Rocket Red Brigade
17 years ago - Russia begins recruiting soldiers to join its new military unit, The Rocket Red Brigade, using state-of-the-art mech suits.
15 years ago - The Rocket Red Brigade is launched, working as advanced rescue & police units, as well as military support.
14 years ago - The Rocket Red Brigade are placed in support of the government-sanctioned organization The People's Heroes.
8 years ago - 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, requiring the Brigade to commission the construction of next-gen mech suits.
5 years ago - Rocket Red #4, Dmitri Pushkin, volunteers to serve as the Russian representative in the Global Guardians.
3 years ago - Rocket Red #4, Dmitri Pushkin, joins several former members of The People's Heroes to stop mad scientist Alexi Nicolai from creating a nuclear apocalypse.
2 years ago - Rocket Red #4, Dmitri Pushkin, becomes the tactical director of The Rocket Red Brigade.
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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The Rocket Red Brigade's StoryThe Rocket Red Brigade traces its creation back to Green Lantern Corps #208 from 1987. At the time, the Corps was actually a bunch of aliens all living on Earth in a big house, Real World style. Among them was Kilowog, the beloved giant hippo-alien drill instructor. He actually went to live in the USSR for a time, and while he was there he helped create the technology for their new
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