Tom versus the JLA number 203 or no one ever expects a flying fish attack.

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 203, the June 1988 issue entitled Shuffle and Deal with Death.

Written by Jerry Conway with art by Don Heck and Romeo Tangal. Ben out a letter at Carl Gafford

Colourist Len Ween, editor with a cover by Perez and Girodano. No roll call in this issue.

We open with Aquaman, taking Firestorm out for a little bit of a trip out to the Pacific Ocean,

give him a bit of a run-round. You see, Firestorm being the young pup,

it's got a little bit of an attitude prime.

He thinks he's awesome, thinks he can handle any situation.

Aquaman's taking him out there to maybe bring him down a notch.

I think it's interesting that the league thinks Aquaman's

the one that's qualified to bring anybody down a notch.

But he does, he takes him out there.

You know, Aquaman, he's riding his two dolphins.

Firestorm's flying around.

And just when Firestorm's talking about that he can handle anything,

you know what Aquaman breaks out?

Something no one expects.

A flying fish attack.

That's right.

Aquaman commands a group of flying fish to attack Firestorm. Firestorm is distracted and a giant wave knocks him over. Hence, he learns his lesson to always expect flying fish. And Aquaman got the job done. He brought Firestorm's ego down a little bit. We then get a group of fish swimming quickly by.

I guess I've never really seen fish sort of laxidazically swimming.

I always just assume they're always going as fast as they can.

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