Tom versus the JLA, number 254, or you could actually win a Camero by reading this issue?

Welcome back for Justice League of America, number 254, the September 1988 issue entitled Desperate

Climax.

Also, the name of my own autobiography about my high school years, written by Jerry Conway,

penciled by Luke McDonald, inked by Bill Ray, colored by Gene D'Angelo, lettered by Albert de Guzman, edited by Andrew Halfer, with a cover by Luke McDonnell, and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. We open this issue. Batman, hunched over, ready to take on Despero. He's got to keep Despero busy while the other leaguers are going to put out the fire

that feeds Despero.

I will say this.

Luke McDonald's are good.

Conway does not do a good internal Batman dialogue.

Batman's really weirdly defeatist, sort of masochistic a little bit.

You get a little sense that he's looking to die.

Just a touch of it.

I don't think it's intentional, but it comes across that way.

Batman's waiting for Despero to come out of that fire.

The fire that Despero keeps talking about,

you can't get this guy to shut up about that goddamn fire of paitar that's all he

talks about also despero nine feet tall now it's gonna be a little bit tougher for batman despero walks

out batman realizes his entire life has led up to this moment one would think that perhaps

fighting street kind in gotham wouldn't necessarily train you to fight a telepathic alien but

who knows i'm not going to put

myself in Batman's move. Throw a flare at Despero. It kind of works. It pisses Despero

off quite a bit. Goes off in his face that would piss me off. And once again, Despero is goaded in and

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