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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. the JLA #190 - Our Friends, Our Enemies

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2008

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Our Friends, Our Enemies


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0:00.0

Tom versus the JLA, number 190, or please, someone wear a fake star over their face at New York Comic-Con?

0:09.1

Welcome back for Justice League of America, number 190, the May 1981 issue entitled Our Friends, Our Enemies, written by Jerry Connoe with art by Rich Buckler, Bob Smith, and Larry Malstat.

0:22.4

John Costanza, the letterer, Gene D'Angelo, Rich Buckler, Bob Smith, and Larry Malstat. John Costanza,

0:28.4

the letterer, Gene DeAngelo Colors, Len Wean, editor with a cover by Brian Boland. And this is one of my favorite Justice League covers. So if you ever get a chance to check out issue number 190,

0:32.8

I think it's pretty iconic. And I've never seen anyone at convention wearing a fake star over their face but I think

0:39.0

would be a pretty sweet costume hint hint anyone who goes to conventions and wears costumes

0:43.4

roll call there isn't one in this issue but I'm going to make one up because there's characters

0:49.4

on the front page but they don't you know give us a list so we got a long-getyman flash hot girl

0:54.1

Hawkman aquaman Batman and Zatanna who but they don't give us a list. So we got along getting man flash, hot girl,

0:57.0

Hawkman, Aquaman, Batman, Batman, and Zatana.

0:59.6

We left off last issue.

1:01.9

Starro's taken over New York City,

1:04.0

taken over some of the leaguers.

1:06.4

The other leaguers are gathered on an aircraft carrier out in the ocean,

1:08.0

along with a rag-tag group of boats

1:10.0

who are wondering what's going on in New York.

1:12.9

All the communications have been cut off in the area, so obviously some confusion.

1:18.9

I do have to mention the fact that the inking seems really off in this issue.

1:23.9

I like Rich Buckler quite a bit.

1:26.3

I like his pencils. I like the way he does the characters.

1:30.5

The Incan really, Inkin, a little country there, the Incan does obscure a little bit of the pencils in this, at least to me, some of the faces seem really off.

1:40.8

So it gets better as the book goes on, but right away it wasn't as good as the

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