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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. the JLA #231 - Family Crisis!

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2008

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Family Crisis!


My parents were in town this weekend...a bit of a family crisis here. Send all baby pictures to tomkaters@gmail.com


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Tom versus the JLA number 231 or Superman would be the ultimate podcaster with his supervantriloquism.

0:07.9

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 231, the October 1984 issue entitled Family Crisis.

0:14.3

This would be the 22nd annual team up between the Justice League of America and the Justice Society, written by Kierp Bucig,

0:22.7

art by Alan Cooperberg, lettered by Ben Oda, colored by Gene D'Angelo, edited by Alan

0:28.0

Gold with a cover by Chuck Patton. First thing you need to know about this issue is that

0:33.3

Kurt Bucig's playing around with the narrative form in this a little bit. He actually has narration from the villain through most of the story who goes by the name of

0:41.7

the commander.

0:42.8

The one thing you need to know about the commander is he wants to take over the earth, but someone

0:47.6

called the champion is trying to stop him.

0:50.6

That's just a simple breakdown of that.

0:52.1

We open with a nice splash page with different historical

0:55.4

events from Earth 1. You see Batman, you see the Eiffel Tower, you see the Blackhawks, not the

1:00.7

Blackhawks, the hockey team, but the fighter pilots. We see Lucy and Desi, all kinds of great

1:07.4

Earth 1 things. And we see that the commander's searching

1:10.8

for some sort of weakness on this earth.

1:13.7

He sees a vision of the Green Lantern

1:15.3

who's far away from Earth and doesn't want to be there.

1:17.8

The Phantom Stranger who's just wandering the universe.

1:20.7

The Adam, who's searching for a city in his dreams.

1:24.6

And then he gets to the satellite.

1:27.1

And we see a vision of what's going on inside of

1:30.0

there, and we see the Justice Leaguers from the Martian invasion story running to the teleporter

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