Tom vs. the JLA #256 - Back to Godhead
Tom vs. Comics
Thomas Katers
4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2008
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Getting to the end.
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| 0:00.0 | Tom versus the JLA number 256 or you touch a Godhead, you get hurt. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome back for Justice League of America number 256, the November 1986 issue in title back to Godhead, |
| 0:12.7 | written by the final writer of this series, J.M. DeM. DeMateos, who would go on with Keith Giffin to also write the Fantastic Justice League International, which replaces this title. |
| 0:22.2 | But he's the last writer for this volume, penciled by Luke MacDonald, inked by Bob Smith, |
| 0:26.9 | colored by Gene D'Angelo, letter by Albert de Guzman, edited by Andrew Helfer, |
| 0:30.7 | with a really cool cover by Luke MacDonald. It's a really awesome cover of Martian Manhunter |
| 0:35.6 | and Flames. The cover says, burn Martian burn. |
| 0:39.3 | I like it. I like how it looks. |
| 0:41.3 | He's, you know, Marsh Manor doesn't like fire. |
| 0:43.3 | And we opened this issue with Martian Man Hunter in fire. |
| 0:46.3 | Remember last issue he got shot by that cheating man who tried to frame him for murder, he fell into a fire. |
| 0:52.3 | Well, now we're kind of dealing with this so we're getting a little |
| 0:54.7 | of a showcase of McDonald drawing fire for a couple pages and you immediately get the sense of someone |
| 1:00.3 | besides conway's running it not that i don't love conway i think conway did a great job but when someone's |
| 1:05.5 | written a book for really a long time and then you get somebody else mixed in you can tell right away |
| 1:10.0 | because we're getting a lot |
| 1:11.0 | of Martian Manhunter thinking to himself in his mind, he's engulfed in all these flames, |
| 1:16.2 | he's thinking about his grandmother and telling him stories about the fire god that comes for the |
| 1:21.9 | Martians who die and how maybe this is his time and he sees a vision of this sort of hunched over |
| 1:27.3 | Martian-looking |
| 1:27.9 | creature. He calls it by its name, the voice of fire, Hranmere, and that it's coming for him. |
| 1:33.0 | It says, are you ready to leave this world of strangers? And then touch your fingers like |
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