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"Break Downs: Part Eight: The Center Cannot Hold": After being stripped of their United Nations backing and evicted from their embassies, the Justice League International assemble to reclaim their former base of operations. Wh

Justice League Europe #32 is an issue of the series Justice League Europe (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1991.

Synopsis for "Break Downs: Part Eight: The Center Cannot Hold"

After being stripped of their United Nations backing and evicted from their embassies, the Justice League International assemble to reclaim their former base of operations. While exploring the cave, the Elongated Man, Flash, and Blue Beetle set out to make contact with its current residents the Doom Patrol, only to find themselves in an unreal landscape. There, they are tasked by a cabinet-headed individual known as the Head of the Welcoming Bureau with clearing the sinuses of "the One True Nose." The Flash, frustrated by the situation's lack of logic, windmills his arms and returns the three Leaguers to reality, revealing their encounter to be the product of a hallucinogenic gas which the Beetle speculates to be a Doom Patrol defense system. At last, the three reach the Chief of the Doom Patrol, who orders them to leave and slams a door in their faces, and the Leaguers decide that the matter is best left to team leader J'onn J'onzz.

Meanwhile, Manga Khan recruits Lobo for a repossession job, Inspector Camus finds that the models of supervillain team the Extremists have vanished from Madame Clouseau's Wax Museum, and Major Disaster is shocked by Justice League International head Maxwell Lord's sudden emergence from a vegetative state.

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Trivia

  • The green robot reporting to Manga Khan has a passing resemblance to C-3PO from Star Wars.
  • The Head of the Welcoming Bureau's dialogue references DC Comics writers John Broome and Gardner Fox.
  • This issue takes place concurrently with Doom Patrol (Volume 2) #49, in which the D.P. was in the process of moving out of the Secret Sanctuary after occupying it for several issues. The gas-fueled hallucinations seen in this issue parody the storylines presented in Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.


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Breakdowns
Part I: Justice League America #53 Part II: Justice League Europe #29 Part III: Justice League America #54 Part IV: Justice League Europe #30
Part V: Justice League America #55 Part VI: Justice League Europe #31 Part VII: Justice League America #56 Part VIII: Justice League Europe #32
Part IX: Justice League America #57 Part X: Justice League Europe #33 Part XI: Justice League America #58 Part XII: Justice League Europe #34
Part XIII: Justice League America #59 Part XIV: Justice League Europe #35 Part XV: Justice League America #60 Postscript: Justice League Europe #36
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