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Tom vs. Comics

Tom vs. the JLA #247 - ...There's No Place Like Home

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2008

⏱️ 12 minutes

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...There's No Place Like Home


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0:00.0

Tom versus the JLA number 247 or quickly gather to me my bolo tie invest.

0:07.1

Welcome back for Justice League of America number 247.

0:10.1

The February 1986 issue entitled There's No Place Like Home,

0:13.7

written by Jerry Connoe White Penciled by Luke MacDonald, inked by Bill Ray,

0:17.2

colored by Gene D'Angelo, lettered by Kurt Hathaway, edited by Andrew Helfer, with a cover by Luke McDonald and Bill Ray, colored by Gene D'Angelo, letter by Kurt Hathaway, edited by Andrew Helfer,

0:21.7

with a cover by Luke MacDonald and Bill Ray, and red while drinking a gin and tonic.

0:27.4

We opened this issue with the Justice League, searching for new headquarters.

0:32.5

You know, they got their own personal stuff, still getting worked out, vibes trying to get a

0:36.0

sublet, Zatana's got a missing subletter, elongated man's in the suburbs. They need a headquarters, though. And the Justice League has gone through a progression of headquarters. They started in Happy Harbor in a cave where Snappercar used to hang. They moved up to a satellite. Satellite kind of fell through. They went down to Detroit. Still above a cave, but it was in Detroit.

0:57.0

So where do they go now?

0:59.0

Back to that original cave.

1:00.0

That's right.

1:01.0

Martian Manhunter's led the league to that old headquarters in Happy Harbor.

1:05.0

Though they don't mention Happy Harbor in this issue.

1:08.0

They mention it's close to Metropolis and far from New York and it's causing some

1:12.6

problems. That's a hell of a commute, guys. But they don't mention Happy Harbor. You know, it's a little bit of the

1:17.6

amorphous Justice League geography, which I kind of like. I kind of like the DC universe not having

1:24.6

that set geography. I probably be frustrating to some people who like everything nailed down, but I enjoy that. We get a nice two-page spread of the old Justice League, sort of long table with the chairs and the stairs and everything, and they actually do a really great job, Luke McDonald does in the art, of conveying the fact that it's old and out of date. It's like if you left a

1:44.5

house 10 years ago and he didn't change any of the furniture and you came back in, it would look old. And this is what it does. It looks old. The vibe thinks it looks old. He calls it a dump, which Gypsy sort of gets pissed off about it. She thinks it's great. She loves that it's in a cave. It's like mystical, it's like fantasy.

2:02.1

I think Gypsy might be

2:03.8

Dungeons and Dragons, but... about. She thinks it's great. She loves that it's in a cave. It's like mystical. It's like fantasy.

2:02.2

I think Gypsy might be a Dungeons and Dragons player in her free time. Some fanfic

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