Tom versus the JLA number 229 or I bet Aquaman is a Reagan Democrat.

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 229, the August 1984 issue entitled,

and get ready for it, War of the Worlds, comma, 1984, colon, part two, dash, bitter ashes, written by Jerry Conway,

Alan Cooperberg, the guest counselor,

Pablo Marcos, Inker, Ben Oda, Letterer, Gene D'Angelo to Cullors,

and edited by Alan Gold, featuring a cover by Paul Cooperberg.

We opened this issue with a U.S. Space Shuttle,

meeting up with a Soviet satellite, both getting blown

to shit by the giant Martian spacecraft from the last issue.

So the Martians, they throw sand in your face.

They're going to kick you in the balls.

They're not just going to threaten to put you all in concentration camps, they're going

to blow up your satellites and shuttles. Causes a big panic on Earth. Firestorm and Martian Manhunter are zooming up to try and save the damage space shuttle. We get a little bit of an interesting fight between Firestorm and Martian Manhunter is Firestorm doesn't trust John. He thinks he's going to stab them in the back. You got to remember, Firestorm really

doesn't know Martian Manhunter that. Well, Martian Manhunter hasn't been a regular in a league

for a really, really long time. We cut to space onto the Marshall. Marshall is the Martian leader,

not Marshall like Marshall Crenshaw, but Marshall like the military designation

Marshall. His name is Marshall, so it's Marshall Marshall. It's confusing. Let's not get too far into it.

They see that John Jones and Firestorm are on their way to save the satellite to refer to John,

of course, as a traitor because he isn't helping them conquer the earth. We go back down to earth where

Red Tornado, Green Arrow, Black Canarian Aquaman around the roof of a building. Red Tornado is using

his telescopic vision to zoom in on the action involving Martian Manhunter and Firestorm. Green

Arrow is giving him a hard time. Everyone is stressed out. Aquaman can't focus. If this is really

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