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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. the JLA #221 - Beasts

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2008

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Beasts

This is one of my favorites. Let me know what you think at tomkaters@gmail.com

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0:00.0

Tom versus the JLA number 221 or my girlfriend gets pissed if I don't answer my cell phone to Hawk, man.

0:08.2

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 221 the December 1983 issue entitled Beasts.

0:14.4

Written by Jerry Conway with art by Chuck Patton and Pablo Marcos, John Cassent, Letter, Gene DeAngelo, the colorist Lanween editor with a cover by Chuck Patton and Dick Giridano.

0:24.5

We opened this issue with a rather expensive-looking sedan, pulling up to a suspicious-looking building.

0:30.4

We have a chauffeur with a mask on. We have rich people with masks on.

0:34.8

This is some sort of exclusive club that caters the entertainment of the rich and idol.

0:40.3

And what did the rich and idol like to do? They like to watch creepy stuff while wearing masks.

0:45.3

The masks make it more interesting. They brought into this building, taking up through a rather nice-looking elevator,

0:52.3

to a Roman Coliseum-esque room where they

0:55.4

smell human sweat and stamped on earth. We then see these rich, creepy people watch something happen.

1:02.6

We don't see what's happening, but one of the women gets extremely excited, demanding someone

1:07.5

gore someone else with horns, and then we have a strange pseudo strange pseudo sexual scene of a bunch of blood getting splurtered under her in her low-cut dress

1:17.6

very creepy but a nice setup for this adventure we then cut to wonder woman and

1:22.9

Superman getting the jump on some high-tech villains who have just robbed Star Labs in Metropolis, Star Labs,

1:30.3

constantly getting robbed. The interesting part of this is that Wonder Woman and Superman come

1:35.7

across as real dicks. They watched this Robbie. Their plan was to follow these guys back to their

1:41.3

headquarters, but the cloud cover broke so they saw them, so then they

1:45.3

swoop into arrest him.

1:46.7

And it's just a weird Superman, where he sort of taunts them about wrecking their boat and

1:53.0

they're floating in the water.

1:54.7

It sort of almost sounds bullish.

1:57.4

I mean, he says things like, oh my, now look what I've done. I've broken their little boat,

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