Rocket Red #4
44 years ago - Dmitri Pushkin is born in Vyatskoye, Russia.
26 years ago - 18-year-old Dmitri Pushkin joins the Russian Army.
22 years ago - 22-year-old Dmitri Pushkin is married to his wife Belina.
20 years ago - 24-year-old Dmitri Pushkin's daughter Tascha is born.
19 years ago - 25-year-old Dmitri Pushkin's son Mischa is born.
17 years ago - 27-year-old Dmitri Pushkin is an early candidate for the newly commissioned Rocket Red Brigade.
14 years ago - 30-year-old Dmitri Pushkin & the Rocket Red Brigade are placed in support of the government-sanctioned organization The People's Heroes.
12 years ago - 32-year-old Dmitri Pushkin is sent to America to arrest Valentina Vostok as a Russian deserter, until Niles Caulder is able to declare her legally dead. Dmitri & The People's Heroes are unable to stop Ben Turner from assassinating a Russian Pakhan for the League of Assassins.
8 years ago - 36-year-old Dmitri Pushkin & the Rocket Red Brigade support The People's Heroes as they attempt to stop Ivan Illyich Gort from defecting. He destroys many of the armor suits.
5 years ago - 39-year-old Dmitri Pushkin volunteers to serve as the Russian representative in the Global Guardians. He deliberately uses a first-gen Rocket Red mech suit.
4 years ago - 40-year-old Dmitri Pushkin battles Scott Sawyer. He is badly injured, and his suit is destroyed. Leonid Kovar becomes the new Russian representative.
3 years ago - 41-year-old Dmitri Pushkin joins several former members of The People's Heroes to stop mad scientist Alexi Nicolai from creating a nuclear apocalypse.
When most of the members of the Justice League are also starring in their own books it creates a bit of a narrative bottleneck. If the current version of the League isn't one of the huge arcs by a superstar writer, the stories of the League take a backseat to the stories told in the books of the individual characters. The solution tends to be to populate the League with less popular characters, or even completely original ones. During the late 80's, this meant a series of international teams like Justice League Europe. Some of the international characters designed for those teams were actually a lot of fun, despite being sort of limited in utility.
Rocket Red is just a fun, simple idea; it's cool to see how some of the other countries in the DC landscape aproach their Superhuman population, and the idea the Russia had a state-sponsored army of robot-suited patriots just feels inherently correct. While there's been quite a few different Rocket Red's that have interacted with the rest of the DC Universe Dmitri is probably the most universally recognized... and it's basically a no-brainer to take that character and make him part of our Global Guardians.
Rocket Red is just a fun, simple idea; it's cool to see how some of the other countries in the DC landscape aproach their Superhuman population, and the idea the Russia had a state-sponsored army of robot-suited patriots just feels inherently correct. While there's been quite a few different Rocket Red's that have interacted with the rest of the DC Universe Dmitri is probably the most universally recognized... and it's basically a no-brainer to take that character and make him part of our Global Guardians.
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