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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. the JLA #187 - Proteus Says: All Things Must Change!

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2008

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Proteus Says: All Things Must Change!

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0:00.0

Tom versus the JLA number 187 or can you feel the seething rage just burning beneath this?

0:08.0

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 187. The February 1981 issue entitled to Perodeus says all things must change.

0:16.0

Written by Jerry Conway with art by Don Heck and Frank McLaughlin, Ben Oda the letter, Gene D'Angelo, Colors, Len Ween, editor, featuring your cover, I believe, done by Dick Giordano.

0:27.0

That's just a guess.

0:29.1

I can't see a signature on the page.

0:31.4

Your role call is Superman, Aquaman, the Flash, Longheaded Man, Wonder Woman, Zatanna.

0:37.2

This issue, we're going to get some hot

0:39.5

flash Zatanna implied action. We open up on the Justice League satellite after the monthly

0:47.0

get together, and it turns out the Zatana and the Flash have both stuck around after the meeting.

0:53.1

Usually the Flash leaves immediately after the meeting,

0:56.4

but since his wife Iris was killed, he is extremely lonely and has decided to just take a walk

1:02.8

around the satellite, where Barry Allen gets a little wistful, thinks about how the league has changed.

1:09.1

This pops up every couple issues, you know, someone talks about how much the league has changed,

1:12.6

how they're all sort of happy-go-lucky friends back in the day.

1:15.7

And now the league's become different.

1:17.7

They've included younger members,

1:20.1

and Barry's starting to, you know, aim things towards, you know,

1:24.7

younger, better-looking members as he's talking to Zatana as the

1:29.3

league's got a better outlook on the world and a Barry sensually touches Zatana's hand

1:36.3

and for what I would think in 1981 is a pretty bold move in a comic book is man female hand

1:44.1

touching but we haven't even got to the best part.

1:48.1

Zatanna pulls the age-old trick, I recognize this, of changing the subject and then reveals to him

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