Tom versus the JLA, number 217, or it seems the league's bigness weakness is their map skills.

Welcome back for Justice League of America, number 217, the August 1983 issue entitled All the Elements of Disaster,

written by Paul Cooperberg, penciled by Chuck Patton, inks by Romeo Tangall, lettered by John

Costanza, colored by Tony Tolan, Len Ween, editor with a cover by George Perez, your roll call

is Alchemann, Algonautid man, Firestorm, Hawkman, Red Tornado, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Zatanna.

We open in Atlantis.

This is a good sign, Mr. Cooperberg.

Always focus on the hottest locations in the DC universe.

Atlantis, number one. Aquaman, his gal Friday, who's a man with a mustache and bald Volko,

are caught in a sea quake that is shaking Atlantis itself. Aquaman notices that the epicenter

of this sea quake is actually the ancient Atlantis,

which is buried in a crevasse nearby. You might be a redneck if you've built your city on top of

a non-functioning older city. Aquaman goes to investigate the crevasse. A rainbow of energy leaps

out. At that moment, I think, this is about to get very awkward, isn't it?

But no, this is before the rainbow would have such significance to our culture. No, it isn't

going to be a gay pride issue, though it might have made the issue quite a bit better than what it was, but we'll get

into that in a second. So there's a rainbow of energy, leaps out, Aquaman, of course, being suspicious

of any multicolored energies, and you might want to notice that Atlantis has a lot of white people

in it. White, heterosexual, waspy-type people.

I imagine the Atlanteans are Protestant.

Good, hard-working Protestants.

He notices this energy bowl, leave the ocean.

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