Tom versus the JLA number 194 or I think my luck lands are swollen.

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 194, the September 1981 issue entitled

Destiny is a Stacked Deck, written by Jerry Conway with art by George Perez and John Baney,

Ben Oda the letter, Carl Gafford, colorist, Lanween, editor, cover by George Perez. No

roll call on this issue. We open up with a stack of tarot cards, except the Justice League are on them,

and a man in a hood is by himself, talking to himself, and pulling out the cards and making

ominous statements about said

leaguers on cards. This is how we're going to begin the story. This is a story with a very

basic Justice League of America type structure, one that they've slowly moved away from

developing more two and three-part stories, but this story's got a very basic structure.

League all faces some sort of foe on their own. They band together. They go off to fight it together

and they win. So very basic. What saves this issue from being really, really boring in

comparison to a lot of the better issues that have come out recently in this series at the time,

not recently as in now, is the fact that Perez's art awesome. You know, the opening scene with

the tarot cards looks fantastic. He finds a way to infuse drama into what could be done in a very

mundane way by an artist who isn't quite as skilled at creating an

atmosphere. We go to Metropolis where there's a carnival in town and wherever there's something

unusual, of course, Lois Lane and Clark Kentier there. We get a nice scene of Clark having to carry

a bunch of stuffed animals because Lois is apparently a real shark at the Kearney Games. I do have to mention, as I can do the carnival, there is on the bottom left of page number three,

a frighteningly tiny clown that is horrible, and as soon as I noticed it, I could not get that thing out of my mind.

Look at it, it's horrible. I really hope someone comes back and makes

that tiny clown some sort of villain. While Lois is busy talking to the, you know, the onion

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