see metahumans receiving sympathy from their human counterparts.